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Top 5 Reasons You Should Attend GradFest 3.0

By Adrianne Offenbecker Given that I have several hundred pages worth of thesis yet to write, I’m going to save my word count for that and instead give you a list of the Top 5 Reasons you should attend GradFest 3.0. #5. You survived the first few weeks of the semester. You deserve a night off. I know. It seems …

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“Youth”, Research, and Making a Difference in the World

By Sam Hossack, President On August 12 the University of Calgary had the opportunity to host His Excellency, Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon for International Youth Day. Normally, we consider youth to be those under the age of 25, or in some cases 21, so generally not the age of your typical graduate student, but the UN …