Fashion from drag to drab
"I wear a fairly extreme outfit with very high heels, a bright red crinoline and a little - and I mean little - snow-white top. Some of those ramps in HUB Mall are murder in high heels. I have great sympathy for some people who do this on a regular basis," says Dr. Garrett Epp.
Performing with emotional intelligence
As a well-known sport psychologist with a client list including the Edmonton Oilers and several U of A varsity teams, Dr. Murray Smith is an expert on the mental qualities required to win.
Finding the words
After an intense three-week treatment program, focused on articulation, breathing and speech rate, Shelli Wright broke through the wall of silence.
U of A does it again
Just when U of A sports fans thought they were done cheering their teams to national glory, the men's hockey team swept into CIAU playoffs and brought home the gold.
Contested Classrooms
The title of just one of the 14 hard-hitting essays in Contested Classrooms will serve to convey the gen
eral tone - "Deep and Brutal: Funding Cuts to Education in Alberta."
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Celebrating the works of the elderly
"I'd had in my hands something like 50 or 55 years of a man's work that so many had admired greatly," says Dr. Shyamal Bagchee with visible awe. "That sense of not knowing what I had held, and whom I had helped, became a kind of pivotal moment."
Jane Austen-philes descend on Jasper
An international conference on Jane Austen May 14-16 in Jasper is all set to recreate the world of the famed British author, right down to the tights and ostrich feathers.
An eye for detail
A few years ago, Dr. Jack Mollard extended his expertise to the far reaches of space as an interpreter of the fingerprint-like images transmitted from the surface of Mars.
The ecological impact of globalization
The image is etched in everyone's mind: Earth, photographed from outer space some 30 years ago. It was the first time we had seen our planet from the outside. And it marked an important moment in the history of human perception.
Poetry times two
"While Bert Almon was lying in his little bed in El Paso listening to Mariachi music live from neighbors' backyard parties, I was lying in my little cot listening to the radio," says Olga Costopoulos, a sessional instructor in the English department.
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Humanitarian engineer
Pushing through the hot throngs of people, trying to stay calm amid the machine guns, Michelle St. Cyr and her friend, Youki Cropas-Marchildon, were looking for the two nuns who were to greet them. "We had sent photos of ourselves but it didn't help. They arrived in Haiti two weeks after we landed," said St. Cyr with a laugh. Given the fact they were the only two white girls off the plane, it wasn't difficult for the nuns to spot them.
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