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Rural Volunteer Revival

  • Isabela Varela
  • 20 August 2025
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Leading with Justice and Love

  • Matthew Stepanic
  • 14 April 2025
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Stars in Her Eyes

  • Matthew Stepanic
  • 31 March 2025

Recent Posts

A photo of trees in the fall

Rooting for green: U of A study explores why small-city residents plant trees

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 9 October 2025
Two people walking outdoors and looking off into the distance, one of them holding a pair of binoculars.

Rural Volunteer Revival

  • Isabela Varela
  • 20 August 2025
Three people standing outside with a green interpretive sign that features information about a Trembling Aspen tree.

Restoring kinship with native plants at Augustana Campus

  • Willow White
  • 26 June 2025
Night sky over Jasper National Park. (Photo: Getty Images)

Research helps rural communities look to their dark skies for tourism potential

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 10 June 2025
Three generations of a farming family walk through a field. (Photo: Getty Images)

Study tackles challenge of Canada’s family farming legacy

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 1 May 2025
Least flycatcher perched on a branch. (Photo: Getty Images)

Earlier migration signals deeper trouble for tiny birds

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 16 April 2025
Andrea Wilhelm headshot

Leading with Justice and Love

  • Matthew Stepanic
  • 14 April 2025
Muskrat swimming in lake. (Photo: Supplied)

Study offers a look beneath the surface of muskrat behaviour

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 10 April 2025
Huanqing Chen standing in the Augustana Forum building, Founders' Hall viewable through the window behind her.

Stars in Her Eyes

  • Matthew Stepanic
  • 31 March 2025
A group of children singing. (Photo: Getty Images)

Music professor aims to spark a ‘singing renaissance’

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 17 March 2025
Alanis Morissette performs on stage. (Photo: livepict.com, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Alanis Morissette’s furious feminism lives on

  • Geoff McMaster
  • 5 March 2025
Fengjing An crouching down and smiling at the camera in a wooded area.

Nurturing Future Eco-Citizens

  • Matthew Stepanic
  • 30 January 2025
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Adding It Up

  • Matthew Stepanic
  • 22 January 2025
Augustana assistant professor Greg King measuring the circumference of a large tree in a forest.

Climate solutions start here. Meet Greg King

  • 16 January 2025
Raiany Dias de Andrade Silva headshot.

A Breath of Fresh Air

  • Matthew Stepanic
  • 17 December 2024
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Old-time business model could bring new economic development to rural ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 3 July 2024
Rob Colgate

Psychology meets poetry

  • Danielle Godin
  • 17 June 2024
Shelisa Klassen

The Heritage of Hidden History

  • Danielle Godin
  • 14 June 2024
Gianluca Vernillo

A Message of Movement

  • Mifi Purvis
  • 13 June 2024
least-flycatcher

To save the least: study pinpoints most helpful habitat for least flycatcher

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 25 April 2024
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U of A’s Augustana students help create climate resilience solutions in Camrose

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 15 April 2024
Clark leaning against a wooden fence post and a do leaning on the fence post beside him.

Champion for Rural Communities

  • Madisen Gee
  • 21 March 2024
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Weevils found in Philippine rainforest ‘almost like discovering a dodo bird’

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 30 January 2024
Black and white image of a man playing at a grand piano on a stage.

Consider This: Bringing music made for one to an audience of hundreds

  • Sandra Kinash
  • 25 January 2024
A digital illustration of a person in an orange jumpsuit standing in a prison yard, staring at an orange sunset, a mountain range and a flock of flying birds beyond a wire prison fence. Along the left side of the fence is a watch tower, and in the sky above the person is a speech bubble in the shape of a cloud.

Voices rarely heard

  • Anna Marie Sewell
  • 20 November 2023
A man with short, light-coloured hair leaning on a fence post in a wetlands area, wearing a plaid button down and zip-up work coat while looking off to the side.

A better balance

  • Oumar Salifou
  • 20 November 2023
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In ‘Men’s Sheds,’ mental health is the project

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 8 November 2023
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Four ways to stay safe with cannabis edibles this Halloween

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 31 October 2023
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Study explores risk factors for suicide in farmers

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 24 October 2023
A man standing in front of a classroom and teaching.

Consider this: Who decides how we decolonize prison?

  • Justin EC Tetrault
  • 19 October 2023
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AI could make studying birds easier

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 20 September 2023
Ingrid Urberg smiling at the camera. She is wearing a black shirt and her hair is pulled back.

Consider This: The value of collaboration

  • Ingrid Urberg
  • 5 July 2023
Photo of Mi-Young Kim wearing a black turtleneck as she leans against a glass wall as she smiles at the camera, her reflection seen in the glass.

A human interest story

  • Oumar Salifou
  • 27 March 2023
Digital illustration drawing of a group of nuns against a pastoral background.

The most famous abbey you've never heard of

  • Bruce Grierson, '86 BA(Spec)
  • 27 March 2023
Ivy Schoepf

Researcher aims to assess ripple effects of rodent disease

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 16 March 2023
A photo of Lucas Crawford leaning against a bookcase as he holds a black cat.

Creativity through a queer and transgender lens

  • Anna Schmidt
  • 6 March 2023
Side profile view of Justin Tetrault standing in front of a screen in a classroom.

Getting the real story

  • Anna Schmidt
  • 27 February 2023
Michael Omoge

Augustana professor working to help African philosophy find new relevance

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 14 February 2023
Photo Ivanna Schoepf in a field of golden grass, wearing a brown coat and knit toque while petting a gold-coloured dog.

Tracking animals’ responses to the challenges of nature

  • Anna Schmidt
  • 23 January 2023
Photos of U of A End Diabetes Award recipients. Top row: Colin Anderson, Jason Dyck, John Ussher. Bottom row: Dean Eurich, Jane Yardley.

Diabetes Canada announces $1.5 million of new research funding for five U of A recipients

  • 17 January 2023
A 3/4 profile of Thibaud Lutellier looking at the camera and smiling in front of a white board with writing on it.

Harnessing AI to catch those pesky software bugs

  • Anna Schmidt
  • 9 January 2023
Photo of Willow White wearing a dark blue blouse and standing in front of rows of books.

The power of the pen

  • Anna Schmidt
  • 12 December 2022
Photo of Michael Omoge in the front of a classroom smiling and gesturing to a blurred-out student in the foreground of the photo.

Do you really know what you think you know?

  • Anna Schmidt
  • 5 December 2022
Photo of Ana Klahr looking off to the side with a slight smile on her face like she is pondering something. She is wearing a black button-up shirt and there is a slide of an illustrated model of the brain.

Exploring mysterious territories of the brain

  • Anna Schmidt
  • 28 November 2022
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Researcher aims to boost mental health support for ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ farmers

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 7 November 2022
Photo of Mi-Young standing in a grassy area, wearing sunglasses and standing beside a stroller.

Innovator Spotlight: Mi-Young Kim

  • 23 August 2022
Photo of Clark Banack leaning against a tree and smiling at the camera.

Rural Frontiers

  • Robbie Jeffrey
  • 9 August 2022
Three photos of Lucas Crawford placed side-by-side. In each photo, he is looking at the camera and smiling.

Augustana professor named Canada Research Chair in Transgender Creativity and Mental Health

  • Sydney Tancowny
  • 2 June 2022
Photo of Clark Banack sitting in the Augustana Forum building.

Why an old idea could breathe new life into rural ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ economies

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 10 March 2022
Photo of Jane Yardley with a pair of running shoes.

Research aims to help women with Type 1 diabetes live longer, healthier lives

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 8 March 2022