University of Alberta
SFU alumni Dr. Jordan Abel on reimagining academia and literature
January 23, 2021Written by: Emma Jean, Staff Writer Dr. Jordan Abel, a Nisga’a poet, writer, and professor, doesn’t often get the chance to talk about his dissertation process. As an SFU doctoral graduate himself, he was the first speaker of SFU’s Supervision in the 21st Century series focusing on the future of graduate research, in the event A Conversation with Jordan Abel. He told the audience that he was very “intrigued” to be asked to discuss it and had a lot he wanted to contribute. Hosted by the Department of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Dr. Abel discussed how he developed his Ph.D.…
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January 4, 2015110 million-year-old crab fossil discovered by University of Alberta researcher The fossil of a 110 million-year-old crab was found in the Colombian tropics by University of Alberta PhD student Javier Luque. The species of higher true crab, Telamonocarcinus antiquus, dates…
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November 16, 2014Hide and seek club thrives at U of A Anywhere between 25 and 100 people come out each Friday to participate in a game of hide and seek on the University of Alberta campus. The hide and seek club started…
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September 8, 2014Widower returns to school to study cancer that killed his wife Widower Powel Crosley has gone back to school at University of Alberta to study the rare form of ovarian cancer that killed his wife. After taking introductory courses in…
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