Campus Kudos - December

trevor.kenney — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:56:32 +0000

Dr. David Renter (music) Trio performed at Southern Alberta Art Gallery on Dec. 3 as part of the second event organized by the brand new Lethbridge Jazz Society.

Dr. Goldie Morgentaler (English) was featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Pakn Treger magazine, the magazine of the Yiddish Book Center. Published in Amherst, Mass., the Pakn Treger story details Morgentaler's teaching of Yiddish literature in what is referred to as the "Canadian Bible Belt".

Lisa Doolittle (Theatre & Dramatic Arts) was a plenary speaker with ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary professor Anne Flynn and U of L alumnus Troy Emery Twigg (BFA '03) at the American Society for Theatre Research and Congress on Research in Dance international joint conference in Seattle in November. They presented the paper, Performing Negotiations: Blackfoot Dance in Colonial and Multicultural Canada. Doolittle also presented, Dance Research on the Move: Connecting across the academy and engaging with community, to graduate and PhD students at York ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ.

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Senate member, Paul Gale Pharo, was appointed to the Alberta Provincial Court Bench. Pharo is also the incoming president of the Rotary Club of Lethbridge and has three children attending the U of L.

Taras Polataiko (Art) recently exhibited his new work at the 5th International Biennale of Video Art in Israel.

Leanne Elias (New Media) recently had a chapter published in the book, Mobile Learning: Pilot Projects and Initiatives. The chapter is, Using Smartphone Technology to Extend the Educational Experience.

Nick Wade (Art) spoke at the Alberta Public Planners Institute in Lethbridge on the subject of art in the public realm.

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge home page, www.uleth.ca, was selected as one of the Top-30 Outstanding Websites of Higher Education by Vandelay Design (http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/higher-education/). It was mentioned along websites from Johns Hopkins ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ, Virginia Tech ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ and ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Southern California.

Emily Luce's (New Media) exhibition, Parallel Park (Lab Space), is showing in the Helen Christou Gallery until Jan. 14, 2011.

Catherine Ross's (Art staff) exhibition, Field Sightings, is currently showing in Lethbridge's Mueller Art Gallery.

Dr. Josie Mills (U of L Art Gallery director/curator) presented, Deaccessioning: The Root of All Scandal, as part of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery's, Articulations: Art Appreciation Lecture Series, in November.

Matthew Blackburn (BMus '09), winner of the 2009 Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, performed with Musaeus String Quartet as part of the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Series.

For a look at the full issue of the December Legend in a flipbook format, follow this link.

Herschel launch features U of L research

trevor.kenney — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:40:59 +0000

Some 15 years of work has finally come to fruition and all that's left now is sitting back and watching the results.

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge physicist Dr. David Naylor and his team of physics and astronomy undergraduates and graduate students, doctoral candidates and technicians have been working for the better part of 15 years on creating the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE). On Thursday, it will be put into action, shot into space to travel more than 1.5 million kilometres as part of the Herschel Space Telescope launch.

The Herschel is the largest telescope ever sent into space and its scheduled launch is Thursday morning, 7:12 a.m. Lethbridge time. Naylor will travel to French Guiana as the only Canadian scientist to watch the launch live. Locally, residents can watch the action live at Esquires Coffee House starting at 6:30 a.m. It is also available online Thursday morning by visiting www.uleth.ca.

The SPIRE infrared measuring device measures the composition and physical conditions of material in the universe. It will take about four months to travel the 1.5 million kilometres into space.

As one of the world's foremost experts in Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, Naylor has a long history of developing innovative spectroscopy instruments and is the Canadian lead investigator for SPIRE, a project involving scientists from eight nations. He is responsible for the design and construction of a spectrometre to determine the performance of SPIRE, and for developing the SPIRE data analysis software.

The Herschel Space Observatory's three-year mission is to study relatively cool objects in the universe. Stars themselves are hot objects but they are born in cold, dark places that the Herschel is designed to measure.
Information about the Herschel space telescope and the equipment that helps make it operate effectively can be found at this website: http://spire.uleth.ca/.

Over the past 15 years, more than 100 ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge students have played a role in the research that led to the launch of the SPIRE device into space.

UNews - www.uleth.ca

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