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Jul 09
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1,000 student spaces added to University of Calgary
Calgary ... The Alberta government will invest $260 million in a University of Calgary facility to house its Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy (ISEEE). This facility will provide an additional 1,000 spaces for students.
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Jun 28
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Government partners with IBM and the U of A to help Alberta organizations improve their operations
San Jose, California... Helping organizations use information technology to improve service delivery and gain a competitive advantage is the focus of a new cyberinfrastructure research project, referred to as 'services science' at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Jun 26
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Alberta banks on future students with 35 per cent boost to scholarship fund
Edmonton... Alberta's record-setting scholarship program was given another boost with a new $227 million investment in the Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund.
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Jun 25
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Technology mission to California aims to expand opportunities for Albertans
Edmonton... Commercializing Alberta technologies and attracting investment and skilled professionals to Alberta are the goals of an upcoming mission to California. Doug Horner, Minister of Advanced Education and Technology, will lead a delegation of industry, academic and government representatives to California from June 27 to 29, where he will meet with venture capitalists and hi-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Ultratech, among others.
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Jun 19
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New CT scanner at the Alberta Research Council opens a world of possibilities
Edmonton...Researchers and industry will now have greater access to an invaluable technology for sustainable energy resource recovery with the purchase of a $1.2 million research x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner by the Alberta Research Council (ARC).
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Jun 14
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MapNow, new software will help Alberta better manage its industrial footprint on the land
Edmonton - The ability to see what Alberta's landscape might look like in the next ten to 100 years has just been made easier with the release of a new land-use visualization tool. In less than a year's time, the Alberta Research Council and its partner Golder Associates developed MapNow, a software tool that creates spatial maps of various potential landscape changes resulting from all types of human land use...
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Jun 13
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Province expands support for mental health research
Edmonton...The Alberta government has allocated $6.65 million to attract international experts and expand mental health research in the province over the next five years.
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Jun 04
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Partnership looks to evolve the forest products industry
Edmonton ... The Alberta Research Council (ARC) and FPInnovations have partnered to build world-class research and development capabilities for the forest products sector. With industry guiding the research program, the partnership will focus on commercializing new technologies that will help the sector compete in an increasingly global industry.
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Jun 02
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Scholarships to the world awarded to eight Alberta high school students
Edmonton... Eight Alberta students are set to embark on the educational journey of a lifetime through the Government of Alberta's Grant MacEwan United World College Scholarship. This fall, the Grade 11 students will begin a two-year program that will see them studying at United World College locations from Norway to New Mexico.
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