News Releases - 2007
December
| Dec 17 |
Edmonton... An Alberta-based collaborative project may soon enable patients to test their own body temperature, pulse rate and blood pressure at home and transmit the data to a healthcare provider. The Alberta government has committed $1.5 million to the Capital Health, University of Alberta, and Korea’s LG Electronics joint project.
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| Dec 13 |
Edmonton... New breakthroughs in the fight to end multiple sclerosis (MS) are the goal of $1.5 million in provincial funding. Premier Ed Stelmach announced the Alberta government will provide support to the endMS Research and Training Network, an initiative of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. The network will facilitate the recruitment and training of young scientists and foster a collaborative environment for research.
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November
| Nov 29 |
Edmonton... Capping one of the busiest construction seasons in its history, the Alberta government has invested more than $4.1 billion in new paved roads, new and upgraded schools, expanded post-secondary institutes and health infrastructure.
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| Nov 23 |
Edmonton... A record 232 apprentices have been awarded Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training scholarships valued at $1,000 each. Apprentices from 38 of the 50 trades have received scholarships, including a record 30 women and 10 Aboriginal people.
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| Nov 15 |
Edmonton... A new project at the University of Alberta is using the latest in high-tech gene chip research to understand why transplanted kidneys often fail in the long-term. This research, in partnership with Japan- and US-based Astellas Pharma Inc., may lead to development of a drug to prevent the organ’s failure.
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| Nov 02 |
Edmonton... Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) scholarships have been awarded to 384 high school graduates participating in the program. The Alberta government partners with industry to fund the annual $1000 scholarships.
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| Nov 01 |
Medicine Hat... Students and employers in the Medicine Hat area will benefit from an Alberta government contribution of more than $23 million to expand and upgrade its college. Renovations will enable Medicine Hat College to open nearly 600 student spaces, about 400 of which directly benefit the trades industry.
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October
| Oct 31 |
Lethbridge... In recognition of the University of Lethbridge’s commitment to water research, the Government of Alberta is pleased to announce an additional $10 million contribution to help complete the Alberta Water and Environmental Science Building.
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| Oct 29 |
Edmonton... William Taylor Quinney has been named chair of the Board of Governors of Olds College.
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| Oct 29 |
Vermilion... The Alberta government is providing more than $3.4 million to Lakeland College to increase its capacity to accommodate 600 additional learners in trades and industrial training programs, and to upgrade existing structures. The province has also provided funding for a sign language interpreter diploma program to start in 2008.
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| Oct 29 |
Edmonton... Cathy Williams has been named as chair of The Board of Governors of Mount Royal College.
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| Oct 25 |
Lethbridge ... Capacity for 450 students in health (nursing and addictions counselling) and management studies programs will be added at the University of Lethbridge as a result of the Alberta government’s $50-million investment in the university’s Markin Building project, which will house the School of Health Sciences and Faculty of Management. Government will also provide another $18 million for upgrading University Hall.
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| Oct 25 |
Lethbridge... The Alberta government is investing $8.5 million to modernize the trades facility at Lethbridge College, providing for the possibility of up to 1,300 additional student spaces in its trade and industrial training programs. An additional $2.2 million will help to enhance the college’s safety and emergency response system.
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| Oct 17 |
Calgary... Scott Thon has been appointed as chair of the Bow Valley College board of governors.
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| Oct 10 |
Edmonton... Edmonton lawyer and community volunteer Douglas Goss has been designated chair of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)’s Board of Governors.
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| Oct 10 |
Calgary – Alberta Ingenuity is setting out on a new path that will significantly change the research funding landscape in Canada. Similar to approaches taken at elite institutions around the world, such as the Carnegie Institute at Stanford University, the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, the Ingenuity Accelerators program is based on providing significant levels of financial support to attract outstanding researchers to work in areas important to Alberta’s economic future.
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| Oct 10 |
Edmonton... Through the first strategic partnership between GE and a Canadian province, the Alberta government and GE Water & Process Technologies will collaborate to find technological solutions to challenges facing the province.
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September
| Sep 28 |
Athabasca... A $30-million contribution from the Alberta government will provide capacity for up to 15,000 more course registrations in distance learning per year, or about 1,500 full-time equivalent students, when Athabasca University’s Academic and Research Centre is built.
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| Sep 28 |
Fort McMurray... The Alberta government is providing $6.1 million to Keyano College, largely for trades upgrades and expansions to meet apprenticeship training demands.
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| Sep 19 |
Edmonton... Vice-chair, Keith Dys, has been appointed chair of the Lethbridge College Board of Governors. His term is effective immediately.
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| Sep 18 |
Edmonton... Fifty students will attend classes this fall with assistance from Alberta’s Aboriginal Health Careers Bursary. A total of $285,000 is being provided this year to First Nations and Métis students, with amounts ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 per student.
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| Sep 07 |
Edmonton... Dr. Mary Norton of Edmonton, an adult literacy educator with more than 30 years of experience in the field, is Alberta’s 2007 recipient of the Council of the Federation Literacy Award. The award was presented to Norton by Advanced Education and Technology Minister Doug Horner at an International Literacy Day celebration at Edmonton City Hall on September 7.
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| Sep 06 |
Banff, Alberta, CAN...(September 6, 2007) – At the first-ever global meeting on graduate education, held here last weekend, higher education leaders from North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim agreed to a Statement of Principles.
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| Sep 05 |
Edmonton... A record number of post-secondary students won’t be driving to school or catching the bus this fall. Their classroom will be their home as they log on in record numbers to online studies.
“This year there are more courses and more programs offered online in Alberta than ever before,” said Doug Horner, Minister of Advanced Education and Technology. “That’s due to the foresight of 15 publicly funded colleges and technical institutes who have banded together under the eCampusAlberta partnership.”
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August
| Aug 29 |
Edmonton... Red Deer College President Ron Woodward has been appointed chair of the Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer (ACAT), which develops policies, guidelines and procedures to promote system-wide cooperation in the areas of admissions and transfer. His three-year term is effective immediately.
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| Aug 27 |
Edmonton... Sixty new training seats for recreation vehicle (RV) service technicians are now available for apprentices in northern Alberta, thanks to the expansion of a SAIT Polytechnic program to Edmonton.
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| Aug 23 |
Red Deer... The Alberta government is increasing its investment in Red Deer College’s Building Communities Through Learning (BCTL) project. The additional funding will go toward the new centres for Trades and Technology and Innovation and Manufacturing being completed, equipped and ready for learners by September 2008. These centres are part of the first component of the college’s BCTL project, which also includes centres for Business Enterprise and Visual Art.
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| Aug 10 |
Edmonton... A Value-Added and Technology Commercialization Report recently delivered to Advanced Education and Technology Minister Doug Horner will help the government determine immediate and long-term actions to enhance Alberta's ability to create, grow and sustain globally competitive and innovative knowledge intensive companies.
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| Aug 01 |
Calgary... Spartan Controls Ltd. CEO Mike Begin has been appointed as chair of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) Polytechnic Board of Governors effective immediately.
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June
| Jul 09 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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May
| May 18 |
Edmonton... Significant opportunities for new partnerships in research, business and adult learning have been created during a week-long mission to expand Alberta's role as a global leader in technology industries and to develop knowledge-workers. Doug Horner, Minister of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, wrapped up the mission to strengthen relations between Alberta and China with the signing of two technology agreements, bringing the total agreements signed on this trip to four.
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| May 17 |
Harbin, China... New research into plant and animal traits and new opportunities to commercialize technologies may take root from the exchange of ideas between the best and brightest minds in agricultural biotechnology on two continents.
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| May 16 |
Harbin, China... Alberta's success in producing bioenergy from agricultural waste could soon turn an operational cost and environmental problem for Chinese farmers into a source of self-sufficient electricity and new revenue. The IMUS™ biogas system, originally developed by the Alberta Research Council, Highmark Renewables and its partners, is being adapted for small-scale use in the Chinese market with help from the Alberta government.
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| May 15 |
Edmonton... Alberta and China have strengthened collaboration in education and science and technology through two new agreements, part of many initiatives being carried out by the Alberta government during a week-long mission in China.
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| May 10 |
Edmonton... A multi-year concerted effort by the Alberta government to open China's trading doors has yielded new intercontinental alliances that will help build a better Alberta and may improve the quality of life for people here, across Canada and around the globe.
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| May 02 |
Edmonton … Investing in ‘the science of small’ will help generate huge returns for Albertans, said Premier Ed Stelmach, unveiling the province’s strategy to capture a $20-billion market share of the world’s burgeoning nanotechnology market.
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April
| Apr 27 |
Edmonton... A $15-million boost to apprenticeship funding will help apprentices access the technical training portion of their apprenticeship program. This will help meet employers' needs for tradespeople in various industries and regions across the province. Nearly 3,000 additional in-class training seats will be available for apprentices.
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| Apr 23 |
Edmonton... Significant changes to the student assistance program totaling $25 million will be implemented by the Alberta government before students begin classes this fall.
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| Apr 17 |
Edmonton... Innovative entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized enterprises across Alberta will have greater access to technology commercialization and innovation support services thanks to Alberta government funding.
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| Apr 04 |
Edmonton – Twelve well-respected leaders from academia, business and government are set to lend their expertise in environmental stewardship, water quality and policy development to form the Management Advisory Board for the new Alberta Water Research Institute, a $30 million Alberta government investment announced in November 2006 to implement a water research strategy focused on safe drinking water, efficient water use and healthy watersheds.
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| Apr 04 |
Edmonton...The 2007 Excellence in Teaching Awards Program is recognizing 130 Alberta teachers as award finalists, celebrating their outstanding creativity and innovation in our province's Kindergarten to Grade 12 education system.
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March
| Mar 30 |
Edmonton... A new grant for post-secondary students attending First Nations colleges has been undertaken as a one-year pilot project by the Government of Alberta. Two million dollars has been given to the First Nations College Access Grant by the province.
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| Mar 26 |
Edmonton... Accelerating Alberta's value-added production and increasing the commercialization of new ideas and discoveries in the province are the goals of a new task force assembled by the Alberta government to help our province gain a stronger competitive edge in the global knowledge-based economy.
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| Mar 15 |
Calgary... Starting this fall, Mount Royal College will enroll students in a four-year Bachelor of Nursing Degree program. The Alberta government is investing $10 million for this program.
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| Mar 15 |
Edmonton... An additional 22 spaces have been added to MacEwan College's four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree program beginning this fall, bringing the total number of spaces in 2007-08 to 207. The Alberta government is providing $5.7 million for the program's start-up costs and another $3 million for the additional spaces.
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| Mar 09 |
Olds, (Alberta), March 9 2007 -- Bell Canada and Olds College today announced a partnership to create a state-of-the-art distributed learning facility at the Olds College Campus. The Bell e-Learning Centre - made possible through a $3.1-million investment by Bell - will be pivotal to the new Community Learning Campus, currently under construction.
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| Mar 09 |
Edmonton... Top-notch apprentices, employers and instructors are being honoured for their exceptional achievements in the trades at the 10th annual Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training Board Awards event in Edmonton.
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| Mar 08 |
Edmonton... Proposed amendments in the Post-secondary Learning Amendment Act, 2007 and the Private Vocational Schools Amendment Act will reflect the current environment surrounding approval processes of degree programs for public and private institutions, and licensing for private vocational training programs.
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| Mar 08 |
Edmonton... The governments of Canada and Alberta will lead a national effort to ensure Canada takes full advantage of its status as the global front-runner in technology to capture carbon dioxide and store it deep underground.
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| Mar 05 |
Edmonton... A two-year pilot program for professional drivers will offer classroom theory and more experience behind the wheel for new drivers, meeting the increasingly competitive demands of the Alberta trucking industry.
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| Mar 01 |
Edmonton...The Alberta government is investing more than $15 million in apprenticeship to provide the in-class portion of apprenticeship programs to more than 3600 additional apprentices across the province.
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February
| Feb 28 |
Edmonton... More than 2,000 students will benefit from changes to the province's student loan system. This spring and summer, the Alberta government will introduce increased financial support for medical residents, post-secondary students with families, those studying part-time and students with disabilities.
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| Feb 21 |
Edmonton... Alberta government funding is giving researchers the tools and equipment they need to establish their first Alberta labs and get their projects underway.
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| Feb 20 |
Edmonton... Alberta university researchers will receive nearly $43 million from the Alberta government to provide for exceptional state-of-the-art research programs.
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| Feb 20 |
(Calgary, Alberta) – University Technologies International (UTI), Calgary Technologies Inc. (CTI) and SAIT Polytechnic announced today a special grant pool of $250,000 for new programs and initiatives which support advancements to the technology commercialization and innovation sector. This grant pool is part of a larger funding package of $1.5 million that Alberta Advanced Education and Technology (AET) awarded to UTI, CTI, and SAIT to further technology commercialization and collaboration in the Calgary region.
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| Feb 15 |
Edmonton... The Alberta government, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada and the National Institute for Nanotechnology are joining forces in the research and development of nanomaterials, devices and processes.
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| Feb 14 |
(Provincial, AB) Wednesday, February 14, 2007... Premier Ed Stelmach joined AHFMR and university leadership today in Calgary to announce a major new award focused on recruiting a "superstar" health researcher to the province.
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| Feb 09 |
Edmonton... The Alberta government has made snubbing services the newest designated occupation in Alberta. Workers who perform maintenance on oil and gas wells now have the opportunity to have their skills formally recognized. Becoming certified is optional, but it can lead to greater job mobility, transferability and promotional opportunities. There are currently more than 400 snubbing workers in Alberta.
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| Feb 07 |
Edmonton... A leading American chemist, working in the field of molecular scale electronics, has been enticed to Alberta to continue his groundbreaking research on new microelectronic platforms. "I am excited about coming to a place that puts such a high priority on research and development," said McCreery. "I was not looking to leave Ohio, but the situation and opportunities here were hard to resist."
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| Feb 06 |
EDMONTON (February 6, 2007) – In keeping with its mandate to help Alberta companies grow and prosper the Alberta Research Council (ARC) recently entered into a five-year collaborative research agreement with Sage Biosciences Inc that will bring new products in animal health and nutrition to the marketplace.
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January
| Jan 30 |
Edmonton...Alberta students aged eight, 11 and 14 are now eligible to receive a $100 grant from the Alberta government in their Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) beginning January 1, 2007. To qualify, families must put in at least $100 into a student's RESP within one year prior to applying for the Alberta Centennial Education Savings Plan grant with an RESP provider. The $100 RESP grant is retroactive to 2005 and there is a six-year window to apply for the grant.
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| Jan 25 |
Calgary...An internationally recognized Geneva physicist enticed to work in Alberta will use quantum techniques for what could mean quantum leaps in information security for our bank records or our telephone conversations.
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