NEWS

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May 31, 2018

June volunteer meeting coming up!

Hey everyone, Nathan here! The next volunteer meeting is coming up soon, so here are some of the stories you can take. This is just a taste of some of the stories you could take at the meeting and I'll have more ideas once the meeting comes, so be sure to come by if you can.The meeting will be on June 4 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and as usual, I promise to bring timbits for you lovely volunteers! And if you can't make it but you still want to take a story, shoot me a message at [email protected] and we'll work something out =]  

New archive facility opened at South Campus

The Research and Collections Resource Facility opened on May 31, and is home to 30,000 boxes of documents which go back to 1908! It would be really cool if someone could go in and get a tour of the facility or something, interview one of the librarians, and write it up for the news section!

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U of A scientists discover world's oldest lizard fossil

New research by a PhD student here shows that a lizard fossil discovered about 20 years ago is around 240-million-year-old, which is 75-million years older than what scientists previously thought and making it the oldest relative of modern snakes and lizards ever found. This could make a cool story!

STREETERS and maybe ask a prof about flowers on campus?

Now that winter is a distant memory (for the moment), someone can do a streeters piece asking students where's the best place to be on campus in the summer like the Koi fish pond by Humanities, or elsewhere.

And with everything in full bloom, it'd be cool if someone asked a prof about all the flora and fauna found on campus.

U of A looking for volunteers to help students from asylum countries

The U of A is welcoming students from countries affected by conflict, and they're looking for volunteers to help these students transition to the new surroundings. It would be cool to do a piece on volunteers from the past three years this was done before. More

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