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News Pitches (Jan 5) (copy 01)
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Hey everybody โ Areeha here! I hope you are doing well and staying warm! Here are some quick announcements!Due to the Winter Clubs Fair being cancelled, we are planning on having an online Gateway Open House! We will send out more information on this in the near future!Pitch meetings might also be moving times this term to allow for more volunteers to take part in them! We will send out an online poll asking what your preferred times for meetings would be soon!Last but not least, here are News pitches for the week, please let me know if you're interested in any of them!
The U of A Pandas student-athletes and the City of Edmonton have partnered in creating a new recreation program for girls aged 9-15; ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐ก๐จ ๐ฝ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง๐กs! The Pandas will led weekly sport sessions at Terwillegar Recreation Centre every Monday!
A chemistry professor at the U of A is using Twitter to call on the university to require N95 masks for students, staff, and faculty when classes return to in-person delivery! Interview her on this!
Faculty of Science graduate Luca Vanzella captured stunning collection of photos of Edmonton skies, and was featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
U of A's Ian Paterson is leading a new study involving COVID-19 patients in Alberta. The research team is using new MRI techniques it developed to learn more about how the disease affects vital organs including the heart, lungs and brain.
Campus Food Bank is now a depot for Khair for All, an affordable, culturally honouring food box social enterprise! Interview them on this!
A pair of University of Alberta pharmacy professors have published guidelines to help pharmacists support men experiencing late-onset hypogonadism, also known as โmale menopauseโ or โmanopause.โ Interview them on this!
U of A diabetes researchers are reporting early success in a first-in-humans clinical trial to test whether pancreatic cells grown from stem cells can be safely implanted and begin to produce insulin.
As always feel free to pitch me a story idea! Reach me at [email protected] or at Slack with any questions or concerns.Have a great week!
Cheers, Areeha :)