News Pitches June 14

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Hi everyone,I hope everyone is doing well. Here are the announcements and pitches for the week!

AnnouncementsNo announcements this week. 

News pitches

• Sustain SU's Campus Community Garden has opened up again! Interview someone from the garden on this!

• The U of A is building 8 new tennis courts on South Campus, scheduled to open on Summer 2023

• Sayak Dirghangi, a fourth-year environmental and conservation sciences student, developed a solution for northern Canada's food insecurity problem by growing food locally in greenhouses

• Cree educator and researcher Dwayne Donald is one of the U of A's nine newest Canada Research Chairs, he will explore locally rooted Indigenous knowledge in teacher education

• Julie Rak, an arts professor, is the author of a new book that addresses sexism and racism in mountaineering and expands on narrow historical narratives

• Three U of A engineering students have developed a mobile app that tracks the progress of a healing wound

• A U of A researcher analyzed language related to depression on social media during the pandemic, the data suggests people learned to cope as the waves wore on

Sports pitches No sports pitches for this week.

Feel free to pick up a story or pitch of your own!You can reach me on Slack or at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Have a good week,Martin