News Pitches June 7

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Hi everyone,I hope everyone had a good weekend. Here are the announcements and pitches for the week!

AnnouncementsNo announcements this week. 

News pitches 

• 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

• Mattieu Figeys, a PhD candidate in the faculty of rehabilitation medicine is part of a research team examining the effects and potential applications of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), the attachment of electrodes to a patient's scalp.

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