News Pitches March 29

Extra, Extra! News Pitches Coming in Hot ðŸ”¥

March 30, 2021

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Hey news team! Hope you are all had well! We are getting close to the end of the year, so now is your chance to grab a news story! Down below are this week's pitches, if you have any questions about pitches or would just like to chat, feel free to shoot me a message via Slack, or via email at [email protected]!

Interested in a new award for Black students, Cameron Library, or the PLLC Leadership Case Competition? We have a pitch for you! Here are some leftover pitches from today's meeting! Send Khadra a Slack message or an email to her at [email protected] if you'd like to take one!

  • University of Alberta chemists have identified a new method of creating high-quality memory devices, called memristors, for electronics using inexpensive and non-toxic liquid metals.

  • U of A research has shown that a pediatric heart transplant procedure pioneered by Canadian doctors—once deemed impossible—has been shown to be at least as effective as the traditional approach

  • Augustana Chemistry professor James Kariuki has developed a new award in support of Black students in hopes it will increase diversity on campus

  • The Black Graduate Students' Association is holding an undergraduate student essay competition about advancing racial justice in Canadian post-secondary.

  • U of A’s Injury Prevention Centre is warning about the unintended poisonings from hand sanitizer, cleaning products during COVID-19

  • The department of WGS is hosting a talk called Constellations of Carcerality: Black Women and Sexualized State Violence with Stephanie Latty on April 9 @ 12 pm.

  • PLLC Leadership Case Competition focused on finding solutions to remote learning assessment. Talk to the winners about their solutions

  • University of Alberta and TELUS partner on a 5G ‘living lab’ which will help the university prioritize research in the areas of precision agriculture and autonomous vehicles

  • A co-authored paper UAlberta Law professor Eric Adams and alumnus Andrew Leach has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in its carbon tax decision

  • The faculty of medicine and dentistry’s Arts and Humanities in Health & Medicine Program celebrates the intersections between arts/humanities and medicine, via a series of public lectures.

  • Cameron Library is re-opening for studying on March 29! Talk to someone from the library about how this will work and what safety precautions will be taken.

  • U of A biologists examined the mountain pine beetle flight techniques and used genetic information to track their spread in Alberta

  • U of A research shows Grazing livestock could reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

  • A new study led by U of A researchers to learn how the SARS-CoV-2 virus affects some of the body’s most vital organs.

  • U of A nursing professor Carla Hilario is researching the COVID-19 and the mental health adolescents

Have a great rest of your week! <3