News Pitches November 23

Extra, Extra! News Pitches Coming in Hot 🔥

November 24, 2020

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Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a great week back and everyone is getting back into the swing of things!!

Excuse my bad pun, I was trying to think of making music joke because pitch is also a musical term, but we this is all I could think of! This was my favourite movie as a child though, so I'm always here for a Julie Andrews throwback!

Anyways, here are some of the pitches I've put together for the week! As usual, these will be due this Friday around 6 pm! If you want to take a story but need more time, let me know and we can work out a different deadline!

  • A new seminar series organized by UAlberta graduate students is shining light on the experiences of LGBTQ2S+ people in science. The series is titled Scientific QUEERies! Isn't that so cute!!

  • A new study from ALES could help improve adoption rates in dog shelters!

  • The Golden Bears hockey team will be competing in a bubble tournament against the Canadian World Junior team!! This is a big deal!

  • Augustana business grad Amielle Christopherson created a literary journal to help young rural writers get their work published and support each other.

  • UAlberta donor honours her father, renowned forester Peter Murphy, with new student award.

  • AI pilot project in Drayton Valley aims to make water treatment greener, more efficient and less expensive.

  • Émilie Robertson, a medical resident and master’s grad developed virtual tools to help surgeons correct skull defects in babies.

  • Five U of A researchers are on the latest list of the most highly cited researchers in their fields! You can interview one of the researchers who made this list!

  • U of A physicist Robert Wolkow honoured with an international award for nanotechnology.

  • The U of A Engineering faculty has started a head-shaving drive to fight cancer! It starts December 1st!

  • As a researcher and volunteer, PhD grad Maxine Myre is helping remove the burden of weight stigma that can prevent people from getting the benefits of physical fitness.

  • Nursing PhD grad Oluwakemi Amodu is building on work she did during her U of A doctoral program to make life better for vulnerable women in a refugee camp in northern Nigeria.