June 2010, Vol 9, No 6

They're changing our world.
Now, we proudly give them our highest honours.

Click here to read more about our outstanding recipients: Gayla Rogers, Jeremy Gutsche and Rithesh Ram. Join us to celebrate our silver anniversary at the 2010 Arch Awards on June 3.

First Middle East alumni event and UCQ's first convocation

The first graduates from the University of Calgary-Qatar's Bachelor of Nursing program will convocate on June 28. If you're travelling in the Doha, Qatar area at that time, you're invited to an alumni lunch that afternoon and the convocation that evening. Click here to RSVP. For more on UC-Qatar, please click here.

Alumni reach out through Africa Book Project

Five U of C alumni are volunteers with Africa Book Project and they're working to send a shipping container of books to Sierra Leone. Learn more...

Alumna's first book wins at International Book Awards

Candace Plattor, BEd '73, is a teacher, a successful therapist and a newly published author with her first book, Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction. Learn more...

New geoscience alumni chapter launched

This chapter is the newest addition to the University of Calgary alumni chapter family. More than 1,800 people who have graduated from the Department of Geoscience currently live in the Calgary area. Learn more...

Alumna Jessica Grant turns dissertation into winning novel

Jessica Grant, PhD'07, is the winner of the 2009 Amazon.ca First Novel Award for her book, Come, Thou Tortoise. Learn more...

Thank you GTY sponsors

Thank you to all the campus and community partners who helped us launch 6,500 new U of C graduates in 2010 through our Graduating This Year program. We couldn't have done it without your support and expertise. To learn more about GTY, click here.

Caution: pedestrians with briefcases?

Have you noticed unique street signs or other curious forms of communication in your travels? Geography and culture can lead to different interpretations with interesting or hilarious consequences. Send us your photos and we'll publish the best in the communication-themed Fall 2010 issue of U Magazine. One entry will win a $100 gift certificate to Bistro Alma.

Travelling this summer?

Our newest affinity partner, MedjetAssist, is a world leader in medical evacuation. They're offering U of C alumni a preferred rate for all annual membership options. Learn more...

Exclusive alumni offer: Decidedly Jazzworks' WiseApple

The University of Calgary has teamed up with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks for a special alumni offer for DJD's production of WiseApple. Tickets are just $40 for the June 17th show. Buy tickets...

Update your info and be entered to win

Enter to win a golf package from Privileged Play when you update your contact information. Your prize has a $1,200 value and includes four Privileged Play premium golf memberships, four men's Callaway golf shirts and four dozen Nike Crush golf balls. Contest closes July 15, 2010 at noon. Learn more...

New alumni perk partner: Riley & McCormick Western Stores

U of C's Alumni Association is very pleased that Riley & McCormick Western Stores, Calgary's Original Western Store, is our newest perk partner. Riley & McCormick is offering a 10 percent discount to U of C alumni, staff and students for in- store shopping on regularly priced merchandise. Click here to learn more and shop in advance for Stampede!

Hotchkiss Brain Institute receives $2.3 million

Funding for the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) nerve repair and regeneration facility at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine will make it easier for promising treatments developed in its labs to reach the marketplace, and patients worldwide. Learn more...