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Alberta’s Premier and Calgary’s Mayor helped to officially open the new $160-million south campus at Bow Valley College this spring. Not long after that, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations arrived to unveil the facility’s airy aboriginal centre.

That’s also when it started to rain. Historic flooding walloped southern Alberta on June 21, including the college which has a prominent footprint in the east end of Calgary’s downtown.

A University of Calgary faculty member will speak at the world’s largest face-to-face gathering of elite hackers.

DEF CON, the biggest conference of its kind, brings together over 15,000 professional and amateur computer security experts every year to discuss the latest tech vulnerabilities. It’s the first time a University of Calgary professor will present at the conference, which takes place Aug. 1-4.

Since the Southern Alberta floods in June 2013, EVDS professor Tang Lee had been fielding calls and e-mail inquiries from building owners about how to remediate their houses after the Alberta flood of 2013. Lee, who specializes in mold and environmental health, has also commented to media on how to mitigate damages to houses that are on the flood plain which are likely to be flooded again in the future.

The role of the much-disputed Separation Wall in the loss of farmland in the Palestinian territories will be the subject of an eight-month field study by a Faculty of Environmental Design PhD candidate.

Maha AbuHafeetha will conduct fieldwork in the West Bank through the support of the Choquette Family Foundation Global Experience Graduate Scholarship.

Established in 2007 by Pierre and Brenda Choquette at the University of Calgary, the foundation awards five $10,000 scholarships per year to students interested in pursuing international experience.

Streetcars, rapid trains and urban gondolas are a few of the unique suggestions being offered as ideas for improving transit in the Northwest Hub — the city’s second largest employment area that includes the University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Foothills Medical Centre and Market Mall shopping district.

On June 8, the University of Calgary celebrated the achievements of 93 self-identified Aboriginal graduates during the Native Centre’s Aboriginal Graduation Banquet and Powwow.

Highlights of the evening, themed Our Legacy, Our Future to show how ancestral legacy helped carve the path for the pursuit of higher learning, were plentiful.

All Calgary campuses closed; all classes and events cancelled

Given the continued state of emergency in Calgary, the University of Calgary’s four campuses will remain closed on Monday, June 24 and Tuesday, June 25. Most campus buildings remain locked, and all classes and events have been cancelled or will be postponed.

Bears have been getting into all kinds of mischief over the past few weeks in the Lower Mainland, whether it’s brawling on someone’s front lawn, prying into vehicles, or attacking llamas and goats.

There’s nobody better suited to put these ursine escapades in context than world-renowned bear-attack expert Stephen Herrero. A professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, Dr. Herrero is the author of Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, a definitive study analyzing the past century of bear encounters with humans.

On June 14, students from the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University celebrated the start of construction of their solar house, Borealis. The institutions also marked the partnership of the Team Alberta Solar Decathlon project with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by provosts Dru Marshall and Manuel Mertin. Guests included Jim Dinning, chancellor of the University of Calgary, along with sponsors and supporters of Team Alberta.

It was a place that brought Kristin Schreiner to the Master of Architecture program. For her classmate Stephen Rowe, it was a person.

But both students arrived in Calgary in 2010 with wide-ranging interests and both would develop a passion for understanding the ways culture and climate influence how humans want to live. Scholarship studies in northern Canada taught them that architecture is as much about social and cultural issues as it is about structures.