Past Events

Community Volunteer Group on Thursday, April 14 at 4:00pm Pacific time

Green College Series on Intergenerational Trauma on Tuesday, April 12 at 5pm Pacific Time Releasing the Trauma Effects of War: Healing Though the Intergeneration of Music with Therapeutic Approaches to Trauma Recovery

The Study and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease:  Which are DNA-based tools discovered by Maria DeRosa's research team? Speaker:  Professor Maria DeRosa, Interim Dean, Faculty of Science, Carlton University, Ottawa, Ontario  (Maria.DeRosa@carleton.ca) Short Overview: Dr. DeRosa will  describe the science of aptamers, how the aptamers were discovered and characterized, and their applications for the study and treatment of Parkinson’s disease

Invitation from U. Alberta Assoc. of Retired Academic Staff re free Zoom session:  The CANADIAN ARCTIC  Wednesday, March 23 at 1:00 pm MT Title: The Canadian Arctic Speaker:  Professor Emeritus John England Short Overview of Session:  His talk will include some of scientific discoveries of international interest from the ice age to the present that were made at U. Alberta. He will also address climate change with a focus on the late 19th century explorers.

Academic online event offered at no charge by the MAUT Retiree Affairs Committee   Winter 2022 Presentation Series  

Wednesday March 9, 2022, 2pm to 3:30pm MT via Zoom Title: The Archives and Special Collections (including rare books) at UCalgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library Speaker:  Annie Murray, UCalgary rare books and special collections librarian Did you know the number of books and archival materials in UCalgary’s Archives and Special Collections has doubled since 2019?

Over the course of four Saturdays (March 5th to 26th), the following sessions will be presented by:  David Docherty, BSc., MSc., PhD.& Chris Pengilly, MD., ChB.  Each presentation will focus on a specific system of the body and cover how it works but also what can go wrong as we age and how to fix it.  Presentation Topics:   10 am - noon PST Mar 05: “The Heart of the Matter!” Mar 12:  “What’s a bad joint like this doing in a nice person like you?”

Speaker: Dr. Robert Laprairie, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, GSK-CIHR Research Chair in Drug Discovery and Development Note:  This talk starts at 12:00 pm Central Standard Time

Over the course of four Saturdays, the following talks will be presented by Ocean Networks Canada scientists and specialists.

January 26, 12pm: Intelligent Robotic Spacecraft – Developing and Evaluating Advanced Autonomous Space Robotics Technologies Wednesday, January 26, 12:00 to 1:00pm (ET), Virtual Presentation via Zoom All are welcome to attend this free “Ingenious Talk” online, about Intelligent Robotic Spacecraft technologies.