The May 9, 2011 edition of The Insider is now available.
In this edition:

• The Faculty of Graduate Studies and the AU Library have completed a joint electronic thesis and dissertation submission project, a first for AU.
• AU Business students Trevor Eliott, Cynthia Black, Teang Tang and Johnathan Whitmore competed in the third annual CMA Alberta Board Governance Case Competition in Calgary in March.
• The Research Buzz is that a number of faculty members have received awards in the last few months for research projects ranging from housing policy to consumer subversion.
• Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery, published by AU Press, is one of five finalists for the annual Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. You can have a say in selecting the winner by voting online from now until May 31.
• Most of the murals in the renovated science laboratory are generic commercial products, but one, a photographic collage of organisms typical of the boreal forest, is local. You can win a small copy of this mural by entering the Boreal Forest Mural Contest.
• Derek Sidebottom, a graduate of AU’s MBA program and a Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship winner, was recently appointed chief people officer with Kabam, a California developer of massively multiplayer social games (MMSGs).
• And more…

The next issue of The Insider will be published May 24, 2011. The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 13.