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The Insider for May 24

The May 24, 2011 edition of The Insider is now available.

 

In this edition:

  • A study of Alberta child labour by Dr. Bob Barnetson, associate professor of labour relations in the Centre for Work and Community Studies, has been getting a lot of media attention.
  • The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education has given an AU produced video series The Paragraph: A Video Tutorial an Award of Merit in its Video category.
  • Several AU researchers are partners in the project Advancing Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability: An Academic/Municipal Partnership for Resource-Based Communities in Alberta, which is focusing on the development needs of two such communities, Hinton and Grande Cache, to help them achieve greater social, economic and environmental sustainability.
  • AU’s Doctor of Business Administration Program enters its third year in the fall of 2011, and a number of DBA students have been presenting their ideas and developing their thinking within their scholarly communities at conferences around the world.
  • Don’t miss your last few chances to vote for Alberta Readers’ Choice Award finalist, Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery, by Helen Waldstein Wilkes. You can vote at Alberta Readers’ Choice.
  • Students and Alumni making news.

 The next issue of The Insider will be published June 13, 2011. The deadline for submissions is Friday, June 3.