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31 unusual facts about University of Calgary


Aaron James Sorensen

Sorensen played guitar and aspired to be a musician from a young age, and eventually studied acting—first with Keith Johnstone at the University of Calgary, and later in Los Angeles with Milton Katselas at the famed Beverly Hills Playhouse.

Al Rollins

Rollins coached the University of Calgary hockey team as well as clubs in Spokane, Salt Lake City, Houston, Tulsa and Phoenix.

Alana DeLong

She graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics (honours) with a drama minor before going on to complete courses toward a Masters of Computer Science degree at the University of Calgary.

Anthony Parel

Parel now occupies the post of Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

Articulatory synthesis

One of the few commercial articulatory speech synthesis systems is the NeXT-based system originally developed and marketed by Trillium Sound Research, a spin-off company of the University of Calgary, where much of the original research was conducted.

Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (formerly the Bamfield Marine Station) is a marine research station established in 1972, located in Bamfield, Barkley Sound, British Columbia and run by the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

Combatting Cult Mind Control

Irving Hexham, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, writes that Hassan's description of destructive cults (page 37), as "a group which violates the rights of its members and damages them through the abusive techniques of unethical mind control" is not helpful as he fails to describe how to decide if a group is a cult or not, what are "abusive techniques" and what is "mind control".

Erik Glavic

In January, it was announced that Glavic was transferring to the University of Calgary to begin classes immediately and play for the Calgary Dinos in the 2009 season.

Frits Pannekoek

Prior to taking this position June 2005, he was Director of Information Resources at the University of Calgary.

Graduating from the University of Calgary in 1969 with a BA, Pannekoek went on to get his MA from the same institution, followed by a doctorate in 1974 from Queen's University with a dissertation on Western Canadian history and Indigenous peoples.

Frontier medical college

Frontier Medical College has formed a partnership with Xinjiang Medical University and the University of Calgary.

Garrett Camp

Garrett completed his undergrad in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary where he researched collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval.

Hope Sabanpan-Yu

She earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and her Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary (Canada).

Hugo Anthony Meynell

After completing his graduate work Dr. Meynell taught at the University of Leeds before moving to the University of Calgary in 1981.

Janaka Ruwanpura

Professor Janaka Ruwanpura is the Vice Provost (International) of the University of Calgary Canada.

Khan Kinetic Treatment

The KKT spine treatment device is supported and advanced by continuing partnerships and studies in both McGill University (source?) and the University of Calgary.

Le dernier sorcier

The work was largely forgotten until January 2005 when the University of Calgary staged its North American premiere using the French libretto and the version of the score for chamber orchestra that had been used at the 1869 gala performance in the Théâtre du Thiergarten, which Žekulin reconstructed from Viardot's papers at Harvard University.

Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine

It is the third largest medical school in Canada, and is one of two medical programs (along with the University of Calgary) in Canada that operates on an accelerated 3-year program, without interruption for the summer, instead of the traditional 4-year MD Program.

Michael Luchkovich

Michael Luchkovich graduated high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba and then studied at the University of Calgary where he obtained a political science degree and at the Calgary Normal School where he earned his qualifications as a teacher.

Monkey River Town

Researchers from the University of Calgary led by Dr. Mary Pavelka study the monkey population year round.

Pearl Luke

Born in Peace River, Alberta, Luke attended University of Calgary and earned first a BA and then an MA in English Literature.

Petroleum University of Technology

The university has sent some of its distinguished students to University of Calgary, Curtin University of Technology and Institute Francaise du petrole (IFP) in France.

Philip E. Vernon

In 1968, at the age of 63, he abandoned a secure academic career in England to start a second career at the University of Calgary.

Rainer Knopff

Rainer Knopff is a writer, professor of political science at the University of Calgary, Canada, and member of a group known as the Calgary School.

Research Foundation for Governance in India

Curtis Riep – International Relations graduate from University of Calgary, Canada

Ronald Wright

He studied archaeology at Cambridge University and later at the University of Calgary, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996.

Rutherford House

"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherford", Douglas R. Babcock, 1989, The University of Calgary Press, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ISBN 0-919813-65-8

Samuel Selvon

When that job ended, he took a job as a janitor at the University of Calgary in Alberta for a few months, before becoming writer-in-residence there.

Six Days or Forever?

Ginger, later a Professor of History at Brandeis, Wayne State University, and the University of Calgary and at the time a New York trade book editor, had written about Eugene Debs and the city of Chicago in the time of John Peter Altgeld before tackling the Scopes trial.

Terence Arnold

He taught criminal law at Victoria University of Wellington as well as at several Canadian universities, including Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary.

Turfanosuchus

In 2001, Xiao-Chun Wu (of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing) and Anthony Russell (of the University of Calgary) redescribed the fossil.


Canadian Jewish Review

The project was co-sponsored by the Simon Fraser University Library, the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, the University of British Columbia Library, the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria Library and the Vancouver Public Library.

Charlie Fischer

in Chemical Engineering (1971) and a MBA, Finance (1982) from the University of Calgary.

Green Party of Manitoba candidates, 2007 Manitoba provincial election

She has also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Athabasca University, and at the time of the election was working toward a Master of Arts degree in Adult Education from the University of Calgary and a diploma in Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University.

Harvie Andre

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, on July 27, 1940, Andre was educated at the University of Alberta (Chemical ’62, PhD Chemical ’66) and pursued part of his postgraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology before becoming a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Calgary from 1966 to 1972.

J. R. Shaw

He has received several honorary degrees, including ones from the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.

Jim Hawkes

in this field from the University of Calgary in 1968, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Colorado State University in 1970.

Joseph Pivato

Over the years Pivato has been an invited speaker at the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, The University of Montreal, Laurentian University, the California State University, Long Beach, the University of Warwick, U.K. the University of Venice, the University of Melbourne and other institutions.

Robert Thirsk

His post-secondary education began with receiving a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Calgary in 1976, and continued with a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1978, an M.D. from McGill University in 1982, and his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1998 as a Sloan Fellow.

Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing

The institute is partnered with Institutes for Defence Analysis, CCR Princeton, CCR La Jolla, CCS Bowie, the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, Carleton University, the University of Calgary and is working to create partnerships with other research institutes, government agencies and universities.