Now until April 7, W: at MRU — Calgarians are invited to campus to experience a series of exhibits (digital, experiential, social media, performance etc.) as part of W (Paul Brandt and MRU senior marketing students partner on this campaign to raise awareness of Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and the sex-trafficking of girls and women around the world. More info.
March 29, 12 p.m., Somar Speaker Series with journalist and author Vivian Smith — Gender and Journalism: How newsrooms skirt their sexism issues. Located in EA 3001 (The Knuckle).
March 31, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Gravitational Waves & Black Holes presentation by Dr. Michael Landry LIGO Hanford Observatory, Caltech — In September 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves from a binary black hole system — the first ever direct detection of these waves predicted by Einstein a century ago and the first observation of the merger of two black holes. Landry will talk about what we have learned from this major discovery. Located in Jenkins Theatre (I 115).
March 31 deadline for Peer Health Educators — Looking for students interested in health, volunteerism and wanting to build community on campus. They will help raise awareness about health and wellness at MRU in creative and engaging ways. If you know a student who might be interested, the application form is here.
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Bleed Blue — awards and milestones
Best Paper Award — Angela Tucker, a winner of the MRU Community Prosperity Student Research Award (CPSRA), recently won the Best Paper award at a conference at MacEwan University, Transformations: an Undergraduate Conference about Change. This conference, specifically for anthropology and sociology students, is aimed at exploring the ideas of transformation and change from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives. Tucker, in her fourth year studying Anthropology, presented on her paper, Indigenous Portrayals: A Comparative Analysis of Media Involving Canada’s Murdered and Missing Women. Tucker chose to write on this subject because of her interest in the creation of identity and the perpetuation of stereotypes in our society. With a strong belief in Indigenous feminism and post-colonial theory, Tucker is highly critical of media representations and compares and contrasts the depictions of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in print media in cases of murdered and missing women in Canada.
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