Sean Steels , Senior News Editor The Graduate Students’ Association convened on Monday night to hear a specially called presentation from the University’s Provost and Vice President (Academic) Carl Amrhein, deputy provost Dru Marshall, and Vice President (Finance and Administration) Phyllis Clark concerning upcoming increases to graduate student tuition and instructional fees. read more

Brendan Cavanagh , News Staff In an effort to close the University’s 2010/11 $59-million funding gap, members of the Association of Academic Staff, University of Alberta agreed on November 16 to begin negotiations for a maximum of six furlough days — that is, six days off without pay. Although discussions are ongoing, these days would likely not fall on class days, and won’t interrupt student ...

Krista Allan , News Writer Alberta is going green, but not in the way some might think. Just outside the town of Vegreville, the Alberta Research Council is working to add hemp farming to Alberta’s list of lucrative industries. read more

Andrea Luft , News Writer The University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts is thrilled to open the new Kule Institute, made possible by the generous $4-million donation from local philanthropists Peter and Doris Kule. read more

Sean Steels , Senior News Editor CAPTCHA confluence Potential postsecondary students applying within Alberta will no longer have to blanket institutions with applications thanks to the opening of a new website that will allow them to submit multiple applications with a single form. read more

Ashleigh Mattern, The Sheaf (University of Saskatchewan) SASKATOON (CUP) — Students who received a free copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species on the University of Saskatchewan’s campus this month might be surprised to find an introduction by intelligent design proponent Ray Comfort. read more

Ashley Gaboury, CUP Central Bureau Chief WINNIPEG (CUP) — Universities across the world are facing a slew of phishing scams, with both students and staff falling victim to spammers who trick them into divulging personal information, including university webmail usernames and passwords. read more

Lucy Scholey, The Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University) HALIFAX (CUP) — A national survey being conducted this month is hoping to generate hard data to aid student associations’ lobbying efforts, though its scope extends to only five provinces. read more

Sean Steels , Senior News Editor The field of evolutionary psychology is often described as unique for its salacious mixing of sexual nuances and the fact of scientific discourse, but for Jay Ingram, U of A alumnus and host of the science news broadcast Daily Planet , there’s another discipline perfectly paired with the habitually book-bound topic. read more

Alexandria Eldridge , CUP Alberta and Northern Bureau Chief A cap on graduate stipends at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta could see some students receive less departmental funding just because they’ve earned a scholarship. read more

Jonathan Taves , Deputy News Editor The U of A administration pays a visit to talk of deficits and differentials, President Mathewson speaks on student surveys, and the SU minds the gap: all in this week’s Council Forum. read more

Sean Steels , Senior News Editor I want my grandpa! Just after 4 a.m. on November 14, a resident of Newton Place reported that a non-affiliated female followed her into the building wanting to visit her grandfather. CSS attended and upon searching the building located three street youth sleeping at the top of a stairwell. One of the youth was placed under arrest for trespassing and later ...

Alexandria Eldridge , CUP Alberta and Northern Bureau Chief Two University of Alberta students had the opportunity to build and launch a rocket at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway last week. The course is a pilot project put on by the University of Oslo, and the Institute for Space, Science, Exploration, and Technology. read more

Andrea Luft , News Writer Larry Clark was amazed when he first arrived at the University of Alberta's Timms Centre for the Arts. read more