By Yuqin Wang, PhD student Life is built upon cells, the basic units of all living organisms, much like bricks form the foundation of buildings. To gain deeper insights into cellular structure, function and interactions, a wide range of technologies is used in biomedical research to unravel the complex mechanisms underlying living organisms. These methodologies […]

Open Education Talks 2026 A series of lightning talks focused on open education in post-secondary institutions co-hosted by the University of Calgary, Thompson Rivers University, Mount Royal University, University of British Columbia and University of Alberta, Canada. Open Education Talks is a series of 15-minute lightning talks and digital posters about facets of open education. […]

🎯Curatorial Focus： My curatorial focus is on the anxiety of women presented in contemporary photography. From a feminist perspective, I explore the predicaments that contemporary women face under the multiple pressures of social structure and cultural expectations. These pressures often do not manifest as dramatic events but exist in a continuous, repetitive and hard-to-articulate state, […]

About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]

I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished. (Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running) My good friend Gary is visiting today and we plan to go for a run, followed […]

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