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EDUCATION RESEARCH Wednesday February 17 2016 7 Fort Smith Constituency Office P.O. Box 725 Fort Smith NT XOE OPO Tel 867-872-5511 Fax 867-872-5642 Yellowknife NWT Legislative Assembly P.O. Box 1320 Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9 Tel 867-669-2355 Toll Free 1-800-661-0879 Email jmmiltenbergerhotmail.com or michael_miltenbergergov.nt.ca During Aurora College Week we all celebrate the potential of Northern students Fort Smith Constituency Office P.O. Box 725 Fort Smith NT XOE OPO Tel 867-872-5511 Fax 867-872-5642 Yellowknife N Legislative As P.O. Box 1320 Yellowknife NT X Tel 867-669-235 Toll Free 1-800-6 Email jmmiltenbergerhotmail.com or michael_miltenbe During Aurora College W we all celebrate the po of Northern studen Fort Smith Constituency Office P.O. Box 725 Fort Smith NT XOE OPO Tel 867-872-5511 Fax 867-872-5642 Yellowknife NWT Legislative Assembly P.O. Box 1320 Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9 Tel 867-669-2355 Toll Free 1-800-661-0879 Email jmmiltenbergerhotmail.com or michael_miltenbergergov.nt.ca During Aurora College Week we all celebrate the potential of Northern students Fort Smith Constituency Office P.O. Box 725 Fort Smith NT XOE OPO Tel 867-872-5511 Fax 867-872-5642 Yellowknife NWT Legislative Assembly P.O. Box 1320 Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9 Tel 867-669-2355 Toll Free 1-800-661-0879 Email jmmiltenbergerhotmail.com or michael_miltenbergergov.nt.ca During Aurora College Week we all celebrate the potential of Northern students Fort Smith Constituency Office P.O. Box 780 Fort Smith NT X0E 0P0 Tel 867-447-0429 Email louis_sebertgov.nt.ca Yellowknife Legislative Assembly P.O. Box 1320 Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9 Tel 867-669-2355 Toll Free 1-800-661-0879 During Aurora College Week we all celebrate the potential of Northern students Louis Sebert MLA Email louis_sebertgov.nt.ca During Aurora College Week We salute the Colleges service and contribution to academic excellence in the NWT Julie Green MLA Yellowknife Centre 867 767-9143 Ext. 12180 Julie_Greengov.nt.ca UAlberta North picks up where Circumpolar Institute left o By DALI CARMICHAEL At its launch on Feb. 1 the UAlberta North office hosted a panel where academ- ics students filmmakers and Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North shared their stories and their expertise. The panel reflected director Roger Epps vision for the new program. It showcased a real diverse set of rela- tionships and a really vibrant student pres- ence he said. We had a panel that looked at traditional knowledge science and pub- lic policy with great range. UAlberta North an extension of the University of Alberta is the institutions most recent commitment to the North and promises to bring together a variety of cohorts to facilitate research and build profile on Northern issues. At this time the university itself report- edly has over 100 researchers studying a variety of Northern issues including ecol- ogy anthropology climate and climate- change adaptation cross-cultural medi- cine design environmental impact food security and nutrition ice and water In- digenous knowledge Inuit literatures li- brary and information studies outdoor education polar bears public health and Scandinavian studies according to one release from the school. The new office builds on the legacy of the retired Canadian Circumpolar Insti- tute which until 1990 was known as the Boreal Institute. Throughout its six de- cades of existence under one name or an- other the body has been one of only a few research institutes dedicated to applied northern research. Unlike its predecessors UAlberta North itself is not a research institute. Some serious decisions had been made about the Circumpolar Institute more than two years ago and it was kind of limping along and partly because it was in the box called research institute Epp said. I worked in senior administration in the uni- versity but I wasnt there when the deci- sions were made they were made during one of our occasional periods of periodic budgetary crisis. I started asking people what was it we need There was a sense that maybe the university was not giving prior- ity to the North or was not institutionally interested and I started poking around and I found researchers in almost every faculty professors with serious ongoing North- ern research relationships and interests. The new UAlberta North office is set to be a sort of hybrid version of the CCI one that will function as a network for North- ern academics and their regional partners with closer oversight and direction from the university. We will support researchers we will find ways to pull them together we will make sure we are continuing the universitys sup- port for students so that they can spend time doing fieldwork and related research and community reporting throughout the North he said. We can also I think find ways to amplify Northern voices which is what we were doing on Monday night by having Northerners participate really well in a panel around issues that I think are part of the next generations challenge. Some of the offices partners in the NWT include Dechinta Bush University the Au- rora Research Institute and Aurora College and the GNWT. On several fronts the U of A is leading the nation and world in Northern research in teaching and in building lasting part- nerships into northern communities said University of Alberta president David Tur- pin. UAlberta North is the next chapter in that proud history. The timing of the launch coincides with several recently launched initiatives and is in perfect alignment for potential fu- ture projects. Recently the U of A acquired the national ice core archive from the federal government which is set to arrive on campus late next year. The school also recently launched an open online course on the Arctic in collaboration with the University of Troms in Norway and the University of the Arctic. Last fall the university also formed a partnership with the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce to strengthen ties to the North called the NorthernCircumpolar Initiatives Secretariat. It aims to position Edmonton as a vital social economic and cultural link to the Yukon and Northwest Territories as stated in the organizations business plan. The city poured 194000 into the project to be spent over three years. Finally the Canadian High Arctic Research Station expected to open 2017 in Cambridge Bay Nunavut provides a plethora of potential for partnerships Epps stated. Part of the challenge in a big university is to make sure and nd ways for people to con- nect with each other so they know what each other is doing and sometimes that can pull together a support network. PhotoScottZolkosUniversityofAlberta Scott Zolkos a PhD Candidate in the University of Albertas Department of Biological Sciences captured this infamous photo of the NWTs slumping lake near Fort McPherson. He and other researchers across the circumpolar North will nd extensive networking opportunities through UAlberta North.