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In October of 2020, the University of Calgary hosted a town hall that brought forth details on
Unstoppable: Growth Through Focus, a strategy which intends to bring its
Eyes High predecessor to a conclusion in 2022 and continue to build on the identified UCalgary values for the future.
This town hall introduced
Growth Through Focus’s three main ideas: transdisciplinary scholarship, deeper community integration and future-focused program delivery, along with four areas of focus: life sciences, energy transformations, city building and exploring digital worlds.
Since then, President Ed McCauley shared in an email that working groups have been meeting regularly to combine feedback they received from the community, the strategic direction provided by
UCalgary-Led Project Tackles Long-Standing Problem In Oilsands Industry
The University of Calgary is leading a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary research team in a $2M project aimed at finding a solution to one of the oilsands industry’s most persistent and costly operational problems in erosion and corrosion.
Researchers at UCalgary, the University of Alberta, and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) are collaborating with members of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) on the five-year project. Canada’s oilsands are crucial to a sustainable energy future amidst diverse types of conventional, alternative and renewable energy sources.
The goal is to reduce fouling by inorganic and organic deposits, and erosion and corrosion that occur in boilers such as the “once-through steam generators” widely used in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oilsands operations.