Today's local newspaper stories as they pertain to the University of Alberta. Updated every weekday.
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3.1 Labour resurfaces - unions and strikes affected Alberta's labour force. UofA sociologist, Graham Lowe, says unions may have reinvented themselves to be relevant to evolving nature of work. In pursuit of a purpose - Growth Summit leaves Albertans asking what happens now. UofA pharmaceutical scientist, David Wishart, explains how he joined forces with other UofA researchers to form UofA spinoff company BioTools to take information from computers to test tubes. UofA medical professor, Louis Francescutti, started company, RDM Incorporated, when he realized how outdated Edmonton's records for injury control and prevention were.