This report is a weekday roundup of news about MRU, faculty experts, students and alumni, and other topics of interest.

MRU in the News

New art exhibit at MRU explores Identity: https://mru.ca/0ab (CHQR radio, Feb. 13, 5:42:30 p.m. Curtis Desiatnyk, staff, exhibit curator)

Students/experts/alum in the news

Cold snap helps fight pine beetle: https://mru.ca/d1ae (CTV News at 6, Feb. 13, 11:58 – Todd Nickle, faculty)

From star Liberal MP to difficult and incompetent? Really?: https://mru.ca/36f7 (CBC News, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Winnipeg Sun, Vancouver Province – Renae Watchman, faculty)

How a culture of coupledom, some loneliness and just getting older complicates dating in Calgary: https://mru.ca/5f4f (CBC News – Alexis Peters, faculty)

Friends speak out about former nun who chose medically-assisted death when faced with terminal cancer: https://mru.ca/9285 (Global News – Steven Engler, faculty)

Alberta Election Fact Check: UCP says NDP hid carbon tax from Albertans in 2015: https://mru.ca/c2e (Global News – Duane Bratt, faculty)

Q&A with MRU Cougar star Jamal Watson: https://mru.ca/631f (The Reflector – Jamal Watson, student athlete)

Also worth noting

University of Lethbridge receives keys to new science and academic building: https://mru.ca/4ef0 (Global News)

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