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Creating healthy human environments for everyday living.
Human Ecology is an interdisciplinary applied field that uses a holistic systems approach to examine the many contexts of people’s lives. In particular, we focus on the dynamic relationships people have with their near environments: clothing, family, home and community. Our mission is to create healthy human environments that enhance the quality of daily life. >>more
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Inspired by the older adults in her life, human ecology grad Sarah Lucas is devoting her career to quality of life for seniors.
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The annual Festival of Teaching is a celebration of the excellence, enthusiasm and innovation in teaching that happens every day at UAlberta. The Empey Lecture in the Department of Human Ecology will be held this year in partnership with the university’s annual Festival of Teaching.
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UAlberta grad student goes to the drawing board and sewing machine to design better safety wear for oilpatch workers.
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Ken Munro, professor emeritus of history and Anne Bissonnette, textiles curator at the University of Alberta, are interviewed about Queen Victoria in time for the Victoria Day weekend.
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A quest to develop safety wear that protects against steam and hot water would have been undermined if oilpatch workers found the gear too uncomfortable or even embarrassing to wear.
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University of Alberta researcher Megan Strickfaden joined Rick Harp, host of CBC Edmonton AM, in studio to discuss her project to make safer, more comfortable workwear for oil workers.
Dr. Strickfaden demonstrates some features of the garments and gets a little help from fashion-model-in-training Rick Harp.
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