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Faculty of Graduate Studies

We take a student-centred approach to create a meaningful graduate student journey.

As a University of Calgary graduate student, you are a part of the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS). While your teaching faculty provides the home for your research, courses and scholarly activities, we are here to answer your questions, support, guide and empower you in your graduate journey.

Tara L. Beattie

Dean and Vice Provost – Graduate Studies

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GRADnews

This fall, 20 new graduate students joined the UCalgarys’s Transdisciplinary (TD) Graduate Programs. Representing a wide range of academic disciplines and professional backgrounds, they will explore complex challenges through a transdisciplinary lens.

Meet the second TD cohort

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Graduate internships help Parking and Transportation Services tackle strategic work

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New shades of thinking: Meet UCalgary’s second Transdisciplinary Graduate Programs cohort

Twenty new graduate students are learning to approach complex challenges by drawing on different disciplines, professional expertise and community knowledge

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New book uses speculative storytelling as a form of expression in STEM and innovation

PhD student brings 25 women together to explore imagination as a tool for reflection and change

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How an engineering master's student was able to apply his technical skills at West Fraser’s Blue Ridge Lumber division and build confidence beyond campus

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Books without words. Bubble-wrapped bison heads. Sunlight soap. In David Garneau’s latest exhibitions, everyday objects carry unsettling histories.


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This Calendar provides important information regarding the regulations of the University and graduate programs.