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Lakeland College and Portage College formalize partnership to strengthen agricultural research in the region
Lakeland College and Portage College have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand collaboration in applied agricultural research, strengthen regional capacity and create new opportunities for students and industry. The agreement celebrates a shared commitment to pursue research projects...
Saving the birds: Inspiration and education are the key to conversation
Self-proclaimed “bird nerd,” Jana Teefy spends many of her days in the forest around the Beaverhill Bird Observatory (BBO), cradling birds in her hands as she bands them, making notes about them and releasing them again. She’s part of an expanding network of biologists working to track the...
Fired up for the real world
There is a moment where learning becomes doing and that is at the heart of Lakeland’s new practical group assessment component of the process and power engineering program (PPE). In the assessment, second-year PPE students are placed into groups of two or three, they choose a shift lead, and they...
Charlene Bonnar receives CICan gold award for faculty leadership excellence
Lakeland College is proud to announce that Charlene Bonnar is the Gold Recipient in the Leadership Excellence Award for Faculty category at the 2026 Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) Awards of Excellence. Bonnar – Lakeland’s chair of university transfer and instructor – received the national...
Rooted in family and community: Local sisters balance post-secondary, ranching and rodeo
For Hannah and Holly Wright, deciding to stay close to home for post-secondary schooling was both the most logically-sound choice, and the one that made the most emotional sense. It meant staying in a region and a community where they already had strong roots and building a stronger future on that...