CONGRATULATIONS SYDNEY!

Prentice Institute Researcher and University of Lethbridge Political Science student Sydney Whiting has been named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar, making her the fourth ULethbridge student in our school history to receive the prestigious honour! The scholarship is one of the world’s most competitive, with only 11 of the awards allocated to Canada and only three to the Prairie region. Whiting will study at England’s Oxford University next fall. Sydney will continue her work as a Research Associate with the Prentice Institute in the new year.

The Prentice Institute will be co-hosting the: 

2025 City Scholars Student Symposium

 and Networking Event

on Wednesday December 10, 2025. 

Student Symposium:  This is a showcase of research, WIL and Experiential Learning projects that students have undertaken with the City of Lethbridge during the Summer and Fall semesters. 

Networking Event: This is an opportunity to learn about one of the City’s latest initiatives, which will look at the critical role of water in shaping population health, economic development, and climate resilience. The City is inviting faculty and students to brainstorm, from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, about potential partnerships, research projects, and WIL and experiential learning opportunities that could be attached to this initiative 

Reconceptualizing the "Rural Problematique": "The Migrant" as the Demonstrative Case for Policy Inertia

Stacey Haugen and Dr. Lars Hallström. Canadian Journal of Political Science (2025), 1–27 doi:10.1017/S0008423925100905

Prentice Institute Research Assistant Blair Many Fingers

was a presenter on the panel:

 “Pommotsiiysinn Sapaatsima’pi”

(Living in Harmony with All Our Relations)

Moderated by Dr. Andrea Cuéllar

at the:

Environmental Conference of The Humanities (ECOTH)

Hosted at the University of Lethbridge November 7, 2025

Prentice Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. John White presented:

"Crop and Crop Wild Relative Landesque Capital among Amazonian Runa in Ecuador"

at the:

Environmental Conference of The Humanities (ECOTH)

Hosted at the University of Lethbridge November 7, 2025

Prentice Institute Research Associate, Stacey Haugen presented:

Reconceptualizing the "Rural Problematique": "The Migrant" as the Demonstrative Case for Policy Inertia

at the:

30th International Population Conference (IPC) 2025

in Brisbane, Australia July 13 - 18, 2025

Dr. Lars Hallström and Stacey Haugen traveled to Germany and Finland November 5th - 16th to meet with collaborators and potential partners as part of our SSHRC Destination Horizon project entitled “Involuntary Staying and the Rural Problematique: Learning to Leave but only able to Stay.”

New Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Researchers, Brett Weighill, Chantelle Fitton and Dr. John Robert White, contribute to Work on Indigenous Epistemologies and Land Stewardship

Dr. Andrea Cuéllar (Associate Director) and Patrick Wilson (Research Affiliate, Modern Languages and Linguistics) met with collaborators from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ - Ecuador), University of Oxford (UK) and York University (Canada) at GAIAS Europa (USFQ´s academic hub in Valencia, Spain) from October 6-10, 2025 to connect with potential parters from local universities and advance work on team capacity planning and research priorities. This work is funded by a SSHRC Destination Horizon Grant awarded to Dr. Cuéllar and her collaborators for the project:

“Biodiversity Management and Food Security through Culturally Grounded Socioecological Restoration.”

 In The Cradle of Cacao (2025) you can read about Prentice Institute Research Associate Dr. Sonia Zarillo's work on the origins of domesticated cacao.

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