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Andrea SmithSENIOR ADVISOR (PORTFOLIO STRATEGY)
Andrea Smith is the Portfolio Strategy Senior Advisor for External Relations. Andrea uses her extensive leadership experience building businesses from strategic assessment through to realization to enrich External Relations’ vibrant and dynamic work environment. A civil engineer with an MBA, Andrea’s professional skills, coupled with her eclectic leadership experience in corporate, not-for-profit and public institutions (universities), provide important insight and direction to the External Relations portfolio.
Since its inception in 1908, the University of Alberta has had the vision to be one of the world’s great universities for the public good. The university is dedicated to the promise made by founding president Henry Marshall Tory that “knowledge shall not be the concern of scholars alone. The uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal.” This promise endures as the university strives to improve the lives of people in Alberta, across Canada, and around the world.
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U of A researchers are partnering with Inuit and Tłı̨chǫ leaders to study how climate change is affecting traditional food sources in the Arctic and Subarctic.
‘Our environment is changing drastically. We have to adapt’
Researchers from Inuit and Tłı̨chǫ communities in northern Canada, along with U of A public health researchers, ...
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With growing fears of a global food security crisis, students and researchers at the U of A are already working hard to find solutions.
From 3D-printed food to pathogen-resistant crops, we’re building the future of food, right here in Alberta.
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U of A researchers uncover that while city soils hold greater biodiversity than nearby forests, they are also becoming more uniform across cities, a shift that could reduce resilience to climate change.
Diverse but alike: urban green spaces could face an unexpected climate risk
Urban parks and residential green spaces are home to higher, but also much more homogenous soil biodiversity than ...
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Today, we encourage everyone in our community to wear an orange shirt to honour the thousands of children who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to Indian Residential Schools.
Learn more about Orange Shirt Day activities on campus: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/first-peoples-house/programs-and-services/cultural-wellness/orange-shirt-day.html
We are proud to announce that Cenovus Energy is investing $2 million over four years in the Shape the Future Campaign.
This will fund the Cenovus Energy Engineering Student Success Centre in the Faculty of Engineering, fund the Impact Series in the Alberta School of Business,…
Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day of reflection to honour the children who never returned home, survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.
In observance of this day, the university is closed. We encourage everyone to read…
U of A researchers are developing safer drugs to protect heart health in post-menopausal women. With support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, their work could offer a new alternative to hormone therapy.
Targeting heart health for post-menopausal women
Ayman El-Kadi, Dion Brocks and collaborators are receiving more than $1 million from the Canadian Institutes of Heal...
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In the spirit of reconciliation and to honour Residential School survivors, the U of A will be hosting Free Application Days from September 30 - October 9, 2025.
Learn more: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/admissions/how-to-apply/indigenous-students/free-application-days.html
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/09/wind-of-change-partners-innovate-for-smarter-cleaner-cities.html
A place where good ideas havea strong chance to become reality
The U of A has close to 400 teaching and research agreements with governments and partner institutions in nearly 50 countries. Key examples include Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, and Fudan University/Shanghai Medical College in China.
The Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative is an independent research partnership between the U of A and the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. The U of A’s largest international collaboration, which was recently renewed until 2020, merges scientific and technical expertise to develop innovative solutions for today’s challenges in energy and the environment, terrestrial ecosystem and resource informatics, and health. The initiative is expanding into infectious disease research.
Mission and vision
- To be a vibrant and supportive learning environment
- Discover, disseminate, and apply new knowledge through teaching and learning, research and creative activity, community involvement, and partnerships
- To give a national and international voice to innovation in our province, taking a lead role in placing Canada at the global forefront
- To inspire the human spirit through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery, and citizenship in a creative community, building one of the world’s great universities for the public good
Home to leading experts in both established and emerging fields
$12.3b
Annual impact on Alberta economy
$500+m
Annual research funding 2019
The University of Alberta is one of Canada’s top teaching and research universities, with an international reputation for excellence across the humanities, sciences, creative arts, business, engineering, and health sciences. In particular, the University of Alberta is internationally recognized as a world leader in diabetes research, energy and environment, virology, food security, nanotechnology, humanities computing, printmaking, artificial intelligence, family business research, carbohydrate chemistry, and circumpolar research.
Our expertise and strength attracts over $500 million annually from various research funders and partners including federal and provincial government, industry, foundations and other organizations.
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