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AU experts
Athabasca University has faculty experts who can comment on a variety of issues and topics, including:
Business, finance
- Accounting and taxation
- Economics, finance, and operations management
- Digital business transformation, including AI solutions
- Marketing, entrepreneurship, and information systems
- Organizational analysis
- Micro-credentials and professional development
Health, health care
- Mental health awareness and advocacy
- Healthy living, active living
- Nursing, nurse advocacy and hospital care
- Older adult care, aging (and associated medical conditions), frailty
- Diseases and treatment
Culture, society, humanities
- Labour relations
- Societal Issues – criminal justice, social theory, women and gender studies, public administration
- Online learning, distance education
- Political economy (politics, society, economics), political science
- Religious studies
- Athabasca University Press
- Heritage resource management
- Psychology
Science and technology
- Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
- Space science, astronomy
- Environmental monitoring and analytics
- Architecture (including regenerative design and sustainable architecture)
- Computing and information systems
- Data analytics
- Game development and programming
- Teaching science at a distance
- Mathematics
Latest news releases
- Muskeg Creek Trail partnership to enhance recreation and tourism in Athabasca
- Athabasca University shares gift of learning with Aspen View high school grads
- Athabasca University announces honorary degree and Order of AU recipients for 2024 convocation
- Aspen View Public Schools’ division office relocating to Athabasca University campus
- PowerED by Athabasca University partners with Tacit Edge to deliver product management certification programs
- PowerED by Athabasca University and Journey Education partner to deliver data science and web development boot camps
- Athabasca University Press launches new publishing program for open educational resources
- Athabasca University students gain hands-on learning experiences in Lesotho
- Athabasca University to provide flexible online learning to HCLTech Canada employees
- Athabasca University president launches bold new vision for Canada’s open university
- Athabasca University and Northern Lakes College respond to critical shortage of nurses in rural Alberta
- Soft skills versus digital skills: New poll finds Canadian workers want to re-skill but are being pulled in two directions
- Athabasca University appoints new president
- Maclean’s and Vox Pop Labs launch DegreeHub, an essential complementary resource for students searching for their optimal undergraduate program
- Statement from AU President Peter Scott
- From behind the counter to university: McDonald’s crew eligible to earn Athabasca University credits through new partnership
- Portage College, Athabasca University partner on new degree pathways
- Athabasca University Earns AACSB International accreditation
- Athabasca University appoints expert in digital-first education as its new president
AU in the news
- Opinion: Nursing practitioners: a solution hidden in plain sight (Edmonton Journal)
- How organizations can address toxic workplace cultures to tackle sexual harassment (Vancouver Sun)
- There’s a global crisis in health care and no one is immune (Globe and Mail)
- Six steps for stellar student-supervisor meetings (University Affairs)
- Gang violence among threats to safety for Edmonton homeless population, says researcher (CBC)
- Massive solar storm slamming into Earth sparks aurora around the world
- Grande Prairie nurse furthering her education at home to be 'part of the solution' amid staffing shortage (CBC)
- New AU president committed to Athabasca (Town and Country)
- New study focuses on impacts of Lethbridge’s Supervised Consumption Site closure (Lethbridge Herald)
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics would help alleviate pressure on Maritime ERs: professor and NP
AU News
Updated May 27, 2025 by Digital & Web Operations (web_services@athabascau.ca)