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Glacier to table: Understanding the effects of melting glaciers on drinking water11 September 2020
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A life well learned: Esteemed physicist retires from the University of Alberta after a career committed to strengthening science
How do you sum up a life spent on campus—from undergraduate studies to becoming a graduate student, returning as a professor, evolving into a departmental chair, to topping it off as vice-dean in the largest undergraduate faculty at one of Canada’s top universities? Upon his recent retirement, John Beamish (’75 BSc(Hons), ’77 MSc, ’82 PhD) reflects on a life well learned.