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Date Time ‘We will not forget’: University of Alberta community remembers lives lost on Flight PS752 Russ Greiner’s artificial intelligence lab is made up of 15 or so grad students, post-docs and others who hold cheerful, heartfelt meetings, and why wouldn’t they? It’s a cohesive group made up of more friends than colleagues. And the one person most responsible for that cohesion during the 2019 iteration of the team was master’s student Pouneh Gorji. “We made her the vice-president of fun,” remembered Greiner. “She organized trips for the group to go to places like Elk Islan...

Author of the article: Dave Breakenridge Publishing date: Dec 30, 2020  •  December 30, 2020  •  2 minute read  •  There was an outpouring of grief at the public memorial service at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton on Jan. 12, 2020, to remember 13 victims from Edmonton and 31 victims from Alberta of the 138 people destined for Canada inf an airliner crash outside Tehran, Iran. Photo by Ed Kaiser /Postmedia, file Article content The fiery crash happened on the other side of the world. But the shockwave hit Edmonton hard. On Jan. 8, Ukraine International Airline...