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SFU cuts its entire sports and information department amid budget deficits
Quality of varsity sport broadcasts and player promotions will suffer, says former staffer.
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Big canoes, small world
Lakehead project aims to restore one of several decades-old boats that are ‘catalysts for community building.’
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Laurier professor studies how language lights up our brains
Learning a second language sparks new connections in the brain that are stored as cognitive reserve.
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Addressing systemic issues through art
Concordia professor curates historical exhibition of Black Canadian works.
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B.C. university pilots competency-based admissions program
Kwantlen Polytechnic University will accept six students next year based on portfolios instead of grades.
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Students give campus cafeterias a failing grade
Meal Exchange surveyed 2,668 university students for its first campus-food report card.
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Researcher solves the riddle of how a curling rock achieves the sport’s eponymous curl
It took four years and the perfect analogy to figure it out.
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Building trust in scientists one selfie at a time
Researchers examine the connection between posting selfies on Instagram and Twitter, and public perceptions of competence.
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Go north for adventure and an education, says B.C. government
The province has invested nearly $350,000 to draw students to northern British Columbia, a region that is suffering from dwindling student enrolment.
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Alex Colville’s studio restored at Mount Allison University
The contents of the painter’s workspace – from a trove of pens to customized furniture the artist built himself – offer clues to his creative process and discussion points for the future of Canadian art.
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Free speech on campus: are we being too careful not to offend?
It would be a shame if the lesson learned is simply to remove the controversial bits from your course.
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Universities as real-estate developers
Blessed with large tracts of land, many universities are developing their surplus holdings to raise revenue.
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Several Ontario universities join together to fight cybercrime
Five universities and three community colleges hire a shared chief information security officer to help fend off attacks.
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New U of Windsor research centre aims to do away with laboratory animals
“Animals have made tremendous contributions to our understanding of human biology, but they are not us.”
