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Federal $29M fund embeds PhDs and post-docs into tech firms
Talent Innovation Canada receives promised funding to match grad students with companies to develop new technologies.
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Feds launch $1.7 billion international talent attraction program
The program will provide funding to bring 100 top-tier international research chairs and their teams to Canada.
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Funding the future
Investing in student research tackles youth unemployment while building Canada’s future economy.
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Universities ‘absolutely vital’ to Canada’s AI strategy, minister says
Evan Solomon, Canada’s minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation, in conversation with University Affairs’ Christopher Guly.
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Getting back to fieldwork
After prolonged delays, many academics are hoping to restart their stalled research projects.
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The promise and pitfalls of synthetic data
Computer scientists and statisticians are starting to create datasets that mimic important properties of the real thing, which could help ease privacy concerns.
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Rethinking academic conferencing for a carbon-constrained world
COVID-19 has forced academic conferencing online. As we emerge from the pandemic, we mustn’t return to the ‘old normal.’
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Tracking aggressive behaviour of coyotes in Vancouver’s Stanley Park
A UBC biologist is advising residents not to feed the wildlife.
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Meet the education academics reimagining how math is taught
Advocates of ‘humanistic math’ are on a mission to help schoolchildren from all backgrounds see the world differently.
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UNBC supercomputer reveals acceleration of global glacier loss
Funded by the University of Northern British Columbia and the Hakai Institute, the powerful set of computers show the mass loss of Earth’s glaciers has increased at unexpected rates.
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Researchers at University of Waterloo trial driverless shuttle
Using campus as testing grounds, WATonoBus pushes limits of autonomous transit.
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Risk assessments required to apply for NSERC’s Alliance Grants program, federal government announces
Guidelines to be expanded to other granting agencies in the near future.
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Rediscovering a secret science lab
A look back at the WWII nuclear lab at the Université de Montréal.
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Universities leveraging shareholder power to promote climate action
Collective effort focused on holding companies in which universities invest, accountable and achieve sustainability goals.
