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Funny you should say that
A scientific conference is no stand-up comedy club, but research shows a little humour can engage an audience.
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Diversity strengthens discovery
What Nobel Laureates reveal about diversity, discovery and societal impact.
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Understanding research-creation at SSHRC
Artistic works that explore socio-cultural questions may qualify for this unique grant.
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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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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.
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Neutron-scattering equipment set to make return to Canada thanks to CFI funding
Researchers won’t have to leave the country to perform experiments that allow them to see inside materials.
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Canada’s troubled waters
Not only is it a myth that Canada has an abundance of readily accessible water, say researchers, but we're poorly managing what we do have.
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Massive investments needed now to avoid next pandemic
Additional country-wide lab infrastructure and training capacity will allow researchers to be ‘ready to go.’
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COVID-19 a lesson to governments to increase science funding, say Canada’s Nobel laureates
To tackle the world’s biggest problems, ‘we’re going to need our government and scientists working together.’
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Anthropology instructors at U of T digitize hundreds of teaching specimens for online courses
Using portable 3D scanners, a team of professors and graduate students created a new database that attempts to replicate the hands-on experience of identifying fossils and other specimens.
