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Report ranks Canada fifth in the world for higher education
Research quality, academic integrity and global standing contribute to top-5 result.
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Post-secondary leaders express mixed reactions to Budget 2025
Cuts to international study permits raise alarm, research investments welcomed.
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NSERC celebrates winners of annual 2025 research excellence awards
19 Canadian scientists showcase Canada’s “immense and diverse pool of talent”
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Grad start-ups tackle pollution
Canadian university teams competing for the prestigious Hult Prize have gone on to found companies that create plastic from seaweed and purify water with quantum chemistry.
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A Q&A primer on contact tracing apps
They’ll alert you if you’ve been in close contact with an infected individual, explains U of T’s Emily Seto, but there remain many challenges to their widespread adoption.
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In the midst of the pandemic, academics are fighting a rising ‘infodemic’
As COVID-19 began to spread around the globe, so too did a toxic brew of rumours, misinformation and conspiracy theories.
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COVID-19 pandemic shakes up the world of scientific publishing
Scientific publishing is experiencing major changes these days, with increased production of scientific data, open-access publications and online prepublication. Can these changes last?
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Women academics worry the pandemic is squeezing their research productivity
Struggling to juggle myriad responsibilities, “the easiest thing to put off … is research,” says one professor.
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Climate change is having a calamitous effect on Indigenous archeological sites in Canada’s North
“We’re witnessing the disappearance of history,” says one expert.
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Could the Montreal Neuro herald a paradigm shift in scientific research?
The Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital is pioneering an open-science model that could change the way medical research is conducted across the globe.
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How an academic’s beer line is offering a window into ancient history
Marie Hopwood of Vancouver Island University has partnered with a local brewery to revive the suds of civilizations past.
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The Canterbury Tales, from the Middle Ages to your cellphone
A group of professors teamed up with Monty Python comedian Terry Jones to turn the prologue of The Canterbury Tales into a multimedia app.
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The tale of two pandemics
What the history of pandemics can tell university leaders about the aftermath of COVID-19.
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Ottawa launches three-pronged national research strategy to fight COVID-19
The federal government’s $1.1-billion plan includes more funds for vaccine research, clinical trials, and expanded testing and modelling.
