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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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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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Making the Canada Research Chairs our next major project
Expanding the CRC program is the best path to attract talent, build research capacity and raise Canada’s international profile.
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Narrative CVs put researchers front and centre
New format is a vast improvement over the old Canadian Common CV.
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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.
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Laurier professors publish ‘rapid response’ essay collection on COVID-19
Created in about a week, the collection offers a “snapshot” of the pandemic from scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
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Animal care in research labs continues, despite the pandemic
No widespread culling is being reported, as workers strive to maintain this crucial research infrastructure.
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The multi-pronged search for the Holy Grail of the pandemic: a vaccine
Researchers across the country are working tirelessly and collaborating on various approaches.
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As COVID-19 research gets fast-tracked, other projects shut down
With many studies put on hold, professors worry for their research – and what this means for graduate students.
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Researchers eye a quick, functional screening test for COVID-19
The team from U de Montréal and ULaval hope to develop a rapid test before a second wave of the disease strikes.
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How three Canadian research teams are battling the pandemic
“We’ve had dress rehearsals with MERS, SARS and H1N1. We’ve been there before,” says one researcher. “What are we going to learn this time in a way that actually sticks?”
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Ottawa injects $27M into COVID-19 research
The federal government is funding research teams to study COVID-19, while the Tri-Agencies announced they will reimburse some fees incurred due to coronavirus-related travel cancellations.
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Agriculture programs change with the times
Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.
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The University of Manitoba’s archive of the paranormal just became a little more extraordinary
A donation of 30,000 UFO-related materials makes the university the place to be for paranormal research in Canada.
