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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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Rethinking academia’s role in innovation
Why Canadian universities need to better support scholar-innovators to catalyze academic entrepreneurship.
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Cancelling in-person Congress wounds humanities research
Budget squeeze and logistical complexities leave the century-old conference without a host.
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“Mission-driven” is not a bad word
When non-scientists help set research priorities, society can tackle big problems together.
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Archives are adapting to an era of digitization and decolonization
“Acknowledging that [Indigenous communities] have sovereignty over the material and that it is indeed not yours is one of the key things we’re trying to promote in the work that we’re doing with the archival community.”
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Suffering a crisis of faith in Canadian science
To find value in scientific research, we need to understand and respect the social environment in which it occurs.
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Major international survey will shine a spotlight on the academic profession
Canadian researchers offered a sneak peek of some of the results at Congress in Vancouver.
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Canada’s chief science advisor is looking for some youthful insight
Mona Nemer is creating a new youth advisory council of people aged 18 to 30 from a range of backgrounds.
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A graduate student of colour’s navigation through the ivory tower
Systemic racism is in the very foundations of universities; its influence is insidious and persistent.
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Paleontologists cheer a new golden age of dinosaur discoveries
“We’ve named more new dinosaurs in the last 20 years than in the previous 150,” says one researcher.
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Pioneering biologist Anne Innis Dagg gets her due
Canada’s “queen of giraffes” – denied tenure because she was a woman, despite her groundbreaking research – finally gets the recognition she deserves.
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Integrating non-English words into academic writing
The political and persuasive significance of being intentionally hard to understand.
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The Canadian revival of psychedelic drug research
In the 1950s, the Prairies were a hub for psychedelic science. Some 60 years later, Canadian researchers are showing a renewed interest in the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
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Concordia student wins top prize at 3MT nationals
The top three presentations at this year’s 3-Minute Thesis competition tackled chemotherapy, oil pipelines, and asphalt.
