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    Waterloo battery researcher wins Canada’s top science prize

    Linda Nazar receives NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal for research on cutting-edge energy storage technology.

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    NSERC laureates help save people — and the planet

    Researchers at McMaster, Western and the University of Guelph honoured for work in human health and environmental protection.

  • News Policy

    Budget pressures put satellite campuses under threat

    Universities wrestle with educational mission, financial realities.

  • News Research

    Universities in Guelph, Toronto, Alberta and Trois-Rivières win Synergy Awards

    From cell biology to sustainable packaging, the NSERC prizes recognize innovative research partnerships.

  • Opinion Accessibility

    An accessible campus is only part of a university’s responsibility

    Universities must embed disability knowledge into core professional learning.

  • Opinion Artificial intelligence

    Faculty well-being in the age of GenAI

    When every student has an AI assistant, the writing teacher's job becomes both harder and more essential.

  • Opinion EDI

    Committee’s EDI recommendations are based on flawed logic

    Excellence must be sufficiently rigorous and inclusive to identify talent wherever it exists.

  • Opinion Arts

    Building resilience in Arts through interdisciplinary collaborations

    In a technology-enabled future, Arts faculties have an opportunity to demonstrate their relevance by making collaboration across disciplines easier and more visible.

  • Features Research

    The Nuisance Variable

    Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients in Canada are women. Why does research still treat them as an afterthought?

  • Features Policy

    Quebec universities: 60 years of change

    From the Quiet Revolution to the present day, universities have profoundly transformed Quebec society. As a provincial election rapidly approaches, we reflect on their changing mission over six decades of often tense history.

  • Features Research

    A bridge to human rights

    IDRA scholarship winner Karen Spring studies Central American communities seeking redress for harms caused by major development projects.

  • Features Research

    Heat waves and brain waves

    IDRA scholarship winner Tianqi Zhao studies climate change and mental health in South Africa.

  • Career Advice Retirement

    Finding my family in retirement 

    Academic research experience comes in handy when tracking down ancestral geneaology.

  • Career Advice Writing

    How to get published when your reviewers don’t get it

    New theoretical approaches often encounter editorial skepticism.

  • Career Advice Research

    How serendipity built a cross-disciplinary career

    Taking research positions out of economic necessity allowed me to gather a broad set of skills and knowledge.

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    From doctoral student to entrepreneur

    Resources abound to help you turn your PhD research into a business startup.

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