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BY JESSE SENKO | August 17 2011

Watch the progression of the artwork from our August-September cover, as displayed in a tunnel under Concordia University.

BY ROBYN JEFFREY | August 17 2011

Take a tour of some of the new works of art that Canadian universities have commissioned for the public to enjoy.

BY MAGGIE MA | August 17 2011

A single interdisciplinary field would bring new insights and understanding to this very human reality, say proponents, but others aren’t sure it’s necessary.

BY TIM JOHNSON | August 17 2011

What does this distinguished designation mean in Canadian universities? Well, these days, it really depends on who you ask.

BY TIM JOHNSON | June 13 2011

How Canadian researchers are continuing the nation’s 60-year record of excellence in aerospace.

BY STEPHEN HENIGHAN | June 13 2011

A work of fiction.

BY TARA SIEBARTH | June 13 2011

University Affairs web editor Tara Siebarth talked to Stephen Henighan, a professor of Spanish-American literature at the University of Guelph, about writing fiction, the inspiration behind his short story in this month’s issue, and the difference between academic and creative writing.

BY TARA SIEBARTH | June 13 2011

University Affairs web editor Tara Siebarth sat down with photographer Daniel Tobias to discuss his experience of taking the photos for the cover story for June-July issue.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | April 04 2011

Most privately funded scholarships are awarded to students attending a particular university or to children of a company’s employees. But a few pan-Canadian programs have a bigger objective in mind.

BY KIMBERLY BOURGEOIS | April 04 2011

Sociologist Anthony Synnott comes not to bury men but to praise them – and to critique misandry and “victim feminists”.

BY DANIEL MCCABE | April 04 2011

Why, if the world’s ecosystems are under siege, do people seem to be prospering? When a group of Canadian researchers posed the question, they touched a nerve.

BY MOIRA MACDONALD | March 07 2011

If you haven’t visited the student residences on campus for awhile, you might be in for a surprise.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | March 07 2011

Harvey Weingarten and the agency over which he presides, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, are trying to stir things up in Canada’s postsecondary education sector.

BY MARK CARDWELL | February 07 2011

Phreaks, renegades, subversives – all are fodder for sociology professor Gary Genosko as he makes his peripatetic way through our technoculture.

BY MICHAEL SMITH | February 07 2011

Take a Canadian company with a problem, add the expertise of a graduate student, and the result is a solved business problem and a grad with shop-floor experience. That is the simple math behind the fabulously successful MITACS.

BY SUSAN PETERS | February 07 2011

A few people, perhaps a thousand a year, leave their body to medical science at Canadian universities. This is their story.

BY SILVER DONALD CAMERON | January 12 2011

A new book recounts the legacy of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation

BY DANIEL DROLET | January 12 2011

It’s a truism: universities are steeped in tradition. But while some campus customs have survived the ages, others have fallen into disfavour as the university itself changes with the times.

BY JOHN LORINC | January 12 2011

Canadian governments give generously with tax incentives and subsidies for business R&D, but businesses aren’t doing that much R&D in Canada. What are we doing wrong?

BY DIANA SWIFT | December 06 2010

The world’s neglected tropical diseases debilitate or kill more than one billion people worldwide. But there is hope as a small number of researchers in Canada and elsewhere join the battle to reduce the heavy burden of illness.