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Michiko Maruyama is changing the field of medicine by creating art and designing toys.
Universities across the country are reassessing historical figures and renaming the buildings that commemorated them.
A look back at the WWII nuclear lab at the Université de Montréal.
Enrollment in philosophy programs and courses are on the rise recently. The discipline is being seen by young people as a tool to understand their world and help change it.
Moving to online delivery of programs and services forced universities to be creative. Here are some of the initiatives they’ll keep as we return to campus in person this fall.
Not only is it a myth that Canada has an abundance of readily accessible water, say researchers, but we’re poorly managing what we do have.
How Indigenous researchers and communities are working in partnership with universities and non-Indigenous researchers to shape the future of environmental sciences.
Counsellors say the transition has been like ‘building a plane mid-flight.’
Researcher’s early-career findings were controversial but ultimately gained wider acceptance.
There aren’t enough midwives in Canada to meet the growing demand for their services. But getting more midwives in the workforce will take a lot more than just adding seats to the few midwifery programs that exist.
Universities are turning to the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals as a blueprint for achieving a better and more prosperous world.
As a university president, at the end of the day, you want to feel that you have made a difference and left your institution in a better place than you found it.
How could we provide an intense, cohort-based experiential learning course online? Don’t even try, some said, but we’re glad we did.
The goals of what we’re doing haven’t changed, but the how of what we’re doing certainly has.
The pandemic has accelerated universities’ reliance on these critical online systems.
7 international students on how they’re managing a year of online learning.
As an eventful 2020 comes to an end, here are the stories and issues that shaped the year in Canadian higher education. Stories that made 2020 Flight 752: a terrible start to the year While the pandemic has been uppermost in most people’s minds in 2020, the new year began with another unimaginable tragedy: the death of all 176 passengers and […]
It’s been quite the year. We’ve read and reported, edited and produced, hundreds of stories, many of them related to the COVID-19 pandemic. While we get ready to say goodbye to a memorable 2020, here are the stories that we’ll remember in 2021. The engineering gender gap: it’s more than a numbers game It’s been […]
A group of York University students got together to discuss what aspects of in-person classes they miss most while studying remotely.
New university presidents face unique challenges resulting from the current crisis. Four recently installed presidents look back at the first few months of their terms.