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2012

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | March 05 2012

Move over, X-Ring, there’s a new kid on the block.

BY MARK CARDWELL | March 05 2012

Pass the okra, please.

BY TIM JOHNSON | March 05 2012

Canada’s first new law school in more than three decades opens at Thompson Rivers University in the B.C. interior.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | March 05 2012

As journals test the waters of open peer review, authors and editors remain divided over the merits of tinkering with a tried-and-true system.

BY MARK CARDWELL | March 05 2012

A Canadian doctor combined instinct, medical knowledge and historical research to pinpoint the emergence of HIV and its spread through Africa and beyond.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | February 29 2012

Roughly half the intellectual property in this area leaves the country, say researchers.

BY VÉRONIQUE MORIN | February 29 2012

As China updates its research protocols and Western scientists gain access to huge populations for genetics research, such partnerships are way of the future.

BY GERALD WALTON | February 14 2012

A professor wants LGBT people to be able to express themselves openly.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | February 14 2012

Video extolling the virtues of moderate exercise viewed by nearly two million people.

BY TARA SIEBARTH | February 11 2012
BY CHERYL BARTLETT | February 06 2012

Cape Breton University’s integrative science program works to bring indigenous learning and science together.

BY MICHAEL SMITH | February 06 2012

Federal government must decide how much funding to give Canada’s high-speed computing network.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | February 06 2012

A professor helps to revive a Cape Breton Island tradition.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | February 06 2012

Vancouver’s transit service agrees the project has merit.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | February 06 2012

Hard Rock Medical follows a group of medical students at a fictional school in Northern Ontario.

BY CINDY DEACHMAN | February 06 2012

UBC professor Ernest Mathijs deconstructs what makes a film a cult classic.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | February 06 2012

Presidents and senior administrators from 36 universities convene for AUCC workshop about mental health issues on campus.

BY MOIRA FARR | February 06 2012

In the social-media age, “face time” between students and professors is becoming rare.

BY TIM LOUGHEED | February 06 2012

Nuclear imaging has revolutionized how we diagnose and treat life-threatening diseases. But the technology requires a reliable supply of isotopes to produce the high-quality images. Canada had it, but nearly lost it, throwing the nuclear imaging field into crisis. The federal government wants to ensure that doesn’t happen again.

BY CLAUDIO D’ANDREA | February 06 2012

It may not let you forget all your troubles and cares, as Petula Clark once sang, but going downtown is proving popular for many universities.