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News Teaching

Level Up Learning

Amélie Vallières investigates how story-driven video games can support learning and build identity.
News Research

A look inside the hive: celebrating honey bee...

As MacEwan University marks 10 years of bees on campus, the University of Guelph kicked off the year by unveiling its newest centre for honey bee research.
News Research

Proposed Alto rail route slashes through Queen’s field biology...

Federal government praises the wilderness station as ‘globally unique,’ considers cleaving it with high-speed train.
News Indigenous

Decolonization efforts entangle Franco-Albertan heritage

The University of Alberta’s Campus Saint-Jean is wrestling with the historical legacy of its founders, who represent French Canadian survival to some but colonial oppression to others.

Opinion Mental Health

When misconduct disappears into university bureaucracy

Universities have procedures for misconduct, but too often lack the governance structures needed to see the patterns that emerge across sectors.
Opinion Artificial intelligence

AI in universities: the case in favour

Joël Blit argues integrating AI into curricula and pedagogy can make universities more human, not less.
Opinion Artificial intelligence

AI in universities: the case against

Ping Lam Ip and Andrea DeKeseredy argue generative artificial intelligence has no place in higher education.
Opinion Policy

Universities participating in Canadian militarization: the case against

Henry A. Giroux argues that the militarization of Canadian universities threatens to transform institutions devoted to critical inquiry and democratic life into extensions of the warfare state.

Features Artificial intelligence

Flight of the Valkyrie

Waterloo engineering students compete for glory with an AI-enhanced urban firefighting drone.
Features Artificial intelligence

Behind the curve

Learning to embed AI in the medical curriculum.
Features Artificial intelligence

The grey area of artificial intelligence

As AI transforms university practices, legal and ethical challenges are multiplying.
Features Artificial intelligence

The King and AI

A team of international scholars tackles a historical work of epic proportions.

Career Advice Research

How to translate your knowledge for an industry...

Getting buy-in from industry professionals means understanding their point of view and speaking their language.
Career Advice Artificial intelligence

Help! AI stole my students’ brains!

Why professors must teach undergrads to think critically about artificial intelligence tools.
Career Advice Retirement

End your job, keep your friends

Retiree associations help you stay engaged and connected during the next chapter of life.
News Postdocs

Eight tips to sail through your science or...

One-third of people who start a PhD don’t finish within 10 years. Don’t be one of them.

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