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BY SHARON OOSTHOEK | MAY 04 2018

Interactive website features videos, maps and plain-language explanations to bring home the reality of climate change to Canadian communities.

BY TARA SIEBARTH | MAY 01 2018

Science communication is becoming more and more important to emerging researchers.

BY TIM JOHNSON | APR 27 2018

For the last three years, the university has been sending newly minted doctors to this isolated territory to practise rural and remote medicine.

BY MICHAEL RANCIC | APR 25 2018

Shifting attitudes around drug use are changing the way universities address the opioid crisis.

BY ANQI SHEN & LÉO CHARBONNEAU | APR 17 2018

Increases in some provinces make up for lost ground, while others tread water.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | APR 16 2018

Making lunch out of research leftovers.

BY BRIAN OWENS | APR 12 2018

Investment in R&D as a share of GDP has steadily declined since 2001, mainly due to low business R&D expenditures, says expert panel.

BY TIM LOUGHEED | APR 11 2018

The aim is to bring an end to “colonial approaches” that have traditionally excluded Inuit from research planning processes.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | APR 10 2018

In the interest of cancer prevention, the creators of hitchBOT have paired the smarts of IBM’s Watson with Pepper, the most personable robot you’ll ever meet.

BY ANQI SHEN | APR 09 2018

Read more about the winners and finalists of the 2018 Canada Prizes, presented by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

BY EMILY BARON CADLOFF | APR 04 2018

It’s easier than ever for students to buy assignments. Until universities have better measures for rooting out this kind of cheating, professors are focusing on prevention.

BY SPARROW MCGOWAN | APR 03 2018

“We’ll talk about anything they want to talk about, as long as we have something educated to say about it.”

BY NATALIE SAMSON | MAR 29 2018

24 researchers will soon join Canadian universities from institutions around the world – many of them expats looking for a way home.

BY ANQI SHEN | MAR 27 2018

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries proposes that institutions renegotiate unsustainable deals with journal publishers and transition toward open access.

BY ANQI SHEN | MAR 22 2018

The Varsity’s online content in simplified Chinese boasts a growing readership among thousands of Chinese international students on campus.

BY VIRGINIA GALT | MAR 20 2018

Notes from graduates at U of T, Western and McMaster give new students – and alumni engagement offices – a boost during a difficult time.

BY MARK CARDWELL | MAR 16 2018

The initiative will feature three co-chairs with different specialties from three separate universities.

BY SNEH DUGGAL | MAR 14 2018

Ontario universities came under the provincial ombudsman’s oversight in 2016. The office has since received more than 500 university-related complaints.

BY PIERRE BLAIS | MAR 13 2018

At a meeting of university leaders last month, Louise Champoux-Paillé offered advice for making overdue changes to higher-ed governance.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | MAR 12 2018

The Interior University Research Coalition in B.C. launched late in 2017.

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