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Neither wind, nor rain – but maybe ice – will keep Root Gorelick from his appointed rounds.
A few years ago, when the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir saw its attendance stagnate and its subscriptions fall, the vocal ensemble asked a quartet of MBA students at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management for advice on a turnaround. “We did a deep-dive examination of their customer base and found the subscribers were mostly […]
UQAM professor the first to hold this position.
It’s no secret that the Web has facilitated the distribution of and access to child pornography, with the United Nations estimating that more than four million websites worldwide contain pornographic material involving children. Researchers at Simon Fraser University’s International Cybercrime Research Centre have developed a special web crawler that they hope will help to track […]
Federal funding won’t be available to faculty, administrations.
The first cohort of U of Calgary’s vet students spend their final year in the field.
Research study finds personal concerns like job preparedness are the main motivations for students going abroad to volunteer.
Free access to all data will provide the best care for patients, says Cochrane Collaboration.
Perhaps it was his deep baritone that helped former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney with his political career.
Contest compels participants to explain their thesis through interpretive dance.
Rabi Sun wants people to know what the University of British Columbia looks like. Not what its buildings look like, or what the statistics say it looks like, but how it looks through the faces of the people who go there. Since he started at UBC as a first-year student in political science in 2009, […]
The real question, said panelists at the Canadian Science Policy Conference, is how to better prepare graduates for life outside academe.
Release of new rules catches universities by surprise.
A new program is being offered to retirees to think about the meaning of their lives and to develop a life project.
Program targets first-generation students.
Association wants to explore the ways its member universities contribute to Canada.
With drug companies reducing antibiotic research, it has fallen to academia to develop the next weapons to fight bacterial infection.
At Halifax symposium, some suggest that cost-cutting might be needed during tough times.
One result is more strikes than usual on Canadian campuses, experts say.
The organization formerly known as APICS gets a new name and look but retains its goal of linking the region’s faculty, students and scientists.