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BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | MAY 03 2010

What started as one man’s musings about the impact of teachers in his life has turned into the country’s most prestigious award for university teaching.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | APR 06 2010

Have you ever given a lecture and been completely sidetracked by an unanticipated question? Or presented a paper and gotten thrown off because your slides wouldn’t work?

BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | APR 06 2010

Recruitment effort pushes the profession as a ‘great option’ for young men, but it’s still very much a female domain.

BY TIM LOUGHEED | APR 06 2010

Technology developed at University of British Columbia turns the effluent from water treatment plants into a high-value phosphorus-based nutrient.

BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | MAR 29 2010

Graduate student Lech Lebiedowski rebuilds an old German fighter plane, piece by piece.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | MAR 29 2010

A recent message on the website of the McGill University bookstore said it all: the now famous McGill tie was sold out and it might take up to six weeks to fill orders.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | MAR 18 2010

A tiny auto-focus lens developed at Université Laval could soon spell the end to those lousy, out-of-focus pictures taken with cell phone cameras.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | MAR 17 2010

Universities say government’s proposal for new fellowships will help them to recruit top scholars.

BY VÉRONIQUE MORIN | MAR 08 2010

Indigenous people retain majority of intellectual property rights over research findings stemming from their traditional knowledge of local medicinal plants.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | MAR 08 2010

People with diabetes may soon be able to monitor their glucose levels simply by looking in the mirror.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | MAR 08 2010

What happens when a chancellor and a president share the same roof?

BY DANIEL DROLET | MAR 08 2010

Universities in some provinces want to increase fees, without calling those fees ‘tuition.’

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | MAR 08 2010

Receiving their iconic X-Rings is a highly anticipated event for students at St. Francis Xavier University.

BY JOHN LORINC | MAR 08 2010

New online repository supported by institutional funding.

BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | FEB 22 2010

A student project looked to find out how easy it might be to get someone to accept a fabricated Facebook user as a friend.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | FEB 08 2010

Reputable agents can be your best representative for attracting international students, say recruiters, but beware the shysters.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | FEB 08 2010

Outcry over a Pfizer executive appointed to CIHR’s governing body hasn’t echoed with the other granting councils.

BY NICK TAYLOR-VAISEY | FEB 08 2010

Most likely goal is to recruit party volunteers, observers say.

BY HEATHER SUTHERLAND | FEB 08 2010

Researchers record the tales and observations of people from the North for a feature-length film on climate change, arctic survival and adaptation.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | FEB 08 2010

Locally known as the Neuro, this institution was founded by Wilder Penfield.

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