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New technology developed at U de Sherbrooke will give cell phones FM-radio sound quality
The Bologna process will have far-reaching effects on European higher education, but its impact on Canada is still unclear
A group of medical students at the University of Alberta is promoting a simple solution to improving access to clean water in Africa: a ceramic filter in the form of a clay pot. Water is poured into the pot and when it seeps out the other side it is free of harmful pathogens. The key […]
Granting council amendments to Canada’s policy on research conduct respond to concerns from social science community
The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has chosen its next president from the international development community. Paul Davidson, currently executive director of World University Service of Canada, will begin a five-year term as president of AUCC on May 11. He succeeds Claire Morris, who has led AUCC since March 2004 and is retiring. […]
Researchers at the University of Victoria are bringing to light the early history of colonial British Columbia by painstakingly transcribing the mass of 19th-century correspondence between the colony and London, and placing it online. These colonial dispatches, covering the period from 1846 to 1871, contain valuable new information previously inaccessible to historians. But the documents […]
OCAD symposium raises awareness of importance of cultural industries to economy
Economy’s slide and end of mandatory retirement see more profs staying on
A double-double at Timmies – nearly every Canadian would know you’re talking about a coffee at one of Canada’s ubiquitous Tim Hortons restaurants. Sociology professor Patricia Cormack of St. Francis Xavier University tapped into the zeitgeist with her article, “True Stories of Canada: Tim Hortons and the Branding of National Identity,” published in the November […]
Researchers at Trinity Western University are experimenting with a natural way to deal with the overpopulation of European starlings by trying to boost the population of their predators. Since their introduction to North America more than a century ago, starlings have thrived on this continent, with estimates of their numbers ranging from 200 million to […]
Even though you may not hear about it, Canadians are still spotting unidentified flying objects, long after their heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, says Chris Rutkowski, a UFO hobbyist whose day job is communications officer at the University of Manitoba. Mr. Rutkowski says there are hundreds of reports each year in Canada from coast […]
New study for Canadian Research Integrity Committee compares policies and incidence at home with eight other countries
Ottawa symposium airs different views of the research role of Canadian university faculty from developing countries
Losses in endowment and pension funds from economic slide put pressure on universities
Alain Goldschläger, a professor in the department of French at the University of Western Ontario, is the man responsible for one of the world’s largest collections of Holocaust testimonials – a fact that he thinks is both remarkable and unfortunate. Dr. Goldschläger established the Holocaust Literary Research Institute in 1996, after collecting 600 survivor testimonials […]
Remarkable forensic evidence uncovered by Simon Fraser University criminologist Lynne Bell leads her to believe that miscommunication among a mainly non-English-speaking crew resulted in the sinking of King Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, during a battle with the French in 1545. The sinking of the Mary Rose, with the loss of nearly 400 on […]
It’s the ultimate in cash and carry. University of Guelph president Alastair Summerlee recently mused to a local newspaper about the possibility of putting four on-campus brick houses up for sale for a dollar apiece. The catch is that the purchasers would have to physically move the fixer-uppers elsewhere. If the idea sounds familiar, it […]
At one time, the accepted wisdom was that computers would make paper redundant. Of course, just the opposite happened and offices were submerged in reams of the stuff. Now, the undergraduate advising office in the University of British Columbia’s faculty of land and food systems has taken the radical step of actually going paperless. It […]
The awards brand Canada as a destination for top-flight students, but can they meet their potential to attract international students in the short term?
John Tarrant is in Canada to meet with university presidents