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BY ASHLEY ROSE MEHLENBACHER | October 08 2019

The internet has changed the way scientists communicate with their funders, the public and each other.

networking tools also provide a space to build both social and professional networks, allowing scientists to develop new collaborations. Dismissing online science communication as trivial to the Continue reading would be a mis...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/communicating-science-online-increases-interest-engagement-and-access-to-funds/
The Black Hole
BY DAVID KENT | November 25 2015
In my Continue reading, I alluded to a wish list for our new government that would "inspire change across a country that has become, in international eyes, a non-supportive scientific environment." When I began my PhD in 2003, there was much more liveliness in the science commu...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/a-wish-list-for-our-new-pro-science-government/
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BY DONNA KOTSOPOULOS | January 21 2019

Let 2019 be the year of women and leadership at your institution.

While much has changed in the postsecondary sector for women, there is still work to be done across many key areas. More women than ever are Continue reading and there are more female professors. At the same...
https://universityaffairs.ca/magazine/sponsored-content/women-lead-facilitating-mentorship-of-women-academic-leaders/
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BY RICK ANDERSON | August 21 2013

The loss of the commercially published books and recordings held in the library’s general collection is truly unfortunate – but the loss of the archive is tragic.

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BY HANNAH LIDDLE | May 24 2022
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BY TARA SIEBARTH | June 30 2023
The fight for EDI doesn’t stop at campus gates A rise in hate towards 2SLGBTQI+ communities reminds us that the fight for equity and inclusion in all its forms must be a continued, collaborative effort I’d originally planned to write about the national security cris...
https://universityaffairs.ca/editors-note-july-august2023/
Features
BY JOEY FITZPATRICK | April 07 2008

There’s growing respect for a collaborative kind of research activity that starts with a two-way exchange of information between researchers and the community

A roadkill in 1987 made ecological history in Newfoundland. There had been sightings and unconfirmed reports, dating back to 1985, of coyotes making their way across the 175 kilometres of winter pack ice that separate Newfoundland from Nova Scotia. But when a juvenile was struck by a car near Deer L...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/putting-knowledge-into-practice/
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BY MARIE LAMBERT-CHAN | April 07 2008

There’s growing interest in the role of the university as a tool for regional development, but the impact is hard to measure, warns expert Mario Polèse

networking with the broader community, they need to have their finger on the pulse of society and its needs, explains Dr. Polèse. "We end up with our heads in the clouds if our work is limited to cold statistics, which play an important role but are not as nuanced as the realities on the ground." ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-university-as-economic-engine/
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BY MOIRA FARR | August 04 2009

The practice of psychiatry has changed a great deal in the last 30 years, but the stigma still lingers

Dr. Susan Abbey has just spent two days interviewing prospective medical residents for positions in psychiatry with the Continue reading of Toronto. As a clinical program director for the University Health Network of Toronto and president of the Canadian Psy...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/up-from-the-couch/
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BY STEPHEN STRAUSS | December 07 2009

Toronto’s Baher Abdulhai leads the way in helping cities clear up traffic congestion

When your career is devoted to developing better methods of keeping highways from melting into endless traffic jams, every congestion-trapped person you encounter feels free to offer what he believes is sage advice. This was the case with Yaseen Abdulhai, the 11-year-old son of traffic engineering p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/magic-with-traffic/
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BY CHRISTINA CHANT | March 08 2010

Canadians have woken up to the vast potential of the Arctic, but researchers wonder what it will take to push attitudes to our northern latitudes beyond platitudes.

Scientist John Smol says, “Depending on how you define Canada, approximately half the land mass and two-thirds of the coastline are in the Arctic. We’re an Arctic nation.” Despite this reality, the peaks and troughs that characterize the last 30 years of Canadian northern research suggest that...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/warming-to-the-arctic/
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BY DIANE PETERS | September 13 2010

Les universités veulent rendre leurs technologies de l’information écoénergétiques et écologiques.

Au chapitre de la protection de l’environnement, on s’attarde beaucoup à l’énergie solaire et éolienne, mais jamais au matériel informatique. « S’en occuper peut grandement aider l’environnement », affirme toutefois Emily Kunz Purser, étudiante au premier cycle en environnement et e...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/technologies-vertes/
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BY JOHN LORINC | January 12 2011

Canadian governments give generously with tax incentives and subsidies for business R&D, but businesses aren’t doing that much R&D in Canada. What are we doing wrong?

When Stephen Harper’s Conservative government announced this fall that they intend to review Ottawa’s $7 billion annual outlay on business research and development, many public policy watchers braced for a reprise of a debate that’s almost as old as Canada itself. Why does a country so blessed...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/new-perspectives-on-the-innovation-gap/
Features
BY TIM JOHNSON | September 10 2012

Academics need the media to help publicize their work, but when important findings are distorted it can lead to decades of distrust.

It wasn’t the message they’d meant to send – not at all, as a matter of fact. When Andrew Weaver and Neil Swart of the University of Victoria’s school of earth and ocean sciences published https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/dancing-with-the-media/
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BY VIRGINIA GALT | December 05 2012

“We are family,” sang Sister Sledge back in 1979, but today what form that family takes is undergoing tremendous change, with important implications for society.

When Trevor Macdonald and his partner Ian applied for their newborn’s birth certificate in Apri...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-changing-face-of-the-canadian-family/
Features
BY TEMA FRANK | March 13 2013

Alumni departments turn to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more, to engage alumni.

This past October, when Felix Baumgartner became the first person to break the sound barrier in a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, the alumni relations department at McGill University realized that the person who designed the outfit used for the jump was a McGill graduate. Within hours, the dep...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/reaching-out-to-university-alumni-through-social-media/
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BY JACOB BERKOWITZ | January 15 2014

Canadian researchers lead the way in understanding the neurological, psychological and cognitive basis of music.

Beside the front doors of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, perched on the south side of Mount Royal overlooking the city, is a quote from the institute’s famous founder Wilder Penfield: “The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.” In his second floor office at t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/music-on-their-minds/
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BY MOIRA MACDONALD | April 06 2016

What some universities are doing to weave indigenous peoples, cultures and knowledge into the fabric of their campuses.

It was September 1987 and Blaine Favel was sitting in a lecture hall at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., a long way from his home on Poundmaker Cree Nation, northwest of Saskatoon. Already he had an advocate’s leanings honed from growing up in a family of chiefs and protected by the thi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/indigenizing-the-academy/
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BY PASCALE CASTONGUAY | April 26 2017

Quebec’s chief scientist, Rémi Quirion, talks about the effect of knowledge on society and his role as a “cheerleader” for research.

In April, Quebec’s chief scientist, Rémi Quirion, was in Montreal to give a lecture titled Pour une économie...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/relationship-science-society-microscope/
Features
BY NATALIE SAMSON | November 01 2017

Academia has been slow to embrace podcasting, but these shows and their hosts are proving the form has much to offer.

Podcasts – digital audio shows that listeners stream or download to consume at their leisure – have firmly established their place in pop culture through huge hits such as Continue reading (by the creators of the public radio show https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/podcasting-goes-school/
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