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After decades of grassroots work by Black scholars, a few universities have started offering Black Canadian studies programs. Will it be enough to start reversing what one professor calls Canada’s “Black brain drain”?
Adaptations of the history scholar’s work take centre stage at the theatre festival.
The campus novel is fiction for our times, but the best of the genre is timeless.
Canada’s “queen of giraffes” – denied tenure because she was a woman, despite her groundbreaking research – finally gets the recognition she deserves.
Library association releases statement clarifying this evolving role.
In the 1950s, the Prairies were a hub for psychedelic science. Some 60 years later, Canadian researchers are showing a renewed interest in the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
The filmmaker and founder of York University’s Stereoscopic 3D Lab picked up the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Visual and Media Arts earlier this year.
For her thesis project, education grad Meghan Parker made an autobiographical graphic novel that argues for drawing to be recognized as a mode of scholarship.
Though often viewed with skepticism, when done well, these plans can help to set an institution’s path.
MacEwan University’s Mitchell Art Gallery explores adult/child relationships and challenges itself – and others – to set new standards for accessibility.
And what happens when controversy arises.
The former UOIT rebrands to clarify its identity and move past an awkward moniker.
Researchers now have access to a flood of educational data on students that they hope will offer insights on how to improve the learning experience. Will it work?
The eight new Canada Excellence Research Chair holders come from a number of different countries to set up shop in Canada.
The country’s various research and policy institutes “are highly adept at getting their messages heard in today’s crowded ideas marketplace,” says one expert.
A book on lacrosse takes the main prize in English, while a history of Indigenous peoples in American and European societies wins in French.
Psychology professor Rajiv Jhangiani made the leap from international student to international stage as a tireless champion of open education practices.
Researcher Marie-Ève Maillé discusses her legal battle and the lessons she has learned from it.
From personal revelations to behind-the-scenes conversations, here’s what happens when university administrators get their own podcasts.
“There is very little that can’t be translated into dance,” says U of Alberta physicist Pramodh Senarath Yapa, who took home “best overall” in Science’s Dance Your PhD contest.