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From innovative teaching to human rights to breast cancer treatment reform, this Carleton professor is relentless in her pursuit for change.
Mountain climber TA Loeffler says she wants to inspire people to be more active and to have big dreams.
But, despite its rising importance, the field suffers from growing pains, say academics.
As pornography has proliferated in the digital era, so too has its study, even though this multidisciplinary field has been around for at least 30 years. But, say scholars, the study of sexually explicit subject matter has often been muddied by a binary pro- or anti-porn attitude.
“With more research, we will be able to see how ancient peoples adjusted to and reacted to rapidly rising sea levels – to see how they responded.”
Transforming graduate education.
University teachers experiment all the time with innovative ways to involve students more deeply in learning, but games are rarely part of their toolkit. They may be missing a golden opportunity.
As featured in National Geographic.
Those in their mid-40s and younger are squeezed by low incomes, high costs and less time, says UBC’s Paul Kershaw.
Your research is important and deserves as much attention as possible. But if no one can understand what you’re talking about, what’s the point? University Affairs magazine and Informed Opinions have teamed up to bring you a video series on how to communicate your research to a wide audience. Hosted by Shari Graydon, it will […]
Setting the right tone and putting faculty first are key.
First-year students get up close with their prof and explore issues from all angles in a small-group environment.
We asked some prominent academics to choose two books they read this year that particularly impressed them: one within their field and another they read for pleasure. Here’s what they said.
Across the country, people with disabilities are redefining the possible by excelling in scholarly pursuits that were once off limits to them.
Like other organizations, universities haven’t quite decided how to deal with the emergence of electronic cigarettes. Should they allow people to “vape” as they please while the public health risks are still under debate? As of Oct. 1, according to the organization Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, 291 U.S. colleges and universities have prohibited the use […]
By encouraging researchers to publish in international journals, we may be steering their work in the wrong direction.
Newcomers to the academy do not necessarily or immediately find its rules easy to grasp.
Two of Canada’s cultural and intellectual giants were also rivals at U of T.
As a young historian, she treated obstacles as things to understand rather than to skirt. The attitude persisted during her entire, stellar career.
It aims to engage students with a mix of online lectures and in-class components.