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Common reading program starts at Queens.
For the first time this fall at Queen’s University, all first-year undergraduate students studying full time received a free copy of Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill. Queen’s thus joins a handful of other Canadian universities to offer common reading programs for incoming students.
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His finding that the right dose of pro-oxidants may extend life could have applications for Alzheimer’s.
feed on bacteria in compost, provides a good practical model for the study of aging.
The low-dose Paraquat speeds up the production of ROS in the worm’s mitochondria, which are tiny membrane-bound organs within cells but outside the cell nuclei that act as energy factories.
In Mexico, high c...
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Sciencescape platform will have a big impact on the speed of scientific development, predicts its founder.
feed in similar fashion to a Facebook timeline or Twitter stream. A social function allows users to share or “broadcast” important papers to colleagues registered with the platform.
Thanks to partnerships with publishers like Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, and De Gruyter, Sciencescape’s algo...
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feed off of YouTube, like ocean sounds and that kind of stuff … just to create a peaceful spot,” he says. “People loved it.”
However, due to space constraints, the student union is unable to have a nap room all the time, he says. “Brock’s a fairly undersized physical campus for the am...
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The university will be able to produce enough sustainable electricity to completely offset its carbon dioxide emissions.
feed-in tariff program, which pays a guaranteed premium rate per kilowatt-hour for energy fed into its electricity system by small-scale, green-energy producers. During its 20-year contract with the province, the university will receive 13.1 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity it produces, which...
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feed into the CNC router, and it will spit out a copy,” Dr. Gaston explains. The original can take up to eight weeks to carve, while the CNC process takes shaves that down to three hours with about a week of finishing the copy by hand, Dr. Gaston says. These reproductions could likely sell for abo...
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Multidisciplinary group based at Dalhousie University plans to track subjects into adulthood to see what strategies lead to success.
feed into the collective. Coalition members are also taking stock of existing data. “We need to know what’s out there, what’s worked and what hasn’t worked,” said Dr. Ramos. “We have a tendency to have research amnesia.”
By this spring, members hope to launch coalition-specific stud...
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After the flags were raised at Calgary’s city hall, a staffer at MRU wondered, “How come we don’t do this?”
feed when she saw a post showing the Treaty 7 flag flying at Calgary’s city hall. Ms. Merrill, who works closely with the Iniskim Centre, says her first thought was: “How come we don’t do this?”
She approached Mount Royal president David Docherty about it. Dr. Docherty acknowledged that h...
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A panel of university experts discuss the need for economic opportunity, flexible education and inclusive spaces for newcomers to Canada.
feed your family if you’re going to school 9 to 5. … That is an impediment to successfully integrating.”
In a time of political turbulence, Canadian universities have expressed an interest in playing a lead role in welcoming newcomers, and that includes refugees fleeing war and persecut...
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Making lunch out of research leftovers.
feed, water, electrical, wages … but it helps,” Mr. Switzer says.
Wild white sturgeon is endangered, so the canned cultivated fish from VIU offers eaters the chance to try what many cultures consider a delicacy. “Not many people get the chance to try sturgeon,” Mr. Switzer points out. “...
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Many companies in Canada are starting scholarship programs with a view to promoting their corporate social responsibility.
feed companies’ own recruiting pipelines).
According to Dr. Thompson at TD, this new focus is less about workforce recruitment and more about meeting student’s changing preferences. “I’m amazed that universities have been able to pivot so fast into fields around environmentalism, social j...
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The lab was itself subjected to a botched sting operation by undercover agents seeking to discredit its work.
feed on,” says Mr. Scott-Railton, who has heard from academics, lawyers and journalists all over the world who have had encounters with sketchy characters similar to his. Their intent is to at the very least “chill” critics of authoritarian regimes and discredit or stop research, he says, ...
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A donation of 30,000 UFO-related materials makes the university the place to be for paranormal research in Canada.
feed them to him, and he would create an annual report,” she says.
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The donation includes 20,000 UFO reports filed since 1989, 10,000 U...
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Among their many efforts, students are collecting much-needed protective equipment, aiding frontline workers and assisting with contact tracing.
feed the homeless. The group is also looking at working with physicians who have patients in the community who need extra assistance.
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Meanwhile, the staff at public health agencies across the country can’t handle the volume of contact-tracing calls, so students are getti...
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feedback from researchers. As of June 8, the $25-million competition is back on.
The call for proposals states that CFI is looking to fund urgently needed equipment for research related to COVID-19. Institutions can apply for amounts ranging from $200,000 to $1.5 million. The deadline for proposa...
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feed. Luckily, they were able to brighten the day for residents of the Shepherd's Care Foundation by donating the flowers to the organization.
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The flowers were originally prepared for the recording of our online convocation ceremonies. Alth...
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Those affected include over 100,000 postsecondary students, one expert estimates.
feed into a larger, nationwide project called Making the Shift, on prevention and providing solutions.
While research on what impact the pandemic has had on the homeless is still emerging, Dr. Kauppi is mostly hearing about housing affordability. “There’s a huge gap between what people are ei...
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feed and reproduce, a new study co-authored by a University of Guelph professor shows....
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