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BY BRYN WILLIAMS-JONES, FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH LAPOINTE, PHILIPPE GAUTHIER, CYNTHIA NOURY, MARIANNE CLOUTIER & MARIE-CHRISTINE ROY | June 04 2019

Research-creation involves researchers who are also pursuing creative activities such as music, dance or design.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | May 15 2019

Many Canadian researchers are coming together in different organizational structures to study issues surrounding AI ethics and governance.

BY NAVNEET ALANG | April 23 2019

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?

BY SHAUN KHOO | April 23 2019

Recognizing the symptoms is the first step in treating the problem.

BY DIANE PETERS | April 19 2019

The work “will hugely advance our capacity to understand species interactions and … the impacts of human activities,” says director Paul Hebert.

BY MARK CARDWELL | April 10 2019

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.

BY MEAGHAN HALDENBY | April 09 2019

In Chess for Life, students learn about decision-making and relationships as part of a game-based sentencing program.

BY EMILY BARON CADLOFF | April 01 2019

About 85 percent of the world’s refugees can be found in the global south while most refugee research is based out of the global north; a Canadian study aims to bridge that gap.

BY MOIRA FARR | March 27 2019

The organization was founded in 2007 by retired Canadian Forces General Roméo Dallaire.

BY CATHERINE COUTURIER | March 26 2019

Researcher Marie-Ève Maillé discusses her legal battle and the lessons she has learned from it.

BY BRIAN OWENS | March 26 2019

Thanks to internet-enabled technologies and citizen scientists, ecologists now have access to more data than ever before.

BY MEAGHAN HALDENBY | March 19 2019

“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.

BY MATTHEW HALLIDAY | March 04 2019

After years of collecting anecdotal data, UNB professor Eric Weissman is leading a study to bring the issue of student homelessness out of the shadows.

BY KERRY BANKS | February 27 2019

Researchers from numerous disciplines have begun to investigate the heavy toll that loneliness takes on society.

BY EVA VOINIGESCU | February 19 2019

The Concordia research facility is the first of its kind in Canada, and one of about 15 labs in the world to specialize in the automated assembly of DNA parts.

BY MARK CARDWELL | February 12 2019

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières has recruited top Australian forensics expert to study the open-air decomposition of human remains.

BY FLORENCE ASHLEY | February 08 2019

The authors of the fake “grievance studies” papers would have made a stronger point if they’d gone through an institutional review board.

BY MICHAEL RANCIC | January 21 2019

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network made its Canadiana collections open to the public on January 1.

BY TERRI COLES | December 12 2018

The event, where graduate students explained their research in the form of a baked good, appears to be the first of its kind in Canada.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | December 05 2018

Experiment between a professor and a university press examines the question: can a podcast be academic research?

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