"I think I'm a problem solver at heart," confides Sheila Brown. People who've worked closely with the president of Mount Saint Vincent University in a variety of capacities would agree with that self-description.

The Guelph Jazz Festival Guelph, Ontario While practically every Canadian city and town hosts a jazz festival of some sort, only the Guelph Jazz Festival is dedicated to experimental jazz improvisation. "It's a cutting edge, avant-garde, innovative jazz festival dedicated to presenting the very best creative improvised music," says festival founder Ajay Heble, professor at the University of Guelph's school of English and theatre studies and the festival's artistic director.

The radio station Milles Collines in Rwanda gained infamy for the role it played in inciting hatred during the 1994 genocide in that country. The station's broadcasts, heard throughout the country, were filled with vicious propaganda on the inferiority of the Tutsis and exhorted Hutus to commit atrocities against them.

I'm sitting hunched over an old wooden desk in a small spartan box of a room, trying to focus my eyes and take in the words floating on the page before me. To my right is an inbox, and in the inbox, a stack of papers towering high.

Last fall, Simon Fraser University threw open the doors of the Segal Graduate School of Business, a new facility located, appropriately enough, in an imaginatively refurbished 1916 Bank of Montreal building on Granville Street, near the heart of Vancouver's business district. The move was the latest in what could be described as the urbanization of Vancouver's university sector.

Marlis Schweitzer holds an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stroll through Paul Hebert's bustling laboratory at the University of Guelph and it's easy to see how the past and future of species identification are visually colliding before your eyes. The past is what Dr.