October 2015
Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council is spearheading a project to streamline the path to international research funding. The Trans-Atlantic Platform is a consortium of 17 funding agencies from 12 countries, backed by the European Commission and co-led by SSHRC and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Its mission is to facilitate international […]
EDITOR’S NOTE Beginnings and endings: Choosing a career LETTERS Women professors who inspire PEOPLE ON THE MOVE Paul Fardy has been appointed Dalhousie University’s vice-president, advancement, and other appointments. CAMPUS Professor’s art collection to be showcased at the National Gallery Registry champions B.C.’s big trees Peace and conflict studies scholars unite U of T grad […]
Seasoned faculty members around the country offer tips for new professors.
Adam Jones wrestles with the worst that humans can inflict on each other yet remains an optimist.
Academic copyediting program is a crucial resource to a growing number of international graduate students at U of Alberta.
Ongoing learning will be necessary for all careers, inside and outside academia.
When Christine Le was a kid, she became passionate about science from watching Bill Nye the Science Guy and Popular Mechanics for Kids. Add a supportive high school teacher and you end up with Ms. Le’s career today. She is nearing completion of her PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Toronto’s prestigious Lautens […]
The drop is seen as a worrisome trend for some universities in the province.
To address the affordable housing shortage, a private organization has undertaken to build a student housing cooperative.
Grad students are looking for university support to help prepare them for careers outside the professoriate.
Stories of six unfinished mandates raise concerns about governance.
UBC’s big tree registry aims to protect the province’s giants.
U of Saskatchewan’s Dennis Lanigan has had a lifelong passion for Victorian-era art.
J. Douglas Willms, education professor and co-director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick, was installed as president of the International Academy of Education this summer in Melbourne, Australia. The Academy is an organization based out of the Royal Academy of Science, Literature and Arts in Belgium dedicated […]
Academics, students and practitioners attended the Canadian Peace and Conflict Studies Conference hosted by Canadian Mennonite University.