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Canada Research Chairs program is responding to research that shows referees write weaker letters of recommendation for female candidates than for male candidates.
The University of Manitoba’s student newspaper turned 100 years old in November.
Architecture students help create structured fabrics used in avant-garde dress collection.
The Gryphon stands guard.
Does your grandmother use Skype or text messaging, and if not, is she missing out on something?
École Polytechnique decides to fund an open scholarship as “gift to the community”.
Scheduled event took place days after three profs were denounced for sexual harassment.
Publication takes home a gold and three silvers at online publishing awards.
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 […]
It’s a rare opportunity to work on project of such magnitude and importance, says curator.
Canadian university leaders and government officials heard how collaboration is a key to successful R&D in those countries.
Universities say recent changes to the temporary foreign worker program make it hard for them to hire the right academics for the post.
Kimberly Voll pushes at the forefront of game design.
When it comes to rankings of the world’s most innovative countries, Germany regularly tops the list. The root of its success can be found in the close ties between industry and its universities, according to Horst Hippler, president of the German Rectors’ Conference. The agency represents Germany’s more than 300 universities, including research-intensive institutions and […]
The practice remains a topic of debate among student affairs professionals.
The birth-control pill may be having unexpected effects on aquatic ecosystems, according to a new study by researchers at the University of New Brunswick and the Experimental Lakes Area in Northwestern Ontario.
Germany encourages scholars to move from university to business, Hippler tells innovation conference in Ottawa.
A wide range of new programs in design and media broaden their appeal to a job-focused cohort of students.
This fall at the University of Saskatchewan, dozens of red dresses hung loosely from railings, windows and ceilings in campus buildings, and swayed in trees around the campus green known as the Bowl. These weren’t the aspirational party dresses of shop windows or the slinky frocks of fashion magazines, but a public art installation called […]