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BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | DEC 05 2011

Contest compels participants to explain their thesis through interpretive dance.

BY KRISTEN WRIGHT | DEC 05 2011

Rabi Sun wants people to know what the University of British Columbia looks like. Not what its buildings look like, or what the statistics say it looks like, but how it looks through the faces of the people who go there. Since he started at UBC as a first-year student in political science in 2009, […]

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | NOV 30 2011

The real question, said panelists at the Canadian Science Policy Conference, is how to better prepare graduates for life outside academe.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | NOV 30 2011

Release of new rules catches universities by surprise.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | NOV 30 2011

A new program is being offered to retirees to think about the meaning of their lives and to develop a life project.

BY KRISTEN WRIGHT | NOV 28 2011

Program targets first-generation students.

BY PEGGY BERKOWITZ | NOV 23 2011

Association wants to explore the ways its member universities contribute to Canada.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | NOV 23 2011

With drug companies reducing antibiotic research, it has fallen to academia to develop the next weapons to fight bacterial infection.

BY HELEN MURPHY | NOV 16 2011

At Halifax symposium, some suggest that cost-cutting might be needed during tough times.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | NOV 16 2011

One result is more strikes than usual on Canadian campuses, experts say.

BY TIM LOUGHEED | NOV 07 2011

The organization formerly known as APICS gets a new name and look but retains its goal of linking the region’s faculty, students and scientists.

BY KRISTEN WRIGHT | NOV 07 2011

The University of Calgary has a new student group, which started this fall: the Nursing Guys Club.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | NOV 07 2011

Gliding safely to research success.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | NOV 07 2011

Researcher chronicles the relationship between Quebeckers and their religious profanity.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | NOV 07 2011

“Living laboratory” will serve as a test bed for innovation and research.

BY CINDY DEACHMAN | OCT 31 2011

Dalhousie program puts “in costume” in a whole new light.

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU | OCT 26 2011

Recent WHO recommendation about TB testing prompted by team’s finding.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | OCT 26 2011

Proposals for overhauling the NRC, student internships and continued funding for research granting councils are well received.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | OCT 25 2011

The number of international students also up sharply from last year.

BY TARA SIEBARTH | OCT 25 2011

The University Affairs website took home top honours at the third annual Canadian Online Publishing Awards, winning gold for Best Companion Web Site in the blue division for business-to-business, professional association, farm or scholarly websites. Other nominees in that category included Quill & Quire, Conseiller.ca and Advisor.ca. This award is given to the publication deemed […]

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