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BY ANDRÉANNE APABLAZA | October 15 2020

Foreign hackers are prying into COVID-19 research from around the world, and Canadian universities are not immune.

Chances are, if you have a university email address – and most professors and researchers do – you’ve been the target of a foreign cyber-attack in the past few months. Cyber-espionage of Canadian research, including research conducted in universities, has significantly increased since March, s...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/canadian-covid-19-researchers-face-a-growing-threat-of-cyber-espionage/
Features
BY DIANE PETERS | October 14 2020

Researchers expect big things if and when dependable quantum computing becomes a reality, and they are eager to ensure that the country is well-positioned to play a meaningful part.

In a lab at the University of Waterloo’s Continue reading (IQC), two contraptions consisting of a number of metal containers, poles and beams surrounded by thick, orange wires emit a no...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-quest-to-build-a-reliable-quantum-computer/
Media Scan
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | October 07 2020
Radio Canada International Continue reading Canada has opened its borders to international students, however they will have to quarantine for 14 days upo...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-oct-7-2020/
Career Advice
BY DERRICK E. RANCOURT | October 02 2020

Non-academic mentors, especially those familiar with the culture of academia, can offer empathy, validation and healthy perspectives.

A mentor is a professional who acclimates a protégé into a profession. In the Continue reading, upstart Leonardo Da Vinci pulverized Tuscan stone and collected eggs https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/phd-students-can-benefit-from-non-academic-mentors-outside-perspectives/
Ask Dr. Editor
BY LETITIA HENVILLE | September 29 2020

Techniques for coherent, analytical lit reviews.

Question

quote>I’m frustrated by the feedback that my supervisor gives me. She wrote that my literature review was “choppy,” and when I asked her how to fix this, she told me to “add nuance.” I don’t understand what these terms mean in practice, and so I don’t know what...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/ask-dr-editor/literature-reviews-that-work/
Media Scan
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | September 28 2020
CBC Continue reading If September is any indication, the global pandemic has all but eradicated any semblan...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-sept-28-2020/
Career Advice
BY DAVID SEALEY, ADRIAN YUNG, CRICIA RINCHON & CHRISTINA WEHRLE | September 28 2020

By participating in the Team Case Study program at U of T, life science graduates gain a competitive edge in the non-academic job market.

Since 2016, approximately 180 trainees have participated in the Industry Team Case Study (ITCS) program at the University of Toronto in which teams of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows lead job simulation projects mentored by industry professionals. Trainees investigate a business or policy...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/case-studies-give-grad-students-a-chance-to-tackle-industry-challenges/
News
BY EMILY BARON CADLOFF | September 25 2020

From partnerships with heritage organizations to web crawlers, university archivists, librarians and historians are using a range of tools to capture life in the pandemic.

What will we remember about COVID-19 at this time next year? In five years? In 50 years? And more importantly, what will we need to remember? What information will be useful for historians, for epidemiologists, for artists? What is worth preserving? These are the questions that university archivi...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/looking-back-on-covid-19-how-university-archives-are-preserving-this-moment-in-history/
News
BY NATALIE SAMSON | September 23 2020

Speaking to Parliamentarians last month about universities’ response to COVID-19, university presidents asked for support for international students and continued emergency research funding.

On August 14, four days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament, representatives from the academic research and university sector addressed the Continue reading about t...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/university-sector-highlights-importance-of-international-students-and-research-funding-in-summer-address-to-house-of-commons-committee/
Features
BY IVAN JOSEPH & IVAN JOSEPH | September 09 2020

A vice-provost, student affairs, and an incoming first-year student sit down to talk about the student experience during a pandemic.

Sometimes, personal and professional lives overlap in interesting ways, such as what is unfolding in the Joseph household. Ivan Joseph is vice-provost, student affairs, at Dalhousie University. On October 1, he will begin a five-year posting as vice-president, student affairs, at Wilfrid Laurier Uni...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-student-experience-this-fall-a-tale-of-two-ivans/
In my opinion
BY NADIA NAFFI ET AL | September 08 2020

Ensuring equitable and quality education, as well as effective and efficient evaluation of student learning are among the imperatives identified for this disrupted academic year.

As university campuses around the world emptied out one by one in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, centres for teaching and learning (CTLs) and their equivalent services – with their teams of instructional designers, teaching and learning experts, and multimedia developers – became the “ https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/5-recommendations-from-teaching-centres-to-teaching-centres-to-help-faculty-shift-online/
Features
BY EMILY BARON CADLOFF, SHAUNA MCGINN & MARK CARDWELL | August 19 2020

Remote teaching, half-empty residences and virtual orientations will mark this year’s return for most students.

Part 1. Streamed lectures and empty seats: what classrooms will look like this fall

  By Emily Baron Cadloff Patrick McBrine has spent many hours over the spring and summer teaching himself how to make professional-looking videos at home. Working ...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/as-september-approaches-universities-prepare-for-a-fall-semester-unlike-any-other/
Media Scan
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | August 04 2020
Windsor Star Continue reading The Canadian university experience is already lookin...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-august-4-2020/
In my opinion
BY KATHLEEN BORTOLIN | August 03 2020

Seek instructional help from colleagues, be honest with your students, be generous to yourself and others. We’re all in this together.

I’m a Liverpool FC fan, so the song You Will Never Walk Alone shows up on more than one of my playlists. But when it comes up these days, in light of all that is happening, it seems take on an even more significant meaning. We’re all a little nervy right now – students, instructors, d...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/a-pedagogical-manifesto-for-the-upcoming-academic-year/
From PhD to Life
BY JENNIFER POLK | July 29 2020

If your job search is falling flat, try remembering a moment when you felt most energized or engaged – this will give you valuable insight into yourself.

When it comes to sorting out what you want to do next, you need to get past the “any job, anywhere” thinking. You need something more manageable, both for yourself and for anyone attempting to help you along the way. So you start to do the things folks like me suggest doing, including conducting...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/standout-moments-from-your-past-can-help-define-your-future/
In my opinion
BY BRYN WILLIAMS-JONES | July 23 2020

Let’s ensure we recognize and support their extraordinary efforts during the COVID-19 crisis.

As a result of the current pandemic, professors and students are having to adapt to new ways of working in a world full of uncertainties. When will our children be able to go back to school? Will we be able to visit our elderly parents? What will happen with the upcoming academic year? They are expe...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/administrative-personnel-are-the-universitys-frontline-workers/
Careers Café
BY ANDREA EIDINGER | July 16 2020

Self-reflections are another kind of metric, one that can create space for us to think carefully about our mission and mandates as teachers.

The end of the semester can engender a number of complicated feelings. Some of us feel relief at not having to answer quite so many emails, joy at finally being finished our grading, and grief over the fact that we will likely never see our students again. As in the case with transition periods, man...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/taking-stock-the-importance-of-teaching-self-reflections/
People on the Move
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | July 08 2020
Ry Moran, the founding director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba, is taki...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-july-2020/
Features
BY MOIRA MACDONALD | June 30 2020

Seven academics reflect on the moment they realized the world had changed.

Exhausting days, sleepless nights, overwhelming uncertainty and a paramount concern for the welfare of students, faculty and staff. Universities were among the first organizations to shut down in-person operations and pivot rapidly to remote teaching and learning in response to the COVID-19 global p...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/where-were-you-when-the-pandemic-hit/