COVID-19
Remote work can be a difficult adjustment for teams accustomed to working in an office setting. Here are some tips.
COVID-19 will still be very much with us at the start of the fall term, and we need to prepare.
Traditional in-person conferences have been criticized for a variety of reasons, but the current COVID-19 pandemic puts them in a whole new light.
Use this time to think about your career trajectory and what aspects of your work are important to you.
With the pandemic upending their lives, many students are feeling stressed, anxious and overwhelmed.
With many studies put on hold, professors worry for their research – and what this means for graduate students.
How to quickly gear up for your new lifestyle and workstyle during the pandemic.
While the University of Alberta has opted for a mandatory credit/no credit assessment this term, other universities are letting students decide whether to forgo a letter grade.
Here’s how several universities have responded so far to Ottawa’s appeal for critical supplies, expertise and labour in response to the pandemic.
March 31, 2020 2:00 p.m. EST Need an expert? We’ve got ’em Researchers and clinicians working on COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus now have a single web portal where they can access a range of resources to help their work. The project, called COVID-19 Resources Canada, is led by Guillaume Bourque, director of bioinformatics at […]
The team from U de Montréal and ULaval hope to develop a rapid test before a second wave of the disease strikes.
Research on coronaviruses and their enzymes informs responses to the pandemic.
“We’ve had dress rehearsals with MERS, SARS and H1N1. We’ve been there before,” says one researcher. “What are we going to learn this time in a way that actually sticks?”
The COVID-19 crisis brings teaching and learning opportunity.
The federal government is asking Canadian universities to provide critical supplies and manufacturing solutions to help fight the pandemic.
As long as faculty are consistently communicating with students, the delivery method isn’t as important as the content, says one expert.
Some helpful resources and tools for professors who have to quickly move their courses online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
No one expects you to become an online teaching guru overnight. The best any of us can do is just get through the rest of the semester by focusing on student learning.
As universities respond to COVID-19, they must be guided by their core values of social responsibility, accountability and equitable access – all of which support suspending on-campus teaching and learning.
The federal government is funding research teams to study COVID-19, while the Tri-Agencies announced they will reimburse some fees incurred due to coronavirus-related travel cancellations.