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BY BECKY RYNOR | January 11 2022

Marine biologist Shane Gero studies how sperm whales live. Now he wants to know what they are talking about.

BY PIERRE BLAIS | January 10 2022

Quebec adventurers spent months crossing Canada from north to south while participating in three research projects.

BY KERRY BANKS | January 05 2022

After prolonged delays, many academics are hoping to restart their stalled research projects.

BY DIANE PETERS | December 13 2021

Computer scientists and statisticians are starting to create datasets that mimic important properties of the real thing, which could help ease privacy concerns.

BY BLANE HARVEY, ALAIN BOURQUE, YING SYUAN HUANG & ANNE DEBRABANDERE | November 05 2021

COVID-19 has forced academic conferencing online. As we emerge from the pandemic, we mustn’t return to the ‘old normal.’

BY KERRY BANKS | October 21 2021

A UBC biologist is advising residents not to feed the wildlife.

BY DIANE PETERS | October 20 2021

Advocates of ‘humanistic math’ are on a mission to help schoolchildren from all backgrounds see the world differently.

BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | August 31 2021

Funded by the University of Northern British Columbia and the Hakai Institute, the powerful set of computers show the mass loss of Earth’s glaciers has increased at unexpected rates.

BY IAN MUNROE | August 30 2021

Using campus as testing grounds, WATonoBus pushes limits of autonomous transit.

BY MICHEL PROULX | July 13 2021

Guidelines to be expanded to other granting agencies in the near future.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | June 23 2021

A look back at the WWII nuclear lab at the Université de Montréal.

BY SHARON ASCHAIEK | May 10 2021

Collective effort focused on holding companies in which universities invest, accountable and achieve sustainability goals.

BY DIANE PETERS | May 05 2021

Researchers won’t have to leave the country to perform experiments that allow them to see inside materials.

BY KERRY BANKS | May 04 2021

Not only is it a myth that Canada has an abundance of readily accessible water, say researchers, but we’re poorly managing what we do have.

BY WENDY GLAUSER | March 31 2021

Additional country-wide lab infrastructure and training capacity will allow researchers to be ‘ready to go.’

BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | March 15 2021

To tackle the world’s biggest problems, ‘we’re going to need our government and scientists working together.’

BY NATALIE SAMSON | March 11 2021

Using portable 3D scanners, a team of professors and graduate students created a new database that attempts to replicate the hands-on experience of identifying fossils and other specimens.

BY MOIRA MACDONALD | February 24 2021

Universities are turning to the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals as a blueprint for achieving a better and more prosperous world.

BY MICHAEL RANCIC | February 04 2021

With three shows in development, the Amplify network aims to bring peer-reviewed podcasts to the public.

BY DIANE PETERS | January 27 2021

New expert report from the Council of Canadian Academies finds a growing number of doctoral graduates in Canada is having trouble transitioning to the labour market.

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