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BY THOMAS DURCAN | July 16 2019

I’m giving my lab’s standard methods away over the next year – making them available to anyone who would like to access them.

BY ROBERTA K. TIMOTHY | June 19 2019

Individualizing racial profiling in media misses the point of systemic violence.

BY BRENDA WINGFIELD & BOB MILLAR | April 17 2019

Publication costs can eat into whatever precious grant funding researchers get.

BY TANYA CHICHEKIAN | April 03 2019

Skills of well-being have been forgotten partly due to a combination of educational reforms and societal pressures.

BY JOHN-TYLER BINFET | March 21 2019

The B.A.R.K. program – Building Academic Retention through K9s – creates opportunities for students and community members to spend time with therapy dogs.

BY JOSÉ F. DOMENE | January 08 2019

Partners who accompany international students tend to be well-educated, yet many experience difficulties pursuing their own career goals once in Canada.

BY EVA POMEROY | December 27 2018

Learning in community is linked to better academic performance and gains in skill, competence and knowledge as well as overall satisfaction with university experience.

BY SAUL CARLINER | November 27 2018

What is the purpose of an internship, and how does it differ from basic schooling?

BY ANITA JACK-DAVIES | May 02 2018

Research shows that the concept and practice of “other-mothering” can help Black students navigate the complex and often secretive world of academia.

BY SANTA ONO | April 16 2018

Nearly every Indigenous family in Canada has been affected and the effects on communities are still with us today.

BY MEGAN FREDERICKSON | March 28 2018

Male professors are paid more than female professors even when they get the same grant funding.

BY JEFFREY R. SPENCE, DAVID STANLEY & IAN NEWBY-CLARK | February 23 2018

Over several years, failed attempts to replicate published studies have caused generally accepted bodies of research to be called into question — or rejected outright.

BY MICHAEL J. ARMSTRONG | December 07 2017

It’s exam time. Research suggests that while some students will be pleasantly surprised by how they did on exams, a larger group will falsely believe they did much better on their exams than they did.

BY SARAH ELAINE EATON | October 18 2017

The second annual International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating is an attempt by universities around the world to raise awareness about students who hire others to do their work.

BY KATHLEEN GALLAGHER | September 26 2017

There is a new duty felt by teachers at all levels of our education system to make good on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls to action, creating both a critically important opportunity and an unease about our preparedness.

BY DOMINIK STECULA | September 12 2017

The impact of the growing interest in fake news has been the realization that the public might not be well-equipped to separate quality information from false information.

BY SARA BANNERMAN | August 24 2017

Copyright monitoring and enforcement would be an onerous and complex task for universities.

BY THOMAS MERRITT | August 11 2017

To understand a system, to really answer a question in biology, you have to incorporate genetic diversity, look across multiple genotypes.

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