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Post-secondary students may experience psychological challenges as they attempt to discover their true selves.
A look back at some of Spring’s convocation speeches at Canadian universities.
Quebec’s first chief scientist, Rémi Quirion, looks back on his career and the challenges awaiting his successor.
IDRA scholarship recipient Kenneth Gyamerah worked with teachers to bring traditional knowledge into science and technology ...
Held before an attentive Toronto audience, the intense conversation doubled as a warning. For Marc Spooner, professor of ...
Today’s professors are mentors, public intellectuals, grant writers, collaborators, and increasingly, entrepreneurs. They ...
Why Canadian universities need to better support scholar-innovators to catalyze academic entrepreneurship. Who’s afraid of ...
During a tutorial session for a course on traditional and popular culture last fall, I popped a meme onto the screen — the “Supa Hot Fire” rap battle series — to explain the (rather arcane) genealogy ...
On a mural inside the University of Manitoba’s Price Faculty of Engineering, bison jump over a hydroelectric dam, plummeting into the turbulent waters below. At the base of the dam, an Indigenous ...
Scholar, activist and child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock figures academia needs to hire “a lot more people who are willing to get into trouble.” “Academia and activism should co-exist,” says Dr.