Cap sur les compétences
<p>Use your concerns about ChatGPT and academic misconduct to redesign your courses to build academic integrity skills.</p>
Welcome back to the final column of my special The Skills Agenda three-part series on academic integrity, coauthored with <a href="https://teaching.usask.ca/about/staff/susan-bens.php"> Susan Bens</a>, educational development specialist at the University of Saskatchewan’s Gwenna Moss Centre for T...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/the-skills-agenda/designing-courses-that-promote-academic-integrity/
Articles de fond
<p>The university has built a powerhouse football program that is the envy of interuniversity sport throughout Canada. Here’s how</p>
Football has always been a big part of Glen Constantin’s life. He first played the game on the Plains of Abraham, the home field of his team, the Fighting Irish of St. Patrick’s High School. A defensive lineman, he had the size, talent and grades to go further, but there were no postsecondary fo...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/laval-s-field-of-dreams/
Actualités
What does the term "second life" mean to you? Perhaps it creates images of online games or the life you'll have when you retire.
For a select group of Canada Research Chair holders who spoke recently at a special panel discussion, "second life" was handy shorthand for the wide range of research t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canada-research-chair-celebrations/
Actualités
<p>Attention now turns to the upcoming report of the fundamental science review panel chaired by David Naylor.</p>
The Trudeau government tabled its second budget on March 22, promising to address economic challenges facing the country and cultivate a nimble workforce through investment in education and skills development. Among its many elements, the budget expands the Canada Student Loans and Grants program an...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/budget-2017-highlights-innovation-skills-adds-no-new-funds-basic-research/
Actualités
<p>Federal funding of $950 million promised for the five winning bids from across the country.</p>
The federal government revealed the recipients of a funding program to create “<a href="http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/093.nsf/eng/00008.html">superclusters</a>” – business-led partnerships between postsecondary institutions and the private sector meant to accelerate innovation in technology-rel...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadas-much-anticipated-supercluster-rd-groups-unveiled/
Actualités
<p>In the interest of cancer prevention, the creators of hitchBOT have paired the smarts of IBM’s Watson with Pepper, the most personable robot you’ll ever meet.</p>
Doctors in Canada diagnose more than 8,000 cases of skin cancer each year, most of them preventable. Since we still aren’t taking doctors’ orders to slather on sunscreen, a multidisciplinary research team from McMaster and Ryerson universities is exploring what happens when we replace the me...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/can-robots-ai-used-inspire-healthy-change-humans/
Actualités
<p>An expert panel discussed shifting dynamics between the academy and industry in driving economic development in Canada.</p>
Ten or 15 years before the recent artificial intelligence and machine learning research <a href="/?p=42102">boom</a> in Montreal, the doors and windows of Canada’s “ivory tower” may have been more shuttered to industry, but that’s changed, said Martha Crago, vice-principal of research and in...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/how-curiosity-driven-science-interplays-with-innovation-in-canadas-economy/
Actualités
<p>Nearly everything we do now generates reams of data, and universities are helping Canadians to make productive use of it.</p>
We are living through the datafication of our society and its impacts are broad and deep. Everything from how much credit we can access, to how doctors diagnose and treat us, to what we pay for airline tickets, to our dating website matches, are influenced by our growing ability to draw conclusions ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-are-diving-deep-into-data-science/
Actualités
<p>Last year, the centre led a historic meeting of research stakeholders that ended with a consensus definition of predatory publishing. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. </p>
A few years ago, Kelly Cobey, an investigator at the Ottawa-based Centre for Journalology, was talking to a professor who had never published in a predatory journal but who said they were good places for graduate students to get started. Dr. Cobey was alarmed.
“Students can find more credible, ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/how-ottawas-centre-for-journalology-is-tackling-the-scourge-of-predatory-publishers/
Actualités
<p>Here’s how several universities have responded so far to Ottawa’s appeal for critical supplies, expertise and labour in response to the pandemic.</p>
A week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau <a href="https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/ottawa-calls-upon-universities-to-contribute-to-the-fight-against-covid-19/">called upon the postsecondary education sector</a> for help in the fight against COVID-19, institutions and researchers a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadian-universities-heed-the-call-for-help-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/
Actualités
<h2><u>April 30, 2020</u></h2>
<h2>Federal aid update: House passes CESB bill, CCPA crunches the numbers</h2>
The federal government just got a step closer to releasing $9 billion in emergency student aid. The Liberals’ <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-april-2020/
Actualités
<h2><u>June 29, 2020</u></h2>
<h2>Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund deadline extended</h2>
On May 15, the federal government created the Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund (CRCEF) as part of a suite of temporary financial aid programs to help employers and workers through financial ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-june-2020/
Actualités
<p>‘People doing computer science degrees, of any sort, need ethical training,’ says one of the designers.</p>
When Katrina Ingram talks to non-experts about artificial intelligence, she often has to clear up one big misconception—call it the Teminator fallacy.
“Hollywood’s done a fantastic job of creating this idea that AI is almost human-like and sentient,” she says. And, not to mention, “ofte...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/new-microcredential-focuses-on-the-importance-of-ai-ethics/
Actualités
<p>The public lab will welcome a new cohort of students and public service employees every four months.</p>
At a new public-sector lab in Alberta, postsecondary students and graduates, government employees, and staff at an artificial intelligence (AI) company work together to solve real-world problems in the public realm.
Celia Wanderley is head of AltaML Invent and the chief customer officer at AltaML...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/new-ai-lab-in-alberta-will-help-train-students-for-a-digital-economy/
Revue de presse
<strong>
Globe and Mail
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-scientist-sylvain-moineau-wins-prize-for-role-in-gene-editing-breakthrough/article33948219/">Quebec scientist Moineau wins prize for role in gene-editing breakthrough</a></strong>
A decade after he helped to disc...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-feb-8-2017/
Revue de presse
<strong>New York Times
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/technology/canada-artificial-intelligence.html?_r=2">Canada tries to turn its A.I. ideas into dollars</a></strong>
After years of losing its artificial intelligence scientists and start-ups to Silicon Valley, Canada is focusing on ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-april-10-2017/
Revue de presse
<strong>CBC
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/ubc-passes-new-sex-assault-policy-will-create-centralized-offices-to-respond/article34700339/">UBC passes new sex-assault policy, will create centralized offices to respond</a></strong>
All public universities in B.C. must h...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-april-18-2017/
Revue de presse
<strong>Saskatoon StarPhoenix
<a href="http://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/federal-government-commits-to-research-funding-review-says-u-of-s-punching-above-its-weight">Federal government commits to research funding review, says U of S 'punching above its weight'</a></strong>
Despite its rece...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-sept-14-2017/
Revue de presse
<strong>CBC
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-university-alberta-venture-healthcare-1.4452034">New U of A program helps under-represented students who seek health-care careers</a></strong>
Yasmin Rafiei hopes to get low-income and Indigenous students interested in health car...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-dec-18-2017/
Revue de presse
<strong>CBC
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-residential-school-history-centre-to-share-survivors-accounts-educate-public-1.4610726">UBC residential school history centre to share survivors' accounts, educate public</a></strong>
When the centre opens on Monday, UBC presi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-april-9-2018/