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par UA/AU | 31 mars 2020

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, ca...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-march-2020/
À mon avis
par TIMOTHY CAULFIELD | 06 avril 2009

Un nouvel intérêt scientifique pour l’étude de la variation génétique soulève de vieux problèmes raciaux

Lors d’une conférence sur la génétique à laquelle j’ai participé récemment, j’ai reçu en cadeau un t‑shirt sur lequel était écrit bien en évidence que j’étais à 99,9 pour cent le sosie d’Einstein. Compte tenu du fossé évident entre les facultés intellectuelles du physic...

https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/nos-difference-genetiques/
Revue de presse
par TARA SIEBARTH | 01 août 2018
Globe and Mail Continue reading South Korean consumer electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. is turning to...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-aug-1-2018/
Actualités
par TIM LOUGHEED | 20 février 2017

Restrictions on the importation of zebrafish are impeding important animal-based studies.

A Continue reading in the online publication National Observer last year highlighted what appeared to be a significant rise in the use of laboratory animals in Canada, as ind...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadian-researchers-struggle-access-popular-laboratory-species/
Actualités
par TIM LOUGHEED | 20 février 2017

Les restrictions en matière d’importation de poissons-zèbres entravent d’importantes recherches.

Un Continue reading paru l’an dernier dans la revue en ligne National Observer mettait en lumière un accroissement considérable du recours aux animaux de laboratoire au...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/des-chercheurs-canadiens-ont-du-mal-avoir-acces-des-especes-tres-prisees-en-laboratoire/
Actualités
par NATALIE SAMSON | 28 avril 2020

Le gouvernement fédéral investira 1,1 milliard de dollars dans la recherche d’un vaccin, les essais cliniques et l’augmentation du dépistage et de la modélisation.

La semaine dernière, le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a annoncé un nouvel investissement de 1,1 milliard de dollars destiné à une stratégie de recherche nationale pour lutter contre la COVID-19, qui comportera trois volets : la recherche d’un vaccin; les essais cliniques; le dépistage ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/les-details-de-la-strategie-du-gouvernement-federal-pour-la-recherche-contre-la-covid-19/
Actualités
par UA/AU | 30 juin 2020

June 29, 2020

Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund deadline extended

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
par MICHEL PROULX | 21 avril 2021

Dans son premier budget en deux ans, le gouvernement fédéral investit massivement dans le secteur de la biofabrication et des sciences de la vie.

Partout au Canada, les chefs de file étudiants se réjouissent des mesures annoncées lundi dans le budget fédéral et de l’aide apportée aux étudiants. Le gouvernement entend consacrer 5,7 milliards de dollars sur cinq ans pour faciliter l’accès des jeunes à l’éducation et à l’...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/budget-federal-aide-aux-etudiants-et-investissements-en-recherche/
Nominations
par ANQI SHEN | 01 mai 2019
Canadians Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, along with Yann LeCun of New York University, are the recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize for computing.” They were honoured for breakthroughs that have...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-may-2019/
À mon avis
par TIMOTHY CAULFIELD | 06 avril 2009

A new emphasis in science on the study of genetic variation is raising old issues of race

Not long ago I was speaking at a genetics conference. I got a t-shirt as a gift that declared, in bright block letters, that I was 99.9 percent identical to Einstein. Given the clear gulf between the dead physicist’s intellectual capacities and my own – likely confirmed for the audience by my sp...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/discussing-our-genetic-differences/
À mon avis
par JOHN BERGERON | 13 août 2020

L’urgence d’un remède contre la COVID-19 a fait avancer les découvertes scientifiques à un rythme accéléré.

Cet article a été publié à l’origine sur le site Web Continue reading. Lisez le Continue reading. Les Canadien...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/la-route-vers-les-tests-covid-19-le-role-dun-pionnier-canadien-de-la-biotechnologie/
En Marge
par LÉO CHARBONNEAU | 05 mars 2010

There were some positive items for postsecondary education and research, but also a major planned review of research funding.

There will obviously be lots of analysis in the coming days of the federal budget, delivered yesterday. One of the things that immediately caught my eye was Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s pledge to conduct a “comprehensive review of all federal support for R&D to improve its contribution to...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/federal-budget-highlights/
Articles de fond
par JACKIE WONG | 08 mars 2019

Whether in her Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society lab or on Twitter, Dr. TallBear pushes boundaries to make space for the next generation.

Editor’s note: this is the second of an occasional series, People to Know, profiling notable people working in Canada’s higher education community. Follow the hashtag Continue reading. Kim TallBear has dedi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/kim-tallbear-speaks-truth-to-power/
Actualités
par AFFAIRES UNIVERSITAIRES | 31 mai 2020
Articles de fond
par MOIRA FARR | 10 octobre 2012

At universities across the country, scientists are happily leaving the isolation of their old labs and offices to discover the “intellectual collisions” in new collaborative spaces.

Don Schmitt sits in a glass-walled conference room at the downtown Toronto office of Diamond Schmitt Architects as images of recent academic buildings designed by the firm project onto a large screen, showing light-filled stairways, dramatic glass atria and sprawling lounge spaces. The designs, he ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/brave-new-buildings/
Articles de fond
par DAVID SMITH | 07 août 2013

A young professor reminisces on the flourishing expat community of scholars that his father helped found in this wealthy Arab state.

It was minus 20 outside, a typical winter night in Sudbury, Ontario, when my father, Frank Smith, sat the family around the kitchen table and unveiled his new job plan. After years of teaching chemistry at Laurentian University, including five years as dean of graduate studies, he’d decided to cha...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/an-academic-journey-to-qatar/
Articles de fond
par MAUD CUCCHI | 09 juin 2023

Encore aujourd’hui, le chercheur Marc-André Sirard s’emploie à améliorer la technique derrière la fécondation in vitro.

Vétérinaire de métier, Marc-André Sirard s’est très tôt réorienté vers la recherche universitaire et a participé aux premiers pas de la fécondation in vitro. Le professeur à l’Université Laval a contribué à la naissance des premiers veaux-éprouvettes ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/quand-la-science-pousse-sur-le-terreau-de-la-fertilite/
Actualités
par TIM LOUGHEED | 06 octobre 2008

International group advises universities to stop using patents to measure IP success

Counting patents may be the easiest way for administrators to measure the success of a university’s adventures in technology transfer, but Richard Gold insists that it is also the wrong way. The McGill University law professor argues that universities should not be counting their patents, but i...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/report-critiques-focus-on-patents/
Actualités
par DIANE PETERS | 09 mai 2012

The practice is strictly regulated in Canada, but some critics say that not all the research is necessary.

Earlier this year, university-based animal research roared into the news. It began in January with Canadian Transportation Agency telling Air Canada https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/research-using-animals-is-a-sensitive-issue/
Actualités
par ROSANNA TAMBURRI | 18 mars 2015

Both Canadian and Commonwealth students to benefit from Diamond Jubilee scholarship program.

Canadian universities are heralding a major new scholarship program that will facilitate study and internship exchanges between university students in this country and their counterparts in the Commonwealth. The Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships will be awarded to some 2,000 s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/new-federal-scholarships-will-see-more-canadians-study-abroad/
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