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Lundi 29 juin
Fonds d’urgence pour la continuité de la recherche : nouvelle date limite
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July 31, 2020
CAUCE conference to continue online, while Congress prepares for multiple scenarios in 2021
Next year’s conference for the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education will take place online. The association c...
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Vendredi 31 juillet
Application « Alerte COVID » lancée
L’application de traçage des contacts du gouvernement fédéral a été lancée vendredi. Elle permettra aux utilisateurs de savoir, grâce à des notifications sur leur cellulaire, ...
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Globe and Mail
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The early departures are the latest develop...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-aug-14/
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The Globe and Mail
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There were all sorts of things Aiden Rylott was lookin...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-june-17-2020/
Nominations
Bioethics researcher Eric Meslin is the new president and CEO of the
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcement-january-2016/
À mon avis
To understand a system, to really answer a question in biology, you have to incorporate genetic diversity, look across multiple genotypes.
When I first started doing experimental biology, I noticed that we only looked at males.
I was in a ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/sex-matters-male-bias-lab-bad-science/
En Marge
Des investissements en éducation postsecondaire et en recherche, mais aussi la tenue d’un examen approfondi du financement de la recherche
On trouvera, au cours des prochaines semaines, de nombreuses analyses du budget fédéral déposé le 4 mars dernier. La première chose qui m’a frappé dans ce budget, c’est la promesse du ministre des Finances Jim Flaherty d’effectuer « un examen approfondi de toute l’aide [que le gouver...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/en-marge/points-saillants-du-budget-federal/
En Marge
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is on a cross-country tour to discuss the Next Big Questions facing our world.
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is one of those rare privately funded, independent research institutes in Canada not directly attached to a university -- and what they manage to accomplish on their $16 million annual budget is astounding.
With that money, CIFAR (pronounced “see far...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/whats-the-next-big-question-in-research/
The Black Hole-FR
While the federal government has taken steps to address a stagnant science and technology sector in Canada through a $9-billion annual investment (Continue reading, the Harper Government’...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/reversing-the-brain-drain/
Conseils carrière
Good students are hard to find.
Since taking up an assistant professor position in the biology department at Western University, I’ve received many emails from prospective students and postdocs wanting to volunteer, study or work in my lab. At least once or twice a day the ping of my phone reveals an email with the subject line:...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/advice-for-those-looking-to-join-an-academic-lab/
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« Les bons étudiants sont difficiles à trouver »
Depuis mes débuts comme professeur adjoint au département de biologie de l’Université Western, je reçois de nombreux courriels d’étudiants et de chercheurs postdoctoraux qui souhaitent travailler bénévolement, effectuer de la recherche ou poursuivre leurs études au sein de mon laborat...
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It’s three in morning. I can’t sleep. I’m sweating and anxious. In three hours I have to stand in front of 600 undergraduate students and try my best not to pass out. Like an athlete before the big event, I’m envisioning my lecture slide by slide, which takes my heart rate into overdrive. Ho...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/trial-and-error-and-cursing-how-to-teach-large-classes/
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Now is not the time for naggingPEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Yann Arthur has been appointed coordinator of campus recre...
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Comment allez-vous?: Un peu fatigué, merci. Et vous?NOMINATIONS
Le 5 octobre, Élisabeth Farinacci est entrée en poste à titre de directrice du Servi...
Articles de fond
Les universitaires, l’industrie et le gouvernement s’unissent pour faire du Canada une puissance en recherche et développement dans le domaine de l’IA.
Les gouvernements parviennent rarement à prédire le prochain secteur de croissance, et les deniers publics investis dans les projets visionnaires semblent souvent gaspillés. Toutefois, au printemps dernier, Ottawa a peut-être fait son meilleur pari à ce jour en décidant de réserver 125 millio...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/le-canada-en-tant-que-leader-en-intelligence-artificielle/
Articles de fond
Academics, industry and government have joined together, setting the stage for Canada to become a research and development powerhouse in AI.
Governments can have a pretty dismal track record when it comes to predicting the next big thing. Tax dollars spent on visionary projects are often, it seems, tax dollars thrown away. But, this past spring, Ottawa might have made its best bet yet with the $125 million it has set aside over the next ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/canada-emerged-leader-artificial-intelligence/
Articles de fond
How Indigenous researchers and communities are working in partnership with universities and non-Indigenous researchers to shape the future of environmental sciences.
It's the fourth and final day of the hide tanning camp in which six participants are learning to use rotten spruce wood to smoke deer hides that have been scraped and softened, under the guidance of Indigenous hide tanning experts, on the Ryerson University campus in do...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/weaving-indigenous-and-western-knowledge/
Actualités
Federal government must decide how much funding to give Canada’s high-speed computing network.
Canada’s research community has concerns about the future of CANARIE, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, whose five-year funding mandate is up fo...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canarie-five-year-mandate-up-for-review/
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The work “will hugely advance our capacity to understand species interactions and … the impacts of human activities,” says director Paul Hebert.
To sequence a plant or animal’s DNA, scientists have to work through millions of nucleotides. That’s pricey, time-consuming and perhaps not necessary if all they want to do is identify a species and tell, say, one type of ant from another.
University of Guelph integrative biology professor Pa...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/u-of-guelphs-dna-barcode-centre-catalogues-earths-biodiversity/
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