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<p>The goals of what we’re doing haven’t changed, but the <i>how</i> of what we’re doing certainly has.</p>
<span class="drop-cap">Mike</span> Young, a senior instructor in the department of earth and environmental sciences at Dalhousie University, teaches two field courses that rely heavily on group, in-person experiential learning. In a normal fall semester, he would have expected to take his introducto...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/re-imaging-experiential-learning-during-the-pandemic/
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<p>Some say there’s been too little progress toward supporting Canadian research in fundamental science.</p>
<span class="drop-cap">In</span> 2016, then science minister Kirsty Duncan convened a panel of experts to conduct a comprehensive review of Canada’s academic science and research ecosystem. Led by David Naylor, former president of the University of Toronto, it was the first such exercise in almost...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/taking-stock-of-the-naylor-report-5-years-on/
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<p>Fundamental research, future researchers and scholarships: the university community reacts to Quebec’s new research and innovation strategy.</p>
Stakeholders from the political, research and entrepreneurial communities gathered in downtown Montreal on May 19 for the launch of the five-year Quebec Research and Innovation Strategy (SQRI<sup>2</sup>).
The three keywords in the strategy’s 90-page <a href="https://cdn-contenu.quebec.ca/cdn-c...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/invention-innovation-and-commercialization-old-wine-in-new-bottles/
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<p>Some universities experiencing record-breaking giving, but clarity is important to avoid misunderstandings.</p>
<span class="drop-cap">B</span>ill Tatham says the most meaningful gift he’s made to the University of Waterloo isn’t the $4 million he donated to help build the largest co-operative services building at a Canadian university, which bears his name. Nor is it the $1 million he later gave for a ne...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-growing-role-of-charitable-donations-in-higher-education/
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<p>The rapid rise in international recruitment has sparked calls for rules and standards to govern third-party recruiters.</p>
<span class="drop-cap">B</span>ipin Kumar arrived in Canada in 2014 to pursue a master’s degree in computer science at an East Coast university. With degrees already under his belt from universities in Germany and his native India, Mr. Kumar was well-travelled and ready to land on his feet in a ne...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-murky-world-of-unregulated-international-student-recruiters/
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<p>Photo contests are gaining in popularity as a powerful way to share and promote research.</p>
<span class="drop-cap">E</span>very summer for five years, Kayla Buhler trekked from Saskatoon to Nunavut to track packs of Arctic foxes as part of her PhD research in veterinary microbiology. Knowing this was a rare experience – not many of her colleagues at the University of Saskatchewan could s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/research-through-the-lens/
Actualités
<p>Researchers capture first images of memories being made</p>
What does a memory look like? A faded photograph? Your child's face? Neuroscientist Wayne Sossin prefers to leave that sort of metaphysical musing to the philosophers. What interests him are how memories are formed – the actual physical changes that occur in the brain when memory happens.
In th...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/memories-leave-their-trace/
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<p>Ontario law schools begin to formulate ways to adapt their programs to meet new licensing option for graduating students.</p>
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There’s a new way to get licensed as a lawyer in Ontario. It’s a change that is impacting law schools in the province and beyond.
This past November, after more than a ye...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/changes-are-coming-to-law-education/
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<p>University of British Columbia’s UBC Reports prints its last edition in March.</p>
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To paraphrase Shakespeare, “To print or not to print?” has become the question of late for campus newspapers published by university communications departments. The Universi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/another-campus-newspaper-bites-the-dust-ubc-reports-aspx/
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<p>Queen’s U head Daniel Woolf is a Twitter enthusiast.</p>
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In a discussion of homophones, a professor patiently explained that a vein can be a vessel in the body or a geological term, while a vane swings with the weather and vain is best explained through the Carly Simon clas...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/queens-u-daniel-woolf-the-tweeting-university-president-aspx/
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<p>Stand up to government rather than capitulate to bad policy, urges one mayor.</p>
At a time when many universities and colleges are facing severe and unexpected <a title="spending cuts" href="/?p=4544">spending cuts</a> by their provincial governments, several are finding political solace in an unexpected place – the mayor’s office.
In Alberta, the mayors of the two larges...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/city-mayors-come-to-the-defence-of-their-universities/
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<p>Kimberly Voll pushes at the forefront of game design.</p>
There are few academics who can say they started their research before even learning to read, but Kimberly Voll, a professor of game design and software engineering at the Vancouver-based <a title="Centre for Digital Media" href="http://thecdm.ca/">Centre for Digital Media</a>, can trace her aca...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/game-designer-wants-developers-aim-equality-diversity/
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<p>As President Trump’s travel ban makes its way through the courts, Canadian universities reach out to international students and scholars facing uncertain futures in the U.S.</p>
On January 27, when President Donald Trump announced an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769">executive order</a> to ban citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, Amer Bin Muhana heard the news in the safety of his dorm room at Carleton Un...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadian-universities-shift-recruitment-efforts-trump-era/
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<p>On the 10th anniversary of the first massive open online course, they are more numerous than ever.</p>
In 2008, University of Manitoba professors Stephen Downes and George Siemens taught a course on learning theory that was attended by about 25 paying students in class and by another 2,300 students online for free. Colleague Dave Cormier at the University of Prince Edward Island dubbed the experiment...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/moocs-not-dead-evolving/
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<p>Investment in R&D as a share of GDP has steadily declined since 2001, mainly due to low business R&D expenditures, says expert panel.</p>
Canada has maintained its strong performance in research and education but is falling ever further behind in industrial R&D, innovation and wealth creation, according to a <a href="http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/news.aspx?id=212">new report</a> on the state of science and technology in the count...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadas-innovation-gap-remains-new-report-finds/
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<p>Ebola researcher Gary Kobinger, a 20-year-old research team and an assistive-technologies pioneer are among those being honoured.</p>
The recipients of the Governor General’s Innovation Awards for 2018 were announced on May 14. The awards recognize individuals, teams and organizations that have pioneered innovations leading to “exceptional, transformative, and positive” impact on quality of life in Canada. Of the six individ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/meet-the-winners-of-the-2018-governor-generals-innovation-awards/
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<p>An interview with the committee’s inaugural chair, SSHRC president Ted Hewitt.</p>
Last October, the federal government announced the creation of the <a href="https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/127.nsf/eng/home">Canada Research Coordinating Committee</a> “to improve collaboration among the granting councils and CFI (the Canada Foundation for Innovation) to the benefit of researchers ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/the-canada-research-coordinating-committee-gets-into-gear/
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<p>University libraries are integrating the massive online encyclopedia into their operations to share their unique resources, improve teaching and learning, and raise their profile.</p>
Wikipedia has generally been dismissed or distrusted by academia. But now in its 18th year, the non-profit, open-access online encyclopedia has grown exponentially to become one of the leading providers of online content, making it difficult for academic institutions to ignore.
One of the first C...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/advancing-academia-with-wikipedia/
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<p>De nombreux chercheurs canadiens se regroupent sous différentes structures pour étudier les questions d’éthique et de gouvernance de l’IA.</p>
Le potentiel économique de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) agit comme un chant des sirènes sur les gouvernements, auquel le Canada n’échappe pas. On y retrouve 0,7 pour cent de l’ensemble des investissements privés et du financement public mondiaux en IA entre 2013 et 2018, selon Statist...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/encadrer-lessor-de-lintelligence-artificielle/
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<p>Several universities are pursuing initiatives to train students and workers, support industry and safeguard our country’s critical infrastructure.</p>
Universities in Canada are joining the growing ranks of global cybercrime fighters. In June alone, three universities – Ryerson University, the University of Waterloo and the University of New Brunswick – announced initiatives to increase the country’s cybersecurity capacity.
Cybercrime is ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/academia-is-playing-a-growing-role-in-cybersecurity/