Leah Cowan is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics. Her research uses specialized genomics technology to examine the survival strategies that fungal pathogens exploit to become resistant to drugs and to cause human disease. In 2015,she won an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for her work exploring new ways to improve our self-defence against fungal pathogens.
A Laurentian University lab has made a chance discovery that may lead to better breast cancer therapy.
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Digging through and understanding vast amounts of data is rapidly becoming the new currency for research, government and commerce.
Not long after Dalhousie University launched its Institute for Big Data Analytics last year, the new research unit struck up an innovative partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and a...
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Dr. Nemer says she will be a champion for the understanding of science and its role in our everyday lives.
On September 26, the federal government fulfilled one of its election promises – restoring the position of a chief scientist – by naming Mona Nemer to the Continue reading for Canada. Prior to her appointment, Dr. Nemer led the molecular genetics and card...
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Educators are using gaming elements, combined with the interactive and immersive aspects of virtual reality, to enhance learning.
Medical students wearing headsets with thick black visors stand in a room at the University of British Columbia manipulating a large, floating, 3D hologram of the human brain. Like an apparition from a futuristic sci-fi film, the hologram instantly responds to their voice commands and hand gestures,...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/mind-games/
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Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.
There’s more than one reason why Evan Fraser pursued academia over agriculture, but if you ask him why, he’ll probably tell this story: one afternoon in the early ’90s, a teenaged Dr. Fraser was working on his grandfather’s Niagara fruit farm in Ontario.
Late...
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The Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital is pioneering an open-science model that could change the way medical research is conducted across the globe.
To create a potential vaccine for SARS in 2003, a group of Canadian researchers had to break the law.
Nearly 800 people died from this viral respiratory condition and some 8,000 infections were reported across the globe. By April 2003, when the SARS Accelerated Vacci...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/could-the-montreal-neuro-herald-a-paradigm-shift-in-scientific-research/
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Some say there’s been too little progress toward supporting Canadian research in fundamental science.
In 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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Dalhousie’s Johnny Appleseed of the Annapolis Valley.
His name is Sean Myles but his moniker could well be the latter-day Johnny Appleseed. Dr. Myles, an assistant professor and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Agricultural Genetic Diversity at Dalhousie University, is the lead scientist behind the Apple Biodiversity Collection, a research orchar...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/dalhousie-researcher-orchard-apple-varieties/
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Sciencescape platform will have a big impact on the speed of scientific development, predicts its founder.
Defending one’s PhD is a daunting, time-consuming endeavour. Now imagine doing it while running a multimillion-dollar tech start-up and you’ll begin to get a picture of life right now for Sam Molyneux.
In 2010, Mr. Molyneux co-founded Sciencescape, a web-based platform to keep track of scient...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/online-tool-lets-scientists-keep-track-published-research-papers-real-time/
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The new station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, will study Arctic issues including climate change.
This October, as the sun begins to settle low on the horizon and the snow piles up in the Nunavut hamlet of Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay), the Canadian government will officially throw open the doors to its new $250-million Arctic research station. The copper-toned main research building at the heart...
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24 researchers will soon join Canadian universities from institutions around the world – many of them expats looking for a way home.
Media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun says she can’t wait to return to Canada after more than 25 years in the United States. Dr. Chun, who earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Waterloo, left for grad school at Princeton University in 1992. She’s worked in the Ivy League ever since.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/government-reveals-full-list-canada-150-research-chairholders/
Nominations
Vivek Goel was named the next president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo for a five-year term that begins o...
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MacEwan University recently appointed Jason Fung as its new general counsel, starting Feb. 10. Mr. Fung has ser...
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The last month has been a pretty topsy-turvy one for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. After it rolled out the first round of applications for its new operating grant application termed “project grants,” it was all set to deliver evidence that its new systems of financial allocation an...
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Brad White’s forensic wildlife lab at Trent University sees its role as a defender of justice for wild animals.
On Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, three men went hunting in the woods near Kinmount, an hour north of Peterborough, Ontario. Kevin Chatterton, of Bowmanville, shot a calf moose and Robert MacFarlane, of Oshawa, bagged a cow moose. The third man, Shane Hannigan, who was visiting Ontario from Nova Scotia, was...
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Scholars say the rise of automated, and increasingly autonomous, robotic technologies requires greater ethical scrutiny.
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