By University Affairs Staff. How to control your projects.
Rose Hastreiter, a senior consultant at Direct Corporate Solutions offers tips on how PhDs can keep themselves on track when it comes to both big and small projects. More...

By David Kent. Changes to eligibility rules should be adopted by any agency looking to encourage women to continue in science.
I attended a meeting in Cambridge last month about European Research Council funding for early career researchers. One mode of providing “start-up” funding in Europe is to award personal fellowships to new and early career investigators that covers salaries and research. More...

By Dan Harvey and Imre Szeman. Entrepreneurship and innovation, while important and necessary, remain insufficient educational goals for Canada’s universities.
Can entrepreneurship be taught? Should it be? And what does it mean if it is. More...

By Carol Boeira. A remote village in the mountains of Nepal now has a sustainable and reliable electricity supply, thanks to a collaborative effort between two University of Calgary professors and a local Nepalese group. The project – led by Ed Nowicki, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering, and David Wood, NSERC/Enmax professor of renewable energy in the department of mechanical engineering – uses a micro-hydroelectric system to provide and regulate electricity. The project got its start through a $100,000 grant from Grand Challenges Canada. More...

By Léo Charbonneau. In the mi-1970s, nearly one-third of seniors in Canada were considered low-income. Today, it’s closer to five percent. There are many factors accounting for this improvement in seniors’ lives, chief among them changes to public policy. Paul Kershaw believes government policy now needs to focus on another generation feeling the pinch: those in their mid-40s and younger. Dr. Kershaw, an associate professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, says this generation is being squeezed simultaneously by lower incomes, higher housing costs and less time compared to older generations. In an attempt to foster “inter-generational equality,” Dr. Kershaw has founded Generation Squeeze, an organization that he hopes will grow the clout of younger generations in politics and public policy. He recently spoke to University Affairs about this work. More...