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15 mars 2015

Why academia should be partnering with industry

By Martha Crago. Universities are increasingly moving from being Ivory Towers where research is conducted in a societally detached manner into a rich nexus of research partnerships. We have industry partners, partners at international institutions, non-governmental partners, community partners and governmental partners at municipal, provincial and federal levels. Here are some reflections on what works well and what still challenges us as universities in our work with industrial research partners. More...

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15 mars 2015

Reaching a non-specialist audience: What’s a scholar to do?

By Jonathan Silin. Owning the ambition to reach non-specialist readers is the first step in making it happen. More...

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15 mars 2015

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes more international delegates

By Rosanna Tamburri. This year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will feature more speakers and panelists from the United States and Europe, as organizers seek to broaden the appeal of the event and attract more international delegates to Canada’s largest interdisciplinary academic conference. Some 70 academic associations hold their meetings during Congress, which will take place May 30 to June 5 at the University of Ottawa. More...

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15 mars 2015

Professor’s mosquito trap showing success

By Léo Charbonneau. Laurentian prof is trying to control the West Nile mosquito population. More...

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15 mars 2015

York U professor looks at the roots of religious altruism

By Natalie Samson. Psychology professor Joni Sasaki wins a Templeton Foundation grant to study whether the urge to do good is in our genes. More...

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15 mars 2015

UBC acquires 13th-century papal document

By Léo Charbonneau. Parchment a tangible connection to the medieval world and a valuable teaching tool, says instructor. More...

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15 mars 2015

Striking for a better now, and a better future

By Jennifer Polk. Canada’s two largest universities — University of Toronto and York University — are affected by strikes. Last week, first graduate student teaching assistants and course instructors struck at U of T, followed closely by all contract teaching assistants and instructors at York University. More...

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15 mars 2015

Putting students in a more central role in the classroom

By Christopher Buddle. Dear instructor, here’s a challenge for you: include active learning activities in every lecture. Active learning is a philosophy and an approach in which teaching moves beyond the “podium style” lecture and directly includes students in the learning process. More...

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15 mars 2015

Rethinking the humanities PhD

By Paul Yachnin. “It is important for the humanities to take back the word ‘skills’ so that it can incite PhD programs to turn outward toward the world. That is why I want to make a case for the particular value of public skills.” More...

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15 mars 2015

The campus food revolution

By Diane Peters. When students and administrators join resources to improve the food on campus, cafeteria is no longer a dirty word. More...

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