In July 2024, Nada, a Palestinian student living in the Gaza Strip, was admitted as a master’s student in the transportation and environmental engineering program at the University of Calgary. She has ...

Twice now, the small speakers’ series I co-host online has been “Zoom-bombed.” The series focuses on reproductive politics and has been running for a few years — a holdover from the proliferation of ...

As U.S. tariffs push Canadians to “build strength at home,” university students are facing some of the highest unemployment rates in more than a decade. Now that the 2025 federal budget has allocated ...

Convocation speeches hit differently this spring. The words of wisdom traditionally imparted to graduates often felt more like battle cries. University leaders are keenly aware of the creep of ...

Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention? Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Gregory: The dog did nothing in ...

A pilot project by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to identify and minimize national security risks in federally funded research will soon roll out at all federal ...

Recently, researchers have noted the need for going beyond a focus on research as the main training element of graduate programs, and the necessity of including teaching skills for graduate students ...

It would be interesting to have some data on the demographics among the ever-growing number of directors, diversity and inclusion. My bet is that few are white, over 50 and male. A new unfair ...

La ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur du Québec, Danielle McCann, a déposé le 6 avril dernier le projet de loi 32 visant à protéger la liberté académique universitaire. Photo par La Presse ...

One of the largest gatherings of scholars in the country will be moving online this year. Thousands of Congress 2021 attendees will not be flying or driving across Canada to the University of Alberta.

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, signed by the three major research councils and many Canadian universities, calls for the need “to improve methods of assessing [academic] ...