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BY ANQI SHEN | OCT 26 2017

Universities Canada members voted to uphold seven “inclusive excellence” principles and to undertake an action plan from 2017 to 2022.

BY PASCALE CASTONGUAY | OCT 23 2017

Despite all the excitement around the Ontario government’s promise to create a French-language university, questions remain concerning the proposed form.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | OCT 18 2017

A plaque commemorating that historic moment was unveiled in September.

BY JENNIFER GOUCHIE-TERRIS | OCT 16 2017

New position announced at an Association of Atlantic Universities’ conference on mental health held at Mount Allison University.

BY ANQI SHEN | OCT 10 2017

An advocate for legalizing and regulating drugs, Donald MacPherson is the winner of this year’s Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy at Simon Fraser University.

BY ANQI SHEN | OCT 06 2017

A partnership between the Mastercard Foundation, Rideau Hall Foundation, Vancouver Island University and Yukon College has ambitious aims.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | OCT 05 2017

A 14-metre stretch of sidewalk will soon power an entire office.

BY WENDY GLAUSER | OCT 04 2017

The Tri-Council funding agencies have announced that a redesign of the CCV is underway.

BY ANQI SHEN | OCT 03 2017

The craft of repairing and customizing lab equipment passes from one generation to the next at Brock.

BY ANQI SHEN | SEP 27 2017

Mona Nemer, biochemistry professor and recent vice-president of research at the University of Ottawa, takes the helm.

BY ANQI SHEN | SEP 25 2017

A university president, foundation executive, Canada Research Chair holder and a Vanier scholar weigh in on the Naylor report’s recommendations.

BY BRIAN OWENS | SEP 22 2017

The city’s two universities create new research chairs related to cannabis.

BY SARA HAROWITZ | SEP 20 2017

New UBC residence is world’s tallest wood building.

BY HANNAH HOAG | SEP 19 2017

The new station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, will study Arctic issues including climate change.

BY MARK CARDWELL | SEP 13 2017

The project aims to attract companies devoted to green technologies and renewable resources.

BY ANQI SHEN | SEP 13 2017

The online resource will offer advice on the job search process with attention to specific challenges transgender applicants face.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | SEP 06 2017

10 questions for universities developing a coordinated response to suicide in their campus community.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | SEP 05 2017

Institutions are required to submit action plans by year’s end and are expected to meet their diversity targets by December 2019.

BY ETERNITY MARTIS | SEP 01 2017

Art historian Charmaine Nelson, who specializes in the history of slave ads, is this year’s William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies at the U.S. university.

BY ANQI SHEN | AUG 31 2017

Artists, filmmakers and communities are bringing little-known events in Canadian history to a national audience.