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BY MARK CARDWELL | JAN 25 2012

Annual contest invites architecture students to design ice-and-snow-themed suites.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | JAN 18 2012

Competition for the best students and grade inflation prompt changes in the way some universities assess student applicants.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | JAN 09 2012

A Université de Montréal researcher suggests autism can be an advantage in some spheres.

BY TIM JOHNSON | JAN 09 2012

Canadian researchers are working to create tools that can determine how long a senior is still safe behind the wheel.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | JAN 09 2012

Trinity Western students call the Booth Mansion home while interning in Ottawa.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | JAN 09 2012

Neither wind, nor rain – but maybe ice – will keep Root Gorelick from his appointed rounds.

BY SHELDON GORDON | JAN 09 2012

A few years ago, when the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir saw its attendance stagnate and its subscriptions fall, the vocal ensemble asked a quartet of MBA students at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management for advice on a turnaround. “We did a deep-dive examination of their customer base and found the subscribers were mostly […]

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | JAN 09 2012

UQAM professor the first to hold this position.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | JAN 09 2012

It’s no secret that the Web has facilitated the distribution of and access to child pornography, with the United Nations estimating that more than four million websites worldwide contain pornographic material involving children. Researchers at Simon Fraser University’s International Cybercrime Research Centre have developed a special web crawler that they hope will help to track […]

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | DEC 06 2011

Federal funding won’t be available to faculty, administrations.

BY JENNIFER ALLFORD | DEC 05 2011

The first cohort of U of Calgary’s vet students spend their final year in the field.

BY CHRISTINA CHANT | DEC 05 2011

Research study finds personal concerns like job preparedness are the main motivations for students going abroad to volunteer.

BY HANNAH HOAG | DEC 05 2011

Free access to all data will provide the best care for patients, says Cochrane Collaboration.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | DEC 05 2011

Perhaps it was his deep baritone that helped former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney with his political career.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | DEC 05 2011

Contest compels participants to explain their thesis through interpretive dance.

BY KRISTEN WRIGHT | DEC 05 2011

Rabi Sun wants people to know what the University of British Columbia looks like. Not what its buildings look like, or what the statistics say it looks like, but how it looks through the faces of the people who go there. Since he started at UBC as a first-year student in political science in 2009, […]

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | NOV 30 2011

The real question, said panelists at the Canadian Science Policy Conference, is how to better prepare graduates for life outside academe.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | NOV 30 2011

Release of new rules catches universities by surprise.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | NOV 30 2011

A new program is being offered to retirees to think about the meaning of their lives and to develop a life project.

BY KRISTEN WRIGHT | NOV 28 2011

Program targets first-generation students.