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Gathering shares research showing even high achievers face problems in first year

Blending up fast food meals to find their fat content, programming a miniature remote-controlled Mars rover, making digital video programs – these are but a few of the activities that take place in the hundreds of science and technology programs sponsored by the national charity Actua and delivered by its 29 university and college partners. […]

Home is where … we consume a lot of energy. Residential buildings account for nearly 17 percent of energy consumption in Canada, says Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, a mechanical engineering professor at Carleton University. Lights, appliances, heaters and air conditioners produce 80 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually. Energy is also wasted in the form of heat […]

The 1995 film First Knight is not one of Cory Rushton’s all-time favourites, but the Arthurian scholar may be quietly hoping that the film attracts a big audience when it’s re-released this April in Blu-ray high-definition format. That’s because one of the special features of the new package will be a commentary track recorded by […]

Université Laval plans to create 100 new research chairs over the next five years, with $100 million in funding from public and private sources. The program, called PAIR (for Programme pour l’avancement de l’innovation et de la recherche) is the most ambitious initiative of its kind ever launched in Quebec, according to Laval’s vice-rector, research, […]

Restructured student grants program, international graduate scholarships, slight research boost among budget items

Premier Shawn Graham plans to make sweeping changes to New Brunswick’s colleges and universities as part of the province’s most ambitious review of its postsecondary system in 40 years, but he insists that these changes won’t come at the expense of some university campuses. After months of uncertainty, Mr. Graham pledged in his State of […]

Ask Lakehead University students if they’re happy with their school’s one-year-old Google-run e-mail service, and chances are you’ll get a positive response. “I love the new Lakehead gmail e-mail system,” said third-year political-science student Brianne Kirkpatrick. “Since the switch to gmail, I find it has replaced my hotmail as the e-mail of preference,” said David […]

Not long ago, Wanda McKenna, director of workplace health, benefits and pensions at McMaster University, was contacted by a department chair concerned about a colleague. The professor was spending a lot of time sitting in his office with the door closed and lights off. And students were beginning to complain about his teaching. Ms. McKenna […]

By 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, January 16, more than 700 people had gathered in front of Queen’s University’s Stauffer Library for a faculty-organized rally against racism. The day, time and location of the rally were no coincidence. Exactly eight weeks before, a faculty member on her way to teach a class was forced off a […]

Torching cars, submerging them in water – what’s next, dropping them off a bridge? It’s all in a day’s work for university researchers. The torchbearers are Simon Fraser University criminologist Gail Anderson and graduate student Stacey McCann; Ms. McCann was conducting the research for her thesis. The two set fire to three cars that contained […]

Athletics has been a priority at Simon Fraser University ever since it opened in 1965. “University sports will build student loyalty and pre-eminence on a faster basis than you get by turning out graduates,” said the school’s first chancellor, Gordon Shrum, whose name lives on in the annual Shrum Bowl football game between SFU and […]

Queen’s University is hosting a one-year pilot project that offers any Ontario post-secondary student, educator, administrator or disability service-provider a free, low-stakes, first-stop consultation and mediation service to help resolve disability-related disputes. The Post-secondary Accessibility Consulting Team (PACT) opened its doors to clients last November after five months of stakeholder consultations across the province. The […]

Engineering graduates Nilesh Patel and Corey Centen never imagined that a design project in their final year at McMaster University would have such a huge impact. Their creation, the CPRGlove, is designed to help with the tricky task of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The latex-spandex glove is equipped with sensors that tell the user how fast […]

Two University of Toronto debaters won the 2008 North American Debating Championships, beating a team from Harvard University in a rousing final debate. Jon Laxer, a first-year law student, and Jason Rogers, a first-year graduate student in economics, won the cup for Hart House, the student centre that supports most extracurricular activities at U of […]

The reviews are in: “powerful,” “evocative,” “transformative,” say those who’ve seen the Unruly Salon, a series of free public performances by artists with disabilities that’s running until the end of March at the University of British Columbia. The performances are paired with academic presentations on issues surrounding disabilities. “The performers have been fabulous, the scholars […]

Recent studies point to an urgent need for harmonized data on the Canadian postsecondary sector

During a five-week odyssey last spring that took him 26,000 km across Canada’s northern extremities, University of Toronto professor emeritus Franklyn Griffiths asked the aboriginal inhabitants how they liked having a front row seat to the great climate change drama. They told him, but the answers were not always what one might expect from popular […]

A series of newspaper articles this past fall seemed to herald the demise of the campus pub because students are generally drinking less. But that impression of widespread closures is simply not accurate, says Jeff Dockeray, the executive director of the Campus Hospitality Managers Association, a group that represents campus-based restaurant and pub operators. “You […]

The new campaign aims to have a single clear message for foreign students