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Instructors recreate campus laboratories and class field trips with at-home lab kits.

With self-isolation now successfully completed for most students, it’s time to see what the new campus life will look like.

On their way to graduation, PhD students become converts to the Church of Knowledge. But this secular church is in need of reformation.

Now mostly admired for their aesthetics, university clock towers were originally erected to reinforce the concept of an orderly sense of learning and to help students get to class on time.

A vice-provost, student affairs, and an incoming first-year student sit down to talk about the student experience during a pandemic.

Public health communicators, they say, need to show humility, admit what they don’t know, and most importantly foster a two-way dialogue.

Students will again venture the globe one day as part of their education, and when they do universities must be ready to assist them when things don’t go as planned.

As research ramps ups dramatically due to COVID-19, some researchers say we need to do better to keep the knowledge, and develop the downstream products, here.

Remote teaching, half-empty residences and virtual orientations will mark this year’s return for most students.

Rates of domestic violence and violence against women have been on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, and researchers are moving quickly to support survivors stuck at home.

As COVID-19 began to spread around the globe, so too did a toxic brew of rumours, misinformation and conspiracy theories.

The York assistant professor and author of From the Ashes says he has a responsibility to those who suffer from addiction, and to his former self, to tell his story of homelessness and redemption.

Struggling to juggle myriad responsibilities, “the easiest thing to put off … is research,” says one professor.

Students at OCAD University found creative ways to complete final projects from home.

Seven academics reflect on the moment they realized the world had changed.

“We’re witnessing the disappearance of history,” says one expert.

The Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital is pioneering an open-science model that could change the way medical research is conducted across the globe.

This May, Yukon College officially became Yukon University. The journey to becoming Canada’s first university north of the 60th parallel has been more than 45 years in the making.

The scholar’s latest book is not only the culmination of a career spent examining the ethics of biotechnology, it’s a call to action for the rest of us get in on the conversation.

Among their many efforts, students are collecting much-needed protective equipment, aiding frontline workers and assisting with contact tracing.