Research
Academics, industry and government have joined together, setting the stage for Canada to become a research and development powerhouse in AI.
The site’s readership and content have expanded over the years, now reaching an average of 40,000 visits per month.
Academia has been slow to embrace podcasting, but these shows and their hosts are proving the form has much to offer.
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.
Those absent-minded scribbles may actually help you to process information and tap into your creativity.
Jonathan Thon recently had the opportunity to participate in a working group that reviewed the National Institutes of Health’s foray into translational research funding.
Mona Nemer, biochemistry professor and recent vice-president of research at the University of Ottawa, takes the helm.
Does starting up your own company hurt your academic career? Jonathan Thon says no, it actually has the opposite effect.
The city’s two universities create new research chairs related to cannabis.
The new station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, will study Arctic issues including climate change.
We advocate for a harmonized intellectual property policy based on the creator-owned model.
The project aims to attract companies devoted to green technologies and renewable resources.
The U of Ottawa biophysicist, whose daring research has attracted worldwide attention, values creativity above all else.
“We need to believe in ourselves and what we do, and convince others of its importance.”
The recently announced awards from the Trans-Atlantic Platform support projects across the disciplinary spectrum.
Quebec’s chief scientist, Rémi Quirion, talks about the effect of knowledge on society and his role as a “cheerleader” for research.
A funny thing happened when four writers were tasked with creating poems on demand at a higher-ed conference in Ottawa.
Looking at ways to stop Canadians from becoming radicalized.
An expat explains how a temporary leave to study in the U.K. turned into a life abroad – and what the government could do to bring him back.
Researchers are discovering that the microbes in the human gut don’t just aid digestion, but likely play important roles in the development and regulation of many diseases.