Research

International PhD candidates are flocking to Canada because the country is seen as still valuing the humanities.

The platform has gained new members and is getting ready to launch La Conversation Canada en français.

Although women make up the majority of university graduates, they remain underrepresented in academia.

Seed banks are helping researchers resurrect plants from the past and create crops for the future.

Ebola researcher Gary Kobinger, a 20-year-old research team and an assistive-technologies pioneer are among those being honoured.

The City of Montreal has partnered with university researchers in a major project to decontaminate an old industrial site through vegetation.

Interactive website features videos, maps and plain-language explanations to bring home the reality of climate change to Canadian communities.

Science communication is becoming more and more important to emerging researchers.

The community is eager to track the wide-ranging social, economic and health impacts of this historic shift in public policy.

The initiative will feature three co-chairs with different specialties from three separate universities.

These committees review and provide input into scientific endeavors, but perhaps the merit of a project should also be assessed by how difficult it is to assemble this panel of experts.

An increasing number of people aren’t getting enough sleep, and researchers are trying to figure out how to help.

Students in a prison law clinical course offered by Queen’s University help federal inmates with legal grievances.

Researchers from various disciplines are seeking not to debunk strange events, but rather to understand how people engage with them, and what this reveals about the human experience.

Where the plan goes off track is the system-wide metrics it uses to assess research excellence and impact.

With the shut-down scheduled for March, a group of researchers is lobbying the government to fund foreign facilities, or risk losing local expertise.

Equal access to information, experiences and diverse viewpoints needs to be made available to the wider scientific community.

The recently renovated museum provides “constant flow” of research participants for developmental scientists from the University of Ottawa.

First four winners will come to Canada from the U.K., New Zealand and the U.S.

Research today is about partnerships and networks to share data and ideas, and to answer the big questions that confront us.