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A look back at some of Spring’s convocation speeches at Canadian universities.
Why Canadian universities need to better support scholar-innovators to catalyze academic entrepreneurship. Who’s afraid of ...
Today’s professors are mentors, public intellectuals, grant writers, collaborators, and increasingly, entrepreneurs. They ...
Quebec’s first chief scientist, Rémi Quirion, looks back on his career and the challenges awaiting his successor.
Scholarship has shown that memes are not just flashy novelties. A recent study in ScienceDirect found that when students ...
IDRA scholarship recipient Kenneth Gyamerah worked with teachers to bring traditional knowledge into science and technology ...
Defenders of democratic debate are rising to meet the challenges of ideological polarization, governmental interference, and underfunding of academic institutions.
Held before an attentive Toronto audience, the intense conversation doubled as a warning. For Marc Spooner, professor of ...
There are many ways in which modern culture has moved away from organized religion, but one vestige of it that remains in the academy is the concept of the sabbatical. Based on the biblical idea of ...
International Development Research Award winner Ria Jhoanna Ducusin spent more than a year in coastal cities in the Philippines, studying how communities cope with flooding. A PhD candidate in ...
Tumultuous diplomatic relations with the United States have heightened tensions and scrutiny at the U.S. border as the second administration of President Donald Trump cracks down on immigration and ...