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L'ACPPU a octroyé la bourse commémorative J.H. Stewart Reid de 2004 à Chris Cutler, étudiant inscrit au doctorat de l'Université de Guelph. L'ACPPU lui a remis la bourse de 5 000 $ pour ses travaux sur le développement de l'agriculture […]

Selon une récente étude de la Commission de l'enseignement supérieur des Provinces maritimes (CESPM), l'augmentation des frais de scolarité et la hausse des niveaux d'endettement diminuent les chances d'un plus grand nombre d'étudiants qualifiés dans les Maritimes de poursuivre des […]

100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces Merna Forster. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004; 320 pp; ISBN: 1-55002-514-7; paper $24.99 CA. "If you've never heard of Helen McNicoll, you're not alone." So begins one of Forster's biographies - compact, powerful and […]

Facing financial hardships as a private university, Augustana University College in Camrose has inked a deal to merge into the University of Alberta. Under the plan, finalized in July, the Alberta government will pay $12 million over three years to […]

Prime Minister Paul Martin was elected on a promise to fix health care for a generation. The medicare deal struck in September between Ottawa and the provinces stipulates that over the next 10 years there will be $41 billion in […]

Deux professeurs du département d'anthropologie de l'Université du Manitoba sont décédés d'une forme rare et fatale de cancer, le mésothéliome. Ce que l'on connaît du mésothéliome, c'est sa cause : l'exposition à l'amiante. Étant donné que ce matériau règne au […]

A mathematics professor at the University of Alberta had a rude awakening recently while traveling to a conference in Chicago. James Lewis arrived at the Edmonton airport Sept. 15 with an electronic ticket and tried to get his boarding pass […]

First Nations students in Canada are protesting changes to federal tax rules that may soon require them to pay income tax on scholarships and bursaries they receive to attend a university or college. "Post-secondary education has been determined to be […]

Former Ontario premier Bob Rae's post-secondary education review has been launched with a discussion paper that describes a system "in serious jeopardy" because the province's colleges and universities have been starved for funding. The discussion paper presents a sharply worded […]

The University of Manitoba's anthropology department has lost two members of its academic staff to a rare and fatal form of cancer - mesothelioma. One thing known about mesothelioma is its cause - exposure to asbestos. Since many of our […]

You have probably never been called "Professor Pregnant." I have. A pregnant faculty body was an oddity back in the 1970s. Who would have guessed that combining an academic career with children would remain so fraught with obstacles a generation […]

Chris Cutler, a PhD student at the University of Guelph, has been awarded CAUT's 2004 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. CAUT presented the $5,000 scholarship to Cutler for his work on the development of environmentally sound and sustainable agriculture through […]