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The University of Alberta is offering a full-service residence package for self-isolating staff and students. Throughout the pandemic, federal emergency orders have required anyone travelling to Canada to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival. For those who find themselves without a safe and private place to stay for two weeks, or contacts who can run […]

With the unveiling of its website on September 4, the National Black Graduate Network officially starts its work to connect and support Black graduate students across Canada. Graduate studies can be a challenging, disconnected and isolating experience for Black students, according to two of the founders of a new graduate student group. PhD students Jamilah

We are publishing regular updates on the situation facing Canada’s universities with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. Editor’s note: please check back regularly for more updates. August 28, 2020 New measures on work permit eligibility for international students Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced new measures on Wednesday to add more flexibility to post-graduation work

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. Sachdev Sidhu believes the engineered proteins he’s helped to develop could treat COVID-19 by stopping the virus from replicating in an already infected person. The University of Toronto professor

With traditional university sports leagues on hiatus, will 2020-21 be the year of collegiate eSports? U Sports has cancelled fall championships. Canada West, Ontario University Athletics and Atlantic University Sport have all suspended most matches until 2021. With traditional university sport on a pandemic-related hiatus for much of the school year, collegiate eSports are having

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. Ask anyone who works in the field of gender-based violence (GBV) and you’ll hear this oft-cited and horrifying statistic: a woman is killed by her intimate partner

They’ll alert you if you’ve been in close contact with an infected individual, explains U of T’s Emily Seto, but there remain many challenges to their widespread adoption. Across the world, governments are asking citizens to install tracing apps on their cellphones to stop the spread of COVID-19. The apps alert users if they’ve been

The paper published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education reveals a range of approaches and offers suggestions for improvement. Sarah Forgie was working as vice-provost, learning initiatives, at the University of Alberta – a portfolio that includes a focus on faculty teaching awards – when her curiosity got the better of her. Designed to

Scientific publishing is experiencing major changes these days, with increased production of scientific data, open-access publications and online prepublication. Can these changes last? Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been an explosion in the production of scientific articles and data. Publishers have geared up to publish content at an unprecedented rate, and to

The new curriculum has also been adapted to address risks associated with COVID-19. University of Toronto researchers aim to equip doctors with the knowledge and tools to better care for LGBTQ+ patients, as COVID-19 further widens health inequities. “Queer Canadians live shorter, less healthier lives than cisgender, heterosexual Canadians,” says U of T researcher Miranda