Overcoming COVID and staying at work
There is little doubt that 2020 will be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 shutdown, when all manner of businesses and offices simply closed their doors while everyone stayed...
Read More >>LGBTQ+ STEM Conference
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2SLGBTQ+ and ally CIC members James Gauld, John Hayward, Tricia Carmichael, and Marcus Drover at the University of Windsor are involved in organizing the LGBTQ+ STEM Conference, which will be...
Read More >>For graduate students, locked down can mean locked out
Ambitious students may regard graduate school as a dream come true, but for many of them, COVID19 has turned it into a nightmare. The pandemic has physically isolated them from...
Read More >>Going global
Two Canadian doctoral students in chemistry are looking forward to sharing their experiences and ideas with counterparts from around the world as delegates to the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN)....
Read More >>Marking milestones in systems and control
According to Bhushan Gopaluni, Associate Dean of Education and Professional Development in the University of British Columbia’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, we now enjoy an embarrassment of riches...
Read More >>Rallying for resources
Statistics Canada reports that about a quarter of the Canadian population holds some kind of post-secondary degree but for members of the country’s Indigenous community, that figure drops to just...
Read More >>Global pandemic spawns global classrooms
Like so many educators around the world, I’ve spent more time than usual this summer thinking about what September would bring. Unlike March 2020, when we were engaged in a...
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