University of Calgary president and vice-chancellor Elizabeth Cannon, who also chairs Universities Canada, is helping nurture closer ties between the scientific community and Ottawa’s elected MPs. When Elizabeth Cannon joined...
Read More >>Occupational safety aims at avoiding workplace injuries and ensuring a safe and healthy work environment. It utilizes rules, training and personal protective equipment to achieve that goal. It is an...
Read More >>Particulate matter holds special interest for atmospheric chemist Graydon Snider, who is not only a Dalhousie University postdoctoral fellow but a competitive long-distance runner. Last summer, Dalhousie University’s Graydon Snider...
Read More >>In the early 1980s, the world became aware of a viral disease that was causing a number of rare diseases among a variety of groups, including intravenous drug users, homosexual...
Read More >>Ron Freedman contemplates reform of the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program, which hands out $4 billion in tax credits annually to companies undertaking R&D. In the research and development...
Read More >>Fossil carbons — coal, oil, and natural gas — have become a mainstay of modern life. Their principal advantage is they are readily converted into energy (heat and electricity), transportation...
Read More >>Annicia Phu sports a cauliflower ear, a souvenir from her years as a competitive wrestler in high school in Calgary. Jammed fingers and bruises were also commonplace — not only...
Read More >>In my previous column, I wrote that inventors are generally free to exploit their invention as a result of the state-granted monopoly that patents guarantee. In the field of medicine,...
Read More >>B A. Shawinigan Ltd. may have taken creative liberties with our nation’s iconic beaver, depicting it as a dual-toned animal with a penchant for hard hats, but it was still...
Read More >>A rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. That’s not just an old adage, it’s a scientific fact. And it all has to do with ethylene, a gas produced internally by...
Read More >>NSERC president Mario Pinto presents a new vision for innovation and R&D in Canada. The president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC), Mario Pinto, notes proudly that he...
Read More >>Industrial accidents continue to plague workers in Canada. From 2011 to 2013, there was an average of 250 deaths per year in two key combined categories: mining, quarrying and oil...
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