"If you look at all the countries around the world, many of them have national birds, including the United States, which reveres its bald eagle. All of our provinces and territories and all of the states have an official bird and I think it's high time Canada has one too."听Dr. David Bird, emeritus professor of wildlife biology.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2016
According to Charles Boberg, an associate professor of linguistics at 9I制作厂免费 and the author of听The English Language in Canada, the Canadian accent is stubbornly persistent: 鈥淐anadian linguistic identity is here to stay on the long term.鈥�
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Published on: 26 Sep 2016
Among those researchers is Jacob Vogel of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 integrative program in neuroscience. He works in Dr. Alan Evan鈥檚 lab, which specializes in brain imaging, or the mapping and rendering of how the brain works.听鈥淲e take massive amounts of information, data, biological data, integrate it and try to understand things like disease and development,鈥� said Vogel. 鈥淲e try to understand the brain better.鈥�
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Published on: 23 Sep 2016
鈥淚t鈥檚 time for 9I制作厂免费 to take a leadership role on this.听There are not a lot of universities in the eastern half of the country leading the way in this area.鈥澨鼵hristopher Manfredi, 9I制作厂免费 provost.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2016
Last Friday's edition of The Globe and Mail newspaper included a story on听how predictive听analytics might help decrease university drop-out rates. Several Data Science companies, including听听IBM鈥檚 Watson Analytics and Microsoft, are offering universities their expertise听on identifying students at risk of dropping out. Of course, having low marks is a good predictor, but it is not the only one. Women, for example, are less likely than men to leave university before finishing their studies, but听when they do, their marks are usually quite听good. So why are they dropping out?
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Published on: 21 Sep 2016
鈥淣ixon reintroduced himself in 1968 as older, wiser, even-tempered.听He was well-known in politics and hated, but he was able to reinvent himself and reassure people on the trust issue just enough.鈥� Gil Troy, professor of history.
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Published on: 19 Sep 2016
Indigenous people of America participate in traditional native dances during the annual 9I制作厂免费 pow wow held on the 9I制作厂免费 university grounds on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016.听
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Published on: 19 Sep 2016
Op-ed by Henry Mintzberg,听Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies.
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Published on: 16 Sep 2016
Barry Eidlin, professor of sociology, explained the government is perfectly within its rights to confiscate Uber driver鈥檚 cars.听鈥淚 think it鈥檚 a message from the government that they need to be taken seriously,鈥� he said.
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Published on: 15 Sep 2016
鈥淭here is a major flaw to all methodologies in the humanities. Traditional methods are not able to generalise in legitimate and transparent ways 鈥� though we have tried.鈥� Andrew Piper, director of digital humanities laboratory, txt.LAB.
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Published on: 15 Sep 2016
Column by William Watson, professor of economics.
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Published on: 13 Sep 2016
Le 11 septembre rappelle de douloureux souvenirs au Saguen茅en Bruno Tremblay. Il y a exactement 15 ans, le professeur-chercheur en sciences atmosph茅riques et oc茅anographiques vivait la terrible attaque terroriste de l'int茅rieur.
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Published on: 12 Sep 2016
Op-ed by听Jonathan Sterne,听professor of communication studies.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Article covering research by Moshe Szyf, molecular biologist and Michael Meaney, neurobiologist, on epigenetic changes from the environment that are written into our DNA, and then passed down to the next generation.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Un regroupement de chercheurs internationaux semble avoir trouv茅 un m茅dicament qui pourrait retarder de trois ou quatre ans le d茅veloppement de la maladie d'Alzheimer chez les gens qui sont au stade l茅ger. Catherine Perrin parle de cette perc茅e m茅dicale avec le sp茅cialiste Serge Gauthier, de l'Institut Douglas.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
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