What does management research have to do with public education? You might be surprised. Lagging performance in Brazil’s public schools led the Instituto de Co-Responsabilidade pela Educação (ICE; a Brazilian NGO) to pilot a school redesign program that included “enriching”
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On March 22, the University of Ottawa held its first Three Minute Thesis competition. Graduate students were invited to present their research to a panel of judges within a strict time limit—a second over three minutes and they would be
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John has chills, a headache and muscle pains. Last time he was ill, it took several days to get an appointment with his physician, so this time he tries another approach to get a doctor’s opinion. He fires up his
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In the famous book, Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen says to Alice, “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” It is a strangely fitting analogy for many things in biology, but
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We currently live in a society that is perpetually busy as we juggle work, studies and family life. Yet somehow, we still manage to find some time to maintain a social life on evenings and weekends. In order to accomplish
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We’ve all liked some managers and disliked others. In the latter case, we may have thought of going off and starting our own business. This can be great. To get your clients, you may need a website to attract them
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University of Ottawa professor Ilona Skerjanc is one of many experts reaching out to high school students through the Virtual Researcher On Call (VROC) program, launched in 2006 by Partners in Research, a registered Canadian charity that promotes the importance
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Ninety percent of 2-year-olds regularly watch television/DVDs/videos, with infants under 2 watching an average of 1.5 hours of video per day. These numbers are perhaps unsurprising considering the amount of visual entertainment geared towards young children. Yet, major child health
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When you are eating a salad, do you ever wonder where your vegetables come from? Not which farmers were responsible for growing them, but rather, how have these plants evolved into the vegetables we know today? What did the genomes
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