April 10, 2013 3:02 pm
The team of 11 flew into Houston on April 4 only to be hit with the news that their car was caught up in customs — an issue which, two days of phone calls later, led to their inability to compete.
April 8, 2013 5:52 pm
Minister of Enterprise and Advanced Education Thomas Lukaszuk and President Indira Samarasekera will be meeting on April 11 to discuss the draft letter of expectation and outline the revisions that will be implemented in order to draft a definitive letter of expectation.
April 8, 2013 5:44 pm
Webber and his colleagues developed an experiment involving university undergraduate students where they tested the students’ propensity to kill insects depending on three distinct conditions: the presence of social validation, social invalidation or no support or disagreement at all
April 2, 2013 1:50 pm
Two weeks after the release of a provincial budget that shocked Alberta’s post-secondary education system, the Ministry of Enterprise and Advanced Education has released letters of expectation to the province’s 26 institutions.
April 2, 2013 1:35 pm
Hongbo Zeng, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering, has dedicated his work to mussels ever since he was a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz has just released a new collection of short stories titled This Is How You Lose Her, which he read from at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) last weekend. The Strand sat down with him to discuss his new work.
I didn’t think much of you the first time we met. I was young and ignorant and you were just amongst the other 26 letters hidden somewhere in the middle, quiet and passive. I apologize now for the way I neglected you. Remembering all of those hours wasted with vowels — those damn popular vowels.
In October 2011, 85 per cent of students who voted said yes to a redistribution of $10.35 from their tuition to help fund and support a new radio station. Despite an attempt to reclaim the 88.1 FM frequency, which included what Ryerson President Sheldon Levy called “a huge amount of work,” Radio Ryerson lost the bid.