research funding

Universities from some provinces outperform in Leiden Ranking

How do you tell the difference? Science-ish has six red flags to watch for

The reasons may surprise you

Should government funding go to lab coats or white collars?

Grad student calls Holocaust education `racist`

University scrambles to clean up its handling of federal research grants.

Finance committee sticks to economic role of universities–research “must be commercialized”

Fed’s latest choice for CIHR governing council in conflict of interest

Why some schools don’t want a Big Five monopoly on research

At the top levels of international science research, Canada punches way below its weight, says U of T pres

But if the story in today’s Globe and Mail had come out just a few hours earlier, we probably would have paid considerably more attention to what the PM’s pointminister on science and technology had to say to the crowd during the NSERC research awards last night at the Chateau Laurier last night.

Note to newly ascended junior cabinet minister Gary Goodyear and staff: it’s rarely a good sign when a Globe and Mail story about a recent meeting with representatives of one of your core client constituencies begins with the words “the screaming erupted” and ends with you “storming out” as they flee your office without even pausing to retrieve their coats: