Recently added articles from University Affairs:
How to prepare a teaching dossier
Dec 01, 2009; ... Once considered little more than an interesting project for particularly motivated instructors, teaching dossiers have over the last half-decade graduated to the academic mainstream. Postsecondary institutions of all shapes and sizes now require professors to submit dossiers as part of their ...
A good life
Dec 01, 2009; ... On the evening of the first day of the 2009 fall term my friend and colleague Sue died of metastatic breast cancer. Dr. Sue Hendler was a faculty member in the school of urban and regional planning at Queen's University. For several years she also led the department of women's studies, laying ...
Fresh thinking on methodology
Dec 01, 2009; ... Fresh thinking on methodology Who says epistemology in the social sciences has to be dull? Writing a doctoral thesis in the social sciences is as much about methodology as it is about investigating a phenomenon in a specific field, whatever the topic or the disciplines. Graduate ...
PEOPLE/QUE FONT-ILS?
Dec 01, 2009; ... Patrick Deane will be the next president of McMaster University for a five-year term that begins July 1,2010. He is currently the vice-principal, aca- demic, at Queen's University. Dr. Deane was born and raised in South Africa. He immigrated to Canada in 1978 and studied English literature at ...
New science media centre for Canada
Dec 01, 2009; ... by Peggy Berkowitz A huge debate erupted 10 years ago in the United Kingdom about genetically modified foods. "Frankenstein Foods Kill," shrieked the frontpage of a London tabloid, accompanied by an image of then prime minister Tony Blair as Frankenstein. Crop scientists in the U.K ....