Have you ever wanted to have dinner with a scientist? Ask questions about Canada鈥檚 laser radar on NASA's 2007 Phoenix mission to Mars, the role of human genomes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the consequences of dwindling fossil fuels or perhaps how biochemical pathways affect obesity? The Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the […]
Everything changed for finance sage Moshe Milevsky 鈥 and every other investor 鈥 when the economy tanked in 2008. His financial net聽worth fell 50 per cent and he hadn鈥檛 seen it coming. What a shock for the author of advice books on smart investing and the three-time winner of聽The Globe and Mail鈥檚 annual stock-picking competition. […]
Sitting at a quiet table in the National Archives in London earlier this year, Canadian graduate student Julia Gaffield (MA 鈥07) opened a bound book of documents from 1804 and unearthed the only known printed copy of Haiti鈥檚 Declaration of Independence, wrote The Globe and Mail April 2: 鈥淚 was surrounded by complete strangers who […]
Rishma Dunlop, associate professor in the Department of English and the Faculty of Education, is a finalist for the 2009 CBC Literary Awards. Dunlop鈥檚 鈥淧aris Notebook鈥 is competing in the creative non-fiction category. Eighty English-language finalists were chosen out of 6,000 submissions in three categories聽鈥 creative non-fiction, poetry and short story. The winner in each […]