Across the Board: Sustainability still key, even as COVID-19 hogs headlines
Over the past few months, COVID-19 has dominated international headlines and swung public attention from another equally pressing challenge of our times - climate change.
Waterloo researcher awarded Michael J. Fox Foundation grant
Dr. Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens, a researcher in Kinesiology and Health Sciences, is part of an international team that received $1.35 million USD from the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) for a joint project on freezing of gait (FOG)...
Experts back drive to better protect child victims
Social work experts at the University of Edinburgh have praised the initiative, which seeks to improve delivery of essential services to child victims and witnesses.
University of California Board of Regents unanimously approved changes to standardized testing requirement for...
Source: The University of California
The University of California Board of Regents unanimously approved the suspension of the standardized test requirement...
CWUR: World University Rankings 2020-21
Source: The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)
The Center for World University Rankings...
Should Artificial Intelligence make us reconceive what it means to be human?
Sure, the op-eds, poetry, and humour of early-2023 AIs aren’t all that good. But a lesson from the history of technological progress is that once you’ve got digital technologies that perform tolerably in some traditional domain of human excellence...
Lincoln Selected to Showcase Net Zero Robotic Farming at COP26
With an estimated 37% of the world's greenhouse gasses being produced by the agri-food industry, the UK Government has selected the University of Lincoln, UK, to share with COP26 its cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence...
Exercise apps a good prescription to boost healthcare workers’ mental health
Simple home workouts using exercise apps can effectively reduce depressive symptoms in healthcare workers and could be a major tool to combat the global mental health crisis in the sector, says new University of British Columbia research.
Singapore teams clinch two Gold awards in inaugural International Olympiad in AI
Two teams of students from Singapore have won Gold medals at the first-ever International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI), held at the city of Burgas in Bulgaria this year from 9 to 15 August.
Mid-way to COP29: Monash joins the international climate action community in Germany for the...
Monash was honoured to join delegates from 198 countries at the Bonn Climate Conference in Germany in preparation for COP29.
