Picture a scenario in which one student in a lab designs and carries out a set of experiments while another does the data analysis, and the two write up…
In the summer of 2017, Canadian Science Publishing welcomed Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering to its journal portfolio, with Dr. Marius Paraschivoiu of Concordia University appointed…
During my Master’s degree, I spent nearly the whole first year testing a new experimental set-up for growing sterile fungal cultures. After an enormous amount of work, the new…
One of Canadian Science Publishing’s longstanding journals, Genome, is welcoming a new editor: Dr. Lewis Lukens from the University of Guelph. Dr. Lukens’s research focuses on bioinformatics and quantitative…
Workplace conflict is a factor in most people’s jobs, including scientific researchers. In a research lab or at a field site, however, mild conflicts can be intensified by demanding…
On Thursday, December 8th, the federal government announced that Viola Desmond was chosen and thus would be the new face on the Canadian $10 bill in 2018. In 1946, Desmond’s stand…
It’s the moment almost everyone who completes a PhD both dreads and looks ahead to for years—the defence. It signals a major achievement, but in people’s imaginations, it can…
If you’re in the academic job market these days, or plan to be in the future, you’ve probably given some thought to setting up your own website or been…
Attending grad school is expensive and can mean heading into the working world with student debt that follows you around for years afterward. One way to minimize this problem…
The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and the temperature is slowly rising. That can only mean one thing… conference season is upon us. The opportunity to…