Scholarship name: The Undergraduate Awards Sponsored by: The Undergraduate Awards Deadline: June 13, 2017 Potential payout: Prestige, publication, networking, and a chance for a trip to the UA Global Summit in Dublin, Ireland. Eligibility restriction: Must be graduating from an undergraduate degree in 2017 or 2018, or have graduated in 2016. What’s required: An abstract… Read more »
The myAU portal is the gateway to AU studies, yet It’s often rushed through on the way to course pages. Indeed, if you bookmark your course homepage, you can skip the portal almost completely. Yet, there’s a wealth of info at the portal gates, and even more on the student homepage that follows the login… Read more »
Last weekend a couple of things of note happened. The first, which You’re more likely aware of, is that the federal Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) chose a new leader. I noted in previous columns how with the wealth of candidates up on offer, and the widely varying ranges of positions held by those candidates,… Read more »
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Recent events have me wondering about my definition of terrorism. I’m not talking about the bombing that took place in Manchester. That one’s obvious. And terrible. But the best reporting I saw on the issue came from WIRED, where they essentially said, “stop talking about it on social media.” This makes a lot of sense…. Read more »
Dear Barb: My mother has been struggling with heart failure for years and recently took a turn for the worse. She can’t do much of anything. I am the only one of her children that lives nearby so the responsibility for her care is falling on me. I’m okay with that, but my husband is… Read more »
Next time you have your house clean and your life is a placid sea of tranquil serenity, have your grandkids over for a sleepover. Both will soon implode before your startled eyes. Especially if It’s a multi-day weekend because of a school PD day. Especially if the Oilers are in the playoffs and a certain… Read more »
It is so easy to look at someone successful and forget about the struggles they went through to get there. With convocation upon us, my Social Media feeds are beginning to fill with speeches from various graduations, some recent, some not so recent. Some I haven’t seen before, and some I have seen many times…. Read more »
You want fries with that diploma? Ontario students can skip class for the first year of their business program if they opt for on-the-job training from McDonald’s. According to this Globe and Mail article, McDonald’s training is now a path to a college diploma, the burger giant and Colleges Ontario have negotiated a deal which… Read more »
Dr. Giuliana Tesoro was born on June 1, 1921, in Venice, Italy, and died September 29, 2002, in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She was an accomplished chemist with more than 125 U.S. patents, but is most famous for inventing fire-retardant fabrics. In 1943, Dr. Tesoro received her PhD in organic chemistry. Following her graduation, she… Read more »