Artificial Intelligence

Outcry against animal research

Leads to new test subjects

animal research, engineering students, animal rights

Read about it here: Against animal research at UBC

The dangers of living in residence

Universities facing bedbug infestations

residence, bedbug, university

See the original story here

The ‘legal’ way to protest on campus

How to take a stand… without getting arrested.

Carleton, protest, pro-lifers, Carleton Lifeline

Carleton pro-lifers arrested

Pro-life students at Carleton University arrested

Laptops in the classroom

Facebook doesn’t belong in lecture halls

Are laptop-users ignoring their professors or just multitasking?

Facebook, laptops in the classroom

New flu on campus

What your doctor didn’t learn in med school

Does the MCAT discriminate against francophones?

No French equivalent exists, and translating the exam is ‘too complicated’

Related news:

McGill dropping the MCAT

Original story from the Montreal Gazette

Also see:

McGill wants ‘non-traditional’ medical students

UVic plans to ‘cull’ rabbits on campus

Aims to create ‘rabbit-free zone’ around the university by trapping and euthanizing the animals

Academica’s Top Ten

CBC News

Accepted, and then rejected

U of T mistakenly sent acceptance email to dozens of grad school hopefuls, cites ‘administrative error.’

http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/04/15/on-second-thought-we-dont-want-you/

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/04/13/13570401.html

Why do professors hate Wikipedia so much?

They have history.

Now that the Olympics are over…

Out of work? It’s never too late to go back to school.

The problem with RateMyProfessor.com

It doesn’t tell you anything about your classmates.

When your course load gets too heavy…

…there’s a solution

heavy textbooks

Course selection 101

Harold scores a bobo class

bobo course

How to survive exam period- with great marks

That was easy.

Easy Button

Finding the perfect cup of coffee…

…through trial and error

Starbucks

Facebook holds first-years hostage

British college uses Facebook as a retention tool, claims a “significant improvement in retention”

Facebook

Read the full story at the BBC

Also on Academica’s Top Ten


Get to know your sciences

…including the oddball of the group

Chemistry

The secret to lab success

Find the perfect lab partner

The Lab Goblin

September: the ultimate party crasher

Who invited him?

September is here

No secrets in cyberspace

Yet another career ruined by Facebook

Darth Vader