Monthly Archives: January 2011

What’s with the Borg and Quest University?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Ghoussoub

Remember “Quest University? “Canada’s first independent, not-for-profit, nonsectarian university of the liberal arts and sciences”. Known to most of us as the private university in Squamish, BC, founded by UBC’s former President David Strangway? Current enrollment: 300 undergraduate students. Tuition … Continue reading →

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What do these 3 new NSERC programs have in common?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Ghoussoub

Take a guess. Answers and more will be given tomorrow. See attached presentation below, to get the full shpeel.

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Upcoming “Pieces of Mind”

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Ghoussoub

Here are some of the issues I will be posting on in the next few weeks. Please chip in if you will. More on how you can help us inform the academic community, follows at the bottom of the post.

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Empowering knowledge and informed consent

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Ghoussoub

Grant selection seasons bring forward dozens of individual complaints from disappointed applicants in every province in Canada, yet the task of looking at the global picture and at the real causes for these often regrettable situations, is often taken up … Continue reading →

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A happy new year built on informed consent

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Ghoussoub

Let it be a year where “the unrestricted flow of information is again seen as the life of democracies”, and — I may add– of strong national and international institutions. No, I am not talking Wikileaks, but about more mundane … Continue reading →

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