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For children, the summer holiday transition back to school can be difficult to navigate with shifting back to earlier bedtimes and wake-up times and a return to busy daily routines. Research shows that insufficient sleep can negatively affect concentration, memory, decision-making, emotional regulation, and academic performance. Healthy sleep is an essential, yet often overlooked, pillar of stude...

Summers in Canada are increasingly bringing bigger and bolder wildfires, with the current fires in British Columbia (B.C) leading to a provincial state of emergency that has seen over 20,000 people evacuated, air quality warnings, dry lightning and pyro-cumulonimbus (fire) clouds.

The Collège des chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone (CCRMF) has reached a new milestone in its role as a leader in research conducted in French and on Francophone communities in Canada and internationally: it has created four new research chairs.

This summer, the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI)’s Centre for Language Learning welcomed a delegation of 15 professors from the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (UNAB), Colombia, as part of its Teaching Immersion and English Refinement (TIER) program.

Academic experts available to comment on: The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement

This article is the second in a series of profiles of master’s in Bilingualism Studies student-researchers. Ana Carolina Muñoz Cruz holds a bachelor’s in foreign language teaching (teaching English and French as a second language) from the University of Antioquia, in Colombia. For her master’s, she chose the thesis option.

This is the last in a series of three articles about young OLBI student researchers studying in the Master of Arts in Bilingualism Studies.

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Researchers say two more large calving events are likely

Scientists have demonstrated that sunlight, as a natural light source, can generate quantum-entangled photon pairs. With their findings, the international research team challenges the long-held assumption that lasers are indispensable for pre-paring quantum states of light. The study recently published in Optica opens a path toward new sustainable and energy-efficient photonic quantum technologies...