March 2008
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OCAD president joins ORANO board
Sara Diamond, President of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) and celebrated artist and new media designer, has joined the Board of Directors of the Optical Regional Advanced Network of Ontario (ORANO).
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Major Ontario survey of research technology needs
Ontario researchers and educators are being asked to participate in a major cross-discipline survey to determine the collaboration and technology needs of their academic and teaching work and research requirements now and in the coming years.
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ORION hosts fifth anniversary celebration
Research and Innovation Minister John Wilkinson will be guest of honour as members of Ontario's research and education community gathers to celebrate ORION's fifth anniversary, at a reception at the MaRS Centre later this month.
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Colleges need to embrace new technologies to reach today's student
Ontario colleges are losing the ability to control the message about their institution and should embrace new social networking and web 2.0 technologies to recruit students and remain relevant to young people.
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Interuniversity sports webcast live and on VOD
More than 10,000 Canadian student-athletes participate in several sport disciplines each year, and many of those games are now webcast live or available through Video on Demand (VOD) web streaming.
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UOIT and Trent use AccessGrid to pioneer collaborative program delivery
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and Trent University have become the first in Canada to use AccessGrid (AG) for the delivery of a complete academic program.
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  • New CANARIE President and CEO
  • Provincial government invests $115M in Ontario research
  • $18M for North Bay e-learning centre
  • New rock fracture dynamics lab at U of T
  • Researchers simulate world's largest heart model
  • Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering
  • MaRS Experience!Tech 2008
  • OCAD seeks to lower carbon footprint
  • 2008 ORION Awards
  • Contenu francais en ligne
  • People News
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