Canadian graduate students are at an impasse. User fees at Canadian universities have more than doubled in the last 10 years--a rate of increase more than six times greater than that of inflation--and graduate students are getting hit the hardest. 1 If students do not act now to put public pressure on governments to reinvest in higher education, then the door to accessible education will close on...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Is it harder for a mathematician to learn biology or for a biologist to learn mathematics? As director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), a national research institute based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that hooks up mathematical scientists with researchers from other disci...
