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Profs zoom in on cancer cells

The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and a group of private donors have awarded $180,000 to Michael Kolio and Gregory Czarnota to continue developing software that will make an ultrasound image eight times as powerful as the ones being used by doctors today.

SuperBuild to tighten housing market

Recent plans to construct three new buildings at Ryerson will make room for thousands of new students, but those who need a place to find one near school.

Students will cash in on job boom: experts say

With the federal unemployment rate for February 2000 at 6.8 per cent—the lowest on record since 1976 according to a recent Industry Canada report—and with youth unemployment dropping a few percentage points to a 12.5 per cent, Canada is experiencing one of its best job markets in 25 years.

Student nominations extended

Student positions on Ryerson’s academic council are up for grabs, but students may not know it.

Students get tax help

Most of the 80 volunteer tax advisors—who were all trained by Revenue Canada—are accounting students, with 30 to 40 working in the clinics at any given time. The volunteers expect to fill out a couple hundred student tax forms, but the clinics are also open to students’ families and community members. A charactered accountant and three senior business students are also on hand to answer any questions.

Appeal process to change

A new academic policy set to take effect Sept. 1 will remove a potential conflict of interest between professors and students appealing their marks.

RyeSAC bickering continues

After weeks of accusations, tension and squabbling, members of RyeSAC’s board of directors sat down to discuss their differences at an emergency board meeting Thursday—but two controversial issues were deferred to later meetings.

Appeal process to change

A new academic policy set to take effect Sept. 1 will remove a potential conflict of interest between professors and students appealing their marks.

Convenience costs students

Ryerson students regularly pay more for more food on campus than they do off campus and not just for pizza. A cup of coffee from Coffee Time is also cheaper off campus just up the street, as are burgers and other generic foods.

U.S. schools poised to invade Ontario

The provincial government may allow private American universities to set up shop in Ontario—and observers say it’s the beginning of the end for public education in the province.

Committees to rethink course evaluations

Students may soon be able to see the results of instructor course evaluations they fill out every semester.

Student website rattles profs

A Web site that bashes some Ryerson professors is catching flack from faculty and students, but its creator says the site is only meant to help fellow engineering students.

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