I've been sort of busy with school, but this deserves a quick post. In this week's issue of Nature, there is an opinion piece by a professor at the University of Ottawa who did some calculating with various metrics and so forth and came to the conclusion that directing more money to big research universities than what is already directed is not necessarily a good idea. Since it is only a "correspondence" piece to Nature, it doesn't really show any of his work and I don't know what to make of it.
On an unrelated note, the Gairdner awards just wrapped up three days of talks and geek love. I don't know if anyone outside of UofT can see these, but the talks were streamed live and recorded for posterity. The link is here.
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I think the major question is the difference in funding between Canadian universities and American universities.
Having a well-funded Canadian institution isn't going to help much if the best researchers all leave for the US.
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