A Journey towards Collaborative Culture Development: How to Be Weightless Despite Academic Gravity

A long academic journey.

In this case study, an early-career electrical engineer interviews an established translational biomedical engineer. The discussion covered topics such as challenges associated with the merging of fundamental engineering science with the pursuit of clinically informed research, how best to train engineering students for future innovation, and how to establish international partnerships.

Patient safety culture and leadership within Canada's Academic Health Science Centres: towards the development of a collaborative position paper.

Currently, the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) is working with the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO) to develop a joint position paper on patient safety cultures and leadership within Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs). Pressures to improve patient safety within our healthcare system are gaining momentum daily. Because AHSCs in Canada are the key...

How to make a “Hackintosh”. A journey into the “consumerization” of hacking practices and culture

In this article it is argued that, in the last few years, hacking practices consisting in the modification and subversion of digital devices are undergoing a process of popularization, and hacking-related cultural references and discourses are growing in terms of visibility among new segments of the population, including not only software experts and computer “geeks”, but also amateurs, laypers...

How to survive a nerve-wracking journey

When the axons that carry signals to muscles are growing, they rely on help from Frizzled3-a protein that is known to perform a number of other important functions in cells-to reach their final destination.

How not to be objective; Collaborative Virtual Environments