Published on: 8 Dec 2023
New company FeX Energy aims to leverage metal fuel technology to provide cheap, safe and infinitely renewable energy for industrial clients
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Published on: 8 Nov 2023
We have a new brochure available in French and in English for our NPRC users. It talks about delirium in the hospital and gives tips for families and friends. Feel free to come see us in room 354 during our opening hours to take a copy.
We also brought copies of the brochure to inpatient units of The Neuro for staff to deliver directly to family and friends.
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Published on: 11 Aug 2023
In May 2023, Prof. Jennifer Elrick began her appointment as Chair in Multiculturalism at McGill University. The Chair, which is endowed with funds from the Government of Canada, was first established in 1995 as the Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies. Its purpose remains to support research on issues of diversity and multiculturalism.
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Published on: 20 Jun 2023
Congratulations to PhD student in Sociology and Richard H. Tomlinson Doctoral Fellow at McGill University Gabriel Lévesque, who has been awarded the PSSM Best Student Paper award for 2023 in the Political Sociology and Social Movements cluster for his paper titled "Toxic Substance Regulations and the Structuration of Interdependent Policy Networks".
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Published on: 23 May 2023
Congratulations to the following graduate students in the Sociology PhD program:
Awards
Michaela Michalopulos has been awarded the Vasileios Tsiolis Foundation Award from the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation.
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Published on: 27 Mar 2023
In an article for Policy Options, Prof. Jennifer Elrick and Prof. Daniel Béland (political science) respond to Québec Premier François Legault’s recent call to distribute asylum-seekers across provinces. They look to the case of Germany as an example of how it could be done, what it would take, and the kinds of benefits and risks involved.
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Published on: 15 Mar 2023
Book Awards
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American Sociological Association, Human Rights Section, Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award 2022
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American Sociological Association, Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention 2022
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Eastern Sociological Society, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award 2022
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Law and Society Association, Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Honorable Mention 2022
Article Awards
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American Sociological Association, Human Rights Section, Best Article Award 2022
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Published on: 9 Feb 2023
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Published on: 13 Jan 2023
Prof. Elrick's new book, Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism has been featured in a book symposium in the latest issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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Published on: 13 Jan 2023
January 4 2022 | The Quebec government should establish a comprehensive “made in Quebec” legal framework to tackle intimate partner violence by creating a specific right to adequate housing under the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and introduce comprehensive legislation that institutes a right to be free from domestic violence that includes legal recourses in civil matters, argues Pearl Eliadis, Associate Professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy.
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Published on: 4 Jan 2023
AI can help identify biases in news reporting that we wouldn't otherwise see. Researchers from McGill University got a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from CBC articles as prompts. They then compared the simulated news coverage to the actual reporting at the time and found that CBC coverage was less focused on the medical emergency and more positively focused on personalities and geo-politics.
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Published on: 6 Dec 2022
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Published on: 16 Dec 2021
Professor Jennifer Elrick was invited to share her thoughts on the legacy of Canada’s official multiculturalism policy on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Her contribution appears in in a special edition of the Canadian Issues series published by the Association for Canadian Studies, which was guest edited by Prof. Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University). The publication can be accessed here free of charge.
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Published on: 6 Oct 2021
Professor Pesando was awarded a 2022-2024 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship, a globally competitive Fellowship dedicated to improving the development, learning, and living conditions of children and youth worldwide
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Published on: 1 Oct 2021
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