Help us bring the hands-on experience of a natural history museum into schools and community venues by supporting the Redpath Museum Discovery Boxes.
Check out our promo video here: https://youtu.be/ZKij3NXK1Ks
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McGill Educational and Counselling Psychology postdoctoral fellow, Christelle Luce, and her Ditch Labs team have been awarded this year's ACFAS Prize. Ditch Labs wants to defeat smoking, the world's number one preventable cause of death, with a holistic and smart medical device. By combining a smart nicotine vaporizer called DitchPen™, a mobile self-care app, and artificial intelligence, Ditch Labs aims to help each patient in a personalized, efficient, and safe way to stop their consumption of cigarettes.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Iwan Edwards on March 4, 2022.
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the recent publication of A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence – Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn, a collection of essays edited by Professor Helge Dedek in honour of our deceased colleague H. Patrick Glenn, Peter M. Laing, Q.C., Professor of Law.
The Research Group in Constitutional Studies is hoping to build a permanent endowment that will provide long-term funding for students.
https://www.mcgill.ca/arts/article/young-alumni-supporting-crowdfunding-initiatives-mcgill24
Congratulations! Dr Natalie Dayan has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine!
International Women’s Day is a global day that celebrates the political, economic, social, and cultural achievements of women. With this year’s theme of “breaking the bias” we reflect upon the strong female role models we have in what many assume to be male-dominated fields. McGill’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education is particularly proud to celebrate their women academics and researchers, including professors from several disciplines including exercise and health psychology, biomechanics and neuroscience, and exercise physiology.
You are invited to the upcoming online talk on
March 9, 2022 12:30 to 1:30 PM
Zoom link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/85837175082
To all Finance users,
The month of February 2022 is closed. You may pick up your Minerva Financial Statements by logging into Minerva via https://horizon.mcgill.ca/minerva.
This link will bring you directly to the Finance (Fund) Administration Menu >> Financial Statements menu option.
For questions or assistance, you may contact the Finance Service Desk at 514-398-3463 or submit a ticket via the FIS Service Desk Portal.
The Desautels Global Experts program connects current students with alumni experts across industries, providing valuable learning and networking opportunities to help students thrive in their academic and professional careers.
Starting March 15, the LibQUAL+ survey will be emailed to a random sample of McGill students and to all faculty, instructors, research assistants, and research associates. This survey provides the opportunity to give feedback on Library services, collections, and spaces.
Some ways in which previous survey feedback has yielded tangible results include:
- increasing the number of our e-books and other online materials
March 4, 2022 | After living through war, abduction, sexual and gender-based violence, some female survivors in Northern Uganda escaped rebel captivity. Many returned to their communities with children fathered by rebels. Instead of being embraced, community members met survivors and their children with suspicion, rejection, blame and stigmatization. That began a new chapter of hardship in the survivors’ lives.
Armando Bertone, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and SCERT Co-Founder, was interviewed in The Montreal Gazette, regarding Summit School, a Montreal school serving a population with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions including autism, becoming the site of Canada’s first creative arts centre for the neurodiverse.
“There is no other school I know of that has a research branch in the school dedicated to education, education through research and training through research.” said Armando Bertone.
Martha de Francisco, Associate Professor of Sound Recording in the department of Music Research at the Schulich School of Music, is a record producer and recording engineer specializing in Classical music. Her research interests include music recording with virtual acoustics, critical listening studies and the aesthetics of recorded music.
Students enrolled in the McGill Desautels Master of Business Administration program weigh in on what aspects of the program have provided the most value. Ebuka Obiakor (MBA’21) and Husham Hajhamid credit the program’s small class sizes, diverse cohort, and experiential learning opportunities for shaping them into professionals who are equipped to lead in a changing business environment.
