Predators at the top of a marine food chain 130 million years ago ruled with more power than any modern species, McGill research into a marine ecosystem from the Cretaceous period revealed.
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Published on: 13 Jan 2025
An international team of scientists led by McGill University researchers has provided the clearest evidence yet that some fast radio bursts (FRBs) — enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves from space — originate from neutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that have exploded in a supernova. This finding, based on an analysis of the radio signal of a single FRB, advances our understanding of one of the universe’s most perplexing phenomena.
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Published on: 2 Jan 2025
Nineteen members of the McGill community have been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. The medal is conferred on individuals who have made significant contributions to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community, or have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada.
The recipients include Professor R. Bruce Lennox, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Tomlinson Professor of Chemistry.
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Published on: 23 Dec 2024
Congratulations to Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia, the Outreach Program Administrator at the Trottier Space Institute and Physics Department for being awarded the President's Award for Administrative and Support Staff! Winners of this award are honoured for the quality of their work, service to the community, innovation and initiative.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2024
To mark its 70th anniversary, McGill’s Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados hosted events Dec. 5-6 that brought together researchers, students, elected officials and community partners to celebrate its history and build momentum for the future.
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Published on: 13 Dec 2024
Last week, hundreds of students in Barbados saw science come to life in a whole new way.
As part of the celebrations marking its 70th anniversary, McGill’s Bellairs Research Institute opened its doors to the community Dec. 5. Three hundred students from five local schools were treated to free science kits, lunch and a day of hands-on activities.
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Published on: 13 Dec 2024
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of McGill’s acclaimed Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados and to promote STEAM education to local students, McGill partnered with the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), and the U.S. State Department for a full day of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) activities and presentations.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2024
For Vincent Wong, life truly is a journey.
As a Loran Scholar, the Vancouverite moved across the country in 2021 to pursue his B.Sc. Honours in Neuroscience at McGill. He was drawn by The Neuro (The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital), Canada’s largest neuroscience research centre.
In the summer of 2022, Wong traveled to Yellowknife to conduct a research project on the unique health-care challenges in the North, an experience that would shift his career trajectory.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2024
This summer, Gault Nature Reserve hosted four high schoolers from the West Island Black Community Association for this year’s Youth Biodiversity Internships Program. Led by Professor Bruno Tremblay, this collaboration brought together a diverse range of community members from McGill and beyond to connect on their passion for science. For 5 weeks, youth conducted fieldwork at Gault with McGill students, explored how scientific research happens in nature and made links to their own lives and future careers.
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Published on: 2 Dec 2024
A new study published today in Nature Sustainability uses advanced machine learning methods and large language models to assess the benefits and trade-offs of natural climate solutions (NCS).
Led by The Nature Conservancy and co-led by Brian Robinson, Associate Professor of Geography at McGill University, the researchers analyzed over 250,000 peer-reviewed publications to produce a global evidence map of NCS co-impacts.
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Published on: 2 Dec 2024
NASA has selected the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) mission, co-investigated by McGill University Professor Daryl Haggard, to advance to the next stage of its $1 billion space probe competition.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2024
On November 15th – 17th, the Trottier Space Institute and the Department of Physics hosted its 9th Annual McGill Physics Hackathon. This friendly coding competition brought together 163 people, from grade 10 high school students to graduate students. Participants had a total of 24 hours over the span of 3 days to create computing and physical science projects in teams. Learn more here.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2024
Paleontologists and students from McGill University have documented Saskatchewan's first confirmed fossil specimens of Centrosaurus, a horned dinosaur species closely related to Triceratops.
The search, conducted in Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park along the South Saskatchewan River, also unearthed a rare mix of dinosaur and marine fossils, shedding light on a dinosaur fauna which existed on the edge of an ancient sea at a time of rising sea levels long before humans roamed the earth.
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Published on: 19 Nov 2024
by Christine Pallon, Communications Officer, Faculty of Science
Every year, McGill’s Gault Nature Reserve in Mont-Saint-Hilaire welcomes a host of student researchers. This past summer, there was a new addition to the usual group of young scientists at the Reserve: four high schoolers from Montréal’s West Island.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2024
$13.8 million in federal funding for McGill’s cohort of 10 new, five renewed Canada Research Chairs
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Published on: 14 Nov 2024
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