Subscribe to the OSS Weekly Newsletter!

Register for the OSS 25th Anniversary Event

McGill launches Canada Award to offset tuition increase for Canadian undergraduate students

Published: 20 December 2023

McGill University is launching a $3,000 Canada Award to offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian...

McGill launches Collaborative for AI and Society

Published: 20 December 2023

New efforts to mobilize around the challenges and opportunities of AI are taking shape at McGill. On December 4, a new McGill Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS) held an internal launch...

Fighting disinformation in Quebec

Published: 15 December 2023

Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves...

Global Undergraduate Awards- Glen Loo

Published: 15 December 2023

Recently, Glen Loo from the Lumb Group received an award from the Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA) for the work he did during a 5-month research internship. Glen had come to McGill from Nanyang...

Stuck in traffic: Researchers identify cellular traffic jams in a rare disease

Published: 12 December 2023

Researchers zero in on spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, a disease that disrupts brain function...

Pallavi Sirjoosingh: Winner, Principal’s Prize for Teaching Excellence (Faculty Lecturer)

Published: 7 December 2023

A packed Leacock 132 can be an intimidating place when you’re down in front and looking back up at more than 600 undergrads about to study university-level chemistry for the first time....

A first look inside Li-ion batteries

Published: 28 November 2023

What if you could charge your electric vehicle in the same amount of time it takes to fill a tank of gas?  ...

The Amazing Brain Science Talks: recordings out now!

Published: 22 November 2023

Presented in collaboration with Brain Canada Foundation, the Amazing Brain Science Talks took place at McGill University on October 14, 2023....

The Hackathon returns to McGill campus

Published: 20 November 2023

On November 3-5th, the McGill Physics Hackathon held its eighth annual event in person at the Rutherford Physics Building. The event attracted around 150 hackers, from CEGEP and undergraduate...

Pages

Back to top