MSSI Social Sciences and Humanities Ideas Fund recipients announced for 2023
MSSI has announced the results of its latest Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Ideas Fund competition. The SSH Ideas Fund awards seed funding to explore bold projects and novel ideas drawn specifically from humanities, arts, and social sciences research with the potential to illuminate or solve sustainability-related challenges.
MSSI Innovation Fund recipients announced for 2023
Every year, the MSSI Innovation Fund provides support to McGill faculty members to accelerate the development of an idea or a technology toward widespread societal adoption by funding research that informs policy or moves an innovation toward commercialization. This year’s fund will distribute $100,000 to two projects that have the potential to make electric vehicle batteries and groundwater management more sustainable.
Psychology: Bindra Lecture Series - Dr. Vijay Namboodiri
On Friday April 5th, 2024, McGill Psychology Department will host Dr. Vijay Namboodiri, who will deliver a Bindra Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place at 3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
Psychology: Hebb Lecture Series - Dr. Paul Bloom
On Friday February 23, 2024, McGill Psychology Department will host Dr. Paul Bloom, who will deliver a Hebb Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place at 3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
Psychology: Hebb Lecture Series - Dr. Deborah Bandalos
On Friday January 26, 2024, McGill Psychology Department will host Dr. Deborah Bandalos, who will deliver a Hebb Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place at 3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
Highlighting women in STEM to engage youth
“Les STIM au féminin” is a new campaign geared towards high school and cegep-level youth which highlights the initiatives of women in STEM and raises awareness about pathways and careers in science through a series of informative videos.
New paper explores four nearby fast radio burst sources
Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.
McGill research included in Québec Science’s top 10 best of the year
Research conducted by McGill researchers ranks among the year’s best, according to Québec Science magazine.
The magazine has published its annual top 10 list of the province’s most groundbreaking scientific discoveries, and three have ties to McGill researchers.
The three studies affiliated with McGill researchers address some of the world’s most pressing challenges: extreme climate change, treatment for cancer patients, and the quality of seawater.
Secrets of a Hot Saturn and its Spotted Star Unlocked by McGill, Université de Montréal Astronomers
Article by: Claire Loewen, Media Relations, McGill University"Led by researchers from the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at McGill University and the Université de Montréal (UdeM), a team of astronomers harnessed the power of the revolutionary Webb Telescope to study HAT-P-18 b.
Hanadi Sleiman awarded 2024 E. W. R. Steacie Award
Chemistry Professor and Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience Hanadi Sleiman has received the 2024 E. W. R. Steacie Award from the Chemical Institute of Canada. This award is presented annually to a scientist who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of chemistry while working in Canada.
How does one species become many?
Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species – that is, an “adaptive radiation” – is the result of each species adapting to a different environment. Yet formal tests of this hypothesis have been elusive owing to the difficulty of firmly establishing the relationship between species traits and evolutionary “fitness” for a group of related species that recently diverged from a common ancestral species.
CTV News Interview with Dr. Don Baker
How Climate Change Affected Dinosaurs
CTV News Montreal Interview with Dr. Don Baker
" ... new evidence from McGill University suggests dinosaurs were already dying off due to climate change caused by massive volcanic eruptions.
Geotop Podcast: Peter Douglas: Climate lessons from past civilizations
Featuring Dr. Peter Douglas
McGill launches Collaborative for AI and Society
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 event at the McGill Faculty Club, where more than 70 participants from across the McGill campus gathered for an afternoon of collaboration and discussion.
McGill launches Canada Award to offset tuition increase for Canadian undergraduate students
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 students from outside Quebec coming to McGill will be eligible for the new award.
Details of the award, including the programs eligible for the award, will be available on McGill's Undergraduate Admissions website by December 22, 2023.