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Education
Revitalizing the Education Building
Education Building renovations: new classroom spaces and technologies that support collaborative learning. New spaces include: Education Learning Labs, Learning Commons, Science Teaching Labs, McGill Psychoeducational and Counselling Clinic, etc.
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Continuing Studies
Professional Excellence in Data Science and Machine Learning
The School’s Professional Development Certificate in Data Science and Machine Learning launched in 2019 is one of the fastest growing non-credit Professional Development Certificates at McGill.
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Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
Advancing Digital Dentistry
The School’s Professional Development Certificate in Data Science and Machine Learning launched in 2019 is one of the fastest growing non-credit Professional Development Certificates at McGill.
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Arts
Breaking New Ground in AI Research and Scholarship
In 2021, thanks to a donation from the Jarislowsky Foundation, McGill established the Jarislowsky Chair in Technology and Human Nature in the Faculty of Arts to undertake ground-breaking research and scholarship into pressing philosophical questions arising from the rapid development of technology and artificial intelligence. The Chair promotes collaboration with researchers and students from across the University, as well as with the wider Montreal technology community.
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Engineering
From Invention to Ignition: The McGill Engine Centre
In the Faculty of Engineering, since March 2019, the McGill Engine Centre has been a Mitacs-approved incubator for their Entrepreneur-Accelerate program. As part of this program, the Engine has incubated startup ventures from graduate students in Engineering Physics, Chemistry and Earth and Planetary Sciences. For faculty, the Engine’s TechAccelR Grants are offered to validate early-stage inventions to determine commercial potential early-on.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
myProgress: Tracking Tool for Graduate Success
To support successful program completion, GPS sponsored the development of myProgress, a web-based tool that allows graduate students and their supervisors to track and monitor degree progress. All students admitted to a Master’s or PhD program as of Fall 2017 have their academic record in myProgress with degree milestone completion tracked through the platform.
Management
Revolutionizing Retail
In collaboration with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the Retail Innovation Lab at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management was launched in January 2021 to serve as a live testing ground for researchers and an immersive ‘classroom’ for the first cohort of Master of Management in Retailing students who will work in tandem with students from BCom, Engineering, and other faculties to gain rare access to leading-edge frictionless technology and opportunities to test new ideas in a real store environment.
Music
Creating new sounds and spaces
The newly renovated Music Multimedia Room (view a 3D model of the MMR) launched the Schulich School of Music and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) into the future to redefine and transform the way we compose, listen, and perform music. Musicians, scientists, and engineers join forces to gain a better understanding of the influence that music can have on the physical, psychological and neurological well-being of individuals.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
A New Pathway to Achieving a Master's Degree
A framework for a Cumulative or Stackable Master’s degree was approved in 2020 as a new pathway toward acquiring an existing Master’s Degree. GPS is working with units interested in offering a Cumulative Master’s to propose these alternative pathways. A Cumulative Master’s degree is obtained through a coherent and thematic selection of certificates and diplomas, which are combined or “stacked” together to comprise a degree that is specialized in nature, flexible in completion times, and contains recognized intermissions of achievement. The first approved Cumulative Master’s is offered in Educational Leadership, with the first cohort graduating in February 2022.
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Law
New Classrooms, New Possibilities
In the Faculty of Law, classroom renovations on the ground floor of New Chancellor Day Hall transformed two classrooms into contemporary teaching spaces suited to active learning. The new John W. Durnford and Donald E. Meehan classrooms offers state-of-the-art collaborative spaces that enhances teamwork, problem-based learning and skill building.
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Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
myPath: Beyond the Gates
Launched in Fall 2019, myPath was developed to provide graduate students with a variety of approaches to the creation of their Individual Development Plan (IDP) by offering a network of tools and programming that appeals to the diverse range of needs and learning styles of students. myPath focuses not only on academic goals, but also on setting goals that will help students maintain their wellbeing, as well as goals centered on professional development that may or may not be related to their academic goals. Participation in the myPath programming doubled from 514 in 2019-20 to 1146 in 2020-21.
Lead Innovation
In the McGill Reporter
MARCH 13, 2023
New website showcases online academic programs
As part of the University’s Strategic Academic Plan, McGill is increasing its capacity to develop and offer programs specifically designed to reach “beyond the campus"
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Imagining the future of academic program delivery at McGill
The Working Group on New Models of Academic Program Delivery reveals some of the major themes coming out of the group’s consultations, and the orientations of its forthcoming recommendations
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Bigger, better, greener: Revamped McGill Innovation Fund launches 2nd edition
Event highlighted by casual fireside chat with CarbiCrete CEO Chris Stern, who shared perspectives on cleantech, the entrepreneurial life and why Canada is the best country in the world to start a business
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Forging a healthier future through research: McGill University launches new Institute of Genomic Medicine
Landmark donation from alumnus Victor Phillip Dahdaleh will accelerate advances in global health using genomic medicine to inform patient diagnosis and care
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
CFI invests $3.9 M in McGill research
15 projects are funded through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund to tackle global challenges, including developing better treatment programs for complex diseases
JULY 18, 2022
Halo from MIF award lights way to more success for nano-scale project
Based on support received after winning one of the prizes in the McGill Innovation Fund, Professor Changhong Cao was able to leverage his award into a prestigious NSERC grant
MAY 30, 2022
New C$6-million chair in architecture to develop turn-key solutions for mass building climate retrofits
Largest grant awarded by NSERC and partners will enable interdisciplinary researchers to achieve more resilient and healthy communities in combatting climate change
MAY 24, 2022
Shedding light on Parkinson’s toward new treatments and cures
An observational study led by The Michael J. Fox Foundation is looking for people recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and those with risk factors, to learn more about disease risk, onset and progression
APRIL 26, 2022
International lab dedicated to artificial intelligence kicks off in Montreal
Montreal-based centre unites strengths of McGill University, ÉTS, Mila, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, and CentraleSupélec
APRIL 29, 2022
Prime Minister Trudeau, Premier Legault visit campus to welcome Moderna to the Greater Montreal Area
McGill is a driving force in Montreal’s vibrant biomanufacturing innovation ecosystem. Moderna’s new vaccine-production facility will produce up to 100 million mRNA doses annually.
JUNE 7, 2022
Giving teens with MS more treatment options
The first ever pediatric trial at The Neuro hopes to broaden the limited options for young people with Multiple Sclerosis
JULY 6, 2022
Is AI good or bad for the climate? It’s complicated
A new framework for understanding and shaping the impacts of Artificial Intelligence on greenhouse gas emissions
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
To infinity and beyond: $26 million to propel space research at McGill and Université de Montréal to the outer limits
Landmark gifts from the Trottier Family Foundation ensure Montreal’s place as a leading hub of space research within Canada and the world