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Members of marginalized groups are at disproportionate risk in earthquakes, study finds

Wed, 14 May 2025 14:28:13 +0000

Members of socially and economically marginalized groups in Montreal and Ottawa-Gatineau are at disproportionate risk in earthquakes, a new study has found.

Co-authored by McGill civil engineering professor Daniele Malomo, the study is the first in Canada to examine earthquake vulnerability through the lens of equity.

McGill researchers lead project to reform youth mental health care in Canada

Mon, 12 May 2025 20:39:15 +0000

New data from a national project led by McGill University researchers shows that redesigning youth mental health services can significantly cut wait times and connect more young people to care.

Researchers delve into incels’ rejection of work and study

Mon, 12 May 2025 19:31:22 +0000

The critically acclaimed Netflix drama Adolescence has put a spotlight on the culture and ideas of incels (involuntary celibates), an online subculture of people (mostly male and heterosexual), who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner, largely due to their perceived unattractiveness.

McGill researchers highlight disparities in ‘aging in place’

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:08:27 +0000

While health status is an important factor in whether a person is able to grow old in their home and community (age in place), researchers at McGill University have shed new light on the social factors that can also have an impact, both directly and through their impact on health over a lifetime.

Antibiotics from human use are contaminating rivers worldwide, study shows

Mon, 05 May 2025 18:58:54 +0000

Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns.

Published in PNAS Nexus, the study is the first to estimate the scale of global river contamination from human antibiotics use. Researchers calculated that about 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics – nearly one-third of what people consume annually – end up in river systems around the world each year even after in many cases passing through wastewater systems.

Ultrasound unlocks a safer, greener way to make hydrogels

Mon, 05 May 2025 18:23:33 +0000

Researchers at McGill University, in collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal, pioneered a new way to create hydrogels using ultrasound, eliminating the need for toxic chemical initiators. This breakthrough offers a faster, cleaner and more sustainable approach to hydrogel fabrication, and produces hydrogels that are stronger, more flexible and highly resistant to freezing and dehydration. The new method also promises to facilitate advances in tissue engineering, bioadhesives and 3D bioprinting.

Predicting hockey IQ: Researchers’ method of assessing young hockey talent could be a game-changer

Thu, 01 May 2025 18:52:51 +0000

In a study that is the first of its kind, a research team led by a McGill professor has developed a more objective way to identify ice hockey players’ game intelligence, or “hockey IQ.” And the method, which pairs objective test results with scouting insights, is likely to yield the most accurate results, the researchers suggest.

Breakthrough discovery uses gut bacteria and AI to diagnose a chronic pain syndrome

Mon, 05 May 2025 18:06:54 +0000

McGill University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues in Israel and Ireland, have developed AI technology that can detect patterns in gut bacteria to identify complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) with remarkable accuracy, potentially transforming how CRPS is diagnosed and treated.

New insights into how cancer spreads prompt rethink of metastasis care

Thu, 01 May 2025 18:15:32 +0000

A McGill University-led research collaboration has achieved a breakthrough in understanding how cancer spreads.

A clinical study of ovarian and colorectal cancer patients found cancer cells move in the bloodstream in clusters more commonly than was previously thought. The discovery could help doctors more quickly identify which cancer patients are at high risk of having their cancer spread to other organs, knowledge that could guide treatment decisions. The findings also potentially open new avenues for treatment.

Sun safety declining in Canada amid rise in skin cancer cases

Thu, 01 May 2025 16:06:54 +0000

Despite decades of public health messaging, Canadians are spending more time in the sun and using less sun protection – raising alarms among researchers as melanoma cases continue to climb.

That trend is highlighted in a McGill University-led study that analyzed national survey data collected between 2011 and 2018 from over 77,000 people, representing a weighted sample of 21 million Canadians.

Researchers improve the accuracy of AI writing tools

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:00:58 +0000

A McGill University-led team of researchers has developed a new method that significantly improves the accuracy and efficiency of large language models (LLMs) when generating computer code and other structured text.

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful AI tools that are capable of writing everything from essays to programming scripts in a wide range of languages. However, they often make mistakes when generating text that must conform to constraints, leading to errors or outputs that don’t work. Existing solutions to fix these issues are often unreliable or too slow.

McGill researchers develop practical new tool for detecting nanoplastics and microplastics in the environment

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:08:33 +0000

A team of McGill University researchers has developed a cost-effective, high-throughput technology for detecting nanoplastics and microplastics in the environment.

Study suggests we don’t just hear music, but ‘become it’

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:27:55 +0000

An international study co-authored by McGill psychologist Caroline Palmer suggests our brains and bodies don’t just understand music, they physically resonate with it. These discoveries, based on findings in neuroscience, music, and psychology, support Neural Resonance Theory (NRT).

NRT maintains that rather than relying on learned expectations or prediction, musical experiences arise from the brain’s natural oscillations that sync with rhythm, melody and harmony. This resonance shapes our sense of timing, musical pleasure and the instinct to move with the beat.

Researchers identify two new crocodile species

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:43:55 +0000

McGill University researchers, in collaboration with Mexican scientists, have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of Banco Chinchorro, both off the Yucatán Peninsula. The findings challenge long-held assumptions about the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and highlight the urgent need for conservation efforts, the researchers say.

Our brains can communicate wordlessly, through our eyes

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:07:34 +0000

McGill researchers have demonstrated something long assumed: that glances can transmit information about one’s mental state to others without a single word being exchanged. They speculate that this primal ability may have played a role in assuring survival of human society at times when making a sound could have attracted predators.

Drugs targeting ‘zombie cells’ show promise for treating chronic back pain

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:32:42 +0000

In a preclinical study led by McGill University researchers, two drugs targeting “zombie cells” have been shown to treat the underlying cause of chronic low back pain. The condition affects millions of people worldwide.

Current treatments manage symptoms through painkillers or surgery, without addressing the root cause.

Fighting honey fraud with AI technology

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:16:41 +0000

McGill University researchers have developed an AI-powered method to verify the origin of honey, ensuring that what’s on the label matches what’s in the jar. The breakthrough offers a potential solution to a long-standing problem.

“Honey is one of the most fraud-prone commodities in global trade. It often involves mislabelling where it was produced or the types of flowers that bees collected nectar from,” said lead author Stéphane Bayen, Associate Professor and Chair of McGill’s Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry.

New drone-assisted 3D model offers a more accurate way to date dinosaur fossils

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:26:50 +0000

A new study from McGill University is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations in a key geological marker, challenging long-standing methods of determining the ages of dinosaur fossils.

What links cannabis use and psychosis? Researchers point to the brain’s dopamine system

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:01:15 +0000

A McGill University-led study found that people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) had elevated dopamine levels in a brain region associated with psychosis.

“This could help explain why cannabis use increases the risk of hallucinations and delusions, key symptoms of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders,” said first author Jessica Ahrens, a PhD student in McGill’s Integrated Program in Neuroscience.

McGill discovery sheds new light on autism, intellectual disabilities

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:04:58 +0000

A new study by McGill University researchers yields insights into how the disruption of calcium transport in the brain is linked to autism and intellectual disability. The findings, published in the journal Nature, not only upend a long-held belief among neuroscientists, but could pave the way for treatments.

COVID-19 boosters help avoid breakthrough infections in immunocompromised people, McGill-led study finds

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:21:18 +0000

New research findings provide solid evidence that annual COVID-19 vaccine booster doses continue to be advisable for certain immunocompromised people, researchers at McGill University say.

Humpback whales’ use of memory to time their migration could prove less effective amid climate change

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:09:16 +0000

A new study led by McGill University researchers indicates that humpback whales in the southeastern Pacific combine real-time environmental cues with their memories of conditions in their Antarctic feeding grounds to determine when to embark on their annual 10,000-kilometre journey. With climate change accelerating, the researchers warn this strategy may become less effective amid shifting ocean conditions.

AI analysis challenges autism diagnosis criteria

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:53:45 +0000

An analysis of digital health records using large language models (LLMs) is challenging a long-held belief about the clinical identifiers of autism.

A new study led by researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute found that social communication factors may not be as important in identifying the condition as previously believed.

Study of velvet worm slime could revolutionize sustainable material design

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:13:36 +0000

A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design, according to a study by McGill University researchers. Their findings outline how a naturally occurring protein structure, conserved across species from Australia, Singapore and Barbados over nearly 400 million years of evolution, enables the slime’s transformation from liquid to fibre and back again. It’s a discovery that could inspire next-generation recyclable bioplastics.

Tracking contaminant accumulation in Arctic marine mammals

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:58:33 +0000

A new method of tracking the dietary habits and contaminant exposure of animals in Arctic marine ecosystems is providing critical insights as climate change reshapes the region's food web.

AI has untapped potential to advance biodiversity conservation, study finds

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:11:04 +0000

A new study from McGill University researchers suggests the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to rapidly analyze vast amounts of biodiversity data could revolutionize conservation efforts by enabling scientists and policymakers to make better-informed decisions.

Blood test shows promise for early detection of dementia

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:01:08 +0000

For people with a certain sleep disorder, a simple blood test could help predict the development of dementia years before symptoms appear, a new study indicates.

Ultra-thin bismuth holds unexpected promise for green electronics: researcher

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:03:40 +0000

Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme conditions. A discovery by McGill University researchers that challenges conventional wisdom in physics suggests that bismuth, a metal, could serve as the foundation for highly stable electronic components.

The researchers observed a mysterious electrical effect in ultra-thin bismuth that remains unchanged across a wide temperature range, from near absolute zero (-273°C) to room temperature.

In preparing children for a racially unequal society, families of colour can benefit from more support, study finds

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:49:44 +0000

A McGill-led team of researchers has gained insight into how parents of colour in the United States approach discussions with their children aimed at teaching them the skills they need to survive and thrive in a racially unequal society.

A key finding of the recent paper in Developmental Psychology is that parents are especially in need of information, support and guidance when it comes to preparing their children to face discrimination and bias.

Proactively exposing ecosystems to mild environmental stressors appears to offer protection, study finds

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:29 +0000

Mild, proactive exposure to environmental stress can help biological communities resist severe disturbances and maintain genetic diversity, a recent study from McGill University has found.

Scientific insights into how humans access deep spiritual states

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:59:14 +0000

Two seemingly opposite spiritual practices – Buddhist jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues – have more in common than previously thought, a new study suggests.

While one is quiet and deeply focused, and the other emotionally charged and expressive, both appear to harness the same cognitive feedback loop to create profound states of joy and surrender.

New discovery could help protect against influenza

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:31:23 +0000

A component found in all fungi may provide a shield against flu-related lung damage, according to a new study.

A team of scientists led by Maziar Divangahi, a Professor in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, demonstrated that beta-glucan, administered to mice before their exposure to influenza, can reduce lung damage, improve lung function and lower the risk of illness and death.

Communication between body muscle and the brain influences fertility, study finds

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:25:31 +0000

A newly discovered line of communication between body muscle and the pituitary gland may play an unexpected role in female fertility, according to a new study.

McGill University researchers found that a protein produced in the muscles helps manage the release of a hormone made in the pea-sized gland attached to the base of the brain.

The findings, published in Science, could lead to new treatment options for infertility, the researchers said.

When using music to alleviate pain, tempo matters

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:07:53 +0000

Music has the best chance of providing pain relief when it is played at our natural rhythm, a McGill University research team has discovered.

This suggests it may be possible to reduce a patient’s level of pain by using technology to take a piece of music someone likes and adjust the tempo to match their internal rhythm, the researchers said.

The discovery was the subject of a paper published this week in Pain, the top journal in the field of pain medicine and research.

Remote sensing tools yield insights into abandoned pre-Columbian Mexican city

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:58:23 +0000

A McGill University researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15^th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which had been thought to be simply a fortress where soldiers were garrisoned, was in fact a sprawling, fortified city. It covered 360 hectares, with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal spaces such as ballcourts, and the elites and commoners lived in separate neighbourhoods.

‘Last Ice Area’ in the Arctic could disappear much sooner than previously thought

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:23:18 +0000

The Arctic’s “Last Ice Area” (LIA) — a vital habitat for ice-dependent species — might disappear within a decade after the central Arctic Ocean becomes ice-free in summer, which is expected to occur sometime around mid-century, a new study by McGill University researchers using a high-resolution model has found.

What drives mood swings in bipolar disorder? Study points to a second brain clock

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:11:34 +0000

A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body’s natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between mania and depression, according to new research.

The McGill University-led study published in Science Advances marks a breakthrough in understanding what drives shifts between the two states, something that, according to lead author Kai-Florian Storch, is considered the “holy grail” of bipolar-disorder research.

Dead galaxies, live signals: Astronomers uncover a fast radio burst’s surprising location

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:14:13 +0000

Astronomers studying the origins of enigmatic fast radio bursts (FRBs) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could transform our understanding of the universe’s most powerful and mysterious signals. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) collaboration has pinpointed the location on the sky of a repeating FRB, known as FRB 20240209A, outside a dead galaxy, a finding unprecedented in FRB science. The researchers believe the FRB may have originated in a cluster of old, dead stars orbiting the dead galaxy.

Shape-shifting materials are made more versatile

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:53:10 +0000

Finding new angles on an old artform, McGill researchers have increased the number of stable shapes that kirigami-based engineered materials can take, opening the way to a range of new applications.

What makes these metamaterials special is not what they are made of – they can be plastic, cardboard or anything else – but how, thanks to shapes cut into them, they are able to morph from one form to another. To begin to understand the concept, think of pop-up illustrations of cut paper in books or greeting cards.

Child undernutrition may be contributing to global measles outbreaks, researchers find

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:48:08 +0000

Amid a global surge in measles cases, new research suggests that undernutrition may be exacerbating outbreaks in areas suffering from food insecurity.

A study involving over 600 fully vaccinated children in South Africa found those who were undernourished had substantially lower levels of antibodies against measles.

Clouds have a surprising effect on surface warming, McGill climate researchers find

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:21:26 +0000

McGill University researchers have discovered that changes in clouds are slightly mitigating global warming.

AI innovation unlocks non-surgical way to detect brain cancer spread

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:31:27 +0000

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to detect the spread of metastatic brain cancer using MRI scans, offering insights into patients’ cancer without aggressive surgery.

Apex predators in prehistoric Colombian oceans would have snacked on killer whales today: McGill study

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:05:51 +0000

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.

Integrating historic data stands to improve climate models in the Global South

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:52:03 +0000

An international team led by McGill University researchers has devised a way to improve the accuracy of climate change models for the Global South by integrating historical records kept by missionaries and other visitors.

Researchers link mysterious cosmic signals to collapsed stars

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:03:21 +0000

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.

Study links alcohol consumption to more severe nut allergy reaction

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:55:20 +0000

Findings of a new study into severe allergic reactions offer a sobering warning to people allergic to tree nuts and, more broadly, could lead to quicker diagnoses in emergency care for people with all anaphylactic allergies.

New drug shows promise against Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:40:33 +0000

A novel drug holds promise for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder that causes severe muscle degeneration.

McGill University researchers have discovered that an experimental compound called K884 can boost the natural repair abilities of muscle stem cells. Current treatments can slow muscle damage, but don’t address the root problem.

DMD affects about one in 5,000 boys worldwide, often leading to wheelchair dependence by the teenage years and life-threatening complications in early adulthood.

McGill researchers help uncover rare gamma-ray flare from a distant black hole

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:12:12 +0000

A high-energy gamma-ray flare from the super-massive black hole in the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy was observed in 2018 for the first time in nearly a decade, thanks to an international effort involving McGill University researchers. This discovery has yielded important insights into the physics of black hole jets, which are among the most efficient engines for distributing energy from the inside of a galaxy to the expanse of the Universe.

McGill researchers reveal how life-saving molecules are created

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:48:32 +0000

McGill University researchers have discovered how certain microbes create potent drugs like antibiotics and anti-cancer therapies.

Their surprising findings could change the way scientists approach drug discovery and pave the way to the designing of next-generation medications, explained Martin Schmeing, principal investigator and professor in McGill’s Department of Biochemistry and Centre for Structural Biology.

Understanding when and why people give bribes

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:48:28 +0000

McGill-led researchers developed a model of the factors that go into citizens’ calculations about whether to bribe officials, information that can help authorities fight corruption.

Universal genetic testing of breast cancer patients could help many

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:56:18 +0000

A new study demonstrates how universal genetic testing for breast cancer can ensure no patient is missed for advanced therapies.

McGill University, the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), and the U.S. State Department Commemorate 70 Years of McGill’s Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados with a Full Day of STEAM Programming

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:26:56 +0000

McGill University, the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), and the U.S. State Department today teamed up to host a full day of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) activities and presentations to honour the 70th anniversary of McGill’s acclaimed Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados and promote STEAM education to students in Barbados.

Retailers boost profits while improving eating habits of clientele

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:11:19 +0000

Convenience stores can help customers improve their eating habits while at the same time boosting both their own sales and profits. It’s as simple as offering customers the choice between healthy snacks and pastries as a low-cost add-on to their cup of coffee, according to a new study out of McGill.

Addressing the mental health impacts of conflicts and climate change

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:20:59 +0000

As violent conflicts, forced migration, and an increase in natural disasters sparked by climate change trigger rising humanitarian needs around the globe, a new initiative to understand how to better support the mental health of those affected is being launched at McGill University, thanks to a visionary gift from Flagship Pioneering Founder and CEO and Co-Founder and Chairman of Moderna, Noubar Afeyan, BEng’83, DSc’22, and his wife, Anna Afeyan Gunnarson.

Pregnancy enhances natural immunity to block severe flu

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:04:19 +0000

McGill University scientists have discovered that pregnancy may trigger a natural immunity to boost protection against severe flu infection.

Contrary to the common belief that pregnancy increases vulnerability to infections, researchers found that it strengthened an immune defense in mice, blocking the Influenza A virus from spreading to the lungs, where it can cause severe infection.

Lab-grown brain cells help uncover new targets for Parkinson’s treatments

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:33:56 +0000

Scientists have uncovered a new link between the immune system and the development of Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at McGill University have discovered that an immune response plays a key role in how toxic protein clumps, known as Lewy bodies, form in brain cells and contribute to disease.

This suggests factors that trigger the immune system, such as chronic inflammation, exposure to toxins, or prolonged stress may not only correlate with Parkinson’s, as previous research has found, but drive its development.

McGill-linked AXIS mission is one of two finalists in NASA selection process

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:45:30 +0000

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.

Satisfaction among REM users is up after one year of operation, McGill study finds

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:17:14 +0000

User satisfaction with the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) has increased since its first line opened in the summer of 2023, preliminary results from a survey by Transportation Research at McGill (TRAM) indicate.

Since 2019, TRAM has been conducting a longitudinal study on the REM. Preliminary results indicate that among the close to 1,700 REM users who participated in the survey this fall:

Satisfaction with the service increased to 79 per cent from 75 per cent in 2023;

Cannabis disrupts brain activity in young adults prone to psychosis: study

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:37:01 +0000

Young adults at risk of psychosis show reduced brain connectivity, a deficit that cannabis use appears to worsen, a new study has found. The breakthrough paves the way for psychosis treatments targeting symptoms that current medications miss.

In the first-of-its-kind study, McGill University researchers detected a marked decrease in synaptic density—the connections between neurons that enable brain communication—in individuals at risk of psychosis, compared to a healthy control group.

Saskatchewan’s first Centrosaurus and Citipes elegans fossils discovered by McGill researchers

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:28:03 +0000

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.

New technology rapidly measures antioxidants in maple syrup

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:43:01 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have developed an eco-efficient, user-friendly technology that quickly measures the antioxidant content of maple syrup. The innovative method contributes to increasing transparency about a health-related aspect of the syrup's nutritional value and allows for on-site quality testing without the need for costly lab assessments.

Time in nature benefits children with mental health difficulties: study

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:36:49 +0000

A team of researchers from McGill and Université de Montréal’s Observatoire pour l’éducation et la santé des enfants (OPES, or observatory on children’s health and eduation), led by Sylvana Côté, spending two hours a week of class time in a natural environment can reduce emotional distress among 10- to 12-year-olds who had the most significant mental health problems before the program began.

Better education can mitigate post-harvest food losses, increase global food security

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:05:18 +0000

Better educating farmers and food processors about how to avoid post-harvest food losses – which amount to one-third of global food production, worth US$1 trillion annually – would reduce global food insecurity, according to researchers at McGill University.

Temporary sound installations could help reduce noise pollution: study

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:54:41 +0000

Temporary sound installations can be a low-cost way of dealing with noise pollution in areas of high urban density, McGill University researchers have found.

Dubbed the “new second hand smoke,” noise pollution can have consequences ranging from simple annoyance to such serious health problems as hearing loss and high blood pressure and can exacerbate various mental health conditions.

Atlantic killer whales show dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals: study

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:46:55 +0000

Killer whales off Canada’s Atlantic coast continue to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that put them at elevated risk of severe immune-system and reproductive problems, a recent McGill-led study has found.

Researchers find design flaws and oversight issues in certain health apps, offer solutions for more effective tools

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:26:03 +0000

AI-powered apps offering medical diagnoses at the click of a button are often limited by biased data and a lack of regulation, leading to inaccurate and unsafe health advice, a new study found.

Berry-flavoured may be more dangerous than non-flavoured vapes: study

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:30:01 +0000

Berry-flavoured vapes can weaken the lungs’ natural defences, making it harder for the body to fight off infections, new research suggests.

The study compared effects of flavoured e-cigarettes to those of unflavoured ones.

While previous research has shown that all forms of vaping can be harmful, the scholars said this study adds to a mounting body of evidence demonstrating how added flavourings to vaping solutions can exacerbate the dangers.

Landmark study finds low-sugar diet in early childhood reduces lifetime risk of chronic disease

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:02:29 +0000

A low-sugar diet in the first years of life can significantly reduce the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood, a study based on historical data has found.

The researchers pulled data from UK Biobank, focusing on adults conceived just before and after the 1953 end of wartime sugar rationing in the United Kingdom.

Tracking biodiversity: McGill researchers outline strengths and challenges in new monitoring framework

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:09:37 +0000

As the UN COP16 on biodiversity meets in Calì, Colombia, experts from McGill University are on-site, providing important input into the global conversation.

McGill aims to be a world leader in making dentistry sustainable

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:21:00 +0000

In response to growing concerns about climate change, McGill University researchers are exploring how even a routine dental visit can become a more sustainable practice

The Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences is calculating the carbon footprint of its entire operation, including several clinics that serve the public. The goal is to become among the first fully sustainable dental faculties in the world.

Most Canadians consider public transit to be an essential service, according to initial results of a McGill study

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:27:56 +0000

Most Canadians view public transit as an essential service and support increased provincial funding in response to current financial difficulties, according to preliminary results from a McGill-led study.

The Canadian Mobility Survey is underway in 10 major cities. The researchers, in McGill’s School of Urban Planning, aim to evaluate the role public transit plays in urban Canadians’ daily travel and their ability to live a fulfilling life without using a car.

How vitamin D deficiency can lead to autoimmune diseases

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:20:40 +0000

As Canadians brace for “vitamin D winter” – months when the sun’s angle is too low to produce the vitamin in the skin – a McGill University study explains why vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with a higher risk of autoimmune diseases.

During childhood, the thymus helps train immune cells to distinguish between the body’s own tissues and harmful invaders. A vitamin D deficiency at that stage of life causes the thymus to age more quickly, the researchers discovered.

Genetic tweaks can make oats more nutritious, increase shelf life

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:17:48 +0000

A recent study from McGill University proposes a way to enhance the nutritional value of oats by increasing their content of oleic acid, a type of healthy fat known for its cardiovascular heart benefits and potential to lower diabetes.

The findings also suggest this modification could improve their oxidative stability, making oat-based products, such as oat milk, less likely to spoil.

Parenting programs help kids, but provide insufficient support for parents, study finds

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:54:54 +0000

Parenting programs that address both mental health and parenting skills can improve children’s development, but often fall short when it comes to offering effective mental-health support for parents, new research suggests.

“It’s a surprising contradiction,” said the study’s lead author, Marilyn Ahun, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University. “Our findings show the potential of multi-component programs, while revealing gaps that need to be addressed.”

New global database of dams and reservoirs could transform water management

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:10:36 +0000

A groundbreaking database developed by the Global Dam Watch (GDW) consortium is set to transform the global understanding of dams and reservoirs.

Co-ordinated and led by members of a research lab at McGill University, with funding from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Bank, the database integrates existing global datasets to provide the most comprehensive resource for large-scale analyses to date.

When we cannot hear our own speech, even temporarily, ability to speak is impaired: McGill study

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:30:02 +0000

A McGill University study has shown that hearing plays a crucial role in how people coordinate and control speech movements in real-time.

Published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), the research shows that when people cannot hear their own speech, even briefly, their ability to move their jaw and tongue in a coordinated manner is impaired.

McGill University Libraries Unveil Game-Changing Collections Centre: A New Era in Sustainable Book Preservation and Retrieval

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:50:31 +0000

October 1, 2024 – Valleyfield, QC – McGill University is pleased to announce the official opening of the McGill University Collections Centre on October 1, 2024. This groundbreaking facility marks a historic milestone as McGill's first-ever design-build project and sets a new standard for library preservation and sustainability in Quebec.

New design overcomes key barrier to safer, more efficient EV batteries

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:20:21 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have made a significant advance in the development of all-solid-state lithium batteries, which are being pursued as the next step in electric vehicle (EV) battery technology.

By addressing a long-standing issue with battery performance, this innovation could pave the way for safer, longer-lasting EVs.

New findings can help improve our understanding of winter weather in the St. Lawrence River Valley

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:01:46 +0000

A recent study at McGill University provides new insights into how winter storms develop in the St. Lawrence River Valley, findings that could potentially improve the accuracy of winter weather forecasts in the region.

“These findings are essential because even small temperature shifts, as little as one degree, can drastically change the type of precipitation, turning rain into freezing rain or snow,” said Juliann Wray, lead author and PhD student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

Help with chronic hives: A new app and North America’s first patient registry

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:09:03 +0000

Tuesday, Oct. 1 is Urticaria Day, raising awareness of a condition more commonly known as hives.

This year, Canadians living with chronic hives have two new resources, developed in part by a McGill University researcher: North America’s first chronic urticaria patient registry and a new app for patient care.

New drug molecule could lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s disease in younger patients

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:37:21 +0000

A novel drug molecule could potentially lead to new treatments to prevent Parkinson’s disease in younger patients, according to new research.

“We are excited about this drug compound because we might have the possibility to develop the first cure for Parkinson’s disease, at least for a subset of patients,” said lead author Kalle Gehring, a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Structural Studies of Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Indigenous Awareness Weeks 2024: September 19 – October 2

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:18:57 +0000

Indigenous Awareness Weeks is a two-week series of events involving Indigenous academics, artists, and community members, hosted by the Office of Indigenous Initiatives. Its goal is to encourage a greater understanding of Indigenous peoples among students, staff, and faculty at McGill University, as well as in the broader Montreal and Quebec communities. The Office of Indigenous Initiatives also helps foster discussion among First Nations, Métis and Inuit on topics that are important to individuals and their communities.

Using sunlight to turn two greenhouse gases into valuable chemicals

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:45:43 +0000

McGill University researchers have harnessed the power of sunlight to transform two of the most harmful greenhouse gases into valuable chemicals. The discovery could help combat climate change and provide a more sustainable way to produce certain industrial products.

Research finds sex-based differences in how brains handle threats

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:47:06 +0000

A new study has uncovered significant differences in how male and female mice process threats, even as they exhibit similar behavioural responses.

The discovery suggests that including both male and female subjects in neuroscience research will lead to more accurate conclusions and ultimately better health outcomes.

Understanding the influence of sex on brain function can help explain why males and females develop certain psychiatric disorders at different rates or with different symptoms, the researchers said.

Six students at McGill University receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:15:50 +0000

Six students have been named McGill University’s recipients of Schulich Leader Scholarships, the most generous student award for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) studies in Canada.

McGill alumnus Seymour Schulich, BSc’61, MBA’65, DLitt’04, established the Schulich Leader Scholarships for entrepreneurial-minded students who excel academically and display leadership, charisma and creativity.

New insights could help prevent psychosis relapses in youth and young adults

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:40:18 +0000

New findings from McGill University researchers could help clinicians understand the course of delusions in youth and young adults that signal the need for a timely intervention to prevent a full relapse of psychosis.

Delusions — strong beliefs that don't align with commonly accepted reality— are a defining symptom of psychosis but are not sufficiently understood.

Digitally cataloguing archived plant specimens can transform conservation efforts

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:47:32 +0000

Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by McGill University researchers has found.

Digitally cataloguing, or digitizing, a herbarium specimen involves recording the species name and original location and uploading that record to a digital repository that is publicly accessible.

A better way to assess bridges’ earthquake safety

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:13:16 +0000

Researchers from McGill University have developed a more efficient way to assess how likely a bridge is to be damaged in an earthquake. The information could help authorities prioritize infrastructure for upgrading and improve emergency response plans.

Microbes in orbit: Understanding spaceflight’s impact on gut health

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:45:37 +0000

Scientists have uncovered how space travel profoundly alters the gut microbiome, yielding insights that could shape future space missions.

The groundbreaking study, led by a McGill University researcher in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD), NASA’s GeneLab and an international consortium, offers the most detailed profile to date of how space travel affects gut microbes.

The brain’s balancing system

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:22:09 +0000

A finding by a McGill-led team of neuroscientists could open doors to new treatments for a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders attributed to dysfunctions in specific dopamine pathways.

The power of face time: Insights from zebra finch courtship

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:44:26 +0000

A new study on songbirds sheds light on the power of social interaction to facilitate learning, insights that potentially apply to human development.

McGill University researchers discovered that zebra finches deprived of early social experiences could still form strong bonds with a partner later in life. Once placed into cohabitation with a male, females that had never heard a mating song before could quickly develop a preference for his melody.

What time the malaria-bearing mosquito bites you might make a difference

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:33:25 +0000

A discovery by McGill-affiliated researchers could lead to more effective treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases.

When mice are infected in the middle of the night with the parasites causing cerebral malaria, the symptoms of the disease are less severe than for those inflected during the day, and the spread of the parasites within the hosts is more limited, research teams from McGill University, the Douglas Research Centre and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre have discovered.

Exciting advance in stem cell therapy

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:25:32 +0000

A new technique developed by McGill researchers for mechanically manipulating stem cells could lead to new stem cell treatments, which have yet to fulfill their therapeutic potential.

Stem cell therapy has been heralded as a new way to treat many diseases, ranging from multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and glaucoma to Type 1 diabetes. The anticipated advances have yet to materialize in part because it has proved much more difficult than originally thought to control the types of cells that develop from stem cells.

Dream discovery: Melatonin's key role in REM sleep revealed

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:47:59 +0000

A significant breakthrough in the understanding of sleep mechanism opens new promise for treating sleep disorders and associated neuropsychiatric conditions: Scientists have pinpointed the melatonin receptor MT1 as a crucial regulator of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep.

$1.45M to boost Indigenous youth mental health services

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:06:15 +0000

A national initiative to bolster Indigenous youth mental health services across Canada has secured $1.45 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Ultrafine particles linked to over 1,000 deaths per year in Canada’s two largest cities

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:12:27 +0000

A first-of-its kind study conducted in Canada’s two largest cities by McGill-led researchers has linked about 1,100 premature deaths per year to an unregulated air pollutant.

Ultrafine particles (UFPs) primarily come from vehicle emissions and industrial activities. Canada’s federal and provincial governments have not set concentration limits for UFPs, as they have for larger fine particles known as PM2.5.

Study yields new insights into the link between global warming and rising sea levels

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:29:02 +0000

A McGill-led study suggests that Earth's natural forces could substantially reduce Antarctica’s impact on rising sea levels, but only if carbon emissions are swiftly reduced in the coming decades. By the same token, if emissions continue on the current trajectory, Antarctic ice loss could lead to more future sea level rise than previously thought.

The finding is significant because the Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest ice mass on Earth, and the biggest uncertainty in predicting future sea levels is how this ice will respond to climate change.

Six athletes among plethora of McGillians headed for Paris Olympic Games

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:11:06 +0000

By Earl Zukerman, Sports Information Officer, McGill Athletics and Recreation

Listening to the voices of those most affected by climate change

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:08:03 +0000

Researchers at McGill University recently supported the hosting of a major international conference on climate change to create space for the under-represented voices – and knowledge – of those most affected.

The global conversation on climate has been dominated by Western scientists. While international meetings such as those in the COP series are important venues for the exchange of knowledge that can be put into action, greater equity is essential, the researchers believe.

Study sheds light on origins of schizophrenia in the brain, offering hope for targeted treatments and better diagnosis

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:49:13 +0000

A group of scientists are hopeful their research findings about how schizophrenia originates and develops over time in the brain will pave the way for targeted treatments and better diagnosis of the serious mental health condition.

Systemic sclerosis is on the rise in Quebec, especially in children, study finds

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:29:46 +0000

The number of new cases of systemic sclerosis (SSc) is on the rise in Quebec, particularly among children, a new study has found.

The findings, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, should serve as a call to action for health-care providers, policy-makers and researchers, suggests Elena Netchiporouk, corresponding author and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University.

A treatment for anorexia nervosa?

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:19:45 +0000

A McGill University-led research team working in collaboration with a French team (CNRS, INSERM and Sorbonne university) believes it has identified both the neurological mechanism underlying anorexia nervosa as well as a possible cure.

Cutting-edge technology detects nanoplastics in water – instantly

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:50:18 +0000

A McGill-led research team has developed the first real-time, on-site technology capable of detecting and deciphering nanoplastics from all other particles in water, a capacity akin to being able to find a needle in a haystack within milliseconds.

Microplastic pieces are between 1 micrometre and 5 millimetres, roughly equivalent to a grain of rice. Nanoplastics are far tinier - a single nanometre is just 0.000001 millimetres. For comparison, a human hair is approximately 80,000–100,000 nanometers wide.

Treasures beneath the ocean floor? Seawater plays role in gold formation

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:28:46 +0000

Understanding how gold forms is crucial for knowing where to find it and how to extract it sustainably. McGill researchers have answered a long-standing question in geology that could lead to new ore discoveries.

How climate change is affecting where species live

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:19:37 +0000

As the climate warms, many species are on the move, raising new challenges for policy-makers around the world. Shifts in the ranges of mosquitoes and disease-bearing ticks and bats are introducing illnesses such as malaria and Lyme disease into regions where health-care systems are unprepared. Movements of commercially important fish from one jurisdiction to another are shifting job opportunities and causing trade disputes.

The 10 Montreal intersections cyclists say are most dangerous

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:17:08 +0000

This spring, over 1,500 cyclists participated in a survey by Transportation Research at McGill (TRAM) to identify dangerous intersections for cyclists in Montreal. A new policy brief reveals the 10 most mentioned spots.

The researchers say there is a critical need for safer cycling infrastructure, to promote sustainable travel and prevent fatal collisions caused by poor road design.

The ‘15-minute city’ might not be realistic for North America, researchers find

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:15:07 +0000

In the “15-minute city,” a concept popularized in Europe, everything a resident might need on a daily basis is a short walk or bicycle ride away. A study by Transportation Research at McGill University (TRAM) suggests, however, that this model may not be easily achieved in large North American cities such as Montreal.

McGill University announces a new tuition initiative for Indigenous students

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:12:19 +0000

Beginning in the Fall of 2024, McGill University will cover tuition and mandatory fees for Indigenous students who are members of local/proximate First Nation communities as well as Indigenous students learning within programs delivered through Indigenous partnership agreements within the School of Social Work, the School of Continuing Studies and the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education.

Teens with behavioural problems, particularly girls, more likely to sext: study

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:24:05 +0000

It’s important that programs promoting safer sexting behaviours consider the specific needs of adolescents with behavioural problems, a new study by McGill University researchers suggests.

Adolescents with behavioural problems engage in elevated levels of sexting compared with their peers without such problems. While this is the case both for male and female teens, the researchers found, the link was stronger for the young women.

‘Doom spiral’ a risk for public transit in post-pandemic era

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:06:13 +0000

A new study from McGill University warns that cutting public transit service could lead to a "doom spiral" resulting in a collapse of the system.

The researchers describe a vicious circle in which service cuts brought on by budget deficits drive transit users away; this drop in ridership triggers additional service cuts, which lead to further declines in usage.

Many health-care providers are ill-equipped to recognize pain in abused children

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:51:34 +0000

Many health-care professionals are ill-equipped to assess pain in children who have suffered abuse, a new study by McGill researchers suggests. This can lead to inadequate pain treatment, making the physical and emotional effects of abuse even worse.

"Our findings show a critical need for training programs for health-care providers about the effects of child maltreatment,” said Matthew Baker, the study's lead author and a PhD student in the School/Applied Child Psychology program at McGill.

McGill University issues updated offer to McGill members of the encampment, calls for return to good-faith discussions

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:50:25 +0000

Despite the walkout by encampment representatives from discussions, McGill remains steadfast in its commitment to an open and transparent dialogue conducted in good faith. Yesterday, the University extended an updated offer to members of its community in the encampment, going beyond previous proposals.

This continued effort to reach a peaceful resolution to the encampment, which has been in place on the lower field for over six weeks, comes in addition to the University’s renewed suggestion to appoint a neutral third-party mediator to facilitate discussions.

McGill project awarded $1.7 million to mitigate housing crisis and climate change

Wed, 29 May 2024 18:29:09 +0000

As Canada faces the dual challenges of contending with a housing crisis at the same time as facing the impacts of severe climate change, the need to find innovative and practical solutions remains one of the nation’s highest priorities. McGill’s Professor Daniele Malomo was recently awarded $1.7 million by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) for a proposed solution that addresses both problems.

Battery breakthrough could usher in greener, cheaper electric vehicles

Tue, 28 May 2024 18:39:01 +0000

The global shift to electric vehicles is gaining momentum, yet the extraction of battery materials has a significant environmental footprint that comes with high costs.

Now, two groundbreaking studies led by McGill University researchers offer hope in the search to manufacture cheaper and greener lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs).

Their findings unlock the potential to produce batteries using more sustainable and less costly metals, known as disordered rock-salt-type (DRX) cathode materials.

McGill University celebrates graduates and honorary doctorate recipients at 2024 spring convocation

Mon, 27 May 2024 16:02:30 +0000

As part of this year’s Spring Convocation celebrations, McGill University will confer honorary degrees upon ten inspirational individuals, five of whom are from Quebec.

Leaders in their respective fields, these honorary doctorates stand as examples of creativity, compassion, dedication, service, and a pioneering spirit. They represent a diverse array of leaders whose contributions span disciplines, industries, and continents.

McGill University’s Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences and Welcome Hall Mission celebrate Jim Lund Dental Clinic expansion

Tue, 07 May 2024 19:42:18 +0000

McGill University’s Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences and the Welcome Hall Mission celebrated the completion of the Jim Lund Dental Clinic expansion project, which started in October 2023.

Established in 2011 in partnership with the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, the Jim Lund Dental Clinic at Welcome Hall Mission has long been recognized for its commitment to helping Montrealers in need with free dental care.

Study underscores new strategies to fight drug-resistant bacteria

Tue, 07 May 2024 18:42:00 +0000

Several billion years ago, a genetic arms race began between bacteria and their viral killers. This seemingly eternal struggle continues today, with implications for diseases killing tens of thousands of people around the world each year.

Huit universités montréalaises s’unissent pour accélérer l'action climatique et renforcer la résilience de la métropole

Tue, 07 May 2024 13:25:23 +0000

Montréal, 7 mai 2024 — Aujourd’hui, dans le cadre du Sommet Climat Montréal, huit institutions universitaires montréalaises — l’École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), HEC Montréal, l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Polytechnique Montréal, l’Université McGill, l’Université Concordia, l'Université de Montréal (UdeM) et l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) — s’engagent à collaborer pour accélérer l’action climatique de la collectivité montréalaise en partageant leurs savoirs et leurs pratiques, tout en faisant preuve d’exemplarité dans la réduction d

Eating the way we do hurts us and the planet, study finds

Mon, 06 May 2024 14:48:41 +0000

In an age of abundance and variety in food options, are Canadians eating better than they were half a century ago? According to a recent paper by researchers at McGill University and the International Food Policy Research Institute, those relying on Canada’s food supply for their dietary needs not only face deficiencies in healthier alternatives, but they also contribute to the disproportionate levels of environmental degradation caused by Canadian agricultural and food distribution policies.

McCall MacBain Scholars Announces Class of 2024

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:19:43 +0000

The McCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill today announced its fourth cohort of recipients, beneficiaries of a landmark $200 million gift made in 2019 by John and Marcy McCall MacBain. At the time, it was the largest single donation in Canadian history.

Weeding out the dealers in Canada’s cannabis market

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:43:49 +0000

It's been five years since Canada stepped into the forefront of cannabis legalization, setting a significant precedent in the realm of drug policy. With Canada and 24 US states now embracing recreational cannabis, the battle against the illegal market remains a key concern, one highlighted in the federal government's final report on the Cannabis Act.

Divisive diagnosis raised in George Floyd case under scrutiny

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:04:35 +0000

A movement to discredit a controversial medical diagnosis is being bolstered by a new study out of McGill University. Excited delirium describes a state of agitation, aggression, and distress and has become a common defense to counter charges of police brutality. In the case of George Floyd, the syndrome was initially used as a legal defense for the Minneapolis police officer charged in his death.

Clearing the air: wind farms more land efficient than previously thought

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:39:16 +0000

Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable.

However, decision-makers have been reluctant to invest in wind energy due to a perception that wind farms require a lot of land compared to electric power plants driven by fossil fuels. Research led by McGill University and based on the assessment of the land-use of close to 320 wind farms in the U.S. (the largest study of its kind) paints a very different picture.

Millions of gamers advance biomedical research

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:04:19 +0000

Leveraging gamers and video game technology can dramatically boost scientific research according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology.

Campus garden initiatives can help grow the next generation of environmental change-makers

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:37:46 +0000

For many Canadians, one of the most visible climate impacts is on the availability and cost of the food we eat as climate change, global crises and profit-driven food companies have combined to drive food insecurity. Amid this crisis, students are sowing seeds of change on university campuses across the country, including at McGill.

Student-led food initiatives such as campus gardens, food waste diversion projects, and community food security partnerships are on the rise and are a proven way of localizing climate action and transforming food systems.

Study finds weak link between adolescent media use and psychotic experiences in adulthood

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:58:27 +0000

As digital media becomes an increasing part of daily life for teens, the question of how heightened screen time will impact their brains in the future is becoming more pressing.

A group of researchers at McGill University has set out to determine whether the use of video games, computers and other media during adolescence was associated with psychotic experiences in adulthood.

A promising discovery in a rare neurodegenerative disease

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:17:30 +0000

Imagine being middle aged and starting to feel that you are off balance a lot and that you are having a hard time coordinating your movements. Those are among the symptoms of Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, known as SCA6, a rare neurodegenerative disease which typically appears in adulthood and worsens over time. Over time, other problems such as slurred speech and difficulty seeing or seeing double, may also appear. It is estimated that fewer than 5,000 people in the US have the condition, which is the result of genetic mutations in the cerebellum.

Using pulp and paper waste to scrub carbon from emissions

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:08:04 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have come up with an innovative approach to improve the energy efficiency of carbon conversion, using waste material from pulp and paper production. The technique they’ve pioneered using the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan not only reduces the energy required to convert carbon into useful products, but also reduces overall waste in the environment.

A roadmap to improving healthcare disparities in northern Quebec

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:48:12 +0000

Indigenous communities in northern Quebec face significant hurdles to healthcare access. The Nunavik region is remote, with limited transportation options and extreme weather conditions. As a result, its population faces lower life expectancy and poorer health outcomes.

New findings from McGill University provide a blueprint to address Nunavik’s urgent healthcare needs by offering concrete evidence for discussions with policymakers.

More than 2M Quebecers don’t have access to primary care: OurCare report

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:44:17 +0000

More than two million people in Quebec don’t have access to primary care, the front door to the healthcare system, according to the newly released OurCare report on Canada. This is among the worst rates in the country, the report states.

To address a medical system that’s facing an aging and growing population, the OurCare report – developed in collaboration with McGill University researchers – focuses on the public’s expectations when it comes to defining good primary care and what policy changes they recommend to shape the system.

Prize-winning scholars advocate for immigrant women, killer whales and a balanced society

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:01:25 +0000

McGill University is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2024 President’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The Prize was created to recognize outstanding achievement among those who share their knowledge on a vast range of subjects with the media and the public. This year, there were applicants from 11 of the 12 faculties, a sign that sharing knowledge and a love of learning continue to be embedded in McGill’s DNA.

Species diversity promotes ecosystem stability

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:55:25 +0000

What maintains stability within an ecosystem and prevents a single best competitor from displacing other species from a community? Does ecosystem stability depend upon the presence of a wide variety of species, as early ecologists believed, or does diversity do the exact opposite, and lead to instability, as modern theory predicts?

McGill becomes oldest university in Canada to receive Platinum STARS sustainability rating

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:16:30 +0000

Thanks to the efforts of the McGill community, the University has become the oldest in Canada, in terms of infrastructure, to receive a Platinum STARS rating for sustainability. The achievement is the highest rating available from one of the most broadly recognized programs to measure sustainability performance in higher education.

A model for the evolution of intelligence

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:24:32 +0000

When certain species of wild birds and primates discover new ways of finding food in the wild, it can serve to measure their flexibility and intelligence.

In the largest experimental study ever conducted on this topic, a team of researchers from Rockefeller University headed by postdoctoral fellow Jean-Nicolas Audet have shown, in collaboration with McGill’s Louis Lefebvre, that foraging problems requiring overcoming obstacles, such as removing the lid off a container of food, are the only predictors of brain size and innovative behaviour in the wild.

Small changes can cut your diet-related carbon footprint by 25%

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:42:24 +0000

The latest Canada’s Food Guide presents a paradigm shift in nutrition advice, nixing traditional food groups, including meat and dairy, and stressing the importance of plant-based proteins. Yet, the full implications of replacing animal with plant protein foods in Canadians’ diets are unknown.

Study sheds light on how neurotransmitter receptors transport calcium, a process linked with origins of neurological disease

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:01:55 +0000

A new study from a team of McGill University and Vanderbilt University researchers is shedding light on our understanding of the molecular origins of some forms of autism and intellectual disability.

McGill launches legal challenge against government measures

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:03:17 +0000

Following a unanimous vote at a special Board meeting on February 15, McGill University today launched a legal challenge against two measures announced by the Government of Quebec on December 14, 2023:

Is it possible to predict when prejudice will occur?

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:36:45 +0000

What if it were possible to use a scientific model to predict hate crimes, protests, or conflict? Researchers at McGill University and University of Toronto have begun the groundwork to develop a formal predictive model of prejudice, similar to meteorological weather predictions.

Can hunger be eradicated by 2030?

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:10:17 +0000

World hunger is growing at an alarming rate, with prolonged conflicts, climate change, and COVID-19 exacerbating the problem. In 2022, the World Food Programme helped a record 158 million people. On this trajectory, the United Nations’ goal to eradicate hunger by 2030 appears increasingly unattainable. New research at McGill University shines the spotlight on a significant piece of the puzzle: international food assistance.

Fighting the flu: The surprising power of a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:53:04 +0000

As Canada’s flu season collides with record strep A cases and ongoing COVID-19 concerns, a new study is shedding light on our understanding of respiratory immune responses. Scholars from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have discovered a surprising facet about a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis, Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG).

McGill researcher receives 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:04:29 +0000

Today, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the selection of 126 extraordinary early-career researchers as recipients of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship. Amongst the recipients is Courtney Y. Paquette, (Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics). Candidates are nominated by their colleagues, and winning fellows are selected by independent panels of senior scholars on the basis of a candidate’s research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become a leader in his or her field. Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship to further their research.

Energy poverty in Canada

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:12:08 +0000

As many as one in five Canadian households can be considered to be in energy poverty, according to researchers from McGill University. Energy poverty occurs when households cannot afford or access the levels of energy necessary to meet their daily needs, live decent lives, and maintain healthy indoor temperatures all year round. More Canadians potentially suffer from energy poverty than from food insecurity.

Uncertainty in measuring biodiversity change could hinder progress towards global targets for nature

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:41:59 +0000

More than ever before, there is a growing interest in dedicating resources to stop the loss of biodiversity, as recently exemplified by the

Pierre Boivin named 21st Chancellor of McGill University

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:07:19 +0000

The Board of Governors of McGill University approved the nomination of Pierre Boivin as the University’s 21st Chancellor. Mr. Boivin has been appointed for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2024. He will succeed Chancellor John McCall MacBain, whose current term will end on June 30, 2024. His nomination stems from a rigorous process that was launched last summer by the Nominating, Governance and Ethics Committee.

New understanding of avian eggshell attachment

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:25:13 +0000

A new era in wound care

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:57:00 +0000

Hydrogels are engineered materials, which absorb and retain water and are currently used in various medical treatments, including dressing wounds. The problem with current hydrogels is that they adhere indiscriminately to all surfaces, which means that wound dressing can potentially damage delicate tissue as it is healing.

Surprising new evidence on happiness and wealth

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:27:06 +0000

Global polls typically show that people in industrialized countries where incomes are relatively high report greater levels of satisfaction with life than those in low-income countries.

But now the first large-scale survey to look at happiness in small, non-industrialized communities living close to nature paints quite a different picture.

Looking at happiness in non-industrialized settings

Are environmental toxins putting future generations at risk?

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:48:35 +0000

In a study that signals potential reproductive and health complications in humans, now and for future generations, researchers from McGill University, the University of Pretoria, Université Laval, Aarhus University, and the University of Copenhagen, have concluded that fathers exposed to environmental toxins, notably DDT, may produce sperm with health consequences for their children.

The decade-long research project examined the impact of DDT on the sperm epigenome of South African Vhavenda and Greenlandic Inuit men, some of whom live in Canada’s North.

‘LOVE’ is all you need: How play can help break the cycle of violence

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:36:44 +0000

In Canada, only 1 in 5 children who need mental health services receive them. Clinical and psychiatric programs, while effective, can involve long wait times and prohibitive costs. A new study involving McGill University researchers points to a solution to fill the gap: a low-cost, community-based program that has seen inspiring results.

McGill study finds that some Canadians may still be at risk of Genetic Discrimination despite new federal law

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:16:06 +0000

As Canadians share more and more genetic data with service providers such as insurance companies or databases like Ancestry.com, the potential for discrimination based on this data is growing. Known as Genetic Discrimination (GD), this practice is broadly defined as the differential treatment of an individual compared to the rest of the population based on actual or presumed genetic information.

AI meets citizen science to unlock the nature of storytelling

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:53:14 +0000

A new project led by McGill University researchers seeks to understand one of humanity’s oldest practices and most powerful tools—storytelling. From ancient oral traditions to modern-day literature and digital narratives, storytelling is an essential part of the lived experience that is not yet fully understood. ‘The Lives of Literary Characters’ is a first-of-its-kind initiative, harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and the collective wisdom of readers worldwide to explore the question: why do we tell stories?

What can today's architects learn from a lost ventilation system used in 19th century building design?

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:28:26 +0000

As the COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about efficient ventilation and the climate crisis threatens to exacerbate extreme temperatures, efficient building design is front of mind for today’s architects. But what can we learn from architectural techniques that were developed more than 100 years ago?

M87* One Year Later: Proof of a persistent black hole shadow

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:14:37 +0000

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at McGill University, has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018. With the participation of the newly commissioned Greenland Telescope and a dramatically improved recording rate across the array, the 2018 observations give us a view of the source independent from the first observations in 2017.

What Zebra mussels can teach us about combatting invasive species, developing sustainable materials

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:04:37 +0000

A recent study from researchers in Canada and Germany has revealed that an unlikely event, occurring over 12 million years ago played an important role in shaping one of Canada’s most damaging invasive species. Zebra and quagga mussels, belonging to the Dreissenid family, are widespread freshwater invasive species throughout North America that present a significant danger to native ecosystems by competing for resources. Using a fibrous anchor called a byssus, Dreissenid mussels contribute to biofouling on surfaces and obstruct intake structures in power stations and water treatment plants.

How does owning a mobile phone impact infant health?

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:50:58 +0000

Every year an estimated 20 million babies worldwide are born with low birth weight, according to the World Health Organization, leading to a wide range of significant short- and long-term consequences. And though you may think the obvious answer is greater emphasis on food and nutrition for pregnant women, leading McGill University researchers are proposing an unexpected solution: the cellphone.

Discovery unravels the mystery of a rare bone disease

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:46:53 +0000

A McGill-led team of researchers have made an important discovery shedding light on the genetic basis of a rare skeletal disorder. The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that a defect in a specific gene (heterozygous variants in the matrix Gla protein, or MGP) may cause a disorder that affects the structure of connective tissues that supports the body.

New paper explores four nearby fast radio burst sources

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:07:46 +0000

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.

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

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:56:10 +0000

Researchers from McGill University, led by Professor Alanna Watt of the Department of Biology, have identified previously unknown changes in brain cells affected by a neurological disease. Their research, published in eLife, could pave the way to future treatments for the disease.

Secrets of a Hot Saturn and its Spotted Star Unlocked by McGill, Université de Montréal Astronomers

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:47:02 +0000

Exoplanets, planets located beyond our Solar System, captivate both scientists and the public, holding the promise of unveiling diverse planetary systems and potentially habitable worlds. Despite being very much not like our Earth, large gas giant planets found very close to their stars have proven to be ideal test targets for telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to refine astronomers’ methods of understanding exoplanets.

How does one species become many?

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:16:32 +0000

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.

Does Canada’s food guide provide adequate guidance for older adults?

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:48:52 +0000

The latest Canada’s food guide recommendations are primarily aimed at reducing chronic disease risk, however how well does our national guide for healthy eating serve the nutritional needs of all Canadians?

ICYMI: 2023 research round up

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:50:39 +0000

Childhood trauma increases risk of chronic pain in adulthood

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:08:38 +0000

Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, or neglect, either alone or combined with other types of childhood trauma, increases the risk of chronic pain and related disability in adulthood, according to new research. The findings from an international team of experts, including several McGill University researchers, underscore the urgency of addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) – potentially traumatic events that occur before 18 years of age – and taking steps to mitigate their long-term impact on people’s health.

The stomach bug that may raise your risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:27:57 +0000

A common stomach bacteria found in two thirds of the world population may be linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests.

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

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:34:30 +0000

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.

McGill University divests from direct holdings in Carbon Underground 200 fossil-fuel companies; announces new socially responsible investment commitments

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:33:15 +0000

McGill University will divest from all direct holdings in fossil-fuel companies listed in the Carbon Underground 200 (CU200) for implementation in 2024 and completion in 2025 – one of eight commitments announced today in Phase 2 of the University’s results-driven socially responsible investment strategy.

McGill calls on Premier Legault to reverse decision, citing devastating effects on Quebec and the University

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:49:45 +0000

McGill is calling on Premier François Legault to immediately reverse the government measures released today and go back to the drawing board.

“These policies are unacceptable. They are incoherent, not based on data and will not meet the stated objectives of the government. More importantly, their effect on the Quebec economy and on Quebec universities will be absolutely devastating. In short, they do not serve Quebecers well,” said Deep Saini, President and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University.

Tuition for Canadian students outside Quebec

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 20:55:54 +0000

Bishop’s, Concordia and McGill universities are submitting to the Quebec government an enhanced version of their proposal, Proposed improvements to the new tuition model for students outside Quebec

The John Peters Humphrey archive added to the Canada Memory of the World Register

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:03:21 +0000

To mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948), McGill University and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO are pleased to announce the addition of the archives of John Peters Humphrey to the Canada Memory of the World Register.

This archive includes the first handwritten draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as typed subsequent versions written by Humphrey (1905-1995), Canadian law professor and human rights advocate.

What skin piercings can teach us about environmental change

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:21:30 +0000

In a new study from McGill University, researchers bring science into an unexpected setting: a tattoo parlor. In this first characterization of the human piercing microbiome, the uniquely human cultural practice of piercing serves as a model system to help us better understand how biological communities (re)assemble after catastrophic environmental disturbances.

A first look inside Li-ion batteries

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:23:30 +0000

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

In a new paper published today in Joule, researchers from McGill University and the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) announced the development of a novel method that enables researchers to peer inside Li-ion batteries and, for the first time, track the physical processes that take place in both the liquid and solid parts of the battery cells as they happen.

Made-to-order diagnostic tests may be on the horizon

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:04:57 +0000

McGill University researchers have made a breakthrough in diagnostic technology, inventing a ‘lab on a chip’ that can be 3D-printed in just 30 minutes. The chip has the potential to make on-the-spot testing widely accessible.

The world needs more empathy—here is how science can harness it

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:50:45 +0000

In a world grappling with deep-seated division and social upheaval, empathy has become more critical than ever.

But science suggests when it comes to evoking empathy, our imagination is more powerful than we previously thought. A new study, led by McGill researchers, reveals how the different ways to experience empathy affect our willingness to help others.

Unlocking the secret strength of marine mussels

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:37:59 +0000

How do you create strong, yet quick-release connections between living and non-living tissues? This is a question that continues to puzzle bioengineers who aim to create materials that bond together for advanced biomedical applications.

More than a meteorite: New clues about the demise of dinosaurs

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:11:05 +0000

What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story, a new study suggests. Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage for the dinosaur extinction, challenging the traditional narrative that a meteorite alone delivered the final blow to the ancient giants.

Q&A: How can Canada best meet its commitment to protecting 30% of its land by 2030?

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:15:38 +0000

At last year’s COP15 conference in Montreal, the Government of Canada set the goal of conserving 30 percent of the country’s land and water by 2030.

Unlocking the impact of early-life adversity on brain function

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:24:49 +0000

Do adults with a history of childhood trauma have altered brain responses to psychological challenges? Previous studies indicated that this can occur in laboratory animals, but it has been unclear whether it occurs in humans.

McGill receives three Canada Excellence Research Chairs

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:08:39 +0000

The results of the 2022 Canada Excellence Research Chairs competition were announced this morning at Simon Fraser University by the Honourable Terry Beech, Minister of Citizens’ Services. The announcement was made on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and Ted Hewitt, President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Chair of the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat Steering Committee.

How do temperature extremes influence the distribution of species?

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:34:14 +0000

As the planet gets hotter, animal and plant species around the world will be faced with new, potentially unpredictable living conditions, which could alter ecosystems in unprecedented ways.

Eye-to-eye contact is rare but shapes our social behavior

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:49:19 +0000

When speaking to one another, much of the communication occurs nonverbally – through body posture, hand gestures, and the eyes. Our eye gaze during conversations therefore reveals a wealth of information about our attention, intention, or psychological states. But, there remains little scientific knowledge about the information that human eyes convey in interactions – is looking at others’ faces enough, or does our communication require eye-to-eye contact?

Patients propose real world solutions to Quebec’s primary care crisis: report

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:23:55 +0000

A new report shares patient-led solutions to help address the worsening primary care crisis in Quebec, where more than two million Quebecers have no assigned family doctor or nurse practitioner, among the worst rates in the country.

Canada itself is among the worst performing among developed countries, with more than six million Canadians lacking access to a family physician. Residents of rural and smalltown communities face even more profound challenges to access, highlighting the need for more to be done in Quebec to find real world solutions to these ongoing problems.

When dads are feeling a bit depressed or anxious, how do kids fare?

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:29:15 +0000

Many parents experience stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms throughout their lives, particularly during times of transition, such as pregnancy and children’s entry into school. Studies have generally found that high levels of anxiety and depression in parents are linked to poorer behavioural and cognitive outcomes in children.

Velvet Worm slime could inspire sustainable synthetic materials, study finds

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:56:53 +0000

In the tropical, temperate forests it calls home, the velvet worm uses a projectile “slime” to capture its prey. When it’s ejected from the worm, the slime transforms into a gel before solidifying into stiff fibers upon exposure to air. This forms an inescapable trap for struggling prey. "The fact that the slime transitions from a liquid to a solid in mid-air is extremely unusual," said Professor Matthew Harrington, co-director of the McGill Institute for Advanced Materials. “It appears that the forces it experiences when ejected initiate the transition.”

Government of Canada invests $15M in first-of-its-kind pan-Canadian genome library

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:26:16 +0000

Today at the McGill Genome Centre, the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced a $15M investment over five years to create a Pan-Canadian Genome Library (PCGL), which will allow for easier sharing of genomic data across the country, and aid in the development of a national strategy to capture, store and access Canadian data in an equitable, secure, and sustainable manner. The funding comes from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and builds on investments from the Government of Canada’s Drugs for Rare Diseases Strategy.

The sunscreen paradox: McGill University researchers warn of ‘false sense of security’

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:44:23 +0000

Sunscreen usage is climbing, but so are melanoma and skin cancer rates: this, researchers say, is the sunscreen paradox.

“The problem is that people use sunscreen as a ‘permission slip’ to tan,” said Dr. Ivan Litvinov, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Chair of the Dermatology Division at McGill University and co-author with Dr. Sandra Peláez, Dr. Richie Jeremian and Dr. Pingxing Xie of two recent studies that explore the sunscreen paradox.

A relational framework for microbiome research that includes Indigenous communities

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:23:49 +0000

Research on the trillions of microorganisms that make up a person’s microbiome can lead to medical breakthroughs to treat diseases like inflammatory bowel syndrome and diabetes. According to Alyssa Bader, a Tsimshian Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University, microbiome samples from Indigenous communities have the potential to further Western medicine, but those same communities often have been excluded from the research process and may miss out on the benefits that result from their contributions to science.

Killer whales’ diet more important than location for pollutant exposure, study says

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:38:07 +0000

Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans’ top predators, but even they can be exposed to environmental pollution. Now, in the largest study to date on North Atlantic killer whales, researchers in the American Chemical Society’ Environmental Science & Technology report the levels of legacy and emerging pollutants in 162 individuals’ blubber. The animals’ diet, rather than location, greatly impacted contaminant levels and potential health risks — information that’s helpful to conservation efforts.

Rare collection of Voltaire manuscripts makes its way to McGill University

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:18:11 +0000

The McGill University Library is now home to a rare collection of materials related to the prolific Enlightenment period philosopher, Voltaire (1694-1778).

This estate gift, entrusted to McGill by Professor Peter Lambert-David Southam, is a treasure trove of historical handwritten documents, some written by Voltaire himself, consisting of letters, poems, essays, memoirs, notes, legal documents, trial testimonies, and architectural drawings – many of which have never been published before. It offers a unique window into the life and mind of Voltaire.

A sustainable alternative to air conditioning

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:01:53 +0000

As the planet gets hotter, the need for cool living environments is becoming more urgent. But air conditioning is a major contributor to global warming since units use potent greenhouse gases and lots of energy.

Now, researchers from McGill University, UCLA and Princeton have found in a new study an inexpensive, sustainable alternative to mechanical cooling with refrigerants in hot and arid climates, and a way to mitigate dangerous heat waves during electricity blackouts.

Study of Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b reveals new insights into its atmosphere and star

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:12:23 +0000

A team of astronomers has made a leap forward in our understanding of the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system. Not only has their research shed light on the nature of TRAPPIST-1 b, the exoplanet orbiting closest to the system’s star, but it has also shown the importance of parent stars when studying exoplanets.

How having a purpose in life can bolster men’s mental health

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:59:26 +0000

Despite growing awareness about the high rates of suicide among men, research is still needed to examine men’s mental health challenges. Existential psychology, with its focus on questions of meaning and value, may bring new insights that can aid in this examination.

The science behind playing music in sync

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:14:00 +0000

Music is a collective experience that binds people together. From orchestral play to audiences handclapping, synchronization lays the foundation for all musical interactions. But what explains our ability to get in sync with someone or act in lock step with a group?

Ten McGill students receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math scholarship

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:32:04 +0000

Ten students have been named McGill University’s recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship, Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship.

McGill graduate Seymour Schulich, BSc’61, MBA’65, DLitt’04, an entrepreneur and one of Canada’s leading philanthropists, created the scholarship fund in 2012 to encourage outstanding entrepreneurial-minded students on their paths to becoming technology innovators.

COVID infections in animals - a key to the ongoing trajectory of the pandemic?

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:49:20 +0000

New study shows need for better awareness, training and intervention on sex trafficking in the healthcare system

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 20:51:42 +0000

Victims’ agency and needs, independent of their desire to exit trafficking, should be the focus of healthcare services for individuals who have been sexually exploited, concludes a new study by researchers with McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing (ISoN).

Is digital media use a risk factor for psychosis in young adults?

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:42:05 +0000

On average, young adults in Canada spend several hours on their smartphones every day. Many jump from TikTok to Netflix to Instagram, putting their phone down only to pick up a video game controller. A growing body of research is looking into the potential dangers of digital media overuse, as well as potential benefits of moderate digital media use, from a mental health standpoint.

A global observatory to monitor Earth's biodiversity

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:25:03 +0000

At a time of unparalleled rates of biodiversity loss, a new interconnected system to monitor biodiversity around the world is needed to guide action quickly enough to target conservation efforts to where they are most needed.

The search for the super potato

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:23:54 +0000

Why men, wealthy people and maritime residents are more likely to develop skin cancer

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:18:44 +0000

A new study led by McGill University examines why people living in Atlantic regions are more at-risk for developing melanoma than other Canadians, providing lessons on skin cancer prevention for the whole country.

How will the REM impact transportation across the Montreal metropolitan region?

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:52:20 +0000

As Montreal's new light rail or LRT system is set to open its first branch of service this summer, researchers at TRAM, a transportation research group at McGill University, have released an overview of how Montrealers say they plan to use (or not use) the new system, based on surveys conducted between 2019 to 2022.

Why do people gaslight their romantic partners?

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:59:14 +0000

A new study by a McGill University PhD student is looking into the effects of gaslighting in romantic relationships. The term is used to describe a form of psychological abuse in which a person or group causes someone to question their own sanity, memories, or perception of reality.

Working to identify mislabeled penicillin allergies

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:07:41 +0000

About one in 10 people are reported to have a penicillin allergy. Those patients are more likely to be prescribed alternative antibiotics that are often less effective against certain infections. This can lead to treatment failure, increased risks of antibiotic resistance and the development of superbugs. Yet, fewer than five per cent of patients labelled with a penicillin allergy are truly allergic.

A new model to identify and predict chronic pain

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:18:00 +0000

Chronic pain is a complex condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide and understanding its causes and predicting its trajectory remains difficult. However, findings from a recent McGill-led study published in Nature Medicine could improve the understanding and management of chronic pain. The researchers developed a model that can predict one’s likelihood of developing chronic pain as well as the severity and spread of that pain.

McGill University and Moderna to expand collaborations with new projects in Lipid Nanoparticle research

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:25:38 +0000

McGill University today announced it has signed agreements with ModernaTX, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, to support two innovative research projects in the area of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). LNPs are critical components in mRNA medicines such as vaccines, as they are the primary delivery method of mRNA strands to the target cells.

A stronger placebo effect for those who believe sham medical treatments are personalized

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:33:46 +0000

If you believe a medical treatment was developed specifically for you, it may be more effective, especially if you want to be seen as unique, according to new research from McGill University.

In two studies, researchers in the Department of Psychology found that participants who thought a medical device that was really a placebo was personalized to their genetic makeup and physiology reported feeling less pain when using it, compared to those who believed it was a standard treatment.

Searching for signs of alien life in our own solar system

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:30:42 +0000

Scientists have long been captivated by the possibility of discovering evidence for extraterrestrial life in the universe. While many of the world’s largest telescopes are pointed toward distant galaxies and star systems, however, some think there’s a strong possibility that life could be detected much closer to home.

Alien invasion: Study reveals alarming economic costs of biological invasions to the European Union

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:15:26 +0000

Biological invasions are a major threat to ecosystems, biodiversity, and human well-being, resulting in ecosystem degradation and causing economic costs in the multi-trillions of euros globally. A study led by McGill University sheds light on the stark economic cost resulting from biological invasions in the European Union (EU).

Interactive exhibition InSomnolence shows sleep is more social than it seems

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:36:12 +0000

From an artist’s attempt to tame troubled sleep with AI, to sounds and objects as artifacts of other people’s dream, to a radio station that transforms the dread of insomnia into curiosity and collective listening, the exhibition InSomnolence by the research collective The Sociability of Sleep asks: how does sleep bring us together?

Maintaining good cardiorespiratory fitness can protect your memory from the effects of sleep loss

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:20:58 +0000

If you’re sleep deprived, you will likely have a harder time remembering things than if you’re well-rested. But if you have good cardiorespiratory fitness, your memory may be less affected by the effects of sleep deprivation than others, according to a recent McGill study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

What controls the pathways of the Labrador Current?

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:13:44 +0000

Changes to the flow of the Labrador Current along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to Nova Scotia are leading to sudden warmings or drops in the oxygen levels of the waters in several regions including the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary. This change has dire consequences for marine ecosystems and fisheries. To better predict what could happen in the future, researchers from McGill University set out to answer the question: what controls the pathway of the Labrador Current?

Environmental risks and opportunities of orphaned oil and gas wells

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:43:22 +0000

McGill University researchers are leading an international team whose goal is to create a framework to help governments in the U.S. and around the world assess and prioritize remediation strategies for orphaned oil and gas wells.

The global human day – A bird’s eye perspective

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:54:51 +0000

Everyone has 24 hours per day. Across the global population of 8 billion people this adds up to approximately 190 billion human hours per day. How those hours are spent determines the impacts we have on our surroundings as well as how we experience life. To find out how people around the world use their time, a research team led by McGill University has gathered and analyzed information about both economic and non-economic activities in order to estimate, for the first time, what a day in the life of the world looks like.

Pushing the speed limit: What will the future of the Internet look like?

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:28:34 +0000

More people rely on the Internet to work, play, shop, and connect with others, growing the demand for global data traffic by 40% every year. To keep pace with the drive for more bandwidth, McGill Professor and Canada Research Chair David V. Plant and his team are working on pushing the speed limits of the Internet by making data transmission quicker, more efficient, and greener.

McGill University, in partnership with Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, and IEFA announce 'Future-charged: the renewable energy revolution’

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:43:18 +0000

Today McGill University, in partnership with Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and the International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) announced the launch of ‘Future-Charged: the Renewable Energy Revolution,’ this fall in Montreal.

New diagnostic platform uses nanotechnology and machine learning to identify infectious diseases quickly

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:26:25 +0000

Infectious diseases and respiratory infections in particular are a leading cause of global mortality. As such, there is an urgent need for rapid, large-scale diagnostic tools that can detect these diseases early, something which doesn’t currently exist. To address these problems, McGill University Professor of Bioengineering Sara Mahshid’s lab has developed an all-in-one detection platform (QolorEX) that can deliver test results in just 13 minutes.

Moving towards a more inclusive approach to medicine

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:39:21 +0000

The first human genome, which has served as the reference until now, was released approximately 20 years ago. It was a landmark accomplishment that had a huge impact on biomedical research and changed the way scientists study human biology. But it was based on just a few individuals and did not capture the full genetic diversity of the human population.

How Canadians' lifestyle behaviours changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wed, 24 May 2023 17:37:24 +0000

Sixty per cent of roughly 1,600 Canadians who took part in a new McGill University study say their lifestyle habits either stayed the same or improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the flip side, 40% of participants say they adopted less healthy lifestyle habits, including worsened eating habits, sleep quality, decreased physical activity and weight gain. The research is based on the Canadian COVIDiet study of Canadians between the ages of 18 to 89 years old. Researchers from McGill’s School of Human Nutrition collected data from across the country during the first wave of infections.

A community celebration of Japanese art at McGill’s McLennan Library

Wed, 24 May 2023 17:53:25 +0000

Earlier this month, a Japanese tourist in Montreal made her way to McGill University’s McLennan Library to view the ongoing exhibit taking place during Asian Heritage Month, “From Ukiyo-e to Woodblock Printmaking: A Celebration of Japanese Art.” Octavian Sopt, Senior Documentation Technician in the Rare Books and Special Collections branch, is part of the team responsible for exhibits at the library.

Teaching and learning from young children: Climate change, forced migration and the built environment

Wed, 24 May 2023 19:07:37 +0000

Recognizing that education on environmental justice must begin early, a group of McGill University Architecture students spent five weeks in two Grade 4 classes in Royal Vale Elementary School this year to run ARCHITECTURE PLAYSHOP, where children were introduced to architecture as part of their language, art, and science classes.

Mapping the genetic history of French Canadians through space and time

Wed, 24 May 2023 21:47:03 +0000

Though we all share common ancestors ranging from a few generations to hundreds of thousands of years, genealogies that relate all of us are often forgotten over time. A new McGill University-led study is now providing insight into the complex relationship between human migration and genetic variation, using a unique genealogical dataset of over five million records spanning 400 years to unravel the genetic structure of French Canadian populations.

Microplastics are harming gut health

Mon, 15 May 2023 16:15:24 +0000

Scientists have been worried about the potential harms of microplastics for years. These small plastic particles less than 5 mm in length have been found everywhere because of plastic pollution – from the Earth’s deep oceans to remote regions in Antarctica, and even the seafood we eat. But, are microplastics really harmful?

McGill University celebrates graduates and honorary doctorate recipients at 2023 spring convocation

Fri, 12 May 2023 14:42:10 +0000

As part of this year’s Spring Convocation celebrations, McGill University will confer honorary degrees upon seventeen inspirational individuals.

Leaders in their respective fields, these honorary doctorates stand as examples of creativity, compassion, dedication, service, and a pioneering spirit. These are people who have made a difference in their community, in the world and – in the case of astronaut Drew Feustel – beyond.

Spring 2023 Convocation – Detailed Biographies of Honorary Doctorate Recipients

Fri, 12 May 2023 16:27:50 +0000

May 30, 2023, 10 a.m.– Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Doctor of Science, honoris causa (D.Sc.) 

Amelia Tekwatonti McGregor

A new understanding of human origins in Africa

Wed, 17 May 2023 14:21:41 +0000

There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But there remain many uncertainties and competing theories about where, when, and how.

Using 3D printing to improve implantable biomedical devices, touchscreens and more

Fri, 12 May 2023 18:22:44 +0000

McGill researchers are exploring a new technique that uses 3D printing and hydrogels. It has the potential not only to improve biomedical implants but could also be useful in the development of human-machine interfaces such as touch screens and neural implants. Biomedical devices like pacemakers or blood pressure sensors that are implanted into the human body need to be fabricated in such a way that they conform and adhere to the body – and then dissolve at the right time.

Historical fiction: a guarantee of critical success or a trap? 

Fri, 12 May 2023 18:28:17 +0000

For 21st century authors, the odds of writing a critical hit are much higher if the novel takes place in the past, not the present or future. Between 2000 and 2020, about three quarters of the novels shortlisted for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award took place in the historical past.

How anti-Asian racism manifested at work in the pandemic

Fri, 12 May 2023 17:56:17 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged any notion that Asian Americans are a privileged, white-adjacent group skirting above racism.

Tiny proteins found across the animal kingdom play a key role in cancer spread

Mon, 15 May 2023 14:39:22 +0000

Phosphatases of regenerating liver (PRLs) are a family of enigmatic proteins involved in cell growth and metabolism present in various species. From humans to fruit flies, they play a unique role in the growth of cancerous tumours and the spread of cancer throughout the body. New research emerging from McGill University is contributing to what is known about PRLs, which could potentially become an important tool in the development of cancer-fighting treatments.

Nature favours creatures in largest and smallest sizes

Tue, 09 May 2023 21:36:47 +0000

Surveying the body sizes of Earth’s living organisms, researchers from McGill University and University of British Columbia found that the planet’s biomass – the material that makes up all living organisms – is concentrated in organisms at either end of the size spectrum.

The researchers spent five years compiling and analyzing data about the size and biomass of every type of living organism on the planet—from tiny one-celled organisms like soil archaea and bacteria to large organisms like blue whales and sequoia trees.

One step closer to developing a potentially ultraprotective sunscreen from our own melanin

Mon, 08 May 2023 15:31:09 +0000

A new discovery about the structure of melanin has brought scientists one step closer to developing a new, potentially ultra-protective sunscreen derived from a biological substance found in nearly all organisms. Researchers from McGill’s Department of Chemistry, in collaboration with The Ohio State University and the University of Girona, have announced a major advance in understanding the fundamental structure of melanin and one of its components that turns light into heat, protecting the body from sun damage.

As racial and linguistic minorities, English-speaking Black Quebecers face more barriers to receiving mental healthcare

Mon, 08 May 2023 16:38:50 +0000

Black anglophones in Quebec experience more discrimination and report more barriers to mental healthcare – and overall lower mental health – than their French-speaking counterparts, according to a new study from McGill University researchers in the Department of Psychology.

Study sheds light on how the immune system protects the body

Fri, 05 May 2023 18:41:23 +0000

First study of humans with a rare immunodeficiency reveals how the immune system protects the body against pathogens known to cause serious diseases, such as tuberculosis and COVID-19. The research involving McGill University, paves the way for new therapies to treat autoimmune diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases, and new approaches to vaccine development.

STOPMTL.ca: unveiling of the first data on police stop experiences in Montreal

Tue, 02 May 2023 13:30:57 +0000

The first research report from STOPMTL.ca, a participatory mapping project of police stop experiences, presents preliminary data contributed by citizens of Montreal.

$165-million for McGill University’s world-leading inclusive genomics and RNA research program

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:19:35 +0000

The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced $1.4 billion in support of 11 large-scale research initiatives through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) today at Concordia University in Montreal. The CFREF grants are awarded through a highly competitive process to the top programs in their fields.

Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:25:20 +0000

Astronomers from McGill University are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.

McGill University achieves Socially Responsible Investing targets two years ahead of schedule

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:43:42 +0000

McGill University has achieved the performance targets set out in its Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) strategy, a full two years ahead of schedule. This milestone is highlighted in the 2022 Investment Committee Report on Socially Responsible Investing, presented yesterday to the McGill Board of Governors. This is the third annual report since the Board of Governors approved the five-year, eight-point implementation plan for decarbonizing the University’s endowment portfolio in April 2020.

A more convenient and accessible way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease?

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:46:35 +0000

Despite extensive research and encouraging findings, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains difficult to diagnose based on signs and symptoms alone. But what if one day, a blood sample during an annual check-up could be used to identify the disease? A recent McGill-led study has found that a new kind of blood test is as effective at detecting AD as lumbar punctures, one of the current methods used to diagnose AD.

Joint Chair aims to leverage AI and IoT to improve animal welfare in Canadian dairy farms

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:09:52 +0000

McGill University and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) announced today the creation of the Research and Innovation Chair in Animal Welfare and Artificial Intelligence (WELL-E). The five-year, $5 million Chair will carry out a major research project funded by a grant from NSERC Alliance and PROMPT, fiduciary of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy. Important contributions have also been made by industrial partners Novalait, Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO), Les Producteurs de Lait du Québec (PLQ), and Lactanet.

Not so sweet after all: are candy-striped spiders a threat to ecosystems across North America?

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:48:17 +0000

For years, pollinator declines have been a pressing issue for ecosystem health and food security in the face of climate change and human impacts on the environment. Even in their sleep, pollinating insects cannot catch a break – for fear they’ll be taken down by a small, but mighty predator: the candy-striped spider. Research published in Ecology took a closer look into this spider’s behaviour and found that the result of their stealth attacks could have substantial impacts on ecosystems.

Reducing fatigue and errors among nurses working night shifts

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:46:35 +0000

Nurses exposed to 40 minutes of bright light before their night shifts feel less fatigued and make fewer errors at work, according to a study led by McGill University. The nurses also slept better after their shifts.

Meet the first global cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:04:25 +0000

Thirty students from 10 countries will form the first global cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars at McGill University, arriving in September 2023.

Designed to encourage purposeful leadership, the scholarships are the result of a landmark $200 million gift in 2019 by John and Marcy McCall MacBain, the second-largest single donation in Canadian history.

Tastes differ – even among North Atlantic killer whales

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:30:57 +0000

Killer whales (also known as orcas) are intelligent predators. While it’s known that killer whales in the Pacific Northwest exploit widely different food types, even within the same region, we know much less about the feeding habits of those found throughout the North Atlantic. Thanks to a new technique developed by a research team led by McGill University, it is now possible to quantify, for the first time, the proportion of different prey that killer whales in the North Atlantic are eating by studying the fatty acid patterns in their blubber.

How different were galaxies in the early universe?

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:55:59 +0000

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the “cosmic dawn” — the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.

A team of scientists from across North America, Europe, and South Africa has doubled the sensitivity of a radio telescope called the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). With this breakthrough, they hope to peer into the secrets of the early universe.

Cutting down on social media to improve teens and young adults’ body image  

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:21:13 +0000

Teens in North America are spending several hours per day on screens, and there’s growing concern over how social media may affect their mental health.

What areas should Canada protect to save species at risk of extinction? 

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:57:28 +0000

At the recent COP 15 conference in Montreal, Canada committed to protecting 30% of its land by 2030, but which areas are most crucial to protect for at-risk species such as the spotted turtles? In a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, McGill University researchers overlayed maps of species at risk to find hotspots where many species live together. They found that hotspots often overlap.

From sex education to online misinformation

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:15:36 +0000

McGill University is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2023 Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The Prize was created to recognize outstanding achievement among those who share their knowledge on a vast range of subjects with the public and the media. This year, there were applicants from 10 of the 11 faculties, a sign that sharing knowledge and a love of learning is becoming increasingly embedded in the McGill DNA.

Does immigration really increase crime?

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:05:36 +0000

Many people who oppose immigration say that it increases crime. But does immigration really affect crime? Studying a country whose proportion of migrants has tripled in less than ten years, researchers find immigration significantly impacts people’s perceptions of crime but has no effect on actual crime.

The research, led by Nicolas Ajzenman, a professor of economics at McGill University, shows that while migrants don’t cause crime rates to increase, false perceptions endure anyway.

How the brain's 'internal compass' works

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:29:12 +0000

Scientists have gained new insights into the part of the brain that gives us a sense of direction, by tracking neural activity with the latest advances in brain imaging techniques. The findings shed light on how the brain orients itself in changing environments – and even the processes that can go wrong with degenerative diseases like dementia, that leave people feeling lost and confused.

Towards reducing biodiversity loss in fragmented habitats

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:55:48 +0000

When natural habitats are cleared to make way for cities, roads and agriculture, this often leaves behind “islands” of fragmented habitat that can place species at risk of extinction. Species are at risk when they find it hard to move among habitat patches to find resources and reproduce.

Fresh produce contaminated with toxic BPA-like chemicals found in food labels, study finds

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:55:53 +0000

Steps were taken in Canada to reduce the use of Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical linked to prostate and breast cancer, commonly found in plastics, the lining of food cans, water bottles, and paper receipts. But in many cases, it has been replaced with similar hormone disrupting chemicals, like Bisphenol S (BPS). A new study from McGill University shows that every day Canadians are exposed to BPS in the fresh foods they eat, as chemicals migrate from labels on the packaging materials into the food.

The first known visual acuity chart in Inuktitut, Cree, and Ojibwe

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:27:40 +0000

A large majority of Nunavik Inuit report Inuktitut as their first language. In their work in Puvirnituq, McGill University ophthalmologist Dr. Christian El-Hadad and his colleague Shaan Bhambra, a recent graduate of McGill’s medical school, noticed that many patients either read only, or mainly, Inuktitut. This made visual acuity testing using the standard Latin alphabet chart difficult for some patients.

Teaching hope during the climate crisis

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:24:44 +0000

Headlines about severe climate events can make the future seem bleak.

Genes shed light on why men and women experience different depression symptoms

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:21:24 +0000

Depression is widely reported to be more common in women than in men, with women twice as likely to receive a diagnosis than men.

World’s most comprehensive study on COVID-19 mental health

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:33:36 +0000

COVID-19 has taken a relatively limited toll on the mental health of most people around the globe, according to a paper published today in the BMJ by a McGill University-led research team involving collaborators from McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and other institutions.

The team reviewed data from 137 studies in various languages involving 134 cohorts of people from around the world. Most of the studies were from high or middle-income countries, and about 75% of participants were adults and 25% were children and adolescents between the ages of 10-19.

Working to break down barriers for Black scholars

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:14:45 +0000

Recent events, including the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, have drawn global attention to the reality of inequities in health care, the justice system, and higher education that disadvantage Black people. Reports show Black scholars face more barriers as they move up the research career ladder. In Canada, an advisory committee was created in 2021 to recommend ways to break down existing barriers for Black scholars and to ensure equitable access to federal research funding and training programs.

Socioeconomic factors play a role in detection, transmission and treatment of HIV

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:14:11 +0000

Those living in unstable housing conditions, such as hostels or informal dwellings and those who had not completed post-secondary studies were more likely to contract HIV in South Africa, according to a new study from McGill University.

Planes, trains, automobiles: How do older Canadians get around?

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:14:47 +0000

As we age, access to transportation becomes even more crucial, as it enables us to remain connected to social networks, maintain mental and physical health and reduce social isolation. In order to address this issue, the City of Montreal announced that public transit will be free for seniors starting in July.

Genes reveal kidney cancer’s risk of recurrence

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:06:55 +0000

Studying the mutations in kidney cancer after surgery could help to better predict the risk of the disease coming back, according to the latest results of a decade-long international study.

The research, undertaken by a team of 44 researchers at 23 institutions across Europe and Canada, including McGill University, is the largest to link the genetic changes that occur in kidney cancer to patient outcomes.

Addressing violent extremism in Quebec

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:18:37 +0000

Violent extremism in Canada is now considered a significant public health issue requiring prevention programs. At the same time that a surge in far-right movements has become a top concern for national security, Ottawa continues efforts to bring home and reintegrate women detained in Syria after travelling to join the Islamic State.

McGill sees 400% increase in incoming Black medical students thanks to inclusivity programs

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:57:46 +0000

A year ago, fewer than 2% of those admitted to McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (one of the top medical schools in the country) were Black. A typical incoming class had fewer than 5 Black students, a situation that has existed for many years. “When I was younger and thought about working in medicine, I didn’t think it was possible. You just didn’t see doctors who looked like me,” recalled Victoire Kpadé, who graduated from McGill’s undergraduate medical program in the spring of 2022.

Black students are the teachers in ‘See us, Hear us, Learn from us’ art exhibition

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:59:11 +0000

A student-led art exhibition on Feb. 23 is shedding light on Black artistry, talent and culture at McGill University. Organized by Welly Minyangadou Ngokobi, a graduate student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, ‘See us, Hear us, Learn from us,’ aims to let students take the lead in teaching the exhibition’s visitors about the history, culture and future of Black people. “This is not a talk. This is not a workshop.

U.S. police violence stems from a long history of fighting ‘internal enemies’

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:58:37 +0000

Many of the details surrounding the recent fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tenn., are still unknown or disputed. Yet in many ways, all you need to know is how the encounter started: With Nichols expressing confusion as to why he had been stopped, and one officer replying that he would attack Nichols.

Fossil discovery reveals complex ecosystems existed on Earth much earlier than previously thought

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:41:04 +0000

About 250 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction killed over 80 per cent of the planet's species. In the aftermath, scientists believe that life on earth was dominated by simple species for up to 10 million years before more complex ecosystems could evolve. Now this longstanding theory is being challenged by a team of international researchers – including scientists from McGill University and Université du Québec à Montréal.

A second chance to protect wetlands

Thu, 06 May 2021 13:53:49 +0000

Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that the loss of wetland areas around the globe since 1700 has likely been overestimated. This is good news overall, however, the global picture hides significant variations, with several regions and distinct wetland types under significant levels of pressure. For instance, temperate river floodplains have been highly impacted while remote boreal-arctic peatlands remain comparatively unharmed.

How our own identity impacts how we judge others

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:54:05 +0000

How does our own identity impact how we perceive and judge others? Research from McGill University has found that those who are most likely to be stereotyped based on their combined racial and gender identity, such as Black women and Asian men, were less likely to hold certain stereotypes against others.

A new understanding of reptile colouration

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:56:14 +0000

Snakes and mice don’t look alike. But much of what we know about skin colouration and patterning in vertebrates generally, including in snakes, is based on lab mice. However, there are limits to what mice can tell us about other vertebrates because they don’t share all of the same types of colour-producing cells, known as chromatophores. For example, snakes have a type of chromatophore called iridophores that can generate iridescent colours by reflecting light.

How does vaping affect the lungs?

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:13:40 +0000

Teen vaping has been on the rise, with reports of rapidly increasing use across North America. While some consider vapes to be a useful tool for smoking cessation, new research from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) supports a growing public health concern about potential adverse health consequences.

Using AI to predict recurring lung cancer

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:04:56 +0000

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Quebec and Canada, killing more individuals than prostate, colon and breast cancers combined. Thanks to tissue samples from almost 500 lung cancer patients, a group of researchers from McGill University and Université Laval were able to identify those who were likely to have a cancer recurrence and require further treatment post-surgery.

How immune cells generated neonatally protect our lungs throughout our lifetime

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:55:51 +0000

Every day, humans breathe in 11,000 litres of air. But this essential act also means we inhale microorganisms, particles, and pollutants. A new study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has revealed how the unique immune cells that are developed in the embryo protect our lungs from environmental challenges throughout the course of our lifetime.

Reducing mental health stigma in junior hockey

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:59:41 +0000

For professional athletes, the pressures of competition and stigma surrounding mental health issues can be debilitating to the point where some are leaving the arena for good. Young hockey players are no exception. Fear of negative career repercussions can mean athletes avoid disclosing their mental health concerns.

A Cree-speaking Alexa bot?

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:11:41 +0000

Indigenous communities across the globe are fighting to retain their languages, which serve as means through which cultures, knowledge and traditions are preserved and transmitted between generations.

How should Montreal’s high schools be reformed?

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:04:20 +0000

If you could redesign high school, what might you change? Like most educational institutions across Canada, Montreal’s English high schools retain structures from the time of the industrial revolution. As the realities of students’ lives have transformed, schools are slowly adapting to a knowledge-based economy and unpredictable ecological and social challenges.

McGill research reveals positive impact of CMHA Ontario’s Talk Today program in Canadian Junior Hockey League

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:17:37 +0000

A new report by McGill University Faculty of Education researchers shows Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario’s Talk Today program is making a positive impact on athletes in the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL).

What crocodile DNA reveals about the Ice Age

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:26:04 +0000

What drives crocodile evolution? Is climate a major factor or changes in sea levels? Determined to find answers to these questions, researchers from McGill University discovered that while changing temperatures and rainfall had little impact on the crocodiles’ gene flow over the past three million years, changes to sea levels during the Ice Age had a different effect.

Astronomers capture radio signal from distant galaxy

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 21:13:54 +0000

How do stars form in distant galaxies? Astronomers have long been trying to answer this question by detecting radio signals emitted by nearby galaxies. However, these signals become weaker the further away a galaxy is from Earth, making it difficult for current radio telescopes to pick up.

How COVID-19 changed our grocery habits

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:51:46 +0000

To better understand food-related decisions during the pandemic, a team of McGill researchers, including School of Human Nutrition Professor Daiva Nielsen and postdoctoral fellow Katherine Labonté, conducted an online survey among a sample of adults from Quebec to compare grocery shopping behaviours in 2019 and 2020. The study showed that at the beginning of the pandemic, people reduced the frequency of in-store shopping expeditions. This reduction occurred in tandem with a rise in curbside pick-up and delivery.

Illegal remixes: Law-breaking or creative license?

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:56:09 +0000

In the electronic dance music (EDM) community, what is viewed as intellectual property theft isn’t always up to the law—it’s up to the community. Norms around unlawful activities, such as illegal remixing, are often ambiguous and situation-specific. Ironically, illegal remixes can garner support, even career-launching acclaim.

Flying cars? Not so fast

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:02:47 +0000

Certain tech companies are promising dazzling futures when it comes to transportation, like Uber’s vision of skies buzzing with helicopter-like flying cars, and Elon Musk’s design for layers upon layers of automobile tunnels below city streets.

Significant reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions still possible

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:20:55 +0000

About a quarter of the world’s electricity currently comes from power plants fired by natural gas. These contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (amounting to 10% of energy-related emissions according to the most recent figures from 2017) and climate change.

Women experiencing intimate partner violence three times more likely to contract HIV

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:35:53 +0000

Women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers. In regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, women face an intersecting epidemic of intimate partner violence and HIV.

“Worldwide, more than one in four women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime," says McGill University Professor Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling.

ICYMI: 2022 research round up

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:28:38 +0000

The other paleo diet: Rare discovery of dinosaur remains preserved with its last meal

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:36:11 +0000

Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards – and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ecosystem of dinosaurs.

Story ideas: Environmental impact of holiday shopping; increasing vaccine uptake in Parc Extension

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:22:27 +0000

Circular economy may alleviate environmental impact of holiday shopping

Bots with feelings: Study explores how human customers react to AI chatbots with emotions

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:28:49 +0000

Artificial intelligence chatbots that show positive feelings — such as adding an “I am excited to do so!” or a few exclamation marks — do not necessarily translate into positive reactions or contribute to higher customer satisfaction, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of South Florida, the Georgia Institute of Technology and McGill University.

The hidden secrets of flowers

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:21:56 +0000

To better understand the evolution of flowers, researchers from Montreal are harnessing photogrammetry – a technique commonly used by geographers to reconstruct landscape topography. This is the first time scientists have used the technique to study flowers.

The team, including researchers from McGill University, Université de Montréal, and the Montreal Botanical Garden, published the results of their work in the journal New Phytologist.

Methane from manholes and historic landfills: significant sources of gas go unrecognized

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:16:53 +0000

Cities are responsible for almost 1/5^th of the global methane emissions caused by human activities. But most cities don’t capture information about the full range of sources of this powerful greenhouse gas. In 2020, a team led by McGill University, measured methane emissions from various sources across the city of Montreal.

Lottery Tickets Aren’t Child’s Play

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:33:09 +0000

Research shows that early childhood gambling experiences, including those with lottery products, can be a risk factor for gambling problems later in life.

This research prompted the International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors at McGill University and the U.S. National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) to join forces in developing the Gift Responsibly Campaign. Since 2001, the simple goal of the Campaign is to raise awareness about the risks of underage lottery play.

Eleven Quebec universities unite for biodiversity

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:54:49 +0000

Eleven Quebec universities have joined forces and signed the Nature Positive Pledge, becoming founding members of an international movement that includes 117 universities worldwide.

Enhancing and protecting Canada's carbon stocks is essential but insufficient to meet GHG emission targets: expert panel report

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:21:21 +0000

Enhancing carbon storage in natural ecosystems could put a small but significant dent in Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but an aggressive commitment to reducing human-caused emissions remains critically important, according to a new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), co-authored by McGill Professor Gail L. Chmura in the Department of Geography.

What AI-generated COVID news tells us that journalists don’t

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:03:51 +0000

AI can help identify biases in news reporting that we wouldn't otherwise see. Researchers from McGill University got a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from CBC articles as prompts. They then compared the simulated news coverage to the actual reporting at the time and found that CBC coverage was less focused on the medical emergency and more positively focused on personalities and geo-politics.

Cindy Blackstock Awarded SSHRC’s highest honour

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:51:03 +0000

Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the five winners of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) 2022 Impact Awards.

McGill’s Cindy Blackstock, one of Canada’s most important social work scholars and an indefatigable advocate for Indigenous children’s rights and welfare, has won the SSHRC Gold Medal, the federal agency’s highest honour. The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual whose sustained leadership, dedication, and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike.

An ecological rule breaker shows the effects of climate change on body size evolution

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:14:10 +0000

Does evolution follow certain rules? Can these rules be predicted? Southeast Asia’s tree shrews break multiple rules when it comes to body size variation – with an unexpected twist – according to researchers from McGill University, University of Cambridge, and Yale University. The findings shed new light on the effects of climate change on the evolution of body size in animals.

Stories: Poverty and Instagram addiction; Dungeons & Dragons theatre

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:19:19 +0000

Poverty linked to Facebook and Instagram addiction in teens

McGill receives $4.8 million to advance climate change science and technology

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:46:17 +0000

The Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), is investing more than $4 million in three McGill-led projects through the Climate Awareness and Action Fund (CAAF). Nationally, the funding was part of a $58 million investment in research that will advance climate change science and technology, an announcement made by the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change today.

To infinity and beyond: $26 million to propel space research at McGill University and Université de Montréal to the outer limits

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:46:06 +0000

The McGill Space Institute (MSI) and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal are at the forefront of the exhilarating pace of space research, helping to advance our knowledge of extrasolar planets, fast radio bursts, the dark universe, and other extraterrestrial mysteries. Now their stellar work and efforts to recruit top students and researchers are getting a huge boost thanks to extraordinary gifts to McGill University and the Université de Montréal from the Trottier Family Foundation.

Tick-borne pathogens increasingly widespread in Central Canada

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:39:13 +0000

Tick-borne pathogens, known for causing illnesses such as Lyme disease, are on the rise in Central Canada – presenting new risks in areas where they were never previously detected.

The findings from researchers at McGill University and the University of Ottawa demonstrate the need for more comprehensive testing and tracking to detect the spread and potential risk of tick-borne pathogens to human and wildlife populations throughout Canada.

McGill and RI-MUHC awarded $5.1 million for infectious disease research

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:56:10 +0000

New funding of $5.1 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), announced today by the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, will help researchers Marcel Behr, MD, PhD, and Silvia Vidal, PhD, ensure that Canada is better prepared for the next pandemic. This funding is part of the more than $127 million investment being made through the CFI to support upgrades to eight biocontainment facilities across the country as part of its new Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund (BRIF) program.

A suite of government funding in support of McGill research

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:23:04 +0000

Today, the Government of Canada announced an investment of more than $ 301 million in support of social sciences and humanities research, bioscience infrastructure and the Canada Research Chairs Program. The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry made the announcement at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. McGill was awarded 35 Insight Development Grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and 11 renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC) from the Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP).

$15.3 million gift for brain research at McGill University will bring new insights into neurological diseases and disorders

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:19:57 +0000

Scientists around the world are beginning to use new techniques in analyzing single brain cells to understand conditions like depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

McGill University appoints H. Deep Saini as new Principal and Vice-Chancellor

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:35:58 +0000

The Board of Governors of McGill University is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. H. Deep Saini as the University's 18th Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He will begin his five-year, renewable term on April 1, 2023.

Prof. Saini was chosen by a unanimous vote of the Board of Governors, following a recommendation of an Advisory Committee formed to lead an extensive, international search.

Stories: Childhood honesty, mental health for Ukrainians & support for dementia caregivers

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:00:18 +0000

Low levels of air pollution deadlier than previously thought

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:46:10 +0000

The World Health Organization’s most recent estimates (2016) are that over 4.2 million people die prematurely each year due to long-term exposure to fine particulate outdoor air pollution (often referred to as PM_2.5,). A recent study involving McGill researchers now suggests that the annual global death toll from outdoor PM_2.5 may be significantly higher than previously thought.

Vaccine uptake remains low among at-risk Canadians

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:14:41 +0000

As the flu season begins and the COVID-19 pandemic continues, pneumococcal vaccination is more important than ever to prevent disease and death from pneumonia and other forms of pneumococcal disease. But vaccine uptake remains low among adults at high risk, say researchers from McGill University.

Witchcraft on trial and impacts of Halloween fast fashion

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:21:14 +0000

McGill University to establish high-profile discussion series on Canada’s place in the world

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:49:11 +0000

Thanks to an endowment of $5 million from Canadian philanthropist Charles Bronfman, LLD’90, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) is launching a new flagship event entitled Conversations, sponsored by Charles Bronfman, a series of high-profile and broadly accessible discussions about issues of global importance and the challenges and opportunities facing Canada.

Penguin feathers may be secret to effective anti-icing technology

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:13:56 +0000

Ice buildup on powerlines and electric towers brought the northern US and southern Canada to a standstill during the Great Ice Storm of 1998, leaving many in the cold and dark for days and even weeks. Whether it is on wind turbines, electric towers, drones, or airplane wings, dealing with ice buildup typically depends on techniques that are time consuming, costly and/or use a lot of energy, along with various chemicals. But, by looking to nature, McGill researchers believe that they have found a promising new way of dealing with the problem.

Seawater: memory keeper, energy source, and pollution tracking

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:58:01 +0000

Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid

What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?

Forging a healthier future through research: McGill University launches new Institute of Genomic Medicine

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:11:11 +0000

A landmark donation to support McGill University’s renowned genomics research and education programs from UK-based alumnus and long-time donor Victor Dahdaleh is a catalyst for advancements in genomics research. Thanks to gifts from Victor Dahdaleh totalling more than $30 million, McGill will launch the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine.

Advancing climate research thanks to new satellite mission co-led by McGill University

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:13:13 +0000

Canadian scientists will contribute to assessing and addressing climate change thanks to a new satellite mission that has received more than $200 million from the Canadian federal government. This is Canada’s contribution to a major multi-satellite mission led by NASA, the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) mission, and will improve extreme weather prediction, climate modelling, and the monitoring of disasters.

Transparent face masks restore emotional understanding, but not empathy

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:53:07 +0000

Mask-wearing has become the norm for many since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite their effectiveness in preventing the spread of viruses, opaque masks impair our ability to understand and convey emotions, a group of McGill University researchers has found.

Flatworm-inspired medical adhesives stop blood loss

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:56:32 +0000

Every year around 2 million people die worldwide from hemorrhaging or blood loss. Uncontrolled hemorrhaging accounts for more than 30% of trauma deaths. To stop the bleeding, doctors often apply pressure to the wound and seal the site with medical glue. But what happens when applying pressure is difficult or could make things worse? Or the surface of the wound is too bloody for glue? Drawing inspiration from nature, researchers from McGill University have developed a medical adhesive that could save lives, modeled after structures found in marine animals like mussels and flatworms.

AI that can learn patterns of human language

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 20:33:32 +0000

Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way humans do. But researchers from McGill University, MIT, and Cornell University have taken a step in this direction. They have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can learn the rules and patterns of human languages on its own.

Why leaves change colour, a bilingual theatre journey, and how Uber could help cities cut carbon emissions

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:02:31 +0000

A more sustainable production of industrial chemicals

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 20:22:48 +0000

Two renewable resources – cellulose from wood pulp and chitin from the shells of crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans – are known to industrial chemists for their potential for creating highly versatile nanocrystals, useful for making pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, industrial additives and much more.

Hats off: McGill University celebrates graduates and honorary doctorate recipients at Fall Convocation

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:58:04 +0000

On October 26, 2022, 1,800 graduating students will cross the stage at McGill University’s Fall 2022 convocation ceremonies. They will celebrate with family and friends at Place des Arts, 175 St. Catherine Street West.

As part of the ceremonies, McGill will continue its tradition of conferring honorary degrees to highly talented and engaged individuals who serve as an inspiration for its community of students, professors, researchers, and staff.

At the Fall 2022 ceremonies, the university will confer its highest honours upon two accomplished McGill alumni:

The surprising Swiss-Army-knife-like functions of a powerful enzyme

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:17:05 +0000

Blue-green algae (AKA cyanobacteria) have a superpower which likely helps them be highly successful as invaders of waterways. They have an extraordinary ability to store energy and nitrogen in their cells for times of need. But how exactly they do so remains only partly understood.

Predicting the next volcanic eruption

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:21:48 +0000

Volcanic eruptions can be tricky to predict. Magma stored below volcanoes contains dissolved gases, including carbon dioxide, which escape to the surface and can be sampled at different times (before, after or during) an eruption to provide clues about the next one.

CFI invests $3.9 M in McGill research

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:15:25 +0000

Announced today by the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, 15 McGill researchers received a total of $3.9 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (CFI JELF). The Quebec government will provide matching funds for these awards. Across 40 Canadian institutions, Champagne announced $64 million to support 251 research infrastructure projects.

A new understanding of the neurobiology of impulsivity

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:30:55 +0000

While not all impulsive behaviour speaks of mental illness, a wide range of mental health disorders which often emerge in adolescence, including depression and substance abuse, have been linked to impulsivity. So, finding a way to identify and treat those who may be particularly vulnerable to impulsivity early in life is especially important.

Sea level rise: rapid and unstoppable unless Paris Agreement targets met

Mon, 03 May 2021 16:53:57 +0000

Image Caption: The Mackenzie River Delta on the Beaufort Sea, a low-lying region in the Canadian Arctic that is vulnerable to rising seas in a warming climate. CREDIT: Nadia and Harold Gomez

Exercise may be key to developing treatments for rare movement disorder

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:36:28 +0000

Spinal cerebellar ataxia 6 (SCA6) is an inherited neurological condition which has a debilitating impact on motor coordination. Affecting around 1 in 100,000 people, the rarity of SCA6 has seen it attract only limited attention from medical researchers. To date, there is no known cure and only limited treatment options exist.

Now, a team of McGill University researchers specializing in SCA6 and other forms of ataxia, have published findings that not only offer hope for SCA6 sufferers but may also open the way to developing treatments for other movement disorders.

Three McGill Professors Receive Royal Society of Canada Medals

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:09:16 +0000

Three McGill researchers have been honoured with prestigious medals from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Associate Professor Daryl Haggard of the Department of Physics was awarded the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics—named after one of McGill's most famous radiation physicists—for her pioneering studies of neutron stars and black holes. James McGill Professor Graham Bell of the Department of Biology is awarded the Flavelle Medal for his transformational work in experimental evolutionary science.

Muscle discovery, aging and memory, plus other stories

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:52:06 +0000

Muscle discovery may lead to better drugs

The smallest constituents of muscles, myosin and actin, may be targeted to contribute to more effective treatment methods against heart and muscle diseases, say a group of international researchers at McGill University and Linnaeus University.

Ten students at McGill University receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:07:37 +0000

Ten students have been named McGill University’s recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships, Canada’s premier Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarships.

Created by McGill alumnus Seymour Schulich, BSc’61, MBA’65, DLitt’04, the Schulich Leader Scholarships are awarded to entrepreneurial-minded students who’ve demonstrated academic excellence and display leadership, charisma and creativity.

Fifteen McGill researchers and scholars honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:46:14 +0000

Today, The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced 102 new Fellows and 54 new Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Among the 2022 cohort are fifteen McGill researchers and scholars, including eleven RSC Fellows and four new Members, who will be inducted at the RSC Celebration of Excellence and Engagement on November 25, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. The newest McGill cohort will join 238 McGill researchers who are currently RSC Fellows and Members of the College and 2400 Canada-wide.

Spiders caught in a web of Internet lies

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:45:06 +0000

It’s no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of misinformation in many areas of life. A collective of researchers, including Catherine Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow in McGill University’s Lyman Lab, have explored this phenomenon as it applies to news about spiders. The verdict? Don’t blindly trust anything you read online about these eight-legged arthropods—or anything else for that matter—and always consider the source.

McGill launches Sylvan Adams Sports Science Institute to advance world-leading research into sports science and human performance

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:53:04 +0000

A $29-million gift from Quebec-born entrepreneur Sylvan Adams will launch an exciting venture for McGill’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education in the Faculty of Education, ushering in a new era of world-leading research and discovery in sports science, with the long-term goal of improving elite human performance, and promoting healthier living across the human lifespan.

New research pavilion will advance understanding of extreme weather events and ecosystem effects

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:53:59 +0000

The new Adaptable Earth Observation System (AEOS) research facility at the Gault Nature Reserve in Mont-Saint-Hilaire is open for business for those conducting cutting-edge research on extreme weather conditions. It also serves as a lab for advanced ecological research. Thanks to a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant, this new pavilion paves the way to advancing environmental research by linking the Gault Nature Reserve with the project’s research stations in the Saint-Lawrence Valley, and in different parts of the world.

Moshe Safdie, one of the world’s most acclaimed and influential architects, gifts his professional archive to McGill University

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:44:53 +0000

Moshe Safdie, the renowned architect behind some of the world’s most celebrated buildings, has donated his professional archive to his alma mater, McGill University, and pledged his personal apartment at Habitat 67 to ensure that it remains a resource for the University and the public at large.

Greenland’s Indigenous population favours extracting and exporting sand from melting ice sheet

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:47:30 +0000

A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a McGill University-led research team has found that a surprisingly large majority – 3 out of 4 Greenlanders – support extracting and exporting sand left by the melting ice sheet. A significant proportion want Greenland’s leadership to assess the impact of sand extraction and exports on both the environment and economy. Furthermore, when it comes to who mines the sand, the majority prefer local involvement to foreign collaboration.

Largest-ever gift to McGill’s School of Continuing Studies will establish unique professional development program for members of marginalized groups

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:58:32 +0000

McGill University’s School of Continuing Studies is launching a unique experiential training and professional development program, with support from a $2-million community investment from Scotiabank, to help members of underrepresented local communities and newcomers to Canada, including refugees, build the durable skills they need to pursue their career paths.

Measuring the social impact of disruptive weather, plus other stories

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:25:08 +0000

New research stories from McGill University.

Using artificial intelligence to study the social impact of disruptive weather events

Does a “disruptive weather event” imply extreme weather? Not necessarily, say two McGill University researchers. Instead of focusing on social impacts, weather research tends to focus on meteorology.

Using sound and bubbles to make bandages stickier and longer lasting

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:45:19 +0000

Researchers have discovered that they can control the stickiness of adhesive bandages using ultrasound waves and bubbles. This breakthrough could lead to new advances in medical adhesives, especially in cases where adhesives are difficult to apply such as on wet skin.

Study challenges attitudes about young people and pandemic preventative measures, plus other stories

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:59:55 +0000

Critical thinking protecting Ukrainians against Russia's disinformation campaign

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:04:46 +0000

In disinformation campaigns, like the long-standing pro-Kremlin campaign targeted at Ukraine by the Russian government, who is most at risk of believing false information? A study led by McGill University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that Ukrainians who engaged in more analytic thinking were less likely to believe the pro-Kremlin disinformation, even if they were generally pro-Russia.

Why are some birds more intelligent than others?

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:18:53 +0000

If you’ve ever seen a starling peck open a garbage bag or a grackle steal your dog pellets, you get a sense that some birds have learned to take advantage of new feeding opportunities – a clear sign of their intelligence. Scientists have long wondered why certain species of birds are more innovative than others, and whether these capacities stem from larger brains (which intuitively seems likely) or from a greater number of neurons in specific areas of the brain.

No 'Safe Space' for 12 key ocean species on North American West Coast

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:56:58 +0000

For the generations who grew up watching Finding Nemo, it might not come as a surprise that the North American West Coast has its own version of the underwater ocean highway – the California Current marine ecosystem (CCME). The CCME extends from the southernmost tip of California up through Washington. Seasonal upward currents of cold, nutrient-rich water are the backbone to a larger food web of krill, squid, fish, seabirds and marine mammals. However, climate change and subsequent changes in ocean pH, temperature and oxygen levels are altering the CCME — and not in a good way.

The tiny bodies of bats allow perfect balance between flight costs and heat dissipation

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:33:35 +0000

Many mammal species living in cold climates tend to have large bodies and short limbs to reduce heat loss – a general pattern known as Bergmann’s rule. However, bats are the exception to the rule, displaying small body sizes in both hot and cold regions. A McGill-led team of researchers is shedding light on this long-standing debate over bats’ body sizes and focus on why bats are seemingly non-conforming to ecogeographical patterns found in other mammals. Their findings offer a new method for investigating complex macroecology across bat species.

No pain, no gain? How the brain chooses between pain and profit

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:19:57 +0000

Imagine having to choose over and over between what you enjoy doing and the pain that it might cause you, whether physical or emotional. If you live with conditions such as depression, anxiety, or chronic pain, you are probably familiar with making these difficult choices on a daily or weekly basis. But surprisingly little is known about which areas of the brain are involved in decisions of this kind.

New Vic: McGill University welcomes the Quebec government’s support

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:00:04 +0000

The Gazette officielle du Québec published the ministerial decision authorizing the Dossier d’affaires for the New Vic project on July 13th, 2022. This important milestone is a key step in this major visionary and transformative project led by McGill University.

Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:40:19 +0000

Astronomers at McGill University, MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy, that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. Classified as a fast radio burst, or FRB, this new signal persists for up to three seconds, about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB. Within this window, the team detected bursts of radio waves that repeat every 0.2 seconds in a clear periodic pattern.

Poverty reduction, evolutionary change, and laser cutting

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:13:10 +0000

Pac-Man carving by laser cutting. Credit: H. Borchers et al.

A gentler, more precise laser cutting technique

Laser cutting techniques are usually powered by high energy beams, so hot that they melt most materials. Now scientists from McGill University have developed a gentler, more precise technique using low-power visible light.

Is AI good or bad for the climate? It’s complicated

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 11:53:49 +0000

As the world fights climate change, will the increasingly widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) be a help or a hindrance? In a paper published this week in Nature Climate Change, a team of experts in AI, climate change, and public policy present a framework for understanding the complex and multifaceted relationship of AI with greenhouse gas emissions, and suggest ways to better align AI with climate change goals.

$26.5 million for McGill Research from NSERC Discovery Research Programs

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:35:04 +0000

Asked to list the most earthquake prone countries, few people would earmark Canada. Yet, in 2021, Natural Resources Canada identified 46 earthquakes, which registered between 1.8 and 5.3 magnitude and to date, 26 earthquakes have occurred in 2022. Damaging earthquakes are surprisingly common in the Western Quebec Seismic Zone, which encloses the Ottawa Valley from Montreal to Témiscamingue as well as the Laurentians. The question is not if but when a major quake will hit one of Canada’s major urban centres, an event that poses risks to human life and infrastructure.

A blueprint for life forms on Mars?

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:11:48 +0000

The extremely salty, very cold, and almost oxygen-free environment under the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in Canada’s High Arctic is the one that most closely resembles certain areas on Mars. So, if you want to learn more about the kinds of life forms that could once have existed – or may still exist – on Mars, this is a good place to look. After much searching under extremely difficult conditions, McGill University researchers have found microbes that have never been identified before.

Melanoma map shows skin cancer is on the rise in Canada

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:52:10 +0000

Rates of melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, are on the rise in Canada. Those living in southern and coastal areas are most at risk, according to a new study led by McGill University.

“Cutaneous melanoma causes more deaths than any other skin cancer, accounting for 1.9 per cent of all cancer deaths in men and 1.2 per cent in women in Canada. Globally, there were 290,000 new cases of this form of skin cancer in 2018,” says Dr. Ivan Litvinov, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University.

A biological super glue from mistletoe berries?

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:20:17 +0000

Each mistletoe berry can produce up to two metres of a gluey thread called viscin. It allows the seeds of this parasitic plant to stick to and infect host plants. Since ancient times, mistletoe berries have been explored as treatments for everything from infertility and epilepsy to cancer. But, until now, no one has fully investigated the potential medical or technical uses of the glue itself.

Fast-fashion, air pollution and women leaders under the media spotlight

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 03:25:23 +0000

Lack of environmental awareness and preference for variety leading causes of waste in fast-fashion production

The secret lives of Darwin's finches reveal daily commutes the equivalent of 30 soccer fields

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:27:58 +0000

Using radio transmitters, scientists have gained new insights into the behaviour of medium ground finches in the Galapagos Islands. A study led by McGill University researchers reveals daily movement patterns covering an area equivalent to the size of 30 soccer fields.

Decoding the language of immune responses

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:24:20 +0000

Fever, cough, sore throat – symptoms in the spotlight in the era of COVID-19 – are just some of the tell-tale signs of our body’s immune system kicking into action against an unwanted intruder. Whether triggered by an infection, an allergen, or a vaccine, immune responses are driven by a complex array of cellular processes that can play out over several days or even weeks.

Research briefs: Origami-inspired design and why mice fear bananas

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:42:39 +0000

Here are some interesting new stories from McGill University Media Relations:

McGill announces C$6 million chair in architecture to develop turn-key solutions for mass building climate retrofits

Tue, 24 May 2022 17:02:00 +0000

As the impact of climate change intensifies and accelerates, there is growing urgency to radically transform areas that can be substantially decarbonized. Buildings are among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) however the vast majority of existing Canadian building stock was constructed with no energy code in place. Developing a systematic and scalable approach to retrofit existing buildings and communities to reduce their GHG emissions will help Canada achieve its carbon reduction targets.

Music to our ears: Gift to McGill and UdeM creates hub for collaborative piano in Montreal

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:00:45 +0000

After two years of health restrictions that have often left concert halls empty and musicians struggling, a generous donation from the Azrieli Foundation is helping to breathe new life into the world of elite music performance.

Concussion symptoms in children may have multiple underlying causes

Tue, 17 May 2022 17:46:34 +0000

Different types of brain damage caused by a concussion may lead to similar symptoms in children, according to research led by McGill University. A new way of studying concussions could help develop future treatments.

While most children fully recover after a concussion, some will have lasting symptoms. The findings published in eLife help explain the complex relationships that exist between symptoms and the damage caused by the injury.

Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

Thu, 12 May 2022 16:34:23 +0000

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the centre of most galaxies. The image was produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, using observations from a worldwide network of radio telescopes. Astronomers from McGill University were part of this global effort.

Discovery reveals blocking inflammation may lead to chronic pain

Tue, 10 May 2022 17:33:06 +0000

Using anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids to relieve pain could increase the chances of developing chronic pain, according to researchers from McGill University and colleagues in Italy. Their research puts into question conventional practices used to alleviate pain. Normal recovery from a painful injury involves inflammation and blocking that inflammation with drugs could lead to harder-to-treat pain.

McGill University's carbon reduction strategy in investments yields outstanding results

Tue, 10 May 2022 17:32:49 +0000

As part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change, McGill University’s result-oriented strategy has accelerated the effective decarbonization of its investment, and further reduced its exposure to large users of oil, gas, and coal, as well as fossil fuel producers. By taking a holistic approach that looks beyond the traditional carbon-intensive energy sector, the University has achieved a nearly 53 per cent absolute reduction in the carbon footprint of its two-billion-dollar endowment portfolio in just two years.

Exposure to wildfires increases risk of cancer

Fri, 06 May 2022 18:43:15 +0000

A new study from McGill University finds higher incidence of lung cancer and brain tumors in people exposed to wildfires. The study, which tracks over two million Canadians over a period of 20 years, is the first to examine how proximity to forest fires may influence cancer risk.

The Future is Bright: McGill’s Honorary Degree recipients for Spring Convocation 2022

Fri, 06 May 2022 20:26:08 +0000

This Spring, beloved traditions are returning to McGill University’s downtown and Macdonald campuses. The University’s newest graduates will again cross the stage to receive their hard-earned degrees and diplomas. To celebrate these students’ outstanding achievements, the University will welcome 14 inspirational individuals who have made exceptional contributions to both their own fields and society as a whole.

Shielding children from food insecurity – no protection from psychological problems

Wed, 04 May 2022 03:44:41 +0000

It’s easy to imagine the emotional distress of both parents and children in families where there isn’t enough to eat. Especially if it happens regularly. An increasing number of studies have shown an association between food insecurity and adverse mental health outcomes. Now, new research from McGill University has looked at the impacts of food insecurity on the mental health of both parents and children separately.

An Interactive Sustainability Dashboard for Montreal and beyond

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:30:06 +0000

What if you could gather as much sustainability-related information as possible about a city, and use it to create an interactive website to be used by wide and diverse audiences? That is essentially what three McGill professors have assembled with Sus – a new, interactive and fully bilingual English and French-language sustainability dashboard for the Montreal urban area will be launched on April 25 (in French) and April 26 (in English). Its name is a playful reference to “sustainability” but its value to the city can be of great consequence.

Leading McGill scholars celebrated for sharing their work with the media

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:55:30 +0000

Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier has announced the 2022 winners of the Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The prize was created to recognize exceptional scholars who share their knowledge with the media and the public, whether about sustainability, politics, music, science and engineering or COVID-19.

Meet the second class of McCall MacBain Scholars

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:16:33 +0000

Aspiring policy-makers, health innovators, entrepreneurs, and non-profit leaders are among the 20 newly selected McCall MacBain Scholars at McGill, Canada’s comprehensive leadership scholarship program for master’s and professional studies.

The new scholars come from 17 Canadian universities and will begin their degrees in 7 faculties at McGill in September 2022. Three faculties - Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, Education, and Management - will welcome scholars for the first time.

Hard to change minds when it comes to vaccine willingness

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:00:00 +0000

In the fall of 2020, before vaccines were readily available, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) surveyed nearly 24,000 middle-aged and older adults to test their willingness to get vaccinated. The new study from McGill and McMaster and Universities, published recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology, provides insight into the factors that may lead to vaccine hesitancy among older adults, who are known to be at increased risk of severe symptoms from COVID-19.

$2.9 million from the Government of Canada for McGill research

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:52:13 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disruptive effect on McGill’s research activities, particularly community and field-based research. The pandemic has also provided a unique opportunity to explore new directions in research methodologies. McGill’s researchers have developed creative solutions and harnessed science to solve national and global challenges.

CHIME Outrigger telescopes boost search for fast radio bursts

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:41:45 +0000

In the quest to identify the origins of one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries – fast radio bursts (FRBs) – Canada’s world-renowned telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), is getting backup.

McGill University joins Moderna in battle against global health threats

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:04:28 +0000

McGill University has joined Moderna’s mRNA Access program, which aims to accelerate innovation and enable new vaccines and medicines for emerging and neglected infectious diseases through collaborative research and preclinical development. McGill is the first university in Canada to join this program as it ramps up its international rollout.

One in four women experience domestic violence before age 50

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:59:31 +0000

Over one in four women (or 27 per cent) experience intimate partner violence before the age of 50, according to a worldwide analysis led by researchers from McGill University and the World Health Organization. The largest of its kind, the analysis covers 366 studies involving more than 2 million women in 161 countries.

Martha Crago Awarded the German Order of Merit

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:04:36 +0000

On March 22, Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, was presented with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The award was handed over by Germany’s Ambassador to Canada, Ms. Sabine Sparwasser, at a special ceremony at McGill University. The Order of Merit is awarded to Germans as well as foreigners for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, social, or intellectual realms.

McGill University's New Vic Project moves to next level with support from Quebec government

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:21:07 +0000

McGill University welcomes the Quebec government's renewed commitment to its New Vic project as part of the 2022-2023 budget documents.

This innovative project aims to convert part of the former Royal Victoria Hospital site into a learning, research and teaching hub focused on sustainable development and public policy. To do this, McGill will transform a portion of the site into a state-of-the-art space designed to support multidisciplinary teaching and research activities, while fostering collaborative research activities with government, private sector and academic partners.

Amid war and disease, World Happiness Report shows bright spot

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:45:45 +0000

In this troubled time of war and pandemic, the World Happiness Report 2022 shows a bright light in dark times. According to the team of international researchers, including McGill University Professor Christopher Barrington-Leigh, the pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence.

LSD, a future anti-anxiety pill?

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:21:33 +0000

The craze for psychedelics used for therapeutic purposes is real. However, the scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness and explaining their mode of action in treating mental health disorders is still very thin. A new study led by Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a senior scientist in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), sheds light on previously unexplained neurobiological mechanisms by which LSD is believed to relieve anxiety.

More than half of students who took part in survey on Law 21 say they will leave Quebec to find work

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:28:27 +0000

Researchers from McGill and Concordia universities have teamed up to examine how Quebec's secularism law, Law 21, is affecting the career choices and experiences of discrimination of students, particularly in the province's faculties of law and education. The law, which bans some public servants, including teachers in the public system and prosecutors, from wearing religious symbols at work, was implemented in June 2019.

Compulsive exercise is a socially acceptable prison cell

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:19:28 +0000

Compulsive exercise (CE) gets little attention, despite being a fairly common and serious condition. There is no universally recognized definition of compulsive exercise, though it involves being obsessed and all-consumed by exercising, and those who suffer from it often describe themselves as being miserable, in pain, or depressed all the time. Although it is frequently accompanied by an eating disorder (85% of those with eating disorders also exercise compulsively), there are also people who may be hyper-focused on exercise alone.

Société des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) & Bensadoun School join forces

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:14:10 +0000

Consumer behaviour has changed dramatically during the pandemic. Public health restrictions have played a major role, but a trend toward e-commerce and omni-channel retail was already underway. It has only accelerated.

“Companies now need to show a lot of creativity and resilience. External factors are having a huge impact on operations,” says Charles de Brabant, Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at McGill University. “Consumer behaviour changes, technology changes, and now supply chain disruptions are causing inflationary pressures.

Stemming the tide of invasive species

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:52:17 +0000

Ballast water release from ocean vessels has introduced hundreds of invasive species to coastal ecosystems worldwide, causing major disruptions to fisheries and biodiversity. Attempts to control aquatic invasions have met with mixed success in general. However, a new study suggests that a bi-national regulation targeting ships entering the Great Lakes since the mid-2000s has been remarkably effective in reducing a large proportion of the invasive species in the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem.

McGill24 raises $3.95 million for causes across the University in seventh annual day of giving

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:14:14 +0000

On March 9, the global McGill University community came together once again to make a difference on McGill24, raising a record $3,949,997 in 24 hours during the seventh edition of the University’s annual day of giving. This year’s McGill24 took place as the University wraps up its bicentennial celebrations and kicks off its third century, with a theme that inspired the community to reflect on 200 reasons to give.

Face masks impair nonverbal communication between individuals

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:26:41 +0000

Since the onset of the worldwide pandemic, face masks have been widely adopted to control the spread of COVID-19. While masks are critical for mitigating disease contagion, they hide parts of our faces which are used for nonverbal communication to express our emotions and intentions.

Child marriages violating statutory rape laws in many U.S. states

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:23:20 +0000

In many U.S. states, children can legally marry at an earlier age than they can consent to sex, leading to situations where sex between spouses may be a criminal act. Some states exempt sex between married spouses from their definition of statutory rape, which may create perverse incentives for child marriage, according to researchers from McGill University.

Their findings, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, show that child marriages violated statutory rape laws in 14 states.

Prioritizing supports to specific neighbourhoods is key to curbing COVID-19 transmission

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:55:32 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic has uneven impacts across cities and provinces, with some regions struggling more than others. A new study shows hotspots of COVID-19 infections across Canadian cities are linked to occupation, income, housing, and markers for structural racism.

Understanding how your romantic partner sees your emotions may help couples cope with conflict

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 14:19:39 +0000

A study by researchers at McGill University is shedding new light on the importance of the perception of emotion in romantic relationships. The all-McGill team found that, regardless of how an individual is truly feeling, knowing their partner sees their emotions as a typical reaction to a given situation may lead to better relations within a couple − especially in situations of conflict.

Are men or women more likely to enjoy aggression in porn?

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:57:41 +0000

After interviewing over 300 regular pornography viewers in a study published in Archives of Sexual Behaviour, Professor Eran Shor found that while most viewers were not interested in watching sexual aggression in pornography, women were more likely than men to say that they enjoyed aggression in the pornography they watch, including harder forms, such as choking.

Do emotions impact decisions on punishment in the context of crime?

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:00:13 +0000

Anger is a key emotion in understanding public opinion towards crime and punishment: it is frequently mobilized in public discourse and is elicited by specific incidents. But what role do emotions play in questions of punishment for crime?

What the rise of oxygen on early Earth tells us about life on other planets

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:23:08 +0000

When did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from McGill University have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion of complex, eukaryotic ecosystems. Their findings represent the strongest evidence to date that extremely low oxygen levels exerted an important limitation on evolution for billions of years.

Men who paid for sex more likely to live with HIV

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:03:18 +0000

Twenty years’ worth of surveys suggest that nearly one in ten sexually active men in 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been clients of sex workers. These men are about 50 percent more likely to be living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a team of international researchers, including Professor Mathieu Maheu-Giroux and Caroline Hodgins of McGill University.

Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:38:05 +0000

Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of “rapid evolution” in specific populations as their traits (phenotypes) change in response to varying stressors. For example, Spanish clover has developed a tolerance for copper from the mine tailings in which it grows, and the horn size of Alberta bighorn sheep has decreased due to trophy hunting.

Protective gene variant against COVID-19 identified

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:15:52 +0000

In addition to old age and certain underlying diseases, genetics can influence whether we become severely affected or only suffer mild illness from COVID-19. Previous studies on mainly people of European ancestry have found that individuals carrying a particular segment of DNA have a 20 percent lower risk of developing a critical COVID-19 infection. This DNA segment encodes genes in the immune system and is inherited from Neanderthals in about half of all people outside Africa.

New insights into seasons on a planet outside our solar system

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:41:33 +0000

XO-3b, a hot Jupiter on an eccentric orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

Federal government announces 17 Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:11:37 +0000

Plastics, textiles, and electronics have revolutionized our modern world, but their massive production has led to the accumulation of non-biodegradable and toxic wastes. This is a problem McGill researcher Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne hopes to have a hand in solving. Today she was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biologically-Derived Materials, in recognition of the importance of her research for Canada’s future.

McGill University Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier will step down at the end of August 2022

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:02:40 +0000

Professor Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, announced today that she will be stepping down from her second term on August 31, 2022.

“Entering the University’s third century provides a unique opportunity for renewal and for setting new directions and ambitious goals,” said Principal Fortier. “After close to a decade in this role, I believe it is an ideal time to pass the baton to a new leader who will shape the future of our University.”

Real-time alert system heralds new era in fast radio burst research

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:36:52 +0000

McGill University scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenomenon that is one of the hottest topics in modern-day astronomy.

Message from the Chair of the Board of Governors of McGill University

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:07:49 +0000

Following recent press coverage regarding McGill Principal’s compensation this year, I wish to clarify a number of key elements.

McGill University is recognized as one of the world’s leading universities. As such, the University is committed to attracting and retaining the best leaders by maintaining compensation practices competitive with other leading Canadian universities, including those in the U15 group.

Acfas prizes for two McGill Professors

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:53:42 +0000

Canada’s most prestigious French-language learned society announced the recipients of its research awards today, and two McGill professors are among the winners.

At its 77th virtual gala ceremony, the non-profit organization Acfas, l’Association francophone pour le savoir, awarded McGill Professor Michel Biron the Prix André-Laurendeau and Professor Susanne Lajoie the Prix Jeanne-Lapointe.

A new understanding of mental illness

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:34:50 +0000

The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a wide range of early onset psychiatric problems (from depression, anxiety and addictions to dyslexia, bulimia, and ADHD) may be largely due to the combination of just three factors. The first is biological—in the form of individual variability in the brain’s dopamine reward pathway. The second is social—and points to the important role of early childhood neglect or abuse.

Marjoleine Kars wins 2021 Cundill History Prize

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:56:12 +0000

Marjoleine Kars has been named winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize for Blood on the River: a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (The New Press). Kars accessed a previously untapped Dutch archive to reveal the little-known story of a 1763 slave rebellion in Berbice, a Dutch colony in present-day Guyana.

Preventing “Alien” Invasions

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:02:40 +0000

The search of life beyond our world is an exciting venture that may yield an enormous discovery in the not-too-distant future. However, space agencies around the world, including NASA and the European Space Agency, have long been aware of the potential risks of biological contamination and have set in place planetary protection policies.

Lottery Tickets Aren’t Child’s Play

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:04:29 +0000

According to research, early childhood gambling experiences, including those with lottery products, increase the risk for developing gambling problems later in life.

Support for research in carbon-free energy storage and conversion

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:28:07 +0000

As the world reflects on pledges made at the United Nations climate conference (COP26) to reduce carbon emissions, and scientists develop new ways to scale up renewable energy, McGill University’s efforts to contribute to a cleaner, carbon-free future will take another big leap forward thanks to a $2-million donation from TD Bank Group (TD).

Synthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:02:03 +0000

Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists from McGill University develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a major advance in regenerative medicine.

Extinct swordfish-shaped marine reptile discovered

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:31:01 +0000

A team of international researchers from Canada, Colombia, and Germany has discovered a new marine reptile. The specimen, a stunningly preserved metre-long skull, is one of the last surviving ichthyosaurs – ancient animals that look eerily like living swordfish.

$13 million in gifts will help transform McGill’s Leacock Building, support Indigenous research and knowledge

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 20:23:47 +0000

Donations totalling $13 million from McGill alumnus Gerald Rimer and the Rimer family will support a major renovation of the University’s Leacock Building and build the foundation for a future Institute for Indigenous Research and Knowledges (IIRK) at McGill.

Marine species in St.Lawrence Estuary endangered by rapid drop in levels of oxygen

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:59:10 +0000

Concentrations of dissolved oxygen in the deep waters of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (LSLE) have dropped by over 50% over the past two years. The consequences for many marine species, who depend on oxygen to survive, are potentially very serious. A compilation of historical data reveals that dissolved oxygen concentrations in the deep waters of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary decreased by about 50% during the fifty years between 1934 and 1985. And then remained fairly constant until 2019, when the situation changed dramatically.

Message from Principal and Vice Chancellor Suzanne Fortier on the importance of French at McGill University

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:55:19 +0000

Following this week's media reports, Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier would like to clarify the situation regarding the importance of French at McGill University. Although McGill is an English-speaking institution of higher education, French holds a special place and the majority of the University's roughly 50,000 students and employees speak French.

Dopamine plays key role in songbird mating

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 19:32:16 +0000

In humans, the dopamine system has been tied to rewards and pleasurable sensations. As well as to memory and learning. A recent study from McGill University, published in Current Biology, suggests that dopamine may also play a key role in shaping what songs female songbirds enjoy, which may ultimately affect mating as females choose (and then remember) their mates based on the songs they prefer.

McGill University celebrates graduates and honorary doctorate recipients at fall convocation

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:18:01 +0000

This fall, 700 graduating students, who completed their programs at the end of Summer 2021 at McGill University, will cross the stage for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2019. The four in-person fall convocation ceremonies will take place on November 25^th and 26^th, 2021 at Place des Arts, where graduates will celebrate together with family and friends.

Caucasian households in U.S. emit most carbon despite greater energy efficiency

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:43:54 +0000

Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers led by McGill University has used data from 60 million individual American households to look into how carbon emissions caused by household energy use vary by race and ethnicity across the country. Paradoxically, this first national level analysis found that even though energy-efficient homes are more often found in Caucasian neighbourhoods, carbon emissions from these neighbourhoods are higher than in African American neighbourhoods.

The global ocean out of balance

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:46:52 +0000

Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from small krill to large tuna, seem to obey a simple mathematical law that links an organism’s abundance to its body size. For example, although small krill are individually only about one millionth of the weight of a large tuna, they also tend to be a million times more numerous throughout the oceans. The idea, known as the Sheldon size spectrum theory, was first advanced in the 1970s, but has never been tested for a wide range of marine species and on a global scale until now.

COVID-19 lockdowns deepened struggle for work-family balance

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:01:57 +0000

Around the world increasing mental health inequalities between women and men following the COVID-19 pandemic represent a major public health concern. According to a new study, the lockdown measures due to the pandemic profoundly and unequally disrupted the work-family balance for many graduate students, exacerbating mental health problems.

How to turn specific genes on and off

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:55:30 +0000

Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer are just some of the disorders associated with specific genes not “turning on” and “turning off” as they should. By using new CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology, in a recent paper in Nature Communications, McGill University researchers have described a new technique that scientists across the world can potentially use to explore novel ways of treating diseases associated with dysregulation in DNA methylation.

Diet restricted size of hunter-gatherer societies

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:30:08 +0000

Short growing seasons limited the possible size of hunter-gatherer societies by forcing people to rely on meat, according to a recent study by a team of international researchers, including McGill University professor Eric Galbraith.

Revolutionary identity verification technique offers robust solution to hacking

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:36:14 +0000

A team of computer scientists, including Claude Crépeau of McGill University and physicist colleagues from the University of Geneva, have developed an extremely secure identity verification method based on the fundamental principle that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light. The breakthrough has the potential to greatly improve the security of financial transactions and other applications requiring proof of identity online.

Can inhaled corticosteroids alleviate early symptoms of COVID-19?

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:37:42 +0000

Despite high hopes, a new pan-Canadian study published today in The BMJ suggests that ciclesonide—an inhaled and nasal steroid drug commonly used for asthma and rhinitis—won’t be the treatment to change the course of the pandemic.

Advancing agriculture threatens the livelihoods of forest-dependent people

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:31:46 +0000

Satellite images reveal where forest-dependent people live inside the forests of the South American Gran Chaco, and how deforestation for cattle ranching leads to an erosion of their resource base. (Background photo: Google Earth^TM/ Inset photo: I. Gasparri).

McGill conferring honorary degrees to four exceptional individuals

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:32:17 +0000

McGill University is proud to confer honorary degrees to highly talented and engaged individuals who serve as an inspiration for our community of students, professors, researchers and staff.

How cultural differences shape responses to COVID-19

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:07:00 +0000

A study exploring cross-cultural differences in knowledge and attitudes towards COVID-19 reveals that people in Europe had the least knowledge of COVID-19 and lowest tendency to care about the coronavirus, while people in the United States had the lowest tendency to comply with public health restrictions. As the pandemic began to unfold, people in the Middle East and Asia were the most aware of COVID-19. People in the Middle East were also the most afraid of the coronavirus.

How bacteria create a piggy bank for the lean times

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:43:19 +0000

Bacteria can store extra resources for the lean times. It’s a bit like keeping a piggy bank or carrying a backup battery pack. One important reserve is known as cyanophycin granules, which were first noticed by an Italian scientist about 150 years ago. He saw big, dark splotches in the cells of the blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) he was studying without understanding either what they were or their purpose.

By 2500 earth could be alien to humans

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:30:51 +0000

To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well beyond the 2100 benchmark. Unless CO2 emissions drop significantly, global warming by 2500 will make the Amazon barren, the American Midwest tropical, and India too hot to live in, according to a team of international scientists.

Older adults are more willing to help others, but mostly those in the same country

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:29:39 +0000

Older adults are more willing to help others compared to younger adults but will prioritize those within their own country – particularly when it comes to donating to charity. This group was also more compliant with public health guidelines for physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a team of international researchers.

$2.5 million for the creation of the Réseau québécois de recherche en agriculture durable

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:45:39 +0000

Today, the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT), along with its partner the ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation (MAPAQ) announced the creation of the Réseau québécois de recherche en agriculture durable (RQRAD), a flagship measure of the Plan d’agriculture durable 2020-2030 (PAD).

How mussels make a powerful underwater glue

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:12:22 +0000

The mussels’ beards (which cooks remove before preparing them) are made up of byssal threads and are used to help keep the mussels tethered in place. At the end of each thread is a disc-shaped plaque that acts as an underwater glue. The unusual qualities of the glue and the byssal threads have interested people since ancient times, when the threads of certain species were woven into luxurious berets, purses, gloves, and stockings. More recently, scientists have developed underwater adhesives and surgical glues inspired by byssal thread chemistry.

COVID-19: Coughing without masks, distancing alone is not enough

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:00:58 +0000

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors, the two metres physical distancing guideline is not enough without masks, according to researchers from Quebec, Illinois, and Texas. However, wearing a mask indoors can reduce the contamination range of airborne particles by about 67 percent.

Unbreakable glass inspired by seashells

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:35:19 +0000

Scientists from McGill University develop stronger and tougher glass, inspired by the inner layer of mollusk shells. Instead of shattering upon impact, the new material has the resiliency of plastic and could be used to improve cell phone screens in the future, among other applications.

Discovery of mechanics of drug targets for COVID-19

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:19:16 +0000

A team of international researchers, including McGill Professor Stéphane Laporte, have discovered the working mechanism of potential drug targets for various diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and even COVID-19. The findings published in Molecular Cell uncover the inner workings of cell receptors that are involved in cancer progression and inflammatory diseases.

Canada’s nitrogen footprint shows regional variation

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:47:58 +0000

Reactive nitrogen emissions contribute to greenhouse gases, as well as air and water pollution. For the first time, researchers from McGill University have calculated Canada’s nitrogen footprint (akin to a carbon footprint) – at both national and provincial levels. They looked at the three primary sectors that contribute nitrogen to the environment to calculate the annual average nitrogen footprint: food production and consumption, wastewater treatment, and fossil fuel use. There were some surprises when they analyzed their results.

Dangers of smoking during pregnancy

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:36:16 +0000

Mothers who smoke are more likely to deliver smaller babies even after a full-term pregnancy, increasing the risks of birth defects and neurological disorders later in life, say researchers from McGill University. The team of researchers, which includes Assistant Professor Michael Dahan and Ido Feferkorn of the McGill University Health Care Center, examined the effects of smoking on more than nine million deliveries in the Unites States over 11 years, one of the largest studies to date.

More sleep boosts teens’ ability to cope with pandemic

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:43:24 +0000

While poor sleep was linked to higher levels of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, more teens actually obtained the recommended amount of sleep compared to pre-pandemic sleep patterns, according to a new study from McGill University. Changes to daily routines triggered by lockdowns allowed teenagers to follow their biological impulse to wake up and sleep later, reducing daytime sleepiness.

Helping children with autism and hyperlexia learn to understand what they read

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:23:56 +0000

Hyperlexia is a condition where preschool children display an intense early interest in letters in a way that is very advanced for their age. They can decode words accurately, but without understanding their meaning. It is most common among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) – with approximately 6-20% of children with autism demonstrating hyperlexia.

Freshwater ecosystems at risk due to glyphosate use

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:22:00 +0000

One of the few species that was found to be resistant to severe glyphosate contamination was Scapholeberis mucronata, a freshwater zooplankter commonly found in Québec and elsewhere in North America. CREDIT: Marie-Pier Hébert

Fighting brain cancer at its root

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:25:55 +0000

McGill University researchers identify proteins that drive cancer stem cells. Targeting and supressing a particular protein called galectin1 could provide a more effective treatment for glioblastoma, in combination with radiation therapy.

Due to its resistance to therapy, glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive cancerous brain tumour in adults. It grows fast and spreads quickly. While treatments such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy can help ease symptoms for a few months, in most cases tumour cells regrow after treatment and the cancer recurs.

A skin crawling treatment for acne?

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:14:41 +0000

Drawing inspiration from nature, a team of international scientists have invented a smart device for personalized skin care modeled after the male diving beetle. This tool collects and monitors body fluids while sticking to the skin’s surface, paving the way for more accurate diagnostics and treatment for skin diseases and conditions like acne. The team includes Bo-yong Park, a former postdoctoral researcher at The Neuro at McGill University.

Q&A with Bo-yong Park

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Tracking genetically modified animals

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:38:19 +0000

McGill University researchers have discovered a new way to track genetically modified animals using the artificial transgenes they leave behind in the environment. The discovery provides a powerful new tool to locate and manage genetically modified animals that have escaped or been released into the wild.

Global sand and gravel extraction conflicts with half of UN Sustainable Development Goals

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:38:07 +0000

Sediment mining in the Goyain River in northern Bangladesh. The sand taken from these beds is used for buildings and infrastructure in nearby towns and cities CREDIT: Jim Best

Six McGill students receive Canada's largest science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) scholarships

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 18:40:02 +0000

Six students from across Canada have been named recipients of the country’s largest undergraduate scholarship program, Schulich Leader Scholarships, and will begin their studies this September, in McGill’s bicentennial year.

Out of a pool of 350,000 potential candidates across Canada, 1,400 students were nominated. Given the unprecedented circumstances associated with the pandemic, for the second consecutive year, the Schulich Foundation awarded an additional 50 scholarships for a total of 100 in recognition of the challenges facing students and their families.

Uncovering the relationship between lifestyle, personality and brain structure

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:50:04 +0000

Danilo Bzdok, a researcher at The Neuro, McGill’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, uses machine learning to identify patterns in human neurological and psychological data. One of his team’s recent studies analyzed personality profiles, demographic status and social lifestyle from a cohort of 40,000 UK Biobank middle aged participants. Their research focused on how these factors are related to each other and to brain structure.

Indigenous territories fight climate change

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:44:50 +0000

In a recent study in PLOS ONE, researchers from 6 different countries, including Camilo Alejo and Catherine Potvin of the Department of Biology at McGill University, examined the importance of Indigenous Territories in climate change mitigation across Panama and the Amazon Basin.

Over 260,000 kilometres of rivers at risk due to proposed hydro dams

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:29:17 +0000

Over 260,000 kilometres of river could potentially be severed by planned hydroelectric developments according to McGill University researchers. The Amazon, the Congo, and the Irrawaddy are just a few of the rivers at risk of losing their free-flowing status if the proposed construction of new hydropower dams takes place.

CFI invests $3.9 M in McGill research

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:47:26 +0000

McGill’s researchers will soon acquire the highly specialized tools they need to innovate in their fields thanks to funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, made the announcement today of $77 million across 50 institutions in Canada through the program. In total, twenty-one McGill research projects have received a combined $3.9 million in federal grants through three rounds of JELF.

Lighting the way to improved biomaterials

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:55:23 +0000

Researchers from McGill University believe that they have found a way to improve the development of biomaterials that could be instrumental in drug delivery, tissue regeneration, nano-optics and nanoelectronics.

Using AI to predict suicidal behaviours in students

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:23:08 +0000

How can we predict suicide risk in students, especially at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many people’s mental health? According to researchers from Montreal and France, self-esteem represents an important predictive marker of suicidal risk. The team from McGill University, University of Montreal, Inserm, and Université de Bordeaux is using artificial intelligence to identify factors that accurately predict suicidal behavior in students.

Measuring creativity, one word at a time

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:30:00 +0000

Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to an international team of researchers from McGill University, Harvard University and the University of Melbourne, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance between them could serve as an objective measure of creativity.

Prognosis: The future is bright for the next generation of healthcare leaders

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:55:36 +0000

As the world slowly emerges from a pandemic that exposed the vulnerability of healthcare systems when overwhelmed with multifaceted management challenges, McGill University has launched a new Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management (GCHM). A collaborative initiative between McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the GCHM program is designed to train physicians and other healthcare professionals in the skills needed to make effective decisions and succeed in leadership roles.

STOPMTL.CA: First interactive map to self-report police stops in Montreal

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:36:45 +0000

In 2019, an independent report commissioned by the City of Montreal demonstrated racial and social profiling by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) targeting Black, Arab and Indigenous peoples, and young adults in particular. According to the data, Indigenous and Black people are four to five times more likely to be stopped by police than non-racialized people.

Cell structure previously associated with disease actually improves brain function

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:43:29 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have shown that a brain cell structure previously thought to be pathological in fact enhances cells’ ability to transmit information and correlates with better learning on certain tasks.

In a study published in Nature Communications, the team investigated swellings that occur in the axons of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. In results that contradict established expectations, they found that axons with swellings did a better job of conducting electrical signals than those without.

Understanding our perception of rhythm

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:28:02 +0000

Scientists have long known that while listening to a sequence of sounds, people often perceive a rhythm, even when the sounds are identical and equally spaced. One regularity that was discovered over 100 years ago is the Iambic-Trochaic Law: when every other sound is loud, we tend to hear groups of two sounds with an initial beat. When every other sound is long, we hear groups of two sounds with a final beat. But why does our rhythm perception work this way?

Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:42:55 +0000

The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate. A new study led by researchers from McGill University finds that cold-adapted Arctic species, like the thick-billed murre, are especially vulnerable to heat stress caused by climate change.

“We discovered that murres have the lowest cooling efficiency ever reported in birds, which means they have an extremely poor ability to dissipate or lose heat,” says lead author Emily Choy, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Natural Resource Sciences Department at McGill University.

Painting a picture of the oral health of Canadians

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 21:54:57 +0000

A new study “Oral health and oral health care of Canadians” led by Prof. Paul Allison of McGill University’s Faculty of Dentistry, has received $3.3 million of funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support a collaboration with Statistics Canada’s existing Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) to gather data and address oral health-related knowledge gaps. The study is a partnership involving all ten Canadian dental schools across the country.

Patently harmful: fewer female inventors a problem for women’s health

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:57:12 +0000

"Necessity is the father of invention," but where is its mother? According to a new study published in Science, fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women.

$4.95 million to make cities smarter

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:32:10 +0000

A smart city—supported by digital solutions to enhance food access and mobility—is a healthy city. That’s the thinking behind the Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform co-led by McGill, the University of Guelph and the University of Manitoba. Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health, and the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced an investment of $4.95 million over six years for SMART.

Faecal records show Maya population affected by climate change

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:10:13 +0000

A McGill-led study has shown that the size of the Maya population in the lowland city of Itzan (in present-day Guatemala) varied over time in response to climate change. The findings, published recently in Quaternary Science Reviews, show that both droughts and very wet periods led to important population declines.

Songbirds and humans share some common speech patterns

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:43:37 +0000

If you listen to songbirds, you will recognize repeated melodies or phrases. Each phrase is made up of distinct sounds, strung together. A study from researchers at McGill University has found that the song phrases of many songbird species follow patterns that are similar to those used in human speech. At least in some respects.

Five McGill teams awarded funding in new Genomic Integration program

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:23:59 +0000

Today Genome Quebec announced the results of its Genomic Integration Program, Human Health Stream competition. Five McGill teams from a diverse array of fields were awarded funds, totaling nearly $1 million. One of the defining features of this program is the requirement that institutional applicants must also have an external non-academic partner, thus supporting program goals of stimulating the Quebec economy and encouraging the use of genomic technologies in the Quebec healthcare system.

Most rivers run dry - now and then

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:45:00 +0000

A new study led by researchers from McGill University and INRAE found that between 51-60% of the 64 million kilometres of rivers and streams on Earth that they investigated stop flowing periodically, or run dry for part of the year. It is the first-ever empirically grounded effort to quantify the global distribution of non-perennial rivers and streams.

Training the next generation of leaders in the responsible use of artificial intelligence

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 19:43:01 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world in powerful ways, from improving medical care and changing the retail landscape to enabling convenient features on our smartphones. But as AI increasingly underpins our daily lives, important questions about its application – and potential misuse – will continue to arise.

Mountain fires burning higher at unprecedented rates

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:59:31 +0000

Forest fires have crept higher up mountains over the past few decades, scorching areas previously too wet to burn, according to researchers from McGill University. As wildfires advance uphill, a staggering 11% of all Western U.S. forests are now at risk.

Six New Canada Research Chairs, and Three Renewals for McGill

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:16:37 +0000

Today, at l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry announced investments of more than $635 million for science, research, and engineering in Canada.

Partnership agreement between McGill University’s Gault Nature Reserve and the Grand Conseil de la Nation Waban-Aki

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:44:31 +0000

Sharing a common interest in the protection of the natural and cultural resources of the Gault Nature Reserve, McGill University and the Grand Conseil de la Nation Waban-Aki (W8banaki) are pleased to announce a partnership agreement welcoming the Nation’s members to the site to practice their cultural activities.

This agreement grows out of a series of 52 Calls to Action that McGill established as part of its own project of recognition and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

New mothers negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic policies

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:56:44 +0000

Giving birth can be a joyous, yet stressful experience in the best of times – but what happens when a global public health crisis is thrown into the mix? McGill University and the University of Toronto researchers examined the effects certain pandemic policies have had on the mental health of Canadian women who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

McGill Engineering youth outreach program awarded NSERC PromoScience grant

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:17:17 +0000

Education that changes outcomes for whole communities—that’s the aim of the project, Engineering Engagement in School Curricula: Multi-year Design-thinking Projects for Indigenous and Marginalized Youth, led by Professor and Chair of the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Richard Chromik, Faye Siluk, and Robert Pozeg of the Faculty of Engineering’s E-IDEA initiative (Engineering Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity Advancement), which today received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) PromoScience grants program.

Over 500 new FRBs detected in single year due to CHIME telescope

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:37:42 +0000

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, blaze for a few milliseconds before vanishing without a trace. Their origins are unknown, and their appearance is unpredictable. In the decade following their discovery in 2007, only 140 FRBs had been seen. Now, thanks to the launch of a large stationary telescope in the interior of British Columbia in 2018, the number of new FRBs detected has almost quadrupled – for a total of 535.

The digestive system of cows influences human’s vitamin B12 intake

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:38:45 +0000

Milk is the main source of vitamin B12 consumption for Canadians. A glass of cow’s milk contains about 46% of the daily-recommended dietary intake of vitamin B12 for adults. But what factors influences the concentration of B12 in a glass of milk? Turns out, what cows eat and how they digest it can impact human’s B12 intake.

Vitamin D may not protect against COVID-19, as previously suggested

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:34:04 +0000

While previous research early in the pandemic suggested that vitamin D cuts the risk of contracting COVID-19, a new study from McGill University finds there is no genetic evidence that the vitamin works as a protective measure against the coronavirus.

"Vitamin D supplementation as a public health measure to improve outcomes is not supported by this study. Most importantly, our results suggest that investment in other therapeutic or preventative avenues should be prioritized for COVID-19 randomized clinical trials," say the authors.

Early bird or night owl? Study links shift worker sleep to ‘chronotype’

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:26:58 +0000

Getting enough sleep can be a real challenge for shift workers affecting their overall health. But what role does being an early bird or night owl play in getting good rest? Researchers from McGill University find a link between chronotype and amount of sleep shift workers can get with their irregular schedules.

Hidden magma pools pose eruption risks that we can’t yet detect

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:18:01 +0000

Scientists’ ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth’s crust. But what happens if the magma can’t be spotted?

The secret lives of Canada lynx

Fri, 28 May 2021 20:14:01 +0000

Using a Fitbit and a spy mic, scientists have discovered new insight into the behaviour of the elusive Canada lynx. A new study by researchers from McGill University, University of Alberta, and Trent University provides a first look at how miniaturized technology can open the door to remote wildlife monitoring.

Zero-carbon energy from sea water a step closer

Wed, 26 May 2021 18:16:33 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have demonstrated a technique that could enable the production of robust, high-performance membranes to harness an abundant source of renewable energy.

Blue energy, also known as osmotic energy, capitalizes on the energy naturally released when two solutions of different salinities mix – conditions that occur in countless locations around the world where fresh and salt water meet.

Preventing the spread of plant pandemics

Mon, 17 May 2021 16:18:09 +0000

Plant diseases don’t stop at national borders and miles of oceans don’t prevent their spread, either. That’s why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Clues from soured milk reveal how gold veins form

Fri, 21 May 2021 15:24:59 +0000

For decades scientists have been puzzled by the formation of rare hyper-enriched gold deposits in places like Ballarat in Australia, Serra Palada in Brazil, and Red Lake in Ontario. While such deposits typically form over tens to hundreds of thousands of years, these “ultrahigh-grade” deposits can form in years, month, or even days. So how do they form so quickly?

“Stressed out” corals thriving thanks to mangroves

Tue, 18 May 2021 15:39:57 +0000

Tropical coral reefs are the most biodiverse underwater ecosystem, providing a home to more than a quarter of all marine species. No strangers to environmental stressors and the on-going impacts of climate change, the survival of corals has increasingly been under threat in recent years. A collective of researchers, including from McGill University, have analyzed how environmental factors influence the growth and health of corals and found that more species of corals are living in the mangrove forests than in nearby shallow reefs.

Which animals will survive climate change?

Thu, 13 May 2021 14:02:33 +0000

Climate change is exacerbating problems like habitat loss and temperatures swings that have already pushed many animal species to the brink. But can scientists predict which animals will be able to adapt and survive? Using genome sequencing, researchers from McGill University show that some fish, like the threespine stickleback, can adapt very rapidly to extreme seasonal changes. Their findings could help scientists forecast the evolutionary future of these populations.

McGill-Concordia-uOttawa research team finds correlation between COVID-19-based discrimination and poor mental health

Wed, 12 May 2021 14:12:55 +0000

Visible minorities, health-care workers and young people in Quebec have been at higher risk of experiencing COVID-19-related discrimination and more likely to suffer from poor mental health in the past year, according to a collective of researchers from McGill University, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.

The researchers set out to study how factors such as people’s socioeconomic and minority status, discrimination, stigmatization and mental health impact their understanding and adoption of public health measures to combat the coronavirus.

Rules of the road: the navigational ‘strategies’ of bacteria in motion

Tue, 11 May 2021 16:58:31 +0000

Bacteria that move around live on the edge. All the time. Their success, be it in finding nutrients, fending off predators or multiplying depends on how efficiently they navigate through their confining microscopic habitats. Whether these habitats are in animal or plant tissues, in waste, or in other materials.

PCB contamination in Icelandic orcas: a matter of diet

Thu, 06 May 2021 14:01:45 +0000

Image caption: These killer whales may appear healthy, but a new study has found extremely high levels of PCB contamination in some of the whales. There was a 300-fold difference between the levels of PCBs among the most contaminated orcas compared to the least contaminated ones. The variation was mainly due to their eating habits. CREDIT: Filipa Samarra - Icelandic Orca Project

Dr. Joanne Liu joins McGill University

Tue, 04 May 2021 12:28:15 +0000

Dr. Joanne Liu, a Canadian pediatric emergency room physician and former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is joining McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) as a professor focusing on pandemic and health emergencies.

Reduction in wetland areas will affect Afrotropical migratory waterbirds

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:04:04 +0000

Migratory waterbirds are particularly exposed to the effects of climate change at their breeding areas in the High Arctic and in Africa, according to a new study published in Bird Conservation International.

Genome Canada and McGill to track COVID-19 variants of concern

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:34:54 +0000

Genome Canada launched the Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal today to track the evolving COVID-19 pandemic across Canada. McGill University researcher Guillaume Bourque, a professor in the Department of Human Genetics, along with his research team, led the development of the portal. They worked in collaboration with CanCOGeN VirusSeq and world-leading genomics scientists, including Drs.

Using online ads to spot human trafficking

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:52:08 +0000

Researchers at McGill University and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have designed an algorithm that detects organized human trafficking activity in online escort advertisements. Advertising is one the most common use of technology for human trafficking purposes.

Feeling confinement in the gut

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:20:43 +0000

Crew members who took part in the Mars500 experiment showed significant changes in their gut microbiota from their 520 days in confinement, according to a new study by scientists at McGill University and the Université de Montreal (UdeM).

New algorithm reveals birdsong features that may be key for courtship

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:44:10 +0000

Researchers from McGill University and the University of California, San Francisco have developed a new algorithm capable of identifying features of male zebra finch songs that may underlie the distinction between a short phrase sung during courtship, and the same phrase sung in a non-courtship context.

Fast radio bursts shown to include lower frequency radio waves than previously detected

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:00:37 +0000

Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered over a decade ago, scientists have puzzled over what could be generating these intense flashes of radio waves from outside of our galaxy. In a gradual process of elimination, the field of possible explanations has narrowed as new pieces of information are gathered about FRBs – how long they last, the frequencies of the radio waves detected, and so on.

Telescopes unite in unprecedented observations of famous black hole

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:24:06 +0000

In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the science story to be told. McGill University astronomers were part of this global effort.

Data from 19 observatories are now being released that promise to give unparalleled insight into this black hole and the system it powers, and to improve tests of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.

Surgical sutures inspired by human tendons

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:58:44 +0000

Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with their stiff fibers. To remedy the problem, researchers from Montreal have developed innovative tough gel sheathed (TGS) sutures inspired by the human tendon.

Good oral health reduces risk of fatal outcomes from COVID-19

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:56:42 +0000

Infected and inflamed gums may result in higher rates of complications and more fatal outcomes for individuals diagnosed with the SARS-COV-2 virus, according to a new international study led by McGill researchers recently published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology. The study suggests that gum disease may be associated with higher risks of complications from COVID-19, including ICU admission and death.

Meet the inaugural class of McCall MacBain Scholars

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:40:11 +0000

Twenty aspiring innovators, community-builders, and leaders will join the first class of McCall MacBain Scholars at McGill, recipients of Canada’s first comprehensive leadership-based scholarship for master’s and professional studies.

The newly selected McCall MacBain Scholars come from 15 universities in Canada and abroad. The places they have called home span the country and beyond, from Grande Prairie to Brossard to Beirut, Lebanon.

Americans are super-spreaders of COVID-19 misinformation

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 02:06:04 +0000

Misinformation about COVID-19 is spreading from the United States into Canada, undermining efforts to mitigate the pandemic. A study led by McGill University shows that Canadians who use social media are more likely to consume this misinformation, embrace false beliefs about COVID-19, and subsequently spread them.

McGill University receives $5 million in funding from Quebec government to bolster retail sector

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:40:09 +0000

McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management will receive $5 million in funding to drive retail innovation and research, and support the province’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Launching our third century: McGill University celebrates 200 years

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:26:44 +0000

Today marks McGill University’s 200^th anniversary. As one of Canada’s first universities to reach this significant milestone, McGill will commemorate this historic occasion with a special broadcast Celebrate 200: Launching Our 3^rdCentury, along with a series of signature 200^th anniversary events and activities planned for this bicentennial year.

Narwhal tusks reveal mercury exposure related to climate change

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:13:31 +0000

In the Arctic, climate change and pollution are the biggest threats to top predators like narwhals. Studying the animals’ tusks reveals that diet and exposure to pollution have shifted over the past half century in response to sea-ice decline. Human emissions have also led to a sharp rise in the presence of mercury in recent years, according to an international team of researchers.

First images of magnetic fields at the edge of black hole in M87 Galaxy

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:34:41 +0000

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which includes researchers from McGill University, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed this week a new view of the massive object at the centre of the M87 galaxy: how it looks in polarized light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The observations are key to explaining how the M87 galaxy, located 55 million light-years away, is able to launch energetic jets from its core.

Rural Alaskans struggle to access and afford water

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:07:31 +0000

Water scarcity in rural Alaska is not a new problem, but the situation is getting worse with climate change. Lasting solutions must encourage the use of alternative water supplies like rainwater catchment and grey water recycling. They must also address the affordability of water related to household income, say researchers from McGill University.

Bilingual babies prefer baby talk - in any language

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:01:26 +0000

Babies prefer baby talk in any language, but particularly when it’s in a language they’re hearing at home, according to a new study including close to 700 babies on four continents. The research, which was published today in the journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science and included researchers from McGill University, showed that all babies respond more to infant-directed speech – baby talk –than they do to adult-directed speech.

It’s snowing plastic

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:29:26 +0000

The snow may be melting, but it is leaving pollution behind in the form of micro- and nano-plastics according to a McGill study that was recently published in Environmental Pollution. The pollution is largely due to the relatively soluble plastics found in antifreeze products (polyethylene glycols) that can become airborne and picked up by the snow.

How sperm remember

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:11:13 +0000

It has long been understood that a parent’s DNA is the principal determinant of health and disease in offspring. Yet inheritance via DNA is only part of the story; a father’s lifestyle such as diet, being overweight and stress levels have been linked to health consequences for his offspring. This occurs through the epigenome - heritable biochemical marks associated with the DNA and proteins that bind it. But how the information is transmitted at fertilization along with the exact mechanisms and molecules in sperm that are involved in this process has been unclear until now.

McGill24 raises over $3.8 million for causes across the university in sixth annual day of giving

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:51:59 +0000

On March 10, the global McGill University community came together – in an entirely virtual way this year – to once again make a difference on McGill24, raising a record $3,810,861 in 24 hours during the sixth edition of the University’s annual day of giving. The final tally, which comes on the strength of 6,885 donations, will support McGill’s students, student-athletes, future leaders, and the everyday heroes making a difference in their communities. The campaign comes just as the University launches celebrations for its bicentennial anniversary.

Air pollution: The silent killer called PM2.5

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:43:34 +0000

Millions of people die prematurely every year from diseases and cancer caused by air pollution. The first line of defence against this carnage is ambient air quality standards. Yet, according to researchers from McGill University, over half of the world’s population lives without the protection of adequate air quality standards.

$110M for nine innovative McGill research projects

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:28:37 +0000

Today, Élisabeth Brière, Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages announced funding results from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund (IF) for universities in Quebec.

Delay of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines has epidemiological benefits, but long-term effects depend on strength of immunity

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:07:30 +0000

Delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines should reduce case numbers in the near term; however, the longer term case burden and the potential for evolution of viral ‘escape’ from immunity will depend on the robustness of immune responses generated by natural infections and one or two vaccine doses, according to a study from McGill University and Princeton University published today in Science.

Will climate change outpace species adaptation?

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:24:40 +0000

Many species might be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies to respond to rapid global warming. According to a team of international researchers, species evolve heat tolerance more slowly than cold tolerance, and the level of heat they can adapt to has limits.

"Good bacteria" in breast milk changes over time

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:26:22 +0000

The cocktail of beneficial bacteria passed from mother to infant through breast milk changes significantly over time and could act like a daily booster shot for infant immunity and metabolism.

There is no one-size-fits-all road to sustainability on “Patchwork Earth”

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:04:15 +0000

In a world as diverse as our own, the journey towards a sustainable future will look different depending on where in the world we live, according to a recent paper published in One Earth and led by McGill University, with researchers from the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Viruses can ‘hijack’ cellular process to block immune response

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:25:33 +0000

Research led by McGill University and Queen’s University Belfast has found that viruses can ‘hijack’ an existing molecular process in the cell in order to block the body’s antiviral immune response to a viral infection.

The results of the study have been published in the journal Molecular Cell.

Crocodile evolution rebooted by Ice Age glaciations

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:33:32 +0000

Crocodiles are resilient animals from a lineage that has survived for over 200 million years. Skilled swimmers, crocodiles can travel long distances and live in freshwater or marine environments. But they can’t roam far on land. American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) are found in the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of the Neotropics but they arrived in the Pacific before Panama existed, according to researchers from McGill University.

Gender gap: Women represent two-thirds of doctorates, but hold only one-third of academic jobs

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:57:01 +0000

Women today represent two-thirds of all Canadian doctorates in archaeology, but only one-third of Canadian tenure-stream faculty. While men with Canadian PhDs have done well in securing tenure-track jobs in Canada over the past 15 years, women have not, according to a new study from McGill University. The current COVID-19 pandemic is likely to exacerbate these existing inequalities.

Astronomers uncover mysterious origins of ‘super-Earths’

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:44:23 +0000

Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size of our own are the most common exoplanets orbiting stars beyond our solar system. Until now, super-Earths were thought to be the rocky cores of mini-Neptunes whose gassy atmospheres were blown away. In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers from McGill University show that some of these exoplanets never had gaseous atmospheres to begin with, shedding new light on their mysterious origins.

How accurate are first impressions on a first date?

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:39:55 +0000

The high stakes of first dates require would-be partners to make and interpret first impressions. But, can we rely on these first impressions to accurately assess someone’s personality? According to researchers from McGill University, the answer is yes, although it may be more difficult than in more casual settings.

Happiness really does come for free

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:03:28 +0000

Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but a study led by McGill and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) suggests that there may be good reason to question this assumption. The researchers set out to find out how people rate their subjective well-being in societies where money plays a minimal role, and which are not usually included in global happiness surveys.

When the bloom is off: why do some plants produce small and unattractive flowers?

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:13:28 +0000

Picture a flower: what do you see? A bright and showy splash of contrasting colours? Well, not all plants produce flowers that are only like that. Some plant species actually produce two types: “normal” ones that look great, and “runts” that are small, never open and, rather than attract pollinating insects, instead pollinate themselves.

Biodiversity is its own catalyst – to a point

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:09:56 +0000

For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from McGill University show that biodiversity does in fact foster further diversity in microbiomes that are initially less diverse. However, diversity rates plateau with increased competition for survival and space in more diverse microbiomes.

LSD may offer viable treatment for certain mental disorders

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:46:16 +0000

Researchers from McGill University have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social interaction. The findings, which could help unlock potential therapeutic applications in treating certain psychiatric diseases, including anxiety and alcohol use disorders, are published in the journal PNAS.

Methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells underestimated

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:25:25 +0000

Bubbles of methane gas in water around an unplugged oil/gas well in Pennsylvania. CREDIT: Mary Kang

Discovery of new praying mantis species from the time of the dinosaurs

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:02:08 +0000

Artist’s interpretation of Labradormantis guilbaulti in liftoff among the leaves of a sycamore tree, Labrador, around 100 million years ago. The interpretation is based on fossils (for the wings) and living and extinct relatives (for the rest of the body). Fossilized sycamore leaves have been found in the same deposits as the mantis wings and show that this new insect species would have lived in a lush warm temperate forest during the Cretaceous. CREDIT: A. Demers-Potvin

A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:04:54 +0000

The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought necessary to build up the immense gas envelope surrounding giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, according to a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including McGill University Professor Eve Lee.

Using artificial intelligence to manage extreme weather events

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:17:59 +0000

Can combining deep learning (DL)— a subfield of artificial intelligence— with social network analysis (SNA), make social media contributions about extreme weather events a useful tool for crisis managers, first responders and government scientists? An interdisciplinary team of McGill researchers has brought these tools to the forefront in an effort to understand and manage extreme weather events.

McGill researchers launch Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:08:44 +0000

Bell Let's Talk, McGill University, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital are pleased to announce the official launch of the Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre (MMHRC).

Well-built muscles underlie athletic performance in birds

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:17:00 +0000

Muscle structure and body size predict the athletic performance of Olympic athletes, such as sprinters. The same, it appears, is true of wild seabirds that can commute hundreds of kilometres a day to find food, according to a recent paper by scientists from McGill and Colgate universities published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

McGill University and Alimentation Couche-Tard launch unique laboratory store to propel retail industry and customers into the future

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:29:03 +0000

McGill University and Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. announce their partnership in the launch of a retail innovation lab at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management—a live testing ground for innovative and frictionless technologies that address the retail sector’s challenges of the future.

As oceans warm, large fish struggle

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:31:27 +0000

Warming ocean waters could reduce the ability of fish, especially large ones, to extract the oxygen they need from their environment. Animals require oxygen to generate energy for movement, growth and reproduction.

Mothers, but not fathers, with multiple children report more fragmented sleep

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:48:19 +0000

Mothers with multiple children report more fragmented sleep than mothers of a single child, but the number of children in a family doesn't seem to affect the quality of sleep for fathers, according to a study from McGill University.

Child marriage is legal and persists across Canada

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:58:29 +0000

Canada is at the forefront of global efforts to end child marriage abroad. Yet this practice remains legal and persists across the country. In Canada, more than 3,600 marriage certificates were issued to children, usually girls, under the age of 18 between 2000 and 2018, according to a new study from researchers at McGill University. In recent years, an increasing number of child marriages have been common-law unions.

Identifying Canada’s key conservation hot spots highlights problem

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:12:48 +0000

To stop biodiversity loss, Canada recently committed to protecting 30% of its land and sea by 2030. But making conservation decisions about where to locate new protected areas is complicated. It depends on data both about biodiversity and about a range of benefits (e.g. freshwater, climate regulation, recreation) that people get from nature. Surprisingly, despite the size of the country, new mapping suggests that less than 1% of Canada’s land (0.6% of total area or approximately 56,000 km2) is a hotspot, providing all these benefits in one place.

Climate change: threshold for dangerous warming will likely be crossed between 2027-2042

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:53:21 +0000

The threshold for dangerous global warming will likely be crossed between 2027 and 2042 – a much narrower window than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s estimate of between now and 2052. In a study published in Climate Dynamics, researchers from McGill University introduce a new and more precise way to project the Earth’s temperature. Based on historical data, it considerably reduces uncertainties compared to previous approaches.

Survey says: Canadians asking for better food systems and food sparked by COVID-19 access

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:43:36 +0000

Shopping anxiety, higher food prices and individual income limitations are some of the factors making access to food challenging for Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests.

Researchers conducted an online inter-provincial survey with residents of B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces during the first wave of COVID-19. The survey assessed how the pandemic affected food access and behaviour in each region and how perceptions regarding the food systems may have been altered.

Nurse practitioners bring big savings to long-term care facilities in Quebec

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:00:22 +0000

Countries worldwide face challenges meeting the growing needs for long-term care services because of high costs. A study led by researchers from McGill University and Université du Québec en Outaouais shows that introducing nurse practitioners can significantly reduce costs and improve patient safety.

How the spread of the Internet is changing migration

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:01:02 +0000

The spread of the Internet is shaping migration in profound ways. A McGill-led study of over 150 countries links Internet penetration with migration intentions and behaviours, suggesting that digital connectivity plays a key role in migration decisions and actively supports the migration process.

Twenty-five Canada Research Chairs awarded to McGill

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:54:34 +0000

In its twentieth year, the Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP) is awarding 25 McGill researchers with eleven new and fourteen renewed chairs. The projects supported by this round of CRC funding tackle a variety of topics, including, racial inequality in democratic societies, arctic ecology and data mining for cybersecurity.

New use for an old drug: How does ketamine combat depression?

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:38:03 +0000

A group of proteins called 4E-BPs, involved in memory formation, is the key to unlocking the antidepressant effect of ketamine in the brain, according to researchers from three Canadian universities. The discovery could lead to better and safer treatments for certain patients suffering from major depression.

When dinosaurs disappeared, forests thrived

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:35:19 +0000

It’s known that the primary cause of the mass extinction of dinosaurs, about 66 million years ago, was a meteorite impact. But the exact mechanisms that linked the meteorite impact to mass extinction remain unclear, though climactic changes are thought to have played a part.

John McCall MacBain named 20th Chancellor of McGill University

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:44:36 +0000

The Board of Governors of McGill University approved the nomination of John McCall MacBain, as the 20th Chancellor of McGill University. Mr. McCall MacBain has been appointed for a three-year term, beginning July 1, 2021. He will succeed Chancellor Michael A. Meighen, whose current term will end on June 30, 2021. His nomination stems from a rigorous process that was launched earlier this fall by the Nominating, Governance and Ethics Committee, and the Recruitment and Succession Planning Sub-committee.

Big data offers promise of better groundwater management in California

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:22:42 +0000

To ensure that California’s groundwater is sustainably managed in the future and over the long-term, current state definitions of what constitutes groundwater may need to be revised, according to research published this week in PNAS. A McGill University-led research team has analyzed big data of more than 200,000 groundwater samples taken from across the state and found that there are problems with the guidelines used for groundwater management.

McGill’s Faculty of Education receives $7.3 million in philanthropic support to aid student teachers and launch Canada’s first teaching and learning lab

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:14:14 +0000

At a time when school teachers everywhere are being challenged by the second wave of the pandemic and by technological advances that are changing where, when and how students learn, McGill’s Faculty of Education is pleased to announce over $7 million in new philanthropic support through a pair of generous gifts from longstanding donors.

Myriam Denov receives award for her research on children and families affected by war.

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:59:49 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston, Office of Research and Innovation

Strong social support decreases mental health problems in young adults

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:00:23 +0000

Early adulthood, a transitional life stage marked by major changes in social roles and responsibilities, can bring with it an increase of mental health problems. A team of McGill University researchers has found that young adults who perceived higher levels of social support reported fewer mental health problems.

Sustainably managed fisheries provide a safeguard against global food insecurity

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:26:36 +0000

Thanks to the pandemic, we know just how quickly food can disappear from supermarket shelves. But it is hard to gauge the vulnerability of our food production system as a whole to abrupt changes, such as those that could be caused by extreme events such as a nuclear war or massive volcanic eruptions.

"Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs" wins Cundill History Prize

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:49:16 +0000

The winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize is Camilla Townsend, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, for Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press USA). The announcement was made during the virtual Winner Ceremony of the leading international history prize, administered by McGill University. Prof. Townsend receives US$75,000 – the largest reward for a work of non-fiction in English.

Scientists warn of the social and environmental risks tied to the energy transition

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:34:49 +0000

To meet the most ambitious 1.5º C climate goal requires a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels and mass use of renewables. However, new international research by McGill University and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) warns that green energy projects can be as socially and environmentally conflictive as fossil fuel projects.

What makes certain groups more vulnerable to COVID-19?

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 02:59:17 +0000

What makes the elderly and people with underlying conditions more vulnerable to COVID-19? According to a new study led by McGill University researchers, clues can be found in the proteins involved in initiating infection, as the virus binds to host cells of different animals. Greater cellular oxidation with aging and sickness may explain why seniors and people with chronic illness get infected more often and more severely.

Parents shouldn’t worry about their baby’s inconsistent sleep patterns

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000

New parents often expect their baby to start sleeping through the night around the time they reach six months of age. But according to a new study led by Professor Marie-Hélène Pennestri, parents should view sleep consolidation as a process, instead of a milestone to be achieved at a specific age. Tracking 44 infants over a period of two weeks, she found that sleeping patterns vary greatly – not only for different babies, but also night to night for the same baby.

Lottery tickets aren’t child’s play

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:38:54 +0000

Research shows that early childhood gambling experiences, including those with lottery products, can be a risk factor for gambling problems later in life.

McGill congratulates Order of Canada honorees

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:21:30 +0000

Ice sheets on the move: how north and south poles connect

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:29:28 +0000

Over the past 40,000 years, ice sheets thousands of kilometres apart have influenced one another through sea level changes, according to research published today in Nature. New modelling of ice sheet changes during the most recent glacial cycle by a McGill-led team offers a clearer idea of the mechanisms that drive change than had previously existed and explains newly available geological records.

Vertebrate biodiversity- a glimmer of hope

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:05:46 +0000

Vertebrate populations - from birds and fish to antelope - are not, in general, declining. Despite what has previously been thought and said.

McGill celebrates 14 researchers on Highly Cited Researchers 2020 List

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:58:17 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston (Office of Research and Innovation)

The McGill Redbirds: new name for a new era to wear, and cheer for with pride

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:53:16 +0000

McGill University has chosen a new name that will take its men’s varsity teams into the University’s third century. The name — chosen with the aim of paying homage to Athletics and Recreation’s tradition and history while simultaneously uniting our community — is the McGill Redbirds.

Six early-career researchers receive leadership grants

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:56:51 +0000

By Shawn Hayward

Six McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences researchers — Boris Bernhardt, Mark Brandon, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, Jo Anne Stratton and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky — have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.

Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-changing research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.

McGill researchers awarded $2.5M for COVID-19 infrastructure

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:30:12 +0000

Five projects led by McGill University researchers are included among the 79 receiving a total of $28 million in research infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Exceptional Opportunities Fund. The announcement was made today by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry during a news conference this morning.

McGill teams win big in new ‘Omics’ cancer competition

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:41:24 +0000

Earlier today, a Quebec based consortium of research institutes (Génome Québec, Oncopole and IVADO) announced the winners of their first-ever “Omics Data Against Cancer” competition, and McGill research teams were dominant. In fact, of the five selected teams no less than four of them included professors from McGill.

McGill Professor earns Quebec’s highest honour for research in biomedicine

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:13:49 +0000

Earlier today, the Quebec government announced the winners of its annual Prix du Quebec competition, a series of 15 awards in science and culture. Among them was Professor William Foulkes, Head of the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute, a member of the Cancer Research Program of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, and Director of the Program in Cancer Genetics at McGill University. Dr.

Detection of a short, intense radio burst in Milky Way could help resolve origins of mysterious phenomenon

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:37:33 +0000

New data from a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the McGill Space Institute and McGill University Department of Physics, strongly suggest that magnetars - a type of neutron star believed to have an extremely powerful magnetic field - could be the source of some fast radio bursts (FRBs). Though much research has been done to explain the mysterious phenomenon, their source has thus far remained elusive and the subject of some debate.

Supersonic winds, rocky rains forecasted on lava planet

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:31:10 +0000

Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar system are lava planets: fiery hot worlds that circle so close to their host star that some regions are likely oceans of molten lava. According to scientists from McGill University, York University, and the Indian Institute of Science Education, the atmosphere and weather cycle of at least one such exoplanet is even stranger, featuring the evaporation and precipitation of rocks, supersonic winds that rage over 5000 km/hr, and a magma ocean 100 km deep.

Mind the gap: Discrepancies in walking assessments for people with Multiple Sclerosis

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:04:10 +0000

Significant gaps in how walking capacity and performance is assessed for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) could be harming therapy and treatment development according to McGill University researchers. The study, published in the International Journal of MS Care, examined the differential between measurement tools for clinical walking capacity and real-world performance.

What do breast cancer cells feel inside the tumour?

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:28:06 +0000

Using a new technique, a team of McGill University researchers has found tiny and previously undetectable ‘hot spots’ of extremely high stiffness inside aggressive and invasive breast cancer tumours. Their findings suggest, for the first time, that only very tiny regions of a tumor need to stiffen for metastasis to take place. Though still in its infancy, the researchers believe that their technique may prove useful in detecting and mapping the progression of aggressive cancers.

COVID-19 vaccines: McGill researchers track the global race

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:09:01 +0000

McGill University professor Nicole Basta and her team have created an interactive online COVID-19 vaccine tracker, that provides real-time updates on progress in developing a safe and effective vaccine.

McGill co-founded grassroots organization receives major gift to continue COVID-19 fight

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:03:35 +0000

COVID-19 Resources Canada, a grassroots organization co-founded by a McGill researcher, today announced it received a donation of $250,000 from the Trottier Family Foundation to facilitate Canada’s response to the pandemic. Since its launch in March 2020, the organization has developed two of the most comprehensive databases in Canada with more than 600 COVID-19 funded research projects and experts from over 25 Canadian institutions.

Bat-winged dinosaurs that could glide

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:49:44 +0000

Despite having bat-like wings, two small dinosaurs, Yi and Ambopteryx, struggled to fly, only managing to glide clumsily between the trees where they lived, according to a new study led by an international team of researchers, including McGill University Professor Hans Larsson. Unable to compete with other tree-dwelling dinosaurs and early birds, they went extinct after just a few million years.

Mandatory vaccinations required in only half of all countries

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:05:54 +0000

As countries struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination uptake is a public health priority now more than ever. Efforts to increase vaccinations vary greatly around the globe. A new McGill-led study comparing policies around the world finds broad implementation of mandatory vaccination mandates. However, the penalties for failing to vaccinate differ significantly by country, ranging from fines to jail time.

How are emerging technology and media shaping democracy?

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:05:51 +0000

The Max Bell School of Public Policy is launching a new Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University. Collaborating with leading researchers, policy thinkers, and journalists, the Centre works to understand the impact of emerging technology and media on policy and public life.

McGill University provides job opportunities for students amid pandemic

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:52:14 +0000

As many students struggle to find work amid the pandemic, McGill University launches new Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities for students to develop important digital skills for the future, with the support of the Government of Canada’s Student Work Placement Program and TECHNATION, Canada’s leading national technology association.

Next level training for retail leaders of the future

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:59:47 +0000

Calling retail leaders of the future: McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management is launching a unique Master of Management in Retailing (MMR) designed to equip students with the tools they need to thrive in the rapidly evolving post-COVID retail industry.

McGill receives $15-million gift commitment from agri-food entrepreneur Marc Bieler

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:18:22 +0000

As a man whose career as a successful agri-food entrepreneur has spanned sectors as diverse as cattle breeding, apple growing, maple syrup production and French vineyards, and who almost single-handedly built Quebec’s cranberry industry into one of the largest and most highly regarded in the world, Marc Bieler, DipAgr’58, BA’64, has always had a profound attachment to the land and a deep respect for the natural environment.

Discovery of a new key player in long-term memory

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:32:41 +0000

A McGill-led multi-institutional research team has discovered that during memory consolidation, there are at least two distinct processes taking place in two different brain networks – the excitatory and inhibitory networks. The excitatory neurons are involved in creating a memory trace, and the inhibitory neurons block out background noise and allow long-term learning to take place.

Trust and income inequality fueling spread of COVID-19

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:56:50 +0000

Trust in public institutions is linked to fewer COVID-19 deaths, but trust and belonging to groups is associated with more deaths, according to a wide-ranging, McGill-led study of 30-day COVID-19 mortality rates in 84 countries. Greater economic inequality is also associated with COVID-19 mortality.

Polycystic ovary syndrome increases risk for gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:17:28 +0000

A recent study by researchers at McGill University has identified polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as an independent risk factor for gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The condition, known to lead to multiple reproductive complications, including infertility, affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age.

PCOS was already known for its association to other adverse perinatal conditions, such as insulin resistance. However, there remains significant gaps in understanding the correlation between the syndrome and neonatal complications.

Holidays bring severe spike in nut allergies for children

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:16:30 +0000

A new study examining the link between peanut and tree-nut anaphylaxis in children and holidays found spikes at Halloween and Easter. The study, led by a team of researchers from the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MCH-MUHC), found that most were previously unknown allergies, calling for increased awareness.

Expert opinion: COVID-19 vaccine rollout unlikely before fall 2021

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:30:00 +0000

Experts working in the field of vaccine development tend to believe that an effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021. In a paper published recently in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, a McGill-led team published the results of a recent survey of 28 experts working in vaccinology.

Disastrous duo: heatwaves and droughts

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:46:20 +0000

Simultaneous heatwaves and droughts are becoming increasingly common in western parts of the United States, according to a new study led by researchers from McGill University. Periods of dry and hot weather, which can make wildfires more likely, are becoming larger, more intense, and more frequent because of climate change.

Long-term COVID-19 containment will be shaped by strength and duration of natural, vaccine-induced immunity

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:26:16 +0000

New research suggests that the impact of natural and vaccine-induced immunity will be key factors in shaping the future trajectory of the global coronavirus pandemic, known as COVID-19. In particular, a vaccine capable of eliciting a strong immune response could substantially reduce the future burden of infection, according to a study recently published in the journal Science.

Social isolation causing psychological distress among university students

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:58:54 +0000

Surprisingly, university students without pre-existing mental health concerns seem to be suffering greater psychological distress during the pandemic than their peers with pre-existing mental health problems according to a study of close to 800 university students in Toronto carried out by researchers from McGill and University of Toronto.

McGill and Trafalgar School forge new partnership to transform education

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:35:28 +0000

McGill University’s Faculty of Education and Trafalgar School for Girls are partnering to establish a transformative partnership - the CoLab. A first of its kind in Canada, the CoLab will integrate teacher training, classroom practice and cutting-edge pedagogical research under one roof.

McGill University researchers working to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on high-touch metallic surfaces

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:59:37 +0000

McGill University professor Stephen Yue and Dr. Chen Liang, a researcher at the McGill AIDS Centre and Lady Davis Institute, received an NSERC Alliance COVID-19 grant to produce a cost-effective, production-ready antiviral coating that could significantly reduce the rate of SARS-CoV-2 transmission on high-touch metallic surfaces in public spaces such as schools, office buildings, and clinics. The work will be carried out in collaboration with a team of researchers from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and industry partners Polycontrols, Hatch, and 5N Plus.

Vulnerable groups affected by public transit cuts amid pandemic

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:17:33 +0000

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, public transport agencies across North America have made significant adjustments to services, including cutting trip frequency in many areas while increasing it in others. In many cases, these changes, especially service cuts, have disproportionately affected areas where lower-income and more vulnerable groups live, according to a new study from McGill University.

Royal Society of Canada medal and award winners

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:13:58 +0000

Four McGill researchers are among the sixteen eminent Canadian scientists, scholars and researchers that have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada

Read their stories in The McGill Reporter:

Alfonso Mucci
Willet G. Miller Medal / Médaille Willet G. Miller
McGill Reporter story

Ten McGill researchers honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:58:26 +0000

On September 8, the Royal Society of Canada announced 87 new Fellows and 50 new members to The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Amongst this year’s RSC cohort are ten McGill researchers, including six scholars who will become RSC Fellows and four researchers who will become new members of the college. The 2020 cohort of RSC Fellows and members of the college will be officially inducted to the RSC at the annual RSC Celebration of Excellence and Engagement on Friday, November 27.

Origin of a complex life form revealed

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:42:22 +0000

Researchers from McGill University have revealed the steps by which two very distinct organisms – bacteria and carpenter ants – have come to depend on one another for survival to become a single complex life form. The study, published today in Nature, shows that the two species have collaborated to radically alter the development of the ant embryo to allow this integration to happen. Understanding how such grand unifications originate and evolve is a major puzzle for biologists.

Keeping the beat – it’s all in your brain

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:22:58 +0000

How do people coordinate their actions with the sounds they hear? This basic ability, which allows people to cross the street safely while hearing oncoming traffic, dance to new music or perform team events such as rowing, has puzzled cognitive neuroscientists for years. A new study led by researchers at McGill University is shining a light on how auditory perception and motor processes work together.

Six McGill Students Receive Canada’s Largest Science, Technology, Engineering And Math (STEM) Scholarships

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:29:16 +0000

A record number of McGill students have been named recipients of Canada’s largest scholarship program, Schulich Leader Scholarships. This year, the program has doubled in size from 50 to 100 annual scholarships. In total, six Schulich Leader scholars will begin their studies at McGill in September (up from two last year) with the majority coming from high schools in Western Canada.

Housing-First strategy proves cost effective especially for the most-vulnerable homeless group

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:14:06 +0000

Canadians spend big money dealing with the consequences of homelessness, but the money spent could be far more effective. According to a new McGill-led analysis, housing homeless people with severe mental illness is even more cost-effective than housing homeless people with moderate needs. A Housing-First strategy aimed at helping these individuals regain and keep permanent housing generates savings equal to about two-thirds of its cost.

CFI invests $9.3M in McGill research

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:57:27 +0000

By Amanda Testani, Office of VP Research & Innovation

Gene targeting helps overcome the resistance of brain cancer to therapy

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:10:41 +0000

New insight into a gene that controls energy production in cancer stem cells could help in the search for a more effective treatment for glioblastoma. A McGill-led study published in Nature Communications reveals that suppressing the OSMR gene can improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy.

This approach, led by the laboratory of Arezu Jahani-Asl, Assistant Professor of Medicine at McGill University, was successful in preclinical mouse models where the deletion of the OSMR gene resulted in a significant improvement of tumour response to therapy and expanded lifespan.

Unlocking how cellular proteins control cancer spread

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:33:05 +0000

A new insight into cell signals that control cancer growth and migration could help in the search for effective anti-cancer drugs. A McGill-led study reveals key biochemical processes that advance our understanding of colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer among Canadians.

Some dinosaurs could fly before they were birds

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 02:07:50 +0000

New research using the most comprehensive study of feathered dinosaurs and early birds has revised the evolutionary relationships of dinosaurs at the origin of birds.

Statement: Events in Beirut

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:47:44 +0000

McGill University is saddened by the tragic events that took place in Beirut yesterday. Our most heartfelt thoughts are with the victims and their families, as well the global Lebanese community, during this difficult time. Support is available to our community members. Students can reach out to the Office of the Dean of Students, the Student Wellness Hub, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and International Student Services. Faculty and staff can seek support through McGill’s Employee and Family Assistance Program.

May the force be with you: detecting ultrafast light by its force

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:45:40 +0000

A McGill research team has developed a new technique to detect nano-sized imperfections in materials. They believe this discovery will lead to improvements in the optical detectors used in a wide range of technologies, from cell phones to cameras and fiber optics, as well as in solar cells.

Inappropriate prescriptions sending hospitalized seniors back to the ER

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:55:00 +0000

Two in three hospitalized seniors are prescribed drugs that should be avoided by older adults, increasing the risk of injury and adverse drug reactions. Improving hospital prescribing practices can reduce the frequency of inappropriate medications and resulting harm, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers.

Implications of serology testing in Canada

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:05:38 +0000

Serology testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) will be useful for public health decisions and research but will not have wide application for clinical care, according to a review article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

$2-million gift from Montreal philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky to explore the impact of new technology on society

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:43:14 +0000

As society grapples with myriad technology-related issues, including biases in facial recognition software, algorithms to identify hate speech and misinformation, as well as growing concerns over privacy and data protection, a new Chair in McGill’s Department of Philosophy seeks to bridge the gap between technology and pressing ethical, social and political questions. The Chair will be supported by a $2-million gift from The Jarislowsky Foundation to undertake ground-breaking research and study about technology and its impact on individuals and societies.

COVID-19: Social media users more likely to believe false information

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:15:35 +0000

A new study led by researchers at McGill University finds that people who get their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19. Those that consume more traditional news media have fewer misperceptions and are more likely to follow public health recommendations like social distancing.

COVID-19 pandemic causes a seismic noise quiet period in 2020

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:41:31 +0000

Research published in the journal Science has shown that lockdown measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 led to a 50% reduction in seismic noise observed around the world in early to mid 2020.

New study offers first glimpse into how widespread COVID-19 antibodies are in Canada’s adult population

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:33:27 +0000

Today, Canadian Blood Services and Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) are releasing initial results of the first 10,000 blood donor samples assessed for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. This analysis reveals that over the period May 9 through June 8, 2020, fewer than 1 per cent of the 10,000 samples from blood donors tested positive for antibodies to the novel coronavirus.

Specialized cellular compartments discovered in bacteria

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:45:14 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have discovered bacterial organelles involved in gene expression, suggesting that bacteria may not be as simple as once thought. This finding could offer new targets for the development of new antibiotics.

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show that E. coli uses similar strategies to regulate gene transcription as other more complex cell types.

Dobson Centre receives $3M gift to bolster entrepreneurship at McGill

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:35:46 +0000

As the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship plans to scale up its programming, it has announced a new $3-million gift from the John Dobson Foundation to help drive innovation and entrepreneurship at McGill University.

The Dobson Centre provides a launching pad for budding entrepreneurs at McGill University. From helping ideas get off the ground to accelerating later-stage startups, the Dobson Centre offers programming and mentorship that has helped shape and create nearly 1,000 startups—with more than 400 still in development.

SSHRC invests over $17 million to McGill research

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:49:54 +0000

The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently unveiled the recipients of its October 2019 Insights Grant competition where they awarded $91 million in funding to more than 1,253 researchers from 60 different Canadian institutions. Among the recipients are 38 McGill-led projects, totalling $17.8 million.

Canada Research Chairs Program announces new and renewed chairs for McGill Profs

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:44:09 +0000

The Canada Research Chairs Program (CRC) stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top countries in research and development. The CRCs aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. This season’s cohort reflects Canada’s diverse research talent and ushers on a new era of discovery.

Sodium found to regulate the biological clock of mice

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:59:50 +0000

A new study from McGill University shows that increases in the concentrations of blood sodium can have an influence on the biological clock of mice, opening new research avenues for potentially treating the negative effects associated with long distance travel or shift work.

Feeling insecure about your relationship? Your biology may play a role

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:37:42 +0000

Imagine tracking your feelings during daily interactions with your romantic partner. What would you learn? That’s what approximately 100 heterosexual couples in Montreal did each day for 3 weeks during a study run by researchers from McGill University. They were interested in whether a fairly common genetic variant in the opioid system, seen in about a quarter of the population, was associated with feelings of insecurity in romantic relationships.

New Canadian headquarters for global biodiversity research network

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:12:37 +0000

The Group on Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), a global research network and community of practice dedicated to improved monitoring of Earth’s biodiversity, announces the relocation of its headquarters from Leipzig, Germany, to Montreal, Canada.

GEO BON responds to the urgent need for the best possible data and knowledge to support decisions to avoid unsustainable biodiversity loss. The information it provides will support international and national actions to meet biodiversity targets and Sustainable Development Goals.

New laboratory to advance research in 3D brain modelling

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:58:41 +0000

Launching on June 26, 2020, the Helmholtz International BigBrain Analytics Learning Laboratory (HIBALL) will work to create 3D brain models at an unprecedented cellular-level resolution.

New species of Ichthyosaur discovered in museum collection

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 14:37:17 +0000

Hauffiopteryx altera (Latin for different from) has been identified as a new species of Ichthyosaurs by researchers from McGill University and the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany.

Ichthyosaurs (‘fish lizards’), a group of tuna-shaped reptiles that inhabited Earth’s seas during the Mesozoic Era, were discovered by scientists in the early 19^th century. Similar to the modern-day dolphin, ichthyosaurs underwent profound adaptions to aquatic environments including limbs transformed into flippers, a dorsal fin, and a tail fin.

Hydroxychloroquine shortages: when the enthusiasm for a potential cure affects patients

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:53:35 +0000

Amid initial public and scientific optimism for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a potential treatment for COVID-19, health care professionals raised concerns about shortages of this inexpensive drug, which is widely used in the treatment of several rheumatic diseases such as arthritis. A new national survey of rheumatologists led by researchers at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) shows that most of them reported difficulties accessing or renewing the drug.

Environmental activists: at high risk of violence and assassination

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:00:29 +0000

Activists protesting against environmental injustices around the world suffer from high rates of criminalization, physical violence and murder, according to a study published this week in Global Environmental Change. Indeed, despite the fact that they primarily use nonviolent forms of protest, activists are victims of violence in 18% of environmental conflicts, and of murder in 13% of these conflicts. When Indigenous Peoples are involved, violence is especially frequent.

Smart phones are empowering women worldwide

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:40:12 +0000

By giving women access to information they otherwise wouldn’t have, mobile phones are transforming lives. Putting smart phones in women’s hands could be a powerful tool to support sustainable development goals in the developing world, according to researchers from McGill University, University of Oxford and Bocconi University.

Skin cancer: men are genetically more prone

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:01:05 +0000

As COVID-19 restrictions loosen this summer, Canadians will spend more time outdoors and make the most of the sunshine. A new study from McGill University suggests why men may be more genetically prone to develop skin cancer.

McGill and other Canadian universities unite to address climate change

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:57:40 +0000

Today, a group of 15 leading universities across Canada, spearheaded by McGill University and the University of Toronto, are uniting to tackle the global challenge of climate change by pledging to follow responsible investment practices. Their efforts are outlined in Investing to Address Climate Change: A Charter for Canadian Universities.

McGill’s Spring 2020 Virtual Convocation

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 11:43:48 +0000

Graduation is a pivotal event, whatever the circumstances may be—and while we know there’s no replacement for crossing the stage, McGill University will mark this once-in-a lifetime occasion by celebrating all of our graduates’ accomplishments. That’s why McGill will be hosting 10 virtual ceremonies, one for each Faculty, on a rolling basis over June 18th and 19th, 2020. During the ceremonies in this exceptional year, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, and Mr.

Discovery of a fast radio burst that pulses at regular intervals

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:03:22 +0000

A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from McGill University, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby galaxy pulses at regular intervals.

Researchers within the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Fast Radio Burst Collaboration used the CHIME telescope in British Columbia to show that the repeating radio source known as FRB 180916.J0158+65 – first discovered in 2018 by the same group - pulsates apparently every 16.35 days.

McCall MacBain Scholarships to fund interdisciplinary global leaders announced at McGill University

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:50:30 +0000

Announced in 2019 as the first comprehensive leadership scholarship at the master’s level in Canada, the McCall MacBain Scholarships will enable students to broaden their perspective and develop leadership skills while pursuing a graduate education at McGill University.

Why do some non-smokers get COPD while many heavy smokers don’t?

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:55:51 +0000

Smoking is the best-known risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a debilitating lung condition that can severely limit a person’s day-to-day activities. But curiously, only a minority of lifelong smokers develops the disease, while non-smokers represent more than 25% of all COPD cases. A new study published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that a developmental mismatch between airway and lung size—a condition called dysanapsis—could answer why.

The neurobiology of social distance

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:06:20 +0000

Never before have we experienced social isolation on a massive scale as we have during the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. A new paper published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explores the wide-ranging, negative consequences that social isolation has on our psychological well-being and physical health, including decreased life span.

McGill-led training program receives $1.65M NSERC CREATE grant

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:50:38 +0000

An inter-university collaboration led by Dr. Mark Lefsrud, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering, has received a $1.65 million research grant, to be distributed over six years, from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program.

Environmental groups moving beyond conservation

Wed, 27 May 2020 21:01:59 +0000

Although non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become powerful voices in world environmental politics, little is known of the global picture of this sector. A new study shows that environmental groups are increasingly focused on advocacy in climate change politics and environmental justice. How they do their work is largely determined by regional disparities in human and financial resources.

Quality of continuing education for psychotherapists questioned, unsupported by research

Wed, 27 May 2020 15:09:41 +0000

New research from McGill University has found that nearly half of psychotherapies promoted in workshops approved by l’Ordre des Psychologues du Québec are not supported by scientific research, raising questions with regards to accreditation and legitimacy.

To ensure that psychologists and psychotherapists maintain and develop their professional skills, the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec (OPQ) requires that accredited therapists follow 90 hours of continuing education activities over the course of a five-year period.

Two McGill professors awarded prestigious Killam Research Fellowships

Tue, 26 May 2020 14:02:28 +0000

The Canada Council for the Arts recently announced the recipients of the prestigious 2020 Killam Research Fellowship, including two from McGill. Professors Myriam Denov and Nathalie Tufenkji were awarded Killam Research Fellowships in support of their outstanding research excellence and their commitment to pursue trail-blazing projects in their field. In addition to the fellowships, the Council also awarded the Killam Prize to Professor Alan Evans.

COVID-19 pandemic uniting Canadians like no other event in decades

Fri, 22 May 2020 20:09:16 +0000

A new study by researchers from McGill University and the University of Toronto finds a cross-partisan consensus on battling COVID-19 in Canada. Unlike in the U.S., this consensus is fostering broad agreement on the threats posed by the pandemic and the actions necessary to contain it – all of which is crucial to efforts to fight the virus.

Sex bias in pain research

Thu, 21 May 2020 14:04:36 +0000

It is increasingly clear that male and female humans and rodents process pain in different ways. And that there are important differences in the underlying mechanisms involved at genetic, molecular, cellular, and physiological levels. Despite this fact, according to a review paper from McGill University published today in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, most pain research remains overwhelmingly based on the study of male rodents, continuing to test hypotheses derived from earlier experiments on males.

Team of Canadian and Italian researchers breaking new ground in materials science

Wed, 20 May 2020 13:35:01 +0000

A study by a team of researchers from Canada and Italy recently published in Nature Materials could usher in a revolutionary development in materials science, leading to big changes in the way companies create modern electronics.

The goal was to develop two-dimensional materials, which are a single atomic layer thick, with added functionality to extend the revolutionary developments in materials science that started with the discovery of graphene in 2004.

Ancient reptile had mammal-like tooth enamel, study shows

Tue, 19 May 2020 19:37:24 +0000

A new study by McGill University and the University of Alberta (UofA) paleontologists shows that one type of ancient reptiles evolved a special type of tooth enamel, similar to that of mammals, with high resistance to wear and tear. The study is the first to report this kind of enamel in a fossil reptile.

Indigenous Peoples around the globe are disproportionately affected by pollution

Tue, 19 May 2020 14:08:43 +0000

Indigenous Peoples around the world are suffering disproportionately from the impacts of pollution. After surveying close to 700 articles covering different disciplines and regions of the world, a research team led by Helsinki University and involving McGill has highlighted key factors that contribute to this situation.

McGill welcomes support for research system

Sat, 16 May 2020 21:09:42 +0000

McGill University welcomed the announcement by the Prime Minister of $450M to ensure continuity in Canada’s academic research system, as well as the announcement by Minister Mendicino granting flexibility in post-graduation work permit rules to help attract international students to our programs.

T. rex was a champion walker, super-efficient at lower speeds

Wed, 13 May 2020 18:19:54 +0000

While smaller dinosaurs needed speed, huge predators like T. rex were optimized for energy-efficient walking, according to a study published in PLOS ONE.

McGill's Fall 2020 Semester

Mon, 11 May 2020 13:35:00 +0000

McGill University, like universities worldwide, has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. During these past months of uncertainty, McGill academic leadership and teaching staff have been fully dedicated to developing robust and high-quality programs and courses that will offer the needed flexibility to all its students during the Fall 2020 semester, with the objective of ensuring the least possible disruption to their educational experiences.

Better understanding of nature’s nanomachines may help in design of future drugs

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:15:11 +0000

Many of the drugs and medicines that we rely on today are natural products taken from microbes like bacteria and fungi. Within these microbes, the drugs are made by tiny natural machines – mega-enzymes known as nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs). A research team led by McGill University has gained a better understanding of the structures of NRPSs and the processes by which they work.

New partnership to unravel genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Quebec

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:53:45 +0000

The Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) and the McGill Genome Centre today announced they will partner to sequence the viral genomes of Quebec patients with COVID-19 disease. The collaboration, termed “Coronavirus Sequencing in Quebec,” (CoVSeQ) is led by Profs Sandrine Moreira, Hugues Charest and Michel Roger at the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec (LSPQ) of the INSPQ. The viral samples are taken from a Quebec viral biobank, termed the CoVBanQ, which is hosted in LSPQ.

New study finds connection between fault roughness and the magnitude of earthquakes

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:01:27 +0000

A new study led by McGill University has found that tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface can show varying degrees of roughness and could help explain why certain earthquakes are stronger than others.

Earthquakes happen when the rocks beneath the Earth’s surface break along geological fault lines and slide past each other. The properties of these faults - such as the roughness of their surface - can have an influence on the size of seismic events, however their study has been challenging because they are buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface.

McGill University to accelerate the carbon footprint reduction of its endowment investments

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:43:24 +0000

McGill University announced today a series of impactful measures and timelines designed to accelerate the responsible decarbonisation of the McGill Investment Pool (MIP), a collection of more than 60 investment mandates and fund investments. These measures were recommended by the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR) to the University’s Board of Governors last week to operationalize the carbon footprint reduction of its endowment investments.

McGill Genome Centre to share in $20M funding for COVID-related DNA research

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:31:30 +0000

The McGill Genome Centre today announced it has received funding from the Canadian government to sequence the genomes of people affected by COVID-19. The Federal Government is committing $40 million to support Genome Canada’s launch of the newly formed Canadian COVID Genomics Network (CanCOGeN). The McGill Genome Centre and the other members of CGEn, the national facility for genome sequencing and analysis, will join this network and receive $20 million to support human sequencing as part of this program.

Canada launches serological testing initiative to help manage COVID-19

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:22:38 +0000

The Government of Canada is launching a task force to measure the scope of coronavirus infection in Canada and rapidly provide information needed to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and safely get Canadians back to work.

The COVID-19 Immunity Task Force will generate this vital information, drawing on experts from universities and hospitals across Canada and working closely with provincial and territorial public health officials.

COVID 19 treatments and vaccines: the importance of rigorous science

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:25:04 +0000

Ethicists from Carnegie Mellon and McGill universities are calling on the global research community to resist treating the urgency of the current COVID-19 outbreak as grounds for making exceptions to rigorous research standards in pursuit of treatments and vaccines. Their paper, published online today in Science, provides recommendations for conducting clinical research during times of crises.

National study to collect data on aging adults’ experiences during COVID-19 pandemic

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:53:18 +0000

How does a pandemic affect the physical and psychological health of adults as they age? Does COVID-19 have an impact on the delivery of regular health-care services? Does a COVID-19 infection lead to long-term health problems affecting the lungs or brain?

North pole will be ice-free in summer

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:25:00 +0000

Summer Arctic sea-ice is predicted to disappear before 2050, resulting in devastating consequences for the Arctic ecosystem. The efficacy of climate-protection measures will determine how often and for how long. These are the results of a new study involving 21 research institutes from around the world, including McGill University.

International consortium investigates overactive immune cells as cause of COVID-19 deaths

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:03:36 +0000

In the urgent battle to treat COVID-19 patients, a group of eleven international medical research organizations is investigating whether overactive immune cells that produce Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) cause the most severe cases. The consortium, called the NETwork, includes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC).

McGill Board of Governors receives proposed action plan to accelerate the carbon footprint reduction of its endowment investments

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:13:44 +0000

McGill University’s Board of Governors received today recommendations for an ambitious action plan to reduce significantly the carbon footprint of its endowment investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR).

With a heavy heart: how men and women develop heart disease differently

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:42:39 +0000

A new study by researchers from McGill University has uncovered that minerals causing aortic heart valve blockage in men and women are different, a discovery that could change how heart disease is diagnosed and treated.

Using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, Marta Cerruti, an Associate Professor in McGill’s Department of Materials Engineering, and her team analyzed damaged heart valves from patients who had undergone transplants.

Over $1 million for students at McGill affected by the COVID-19 crisis

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:33:34 +0000

The McGill University community has come forward in a remarkable way to assist students who are being seriously affected financially by the COVID-19 crisis, with donors contributing over $650,000 on the strength of more than 1,500 gifts to the McGill Student Emergency Support Fund within the last two weeks.

Volcanic CO2 emissions helped trigger Triassic climate change

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:54:46 +0000

A new study finds volcanic activity played a direct role in triggering extreme climate change at the end of the Triassic period 201 million year ago, wiping out almost half of all existing species. The amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from these volcanic eruptions is comparable to the amount of CO₂ expected to be produced by all human activity in the 21st century.

Together for our parks

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:50:30 +0000

City parks provide priceless green space for citizens living in metropolitan areas. In these challenging times, not only do they offer a place to relax and renew with nature, they are essential to our health and well-being.

Today, local park groups, sports clubs and public interest organizations are joining together to appeal to all Montrealers:

FRQS to fund new structural biology centre at McGill University

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 20:27:51 +0000

The health sciences research arm of the Quebec government [Fonds de recherche du Québec – santé (FRQS)] today announced it will provide $2 million to assist in the establishment of the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale (CRBS) at McGill University. The new centre will become the premiere Structural Biology facility in Quebec and a leading centre in Canada, and aims to facilitate structural biology and biophysics for the broader scientific community for the next wave of scientific breakthroughs

McGill researchers identify correlation between mild behavioural impairment and Alzheimer’s

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:21:43 +0000

New research from McGill University has found that the presence and severity of mild behavioural impairment (MBI) in cognitively healthy individuals is strongly associated with the presence of amyloid plaques deposits in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.

Promising advance in depression research

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:20:23 +0000

Depression is a common psychiatric disorder and one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Antidepressants are the first-line treatment for moderate to severe major depressive episodes. Despite their effectiveness, only 40% of patients respond to the first antidepressant they try. A recent paper in Nature Communication strongly suggests that a particular protein, GPR56, is involved in the biology of depression and the effect of antidepressants.

New video game enlists players to help advance scientific research

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:39:55 +0000

McGill researchers are turning to video games to harness the power of citizen scientists in order to map the gut microbiome.

Innovative birds are less vulnerable to extinction

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:18:33 +0000

Bird species that have the capacity to express novel foraging behaviors are less vulnerable to extinction than species that do not, according to a collaborative study involving McGill University and CREAF Barcelona and published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

McGill University receives Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) Award

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:56:53 +0000

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health has awarded a CAD$3.5 million operating grant to Dr. Treena Wasontí:io Delormier of McGill University’s School of Human Nutrition. The grant will help to establish a Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) over the next five years in the province of Quebec

COVID-19 and labour constraints: Recalling former health care workers not enough

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:30:44 +0000

While the COVID-19 pandemic has already resulted in mass layoffs in several industries, other essential industries will instead face critical workforce shortages, according to a new report. Social distancing, school and daycare closures, and measures to protect those people who are most at-risk limit the pool of workers firms can draw upon. How important will these constraints turn out to be, especially in essential industries?

McGill researchers help create COVID-19 Resources Canada

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:29:13 +0000

McGill University announced it has joined the network of senior researchers, students, and web developers, in the launch of the national COVID-19 Resources Canada portal, a central hub designed to help those involved in COVID-19 R&D in Canada to locate expertise and equipment in a timely manner. Since launching, over 1,800 volunteers have already signed up via the portal to help in the fight against COVID-19.

The placebo effect and psychedelic drugs: tripping on nothing?

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:56:53 +0000

There has been a lot of recent interest in the use of psychedelic drugs to treat depression. A new study from McGill suggests that, in the right context, some people may experience psychedelic-like effects from placebos alone. The researchers reported some of the strongest placebo effects (these are effects from “fake” medication) on consciousness in the literature relating to psychedelic drugs. Indeed, 61% of the participants in the experiment reported some effect after consuming the placebo.

FRQ to create a province-wide COVID-19 Biobank

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:33:10 +0000

The Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) and Genome Québec today announced the launch of the Québec COVID-19 Biobank, a Province-wide initiative to enable the collection, storage and sharing of samples and data related to the COVID-19 crisis. The task force that has been mobilized to take on this role is led by McGill University’s Dr. Vincent Mooser, with additional medical and scientific expertise from McGill and several other Quebec institutions. The Biobank will begin operations on April 1, 2020.

Increasingly mobile sea ice risks polluting Arctic neighbours

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:53:17 +0000

The movement of sea ice between Arctic countries is expected to significantly increase this century, raising the risk of more widely transporting pollutants like microplastics and oil between neighbouring coastal states, according to new research from McGill University in collaboration with University of Colorado Boulder, Columbia University, and Arizona State University.

McGill24 raises $2.95 million in just one day

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:28:01 +0000

On March 11, the McGill University community rose to the challenge to make a difference on McGill24, the University’s fifth annual day of giving, by contributing $2,956,106 for causes across the University. The final tally, which comes on the strength of 5,379 donations, demonstrated the collective power of bringing people together to give what they can. It represents a new high-water mark for the annual campaign and sets another record for the largest one-day fundraiser of its kind in Canadian university history.

Homeless Health Research Network releases evidence-based clinical guideline

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:22:33 +0000

A collaborative approach is required to build healthcare pathways that will end homelessness in Canada, says the Homeless Health Research Network, a pan-Canadian team of experts including researchers from McGill University. Clinicians can play a role by tailoring their interventions using a comprehensive new clinical guideline on homelessness published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Seismic biomarkers in Japan Trench fault zone reveal history of large earthquakes

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:53:07 +0000

In the aftermath of the devastating Tohoku-Oki earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011, scientists were stunned by the unprecedented 50 meters of displacement along the fault, which ruptured all the way to the surface of the seafloor. This extreme slip at shallow depths exacerbated the massive tsunami that, together with the magnitude 9.1 earthquake, caused extensive damage and loss of life in Japan.

Using molecules to draw on quantum materials

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:50:09 +0000

Over millennia, civilizations progressed through the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. Now the time has come for quantum materials to change the way we live, thanks in part to research conducted at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) and McGill University.

Widely used weed killer harming biodiversity

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:29:15 +0000

One of the world’s most widely used glyphosate-based herbicides, Roundup, can trigger loss of biodiversity, making ecosystems more vulnerable to pollution and climate change, say researchers from McGill University.

Adaptation: Competition and predation may not be the driving force scientists thought

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:44:41 +0000

Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at McGill University and the University of British Columbia examined over 125 studies testing local adaptation in over 100 species of plants and animals in an article published in The American Naturalist.

McGill researchers end decade-long search for mechanical pain sensor

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:38:07 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have discovered that a protein found in the membrane of our sensory neurons are involved in our capacity to feel mechanical pain, laying the foundation for the development of powerful new analgesic drugs.

The study, published in Cell, is the first to show that TACAN, a highly conserved protein among vertebrates whose function remained unclear, is in fact involved in detecting mechanical pain by converting mechanical pressures into electric signals.

McGill researchers claim three spots in demanding AI funding competition

Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:27:15 +0000

Earlier today, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced the results of the competition for the Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative, and three McGill teams were among the selected projects. The initiative supports the development of collaborations in AI projects between researchers in Canada and in the UK. Each winning project will receive up to $173,333 per year up to three years, for a total of $520,000 CAD per project.

Fossilized wing gives clues about Labrador’s biodiversity during the Cretaceous

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:11:44 +0000

A fossilised insect wing discovered in an abandoned mine in Labrador has led palaeontologists from McGill University and the University of Gdańsk to identify a new hairy cicada species that lived around 100 million years ago.

Maculaferrum blaisi, described in a study published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, is the first hemipteran insect (true bug) to be discovered at the Redmond Formation, a fossil site from the Cretaceous period near Schefferville, Labrador.

Prospects of new treatments for diabetes through metabolic products of the intestinal flora

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:03:25 +0000

In a study published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers at McGill University, Kyoto University and INSERM/University of Paris show that an organic compound produced by the intestinal flora, the metabolite 4-Cresol, exhibits protective effects against type 1 and type 2 diabetes by stimulating the proliferation and function of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. These results pave the way for new therapeutic options that could improve the situation of millions of patients.

Boys with inattention-hyperactivity face increased risk for traumatic brain injuries

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:08:52 +0000

McGill-led research shows that boys exhibiting inattention-hyperactivity at age 10 have a higher risk for traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in adolescence and adulthood. Treatments to reduce these behaviours may decrease the risk for TBIs.

Love matters: how parents' love shapes children’s lives

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:16:47 +0000

Parents often put their own relationship on the back burner to concentrate on their children, but a new study shows that when spouses love each other, children stay in school longer and marry later in life.

Pediatric researchers in Montreal unite to tackle infection and immunity on two different fronts

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:21:21 +0000

Researchers at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre – the Children’s - and the CHU Sainte-Justine are coming together within the scope of two new projects, funded under the auspices of the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4): improving the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial pneumonia and better understanding rare immune disorders.

Improving the appropriateness of antibiotic use to treat pneumonia

Bacteriophages may play a role in childhood stunting… and be able to help treat it

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:25:03 +0000

New research spearheaded by McGill University has discovered that bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) found in the intestinal tracts of children may play a role in childhood stunting, a significant impediment to growth that affects 22% of children under the age of five around the world.

Three McGill researchers among 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:59:18 +0000

By Amanda Testani

McGill University partners with the Université du Québec en Outaouais to offer its Medicine Preparatory Program as of September 2020

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 23:29:33 +0000

McGill University is partnering with the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) to offer the McGill Faculty of Science’s Medicine Preparatory (Med-P) Program in Gatineau. In September 2020, the program will welcome its first cohort of approximately 20 CEGEP graduates. With the addition of the program, McGill and its partners now offer the full range of its medical training programs in Outaouais: Med-P, Undergraduate Medical Education and Postgraduate Medical Education in Family Medicine. All programs will be offered 100% in French.

Bridging the gap between AI and the clinic

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:25:14 +0000

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine lies in its ability to find important statistical patterns in large datasets. A study published today is an important proof of concept for how AI can help doctors and brain tumour patients make better treatment decisions.

Is it possible to reduce political polarization?

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:45:45 +0000

In the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an unusual experiment suggested that it might be possible to influence American voters to adopt less polarized positions.

Posing as political researchers, a research team from McGill and Lund Universities approached 136 voters at the first Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton presidential debate in New York. Participants were asked to compare Trump and Clinton on various leadership traits (such as courage, vision, and analytic skills) by putting an X on a sliding scale.

Most comprehensive map of cancer genome to date

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:19:51 +0000

An international team, that includes researchers from McGill, has completed the most comprehensive study of whole cancer genomes to date, significantly improving our fundamental understanding of cancer and signposting new directions for its diagnosis and treatment.

February 2 | World Wetlands Day: Fostering global biodiversity and mitigating climate change

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:20:03 +0000

Though they make up less than 6% of Earth’s surface, wetlands burst with biodiversity and play a key role in cleaning waterways, preventing floods, and sequestering carbon. For World Wetlands Day on February 2, researchers from McGill University are launching interactive story maps to illustrate the valuable contributions these ecosystems make to our planet.

McGill researchers lay foundation for next generation aortic grafts

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:59:31 +0000

A new study by researchers at McGill University has measured the dynamic physical properties of the human aorta, laying the foundation for the development of grafts capable of mimicking the native behaviour of the human body’s largest artery.

Male fertility after chemotherapy: new questions raised

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:31:04 +0000

A pilot study conducted by INRS and McGill researchers highlights the effect of chemotherapy on male fertility before and after puberty.

"It is often thought that cancer treatments for prepubescent boys will have no effect on their fertility because their testicles would be "dormant". But in fact, the prepubertal testis are not immune to chemotherapy that affects dividing cells and it is now well recognized that there can be long-term effects," explains Géraldine Delbès, a professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Laval.

Our biological clock plays crucial role in healing from surgery

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:26:20 +0000

If you have just had knee, shoulder or hip surgery, you may want to take anti-inflammatories in the morning or at noon, but not at night. A McGill-led study shows, for the first time, that circadian clock genes are involved in healing from surgery. Indeed, the researchers demonstrated that anti-inflammatory medications are most effective in promoting post-operative healing and recovery when taken during the active periods of our biological clocks.

Street network patterns reveal worrying worldwide trend towards urban sprawl

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:25:01 +0000

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation.

New technique nets scientists haul of key proteins

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:07:32 +0000

Using a new microscopic "fishing" technique, scientists from the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), Université de Montréal and McGill University have successfully snagged thousands of proteins that play a key role in the formation of the cell skeletons or cytoskeletons. Cell skeletons, whose primary function is to give the cells their shapes, are also involved in things like muscle contraction. They are made up of an interlocking network of protein filaments that connect the cell nucleus to the cell membrane.

McGill researchers honoured in Québec Science 2019 list of top discoveries

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:56:19 +0000

Research from McGill University topped Québec Science’s annual list of the 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. This year, Günther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Tomislav Friščić, Heidi M. McBride, Samantha Gruenheid, and Ehab Abouheif were recognized for their trailblazing work, by a jury of researchers and journalists reviewing the most influential discoveries made in Quebec.

Here is a closer look at the selected discoveries:

Oil companies' ad spending: Driven by climate change legislation & media coverage

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:11:14 +0000

Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in Climatic Change, researchers from McGill, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).

A fast radio burst tracked down to a nearby galaxy

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 14:59:24 +0000

Astronomers in Europe, working with members of Canada’s CHIME Fast Radio Burst collaboration, have pinpointed the location of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) first detected by the CHIME telescope in British Columbia in 2018. The breakthrough is only the second time that scientists have determined the precise location of a repeating source of these millisecond bursts of radio waves from space.

McGill study identifies new role of major genetic risk factor in Alzheimer’s disease

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:57:15 +0000

For years, physicians have been aware that patients carrying the apolipoprotein ꜫ4 (APOE ꜫ4) gene are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. New research from McGill University has now found the gene plays an even greater role in dementia.

Perpetual predator-prey population cycles

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:10:27 +0000

How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by researchers from McGill University and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam have now confirmed that regular oscillations in predator-prey populations can persist over very long periods

Quebec government gearing up to face income inequality head on

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 02:58:14 +0000

The arrival of the holiday season often signals joy and celebration but for many it is a painful demonstration of the growing inequality in North American society. While online sales have soared to levels never seen before, food banks are struggling to meet demand, and despite being in a so-called ‘full-employment’ situation, the proportion of food bank users who are employed is also on the rise.

Nine McGill researchers selected in newest round of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:09:29 +0000

CIFAR today announced its newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from McGill University, bringing the total number of McGill researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the world’s first national strategy of its kind. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities, and mobilizes over 150 researchers across the country.

World’s most detailed database maps characteristics of Earth’s rivers and catchments

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:12:17 +0000

Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and catchments.

HydroATLAS was co-developed by Bernhard Lehner and his team from McGill University’s Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute.

Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity - a global overview

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:37:53 +0000

Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from McGill’s Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.

McGill University to decrease carbon intensity of investment portfolio

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:45:36 +0000

McGill University is moving forward to reduce the overall carbon footprint of its investment portfolio, as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and its own stewardship role with respect to sustainability.

As rural China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional wood and coal stoves persists

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:13 +0000

Old habits are hard to break. A McGill-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons behind people’s reluctance to give up traditional stoves, it will be difficult for policies in China and elsewhere in the world to succeed in encouraging this shift towards clean energy. The study was published recently in Nature Sustainability.

McGill University project on zero-carbon metal fuels launches into space

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:28:22 +0000

Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at McGill University launched on a European Space Agency rocket.

The project, an international collaboration between the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at McGill, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and Airbus Defence and Space, aims to improve scientific understanding of metal flames, laying the groundwork for a new type of green engine that burns iron powder, with only rust as a by-product.

McGill Board of Governors receives recommendations to decrease carbon footprint of investment portfolio

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:50:45 +0000

McGill University’s Board of Governors received today recommendations to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University’s investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR).

Prepared for the Board in response to a McGill Senate resolution on divestment from the fossil fuel industry, the CAMSR report and recommendations support the continued evolution of the University’s investment portfolio towards a more sustainable and less carbon-intensive investment strategy.

McGill-led research unravels mystery of how early animals survived ice age

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:27:54 +0000

How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth, when the oceans were cut off from life-giving oxygen, answering a question puzzling scientists for years.

Ensuring a respectful debate

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:19:54 +0000

This message is sent on behalf of Fabrice Labeau, Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning).

Dear members of the McGill community,

Puffins stay cool thanks to their large beak

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:18:23 +0000

Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food.

In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers from McGill University and the University of California, Davis, used thermal imaging cameras to measure heat dissipation off the bodies and beaks of wild tufted puffins in the minutes after flying.

McGill team awarded contract to advance potential Canadian contribution for LiteBIRD space telescope

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:55:47 +0000

November 7, 2019 (MONTREAL, Quebec) - A team of researchers from the McGill Space Institute has secured a Phase 0 contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to advance a proposed Canadian contribution – including technology deliverables and scientific know-how -- for the LiteBIRD (Light satellite for the studies of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection) mission.

Artificial turf crumb rubber leaches environmental toxins

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:55:55 +0000

New research spearheaded by scientists at McGill University reports that exposing chicken embryos, a model of higher vertebrate development, to leachate from crumb rubber used for example in artificial turf infill allowed to assess the toxicity of environmental pollutants contained in such material.

Cellular origins of pediatric brain tumors identified

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:08:27 +0000

A research team led by Dr. Claudia Kleinman, an investigator at the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, together with Dr. Nada Jabado, of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), and Dr. Michael Taylor, of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), discovered that several types of highly aggressive and, ultimately, fatal pediatric brain tumors originate during brain development. The genetic event that triggers the disease happens in the very earliest phases of cellular development, most likely prenatal.

McGill researchers among the world’s most cited: Web of Science

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:43:42 +0000

In the world of research, one of the most meaningful measures of success is the number of times a paper has been cited by another researcher. Based on this yardstick, McGill researchers are among the most influential in the world, according to the respected research news website, Web of Science. The annual list identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers.

Human song is universal

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:04:31 +0000

Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from McGill University, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.

Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music

An ancient snake's cheekbone sheds light on evolution of modern snake skulls

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:09:28 +0000

New research from a collaboration between Argentinian and University of Alberta and McGill University palaeontologists adds a new piece to the puzzle of snake evolution.

The researchers examined a strikingly well-preserved fossil of the rear-limbed snake Najash rionegrina, found in Argentina. The study shows that nearly 100 million years ago, these legged snakes still had a cheekbone—also known as a jugal bone—that has all but disappeared in their modern descendants.

Pollution from Athabasca oil sands affects weather processes

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:03:30 +0000

Scientists have been looking at pollution affecting the air, land and water around the Athabasca Oil Sands for some time. After looking at contaminants in snow taken from up-to 25 km away from the oil sands, a McGill-led scientific team now suggests that oil sand pollution is also affecting the weather patterns in the surrounding regions.

Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:22:07 +0000

Julia Lovell, China expert and translator of Chinese literature has been named the winner of the 2019 Cundill History Prize for Maoism: A Global History, published by The Bodley Head (UK) and Knopf (US). At a time when tensions between China and the west are on the rise, Lovell’s sweeping work of history provides a re-evaluation of Maoism as a force that played out around the world – and continues to shape political practice in China today.

Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:11:08 +0000

New research from McGill University links air pollution nanoparticles to brain cancer.

Promising discovery could lead to a better, cheaper solar cell

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:15:04 +0000

McGill University researchers have gained tantalizing new insights into the properties of perovskites, one of the world’s most promising materials in the quest to produce a more efficient, robust and cheaper solar cell.

Abrupt shifts in Arctic climate projected

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:41:36 +0000

Researchers from McGill University project that as the permafrost continues to degrade, the climate in various regions of the Arctic could potentially change abruptly, in the relatively near future. Their research, which was published today in Nature Climate Change, also suggests that as the permafrost degrades, the severity of wildfires will double from one year to the next and remain at the new and higher rate for regions in the Northwestern Territories and the Yukon.

Scientists identify key knowledge gaps in sustainability research

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:54:52 +0000

The loss of biodiversity continues at an alarming rate despite decades of research and international policies setting out clear goals in the area. In an article published this week in Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists including researchers from McGill identified seven key areas for future research in order to tackle, effectively, the root causes of the problem.

Greater local earthworm diversity in temperate regions than in the tropics

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:17:09 +0000

Surprisingly, in any single location, there are typically more earthworms and more earthworm species found in temperate regions than in the tropics, according to a study published this week in Science. Global climate change could lead to significant shifts in earthworm communities worldwide, threatening the many functions they provide.

Mapping international drug use by looking at wastewater

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:36:19 +0000

Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known source of wastewater, such as a sewage influent to a wastewater treatment plant, scientists can estimate the quantity of drugs used in a community from the measured levels of illicit drugs and their metabolites excreted in urine.

Are humans changing animal genetic diversity worldwide?

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:05:14 +0000

Human population density and land use is causing changes in animal genetic diversity, according to researchers at McGill University.

The findings reported in the journal Ecology Letters, show that environmental changes caused by humans are leading to changes in genetic variation in thousands of species of birds, fish, insects, and mammals. The evidence for human impacts was most clear for insects and fish species.

Mapping global biodiversity change

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:22:46 +0000

A new study, published in Science, which focuses on mapping biodiversity change in marine and land ecosystems shows that loss of biodiversity is most prevalent in the tropic, with changes in marine ecosystems outpacing those on land. The research, led by scientists from the University of St Andrews, in collaboration with leading universities across Europe, the USA and Canada, including McGill, aimed at reaching a consensus about variation in biodiversity change.

Interactive map shows nature’s contributions to people

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:23:23 +0000

Nature supports people in critical ways, often at a highly local level. A wild bee buzzes through a farm, pollinating vegetables as it goes. Nearby, wetlands remove chemicals from the farm’s runoff, protecting a community drinking water source. In communities all around the world, nature’s contributions are constantly flowing to people. A team of international scientists including from McGill University, have mapped these contributions at local levels for years, but a new Stanford-led study closes a critical gap in how this information can be used to drive global policy and development.

UNAIDS likely not to meet its HIV targets among gay men in Africa

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:08:13 +0000

Despite improvements in HIV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa, they are missing out on HIV treatment.

This is the finding of research, published in The Lancet HIV, led by Imperial College London, which analysed data from 75 independent studies involving 44,993 MSM across 28 African countries, between 2004 and 2018.

Big data reveals extraordinary unity underlying life’s diversity

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:59:51 +0000

The diversity of life is staggering. From microscopic algae to elephants, life has devised countless ways to thrive in every environment on the planet. But while biologists have tended to focus on the many varied forms that species have evolved, the age of ‘big data’ offers an unprecedented view of some surprisingly common features shared by all creatures, great and small.

Students, researchers, and future-ready global leaders are at the core of McGill University’s $2-billion fundraising campaign

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:44:16 +0000

McGill University today unveiled a $2-billion fundraising campaign designed to propel McGill into its third century by boosting resources for financial aid and scholarships, equipping students with the skills they need to become “future-ready” global leaders, and supporting research and innovation in some of the most pressing societal challenges.

Made by McGill: the Campaign for Our Third Century is the most ambitious fundraising drive in McGill’s history. It comes as the University prepares to mark its 200th anniversary in 2021.

Some plastic with your tea?

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:58:53 +0000

A cup of tea may be a cure for rainy days, but the soothing cup of the brewed beverage may also come with a dose of micro- and nano-sized plastics shed from plastic bags, according to researchers at McGill University. While the possible health effects of ingesting these particles are currently unknown, the new research published in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology suggests further investigation is needed.

Jane Goodall, Irving Ludmer, and Stuart (Kip) Cobbett to receive honorary degrees

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:04:26 +0000

$5.5M support for new Canadian ecosystem service network

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 18:36:01 +0000

Protecting Canada’s vast wealth of natural resources, which contribute significantly to our national economy, will depend on our ability to manage ecosystems and all the services they provide for human well-being now and in the future. Leading sustainability scientist, Elena Bennett, a professor in the School of the Environment and Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, has assembled a network of researchers to ensure that Canada’s working landscapes—land actively used for production of resources such as food—remain biologically diverse, resilient, and adaptive.

McGill to host Harvard in Covo Cup Classic on Sept. 7 to mark anniversary of historic 1874 rugby-football game

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:55:42 +0000

The McGill University men’s rugby team will celebrate the 145th anniversary of the first rugby-football game ever played in the United States when they host Harvard in the annual Covo Cup confrontation on Saturday (Sept. 7). Kickoff is slated for 6:30 p.m. at Percival Molson Stadium (475 Pine Avenue West).

Advance tickets are available online at: https://mcgillathletics.ticketmob.com/eventlist.cfm?stagid=137

Government of Canada funds Collaborative Research to Clean Arctic Oil Spills

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:45:56 +0000

Today, the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada and Member of Parliament for LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, announced on behalf of the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, that McGill University will receive more than $3.7 million for two research projects that will help minimize the environmental impact of oil spills. Minister Lametti also announced funding for two research projects led by Concordia University. Together, this investment will top $8.2 million and support 19 scientific trainee positions.

Students at McGill University receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:46:36 +0000

Cyril Mani and Marin Schultz have been named McGill University’s recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship.

Out of a pool of more than 300,000 potential candidates across Canada, 1,400 students were nominated, of whom 50 received this celebrated award.

Canadian astronomers determine Earth’s fingerprint in hopes of finding habitable planets beyond the Solar System

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:32:43 +0000

Two McGill University astronomers have assembled a “fingerprint” for Earth, which could be used to identify a planet beyond our Solar System capable of supporting life.

The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:51:32 +0000

A new study by McGill University astronomers has found that the temperature on the nightsides of different hot Jupiters is surprisingly uniform, suggesting the dark side of these massive gaseous planets have clouds made of minerals and rocks.

Using data from the Spitzer Space and the Hubble Space telescopes, the researchers from the McGill Space Institute found that the nightside temperature of 12 hot Jupiters they studied was about 800°C.

Move to single-patient rooms at MUHC’s Glen site resulted in immediate and long-lasting decrease of infection rates

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:26:08 +0000

The move to single-patient rooms at the McGill University Health Centre’s (MUHC) Glen site in 2015 resulted in significantly reduced rates of hospital-acquired infections, suggests a study published today in the highly respected journal JAMA: Internal Medicinepublished by the American Medical Association.

Glitch in Neutron Star Reveals Its Hidden Secrets

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:29:45 +0000

If parts of the neutron star interior start to move outwards, the star spins faster. This is called a “glitch,” and it’s providing astronomers with a brief insight into what lies within these mysterious objects.

McGill researchers receive $6.5M in funding from the CFI and the Government of Quebec

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:10:25 +0000

By Amanda Testani

Twelve McGill researchers have received federal grants through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, made the announcement today at the University of Alberta. Each McGill recipient will also receive matching funds from the Quebec government for their research endeavours.

Two McGill professors lead new Stand Up to Cancer Canada Metastatic Breast Cancer Dream Team

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:01:38 +0000

Marc Miller, Member of Parliament (Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Sœurs, Quebec) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, on behalf of the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, announced today at McGill an investment of up to $6 million for a scientific task force of top researchers to develop new and improved approaches to cancer treatment and care. The funding will be distributed over four years to the new pan-Canadian program, the Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Canada Metastatic Breast Cancer Dream Team.

Professor Maryam Tabrizian receives Collaborative Health Research Project Grant

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 17:33:02 +0000

Funding from the country’s three federal granting councils—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council— was awarded to Professor Maryam Tabrizian and a multidisciplinary team composed of Professors Reggie Hamdy, Monzur Murshed, Bettina Willie (Shriners Hospitals for Children) and Dr. Vahab Soleimani(Lady Davis Research Institute). With the $767,184 received over three years, the researchers will continue developing an innovative, non-invasive solution for bone regeneration.

Puzzling shapes: unlocking the mysteries of plant cell morphology

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:38:21 +0000

The discovery of the mechanics and molecular mechanism that dictate cell shape formation in plants by a team of McGill researchers offers new clues about the fundamental processes governing tissue formation in multicellular organisms.

Plants are made of cells that come in a wide array of shapes and sizes, each of which is closely related and essential to the function of a specific tissue.

Newly discovered Labrador fossils give clues about ancient climate

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:40:22 +0000

The discovery of fossilized plants in Labrador, Canada, by a team of McGill directed paleontologists provides the first quantitative estimate of the area’s climate during the Cretaceous period, a time when the earth was dominated by dinosaurs. The specimens were found in the Redmond no.1 mine, in a remote area of Labrador near Schefferville, in August 2018. Together with specimens collected in previous expeditions, they are now at the core of a recent study published in Palaeontology.

ComSciCon Launches in Canada

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:21:35 +0000

The first national science communications workshop for graduate students launched in Canada on July 18th-20th, 2019. For two and a half days, fifty graduate students, selected from over 400 applicants, and heralding from twenty-six institutions across Canada, gathered at McMaster University for ComSciConCAN – a fully immersive experience in science communications.

Time heals all wounds, but this adhesive can help

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:06:50 +0000

Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures - there are a number of ways our skin can be broken. Most treatments for skin wounds involve simply placing a barrier over them (usually an adhesive gauze bandage) to keep it moist, limit pain, and reduce exposure to infectious microbes, but do not actively assist in the healing process.

Big Sugar and neglect by global health community fuel oral health crisis

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:49:40 +0000

SSHRC invests $8.9M in McGill research

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:59:20 +0000

By Amanda Testani

On July 17, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced an investment of more than $285 million through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to support research in social sciences and humanities across Canada. In addition to 35 SSHRC Insight Development Grants, McGill faculty were awarded 34 Insight Grants, and four Partnership Development Grants. Cumulatively, these grants bring a total of $8.9 million to the University’s research community.

Two McGill Researchers receive $3.3M from NSERC CREATE program funding

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:38:07 +0000

Hanadi Sleiman of the Department of Chemistry and Jaswinder Singhof the Department of Plant Science have each received $1.65 million in research grants, to be distributed over six years, from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)Program.

Government of Canada Promotes Equity and Invests in Discovery Research at McGill

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:57:21 +0000

In conjunction with a $35 million research funding announcement to support 128 researchers through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, Canada’s Minister of Science and Sport, Kirsty Duncan, was on campus today to sign the Dimensions Charter.

Airbnb is removing rental housing in Canadian cities and rural areas

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:12:25 +0000

The American online marketplace Airbnb has likely removed approximately 31,100 units from Canada’s long-term rental markets. This could make it difficult for Canadian cities and provinces to prevent growing housing affordability issues.

Serotonin linked to somatic awareness, a condition long thought to be imaginary

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:30:27 +0000

An international team spearheaded by researchers at McGill University has discovered a biological mechanism that could explain heightened somatic awareness, a condition where patients experience physical discomforts for which there is no physiological explanation.

26 New and Renewed Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:46:19 +0000

Today in Victoria, British Columbia, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced an investment of over $275 million for 346 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs at 52 institutions across Canada. The Canada Foundation for Innovation also made an important investment towards these Chairs in providing more than $5.2 million in new funding for research infrastructure, supporting 30 Chairs at 18 institutions.

Pregnancy-specific anxiety may impact how long a woman exclusively breastfeeds her child

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:44:22 +0000

Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended by the World Health Organization for the first six months of life because of the benefits for both mom and baby. In Canada, approximately 32% of women meet this recommendation.

McGill receives its largest gift for Indigenous education

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:04:20 +0000

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a US$1.25-million grant to McGill University, in support of a new Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative. The Initiative will be implemented over the next five years.

McGill University’s Centre of Genomics and Policy Receives Funding to Create Ethics and Governance Resources for the Human Cell Atlas Initiative

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:53:03 +0000

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the Klarman Family Foundation today announced $468,860 in collaborative funding to support ethical biomedical research and responsible data sharing for the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international effort to map all cells in the human body. The Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) at McGill University will help guide and inform the approach and governance of data sharing to assist participating investigators to collect and share data.

To study invasive predators, watch the prey

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:09:01 +0000

Towards a new era of small animal imaging research

Thu, 30 May 2019 14:40:08 +0000

Have you ever spent half an hour trying to take the best photo of your pets but they won't stay still in the perfect angle? This is also true for small animal imaging research using positron emission tomography (PET). Because of this, the use of anesthesia is a widespread practice in animal imaging. It’s one of the biggest limitations to imaging studies because anesthesia alters the animal’s normal physiological state, blurring the answers to the questions that many researchers have been asking.

Chandra finds stellar duos banished from galaxies

Tue, 28 May 2019 15:43:37 +0000

Astronomers use the term "binary" system to refer to pairs of stars orbiting around each other. These stellar pairs can consist of combinations of stars like our Sun, or more exotic and denser varieties such as neutron stars or even black holes.

Cranberries join forces with antibiotics to fight bacteria

Mon, 27 May 2019 18:59:09 +0000

Thirteen early-career researchers explore new frontiers

Thu, 23 May 2019 10:51:50 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

Detecting bacteria in space

Wed, 22 May 2019 18:24:35 +0000

Scientists at the University of Montreal and McGill University have pioneered and tested a new genomic methodology which reveals a complex bacterial ecosystem at work on the International Space Station.

Until now, relatively little was known about the different types of microbes found on the space station. The new approach enables researchers to identify and map different species inside the ISS, which will ultimately help safeguard astronauts’ health and be key to future long-term space travel.

Widespread permafrost degradation seen in high Arctic terrain

Wed, 22 May 2019 17:50:07 +0000

Rapid changes in terrain are taking place in Canada’s high Arctic polar deserts due to increases in summer air temperatures.

Canadian researchers on promising path towards developing flu treatment using lipid target

Wed, 22 May 2019 15:59:07 +0000

For most people, the influenza A virus (IAV), commonly known as the flu, is cleared from the body by our own immune system. In some cases, however, the immune response becomes dysregulated and if left uncontrolled, the inflammation caused by our own immune cells can lead to extensive lung tissue damage and enhanced morbidity and mortality.

How can we help our immune system to balance the two main host defense strategies: attacking pathogens (called host resistance) and preserving our own tissue (called disease tolerance)?

NSERC awards $35 M to McGill-led research projects

Fri, 17 May 2019 14:52:29 +0000

Today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced an investment of more than $588 million through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Discovery Grants program. Nearly $35 million of this investment will go to 128 McGill-led projects. McGill’s early career researchers, those who have held an independent academic position for 5 years or less, lead thirty of these projects.

Children in Quebec are not diagnosed early enough with type 1 diabetes

Tue, 14 May 2019 17:04:33 +0000

Elwyn was a healthy 13 month-old toddler when she started drinking water from the bathtub. Over time, she became increasingly thirsty and demanded more and more breast milk. For her parents, this seemed like typical behaviour related to a growth spurt. One day, however, they noticed that she was abnormally weak and rushed her to the emergency department. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and had already developed a life-threatening complication of the disease known as diabetic ketoacidosis.

A Governor General’s Innovation Award for AI Pioneer Joelle Pineau

Mon, 13 May 2019 18:39:36 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

A cautionary tale for researchers working on selective drug delivery

Fri, 10 May 2019 18:46:15 +0000

Many studies indicating that DNA nanostructures can enter cells more readily than simple DNA strands are flawed, according to researchers at McGill University. In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Central Science, the McGill scientists demonstrate that many DNA cage nanostructures aren’t taken up by cells to a significant extent.

New Study in Nature: Just One-Third of the World’s Longest Rivers Remain Free-Flowing

Tue, 07 May 2019 13:46:21 +0000

NSERC awards $3.7M to McGill-led research projects

Fri, 03 May 2019 13:11:34 +0000

On May 3, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) announced the recent recipients of the NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants program. Six McGill-led projects in the Faculty of Engineering and one in the Faculty of Medicine are receiving more than $3.7 million to conduct research in collaboration with a supporting organization.

More in-depth tumor analysis presents new therapeutic options for patients with advanced cancer

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:56:12 +0000

Béluga: The latest supercomputer for Canadian researchers

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:55:05 +0000

Imagine a computer 300,000 times faster than a PC, and with 67,000 times more storage space. Such is Béluga, a supercomputer now serving McGill, Québec, and Canadian researchers.

Government of Canada announces funding for training to enhance access to justice in both official languages

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:26:23 +0000

Canadians expect that their official language should not be a barrier to accessing justice. This is why the Government of Canada is working to enhance the capacity of Canada’s justice system to offer legal services and information to French-speaking and English-speaking communities across the country.

Québec siblings with rare orphan disease lead to discovery of rare genetic diseases

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:07:42 +0000

Mutations in a gene involved in brain development have led to the discovery of two new neurodevelopmental diseases by an international team led by researchers at McGill University and CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center.

The first clues about the rare disorder arose after doctors were unable to diagnose why two siblings from Québec City were experiencing seizures and neurodevelopmental deficits. Desperate, the children’s family turned to Carl Ernst at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal for answers.

Matt Dobbs awarded 2019 Killam Research Fellowship in Natural Sciences

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 15:44:19 +0000

McGill University astrophysicist Matt Dobbs is the recipient of the 2019 Killam Research Fellowship in Natural Sciences.

The announcement was made today by the Canada Council for the Arts, which revealed this year's winners of the prestigious Killam Program, composed of the Killam Prizes and the Killam Research Fellowships.

Global warming hits sea creatures hardest

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:07:28 +0000

The greater vulnerability of sea creatures may significantly impact human communities that rely on fish and shellfish for food and economic activity, according to the study published in the journal Nature.

Discovery made at Polytechnique Montréal in partnership with McGill University paves the way for new automated biological-sample analysis sytems

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:25:05 +0000

From conventional microfluidics to open-space microfluidics

Advancing genomic medicine for next generation therapies

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:45:29 +0000

The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, this morning announced a new Canada Excellence Research Chair in Genomic Medicine: Genes to Drug Targets for Next-Generation Therapies

Maternal gestational diabetes linked to diabetes in children

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:35:11 +0000

Children of mothers who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy could be at increased risk of type 1 diabetes themselves, according to a new study led by a team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) that was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).

McGill’s Honorary Degree recipients for Spring Convocation 2019

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:53:30 +0000

Alain Bouchard, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Michel de la Chenelière, The Honourable Irwin Cotler, Dame Ann Dowling, Paul Farmer, Giuliana Elena Garzone, Michael Harris, Agnes Kalibata, John Michael Kosterlitz, Margaret MacMillan, Pat Metheny, Charles Mulli, Alfred Sommer

Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced anti-gay bias in the U.S.

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:11:50 +0000

A new study of evolving attitudes toward gay marriage across the U.S. suggests that state legislation has had a significant impact in reducing anti-gay bias in many parts of the country.

The findings, published in PNAS, provide evidence that public policy can shape social norms and alter individuals’ attitudes, says senior author Eric Hehman, a professor in McGill University’s Department of Psychology.

Celebrity fat shaming has ripple effects on women’s implicit anti-fat attitudes

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:47:34 +0000

Celebrities, particularly female celebrities, are routinely criticized about their appearance—indeed, celebrity “fat-shaming” is a fairly regular pop-cultural phenomenon. Although we might assume that these comments are trivial and inconsequential, the effects of these messages can extend well beyond the celebrity target and ripple through the population at large.

Decision about Redmen name

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:57:12 +0000

Principal Suzanne Fortier has announced her decision regarding the name of McGill’s men’s varsity sports teams. Read her statement

La principale Suzanne Fortier a rendu publique sa décision par rapport au nom des équipes sportives masculines de l’Université McGill. Lisez son message

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:14:13 +0000

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers reveal that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.

Rocket fuel that’s cleaner, safer and still full of energy

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:09:46 +0000

McGill University announces the naming of the McCall MacBain Arts Building

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:27:16 +0000

At a ceremony this evening, McGill University announced that its Arts Building, a landmark at the centre of its downtown campus, will be named after alumnus John McCall MacBain and Dr. Marcy McCall MacBain, in recognition of the recent $200-million gift from the McCall MacBain Foundation.

The new name will be the McCall MacBain Arts Building.

McGill’s New Survivor-Focused Sexual Violence Policy Reinforces Prevention, Support and Response

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:04:21 +0000

McGill University’s Board of Governors has adopted its new Policy against Sexual Violence, confirming the University’s commitment to ensuring that its campuses are free of acts of sexual violence. To support the Policy, the University has dedicated substantial resources – including three full-time staff members and an independent special investigator – dedicated to fostering safe, respectful, and inclusive learning and work environments for all.

The bigger the evolutionary jump, the more lethal cross-species diseases could be

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:34:56 +0000

Some diseases which are fatal in one species can cause only mild discomfort in another—but it’s hard for scientists to predict how lethal a disease will be if it leaps across species.

However, a new paper published this week in PNAS indicates that the evolutionary relationship between infected hosts can predict the impact of diseases.

Using laser light to study how epilepsy arises in the healthy brain

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:52:15 +0000

Scientists at McGill University have developed a new method to study how seizures arise in the healthy brain. Using laser light guided through ultra-thin optic fibers in the brain of rodents, the researchers “turned on” light-sensitive proteins in selective brain cells and were able to eventually cause seizures through repeated laser stimulation. These findings were published March 27, 2019 in the journal Scientific Reports.

Bengio co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:12:31 +0000

by Daniel McCabe

Congratulations to McGill graduate Yoshua Bengio, BEng’86, MSc’88, PhD’91, on being named a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award. Frequently referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” the Turing Award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizes individuals for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.

Anti-TB drugs can increase risk of TB re-infection

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:56:54 +0000

Current treatments for tuberculosis (TB) are very effective in controlling TB infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). They don’t, however, always prevent reinfection. Why this happens is one of the long-standing questions in TB research.

Montreal and McGill University Become Blue Communities

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:15:38 +0000

The Ville de Montréal and McGill University today received Blue Community certification on the occasion of World Water Day. To obtain this certification, they have undertaken to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, to promote publicly managed water services and to ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in their buildings and at their events. Hence Montreal has joined some forty Blue Communities worldwide, including major cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Victoria. For its part, McGill has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.

Bartha Knoppers awarded 2019 Friesen Prize

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:22:43 +0000

McGill University Professor Bartha Knoppers, a global leader in the study of legal, social and ethical issues related to biomedical research in human genetics and genomics, has been awarded the 2019 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research by the Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FCIHR).

Rising global shipping traffic could lead to surge in invasive species

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:35:01 +0000

Rising global maritime traffic could lead to sharp increases in invasive species around the world over the next 30 years, according to a new study by McGill University researchers.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, suggest that shipping growth will far outweigh climate change in the spread of non-indigenous pests to new environments in coming decades.

New cause for concern over weedkiller glyphosate

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:08:50 +0000

New research from McGill University reveals an overlooked impact that the widely used herbicide glyphosate may be having on the environment.

First commercialized by Monsanto under the name Roundup, glyphosate has come under scrutiny in the past, mostly in relation to its potential toxicity. This new research, published recently in the Ecological Society of America’s Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, focuses not on direct health risks associated with the herbicide, but on its contribution to environmental phosphorus levels, an issue that has yet to receive much attention.

Canadian researchers and international collaborators seek to improve the care of people living with dementia and their families

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:19:55 +0000

Receiving a diagnosis of dementia can be a disorienting experience for the person diagnosed and their families. A diagnosis often leaves the person and their families searching for information and guidance on health and social services that are available to assist them in their daily lives.

The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, today announced funding from the Government of Canada to support Canadian researchers who will work with international collaborators to improve health and social services for people living with dementia and their families.

 Impostor Cities exhibition to represent Canada at the 2020 Venice Biennale in Architecture  

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:34:27 +0000

Impostor Cities explores how Canadian cities double as other places on screen.  The exhibition will represent Canada at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia  in 2020.

McGill researchers receive $3.7M in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Government of Quebec

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:13:54 +0000

By Amanda Testani

Fifteen McGill researchers have received federal grants through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). Minister of Science and Sport, Kirsty Duncan, made the announcement today at the University of Western Ontario. Each McGill recipient will also receive matching funds from the Quebec government for their research endeavors.

European-Canadian Cancer Network chosen as a driver project of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:46:14 +0000

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has selected the European-Canadian Cancer Network (EUCANCan) as one of seven 2019 Driver Projects to advance and pilot standards for sharing genomic health-related data.

Dr. Arjun Krishnaswamy selected as 2019 Sloan Research Fellow

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:42:17 +0000

An Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and a member of the Cell Information Systems group at McGill’s Life Sciences Complex, Dr. Arjun Krishnaswamy was recently included among the 126 outstanding early-career researchers selected for 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships. Yang Chai, formerly an Assistant Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the School of Computer Science—now at Yale University—was also the recipient of a Sloan Fellowship for his work on algorithmic mechanism design and tools.

International team of scientists detect cause of rare pediatric brain disorder

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:05:32 +0000

Mathilde came into the world with chubby cheeks and a full head of auburn hair. But she was a very sick baby, and was immediately transferred on January 19, 2013 to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MCH-MUHC). By the time she arrived, she was sicker than initially expected; Mathilde’s small head was of particular concern to doctors. She underwent neurological tests, and sadly, they came back abnormal: her brain hadn’t developed properly and her brain white matter (or myelin) was found to be atypical.

Mega-experiment shows species interactions stronger towards tropics and lowlands

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:47:05 +0000

An international research team led by a McGill University researcher used a simple experiment that mimics how plants and animals interact with each other—leaving seeds out for 24 hours to see how many get eaten. Seven thousand seed beds were deployed across a huge geographic scale, with 70 sites cutting across 18 mountains from Alaska to the equator.

Citizenship ceremony at McGill University celebrates new citizens and Black History Month

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:59:05 +0000

The Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC), in partnership with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and McGill University, tomorrow will celebrate 50 citizens from 22 countries in a special citizenship ceremony marking Black History Month.

The ICC will host roundtable discussions during which the new Canadian citizens will share their journeys to citizenship and reflect on what Canadian citizenship means to them. McGill University staff and students will join in the discussions.

Single-largest gift in Canadian history to create a flagship graduate scholarship program at McGill University

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:08:23 +0000

Today, John and Marcy McCall MacBain announced the creation of the McCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill through a landmark gift of $200 million (Canadian), the single-largest gift in Canadian history.

The McCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill will provide outstanding students from Canada and internationally with the opportunity to pursue a master’s or professional degree, combined with a world-class enrichment program.

Classes cancelled, University open / Annulation des cours, l’Université est ouverte

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:17:50 +0000

Classes scheduled for today, Wednesday, February 13, 2019, have been cancelled at both campuses due to difficult conditions following yesterday’s blizzard. Evening classes are cancelled.

The University will remain open, but we are urging staff to make safety their priority when trying to get to work. Employees who cannot make it in today should notify their supervisors as soon as possible. We ask that supervisors be understanding about employee absences and lateness today.

If you have off-campus activities, please consult with your host institution.

Viral communications hacking boosts Leishmania infections

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:46:36 +0000

New research from McGill University has found that a virus infecting the Leishmania parasite spreads by exploiting a mechanism used for cell-to-cell communication, a discovery that could pave the way to new vaccines against infections that cause severe disfiguration.

Melting ice sheets may cause ‘climate chaos’ according to new modelling

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:39:50 +0000

The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century. In part, because the water from melting ice sheets off Greenland and in the Antarctic will cause extreme weather and unpredictable temperatures around the globe. A study published today in Nature is the first to simulate the effects, under current climate policies, that the two melting ice sheets will have on ocean temperatures and circulation patterns as well as on air temperatures by the year 2100.

Consequences for ocean circulation and water and air temperatures

McGill genomics research projects to receive $10M in federal, provincial funding

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:02:42 +0000

Major federal and provincial investments in genomics research were announced this week following three recent Genome Canada competitions. The announcement, made at University of Guelph, includes over $10 million in funding to seven projects led by McGill researchers. Here's a quick look at one of those projects. (A complete list follows.)

Infertility treatment linked with slightly higher risk of pregnancy complications

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:31:57 +0000

Women who become pregnant using infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, have a slightly higher risk of a complication according to a new study by researchers at ICES, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and St. Michael’s Hospital. These complications can include bleeding, serious infections and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) around the time of delivery.

Global well-being in coming decades hinges on non-material factors

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:07:03 +0000

To improve people’s well-being as much as possible in coming decades, policy makers should look beyond narrow economic calculations and prioritize non-material factors when making big decisions.

McGill-led EpiShare project named a 2019 GA4GH Driver Project

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 15:25:59 +0000

EpiShare will join the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) as a 2019 Driver Project. GA4GH, an international group of 22 leading genomic data initiatives, works collaboratively to develop and pilot standards for sharing genomic and health-related data.

“EpiShare represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the field of epigenomics by extending global standards and tools, which have so far been developed only for genetic and genomic information.” --Guillaume Bourque, Project Champion and Associate Professor of Human Genetics at McGill University.

McGill researchers to receive over $10 M for thirty projects and SSHRC doctoral, master and postdoc awards

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:06:51 +0000

Social sciences and humanities research plays an important role in building a healthier, stronger and more prosperous Canada. To create a thriving economy powered by homegrown discoveries and innovations, and for Canada to be world-renowned as a research leader, we need to continue to invest in talented graduate students, scholars and researchers.

McGill University recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2019

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:34:19 +0000

First published in 2006, Montréal's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. This special designation recognizes the employers in Greater Montréal that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. This year's winners, including McGill University, were announced on January 31, 2019 in a special magazine published in the Montreal Gazette. This is the 11th year in a row McGill has been included in the annual list.

Evolution, illustrated

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:47:54 +0000

What do you get when you put together several tons of steel plates, hundreds of mice, a few evolutionary and molecular biologists and a tiny Nebraska town near the South Dakota border?

Would you believe one of the most complete pictures ever of vertebrate evolution?

Measuring stress around cells

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:11:04 +0000

Tissues and organs in the human body are shaped through forces generated by cells, that push and pull, to “sculpt” biological structures. Thanks to a new tool developed at McGill University, scientists will now be able to watch, and map these forces.

Mila inaugurates its new premises in Mile-Ex

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:54:15 +0000

Mila – Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the government of Quebec, Pierre Fitzgibbon, and more than 200 partners and players in the Quebec artificial intelligence ecosystem.

Student mental health services at McGill transformed by new  Rossy Student Wellness Hub

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:57:00 +0000

McGill University announced today a new approach to student mental health and well-being that includes the Rossy Student Wellness Hub. The ambitious $14-million initiative reimagines the way health services are provided, with a newly integrated, campus-wide approach to physical and mental health and wellness, and a greater emphasis on awareness, prevention and earlier intervention. McGill’s Faculties will also play a role in developing on-site wellness and mental health programs specific to the needs of their students.

Four Burning Questions for Harriet Kuhnlein, Professor Emerita, Commissioner, Lancet Report on Obesity

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:01:06 +0000

The Lancet commission on Obesity published a report today on the joint pandemics of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. In the report, the commissioners point to the fact that malnutrition in all its forms, including undernutrition and obesity, is by far the biggest cause of ill-health and premature death globally. Excess body weight affects 2 billion people worldwide, 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiency, and both are expected to be made significantly worse by climate change.

COMMENTARY: ‘CRISPR babies’: What does this mean for science and Canada?

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:14:50 +0000

In the wake of the announcement in China last November of the first ‘CRISPR babies’, Prof. Bartha Knoppers and researcher Erika Kleiderman from McGill’s Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have published a commentary article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the use of CRISPR gene-editing techniques.

Canada, EU, and Africa combine to allow researchers to analyze health data on the largest, most diverse scale

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 02:17:53 +0000

A patient develops a rare condition and needs answers, so their clinician searches frantically to find patients with similar, rare, symptoms and similar possible causes. To understand the mechanisms of one debilitating disease, a medical researcher tries to separate the “signal” of causes of that disease, in particular, from the “noise” of natural biological variation of human lives and conditions.

Creating attraction between molecules deep in the periodic table

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:08:15 +0000

Imagine a waterproof computer. It’s not going to happen tomorrow, but it may no longer be a pipedream since a McGill-led international research team has shown for the first time that it is possible to form strong, stable attractions between some of the heavier elements in the periodic table.

Landmark gift to McGill’s Faculty of Engineering deepens support for doctoral students and graduate research

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:02:02 +0000

A landmark $15-million gift from McGill alumnus Les Vadasz, a founding member of Intel Corporation, and his wife Judy Vadasz, will enhance the prestigious doctoral fellowship program that bears their name in McGill’s Faculty of Engineering, deepening their support for outstanding PhD students who pursue innovative research at McGill.

Their gift also aims to strengthen Montreal as an engineering and technology hub by attracting more top talent to McGill.

Men and women remember pain differently

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:25:48 +0000

Scientists increasingly believe that one of the driving forces in chronic pain—the number one health problem in both prevalence and burden—appears to be the memory of earlier pain. Research published today in Current Biology suggests that there may be variations, based on sex, in the way that pain is remembered in both mice and humans.

Canada’s CHIME telescope detects second repeating fast radio burst

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:29:39 +0000

A Canadian-led team of scientists has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away.

McGill University helps to inform understanding of cancer risk

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:32:28 +0000

McGill University has helped develop a global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The BRCA Exchange was created through the BRCA Challenge, a long-term demonstration project initiated by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to enhance sharing of BRCA1/BRCA2 data.

A new 'atlas' of genetic influences on osteoporosis

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:36:56 +0000

A ground-breaking new study led by researchers from the Lady Davis Institute (LDI) at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has succeeded in compiling an atlas of genetic factors associated with estimated bone mineral density (BMD), one of the most clinically relevant factors in diagnosing osteoporosis. The paper, published in Nature Genetics, identifies 518 genome-wide loci, of which 301 are newly discovered, that explain 20% of the genetic variance associated with osteoporosis.

McGill researchers honoured in Québec Science list of top discoveries

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:25:50 +0000

Undergraduate student Juan Fernández González makes math discovery

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:33:36 +0000

One year ago, the Bulletin AMQ of the Association Mathématique du Québec published the article Le polygone du cercle d’Euler (The Polygon of Euler’s Circle). Written by third-year student Juan Fernández González, it defines and explores a convex polygon that can be associated to any triangle.

Suboptimal, inconsistent treatment for anaphylaxis due to unknown cause

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:37:06 +0000

A new Canadian study, led by a team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), is shedding light on anaphylaxis due to an unknown trigger (AUT)—an unpredictable and potentially fatal allergic reaction, about which surprisingly little is known.

The importance of ‘edge populations’ to biodiversity

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:40:18 +0000

More than two-thirds of Canada’s biodiversity is made up of species that occur within the country’s borders only at the very northern edge of their range. Biologists have long debated how much effort should be dedicated to conserving these “edge populations.” One argument in their favour is that they may be especially well suited to lead northward range shifts for their species as the climate warms.

Wound care revolution: Put away your rulers and reach for your phone

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:37:53 +0000

Monitoring a wound is critical, especially in diabetic patients, whose lack of sensation due to nerve damage can lead to infection of a lesion and, ultimately, amputation. New research from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University shows that the use of a new app, called Swift Skin and Wound™, which accurately measures and charts the progression of skin wounds, could potentially have a significant impact on clinical management and patient outcomes.

Tomislav Friščić awarded Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:01:27 +0000

Professor Tomislav Friščić is the recipient of the prestigious Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences for his exceptional contributions to Green Chemistry research in Canada. He is the third McGill professor to win the Steacie Prize, and the first ever McGill professor to win it for chemistry. The two previous winners from McGill are Vicky Kaspi, Physics and Astronomy (2006) and Phil Gold, Medicine (1973).

How does cancer spread?

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:48:58 +0000

How does cancer spread? While studying human brain tumour cells, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) found some answers to this crucial, yet so far unanswered question. They looked at a gene called EGFRvIII, which is present in patients with glioblastoma – a highly aggressive form of brain cancer that spreads quickly and that is difficult to treat.

Predicting the transmission of rare, genetically based diseases

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:54:35 +0000

There are only 25 people in the whole of Quebec at the moment who have a rare recessive genetic disease called chronic atrial and intestinal dysrhythmia (CAID). It is a serious disease that affects both heart rate and intestinal movements. A McGill-led research team has been able to trace the gene mutations underlying the disease back to two European founding families who arrived in the province in the 17th century.

Another Medical Cold Case Cracked by the MUHC’s ‘Dr. House’

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:18:20 +0000

A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) led by Dr. Donald Vinh, the RI’s so-called “Dr. House” because of his research into rare diseases, has discovered a new human disease and the gene responsible for it, paving the way for the proper diagnosis of patients globally and the development of new therapies. Their findings are published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Are scientists studying the wrong kind of mice?

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:45:15 +0000

Mice represent well over half of the non-human subjects of biomedical research, and the vast majority of those mice are inbred. Formed by generation after generation of mating between brothers and sisters, inbred mice are genetically identical to each other, like twins or clones. Inbreeding is well known to reduce health and vigor across species; this biological fact is the reason that incest is a universal taboo.

Six McGill researchers named Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) Chairs

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:36:06 +0000

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) today announced the inaugural cohort of 29 Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) Chairs, including six from McGill. These top academic researchers—including Doina Precup and Joëlle  Pineau—are named as part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, and will help maintain Canada’s leadership in artificial intelligence research. The CCAI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities across the country.

Can a smart app encourage HIV-self testing in Canada?

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:28:45 +0000

HIV self-testing strategies have been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2016, as they empower people to find out HIV their status at their convenience. However, home-based testing kits have yet to be approved for sale in Canada.

When a city feels good, people take more risks

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:20:14 +0000

What makes people take risks? Not stunt women or formula 1 drivers. Just ordinary people like you and me. Research published this week in PLOS ONE suggests that unexpected improvements in everyday life (sunshine after many days of rain or a win by a local sports team) are correlated with a change in a city’s mood and an increased likelihood that it’s citizens will do risky things like gamble.

Social media and city mood

Cities seem to have moods that fluctuate from day to day. Now, thanks to social media, these city moods are also measurable.

Digital Democracy Project to examine online disinformation

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 23:48:40 +0000

Source: Max Bell School of Public Policy

Public Policy Forum President & CEO Edward Greenspon and recently appointed Max Bell School of Public Policy professor Taylor Owen announced the launch of a multi-year project to analyze and respond to the increasing amounts of disinformation and hate in the digital public sphere.

McGill and Ubisoft join forces to create believable virtual characters

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:31:29 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

Nahum Sonenberg honoured with a Prix du Québec

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:39:14 +0000

By Jason Clement

“My father, who inspired me very much, would tell me ‘You must study and make a contribution to science’,” says renowned McGill Professor Nahum Sonenberg reflecting back beyond the beginning of his remarkable career. “My exact career path of course I couldn’t predict, but I knew that I wanted to better understand how the human body works, how to cure disease, and that’s what I’m doing.”

Two brains prove better than one in the inaugural round of  the McGill-Western Collaboration Grant program

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:36:51 +0000

The first round of the McGill-Western Collaboration Grant awards were announced today, showcasing the unique research partnership between Western University’s BrainsCAN and McGill University’s Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives (HBHL) initiative.

Alfonso Mucci awarded Prix Acfas Michel-Jurdant

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:17:04 +0000

By Fergus Grieve, Communications Strategist, Faculty of Science

Alfonso presented with the Prix Acfas Michel-Jurdant in recognition of his outstanding work on the health of the St. Lawrence Estuary and the world’s oceans Hombeline Dumas
Alfonso Mucci, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was among nine of Quebec’s leading academics honoured by the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) for their exceptional contribution to research at the Acfas Gala held in Montreal on November 13.

Fish can detox too – but not so well, when it comes to mercury

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:27:24 +0000

It takes six months to get really good at accurately gauging the age of yelloweye rockfish. Because they can live for up to 120 years, this species is of particular interest to Benjamin Barst and scientists like him who study the effects of toxic chemicals on living organisms. Over the course of their lifetime, the fish can accumulate high levels of mercury and other trace elements in their tissues. But it wasn’t known how much of those elements accumulate in sensitive sites within yelloweye cells.

Scientists identify new genetic causes linked to abnormal pregnancies and miscarriages

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:59:30 +0000

A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University have identified three genes responsible for recurrent molar pregnancies, a rare complication that occurs when a non-viable pregnancy with no embryo implants in the uterus. The results of this study could have important implications, since until now very little is known about the genetic causes of all forms of fetal loss. Their study has recently been published in The American Journal of Human Genetics.

McGill University’s Dobson Cup receives $4-million contribution from National Bank

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:32:16 +0000

The Dobson Cup, McGill University’s flagship startup competition and fertile training ground for students and professors with bold business dreams, has received a significant financial injection on its 10th anniversary in the form of a $4-million contribution from National Bank, one of its long-time supporters.

McGill Chemistry researchers find cleaner, easier way to make biaryls

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:28:59 +0000

Researchers from McGill University’s Department of Chemistry have found a cleaner, easier way to make biaryls, an important ingredient in synthetic chemistry with applications across a wide range of fields including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, pigments, natural products and polymers. Conventional processes for making biaryls rely on stoichiometric metal reagents, resulting in large amounts of metal waste. In their paper published in Nature Communications in November 2018, the McGill scientists describe a new method for synthesizing biaryls using hydrazine (N2H4) as a metal surrogate.

Open for Business: McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management dedicated to the future of retail

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:37:13 +0000

At a time of significant transformation in the retail industry worldwide, the newly opened Bensadoun School of Retail Management (BSRM) at McGill University will act as a hub in the heart of Montreal for students, researchers and practitioners to work collaboratively towards addressing the host of real-world challenges facing retailers today. An interdisciplinary, forward-looking school dedicated to all facets of the retail industry, its researchers will focus on fostering sustainable consumption and healthy societies.

Walking in Joseph Conrad's footsteps, Maya Jasanoff Wins 2018 Cundill History Prize

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:28:42 +0000

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World blends history, biography, travelogue, and literary criticism into a unique work of scholarship that identifies Conrad as a pioneer in understanding the modern world, as he grapples with issues such as migration, terrorism, and a communications revolution.

Parents shouldn’t worry if their infant doesn’t sleep through the night by 6-12 months of age

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:10:29 +0000

New parents often expect their baby to start sleeping through the night by around six months of age. Indeed, they often receive messages from paediatricians and others about the importance of early sleep consolidation. But authors of a study in the December 2018 issue of Pediatrics found that a large percentage of healthy babies don’t reach that milestone by six months of age, or even at a year old.

Key molecule responsible for learning and memory discovered

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:07:31 +0000

Unlike old dogs, old adults can indeed learn new tricks thanks to a protein molecule called netrin.

Netrin is known to help set up the healthy nervous system in an infant’s developing brain by directing brain cells to make appropriate connections with other brain cells. New research conducted by scientists at The Neuro has found that netrin in the adult brain can make neural connections stronger, which is crucial not only for learning new tricks but also for maintaining a good memory.

Music improves social communication in autistic children

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:37:01 +0000

Engaging in musical activities such as singing and playing instruments in one-on-one therapy can improve autistic children’s social communication skills, improve their family’s quality of life, as well as increased brain connectivity in key networks, according to researchers at Université de Montréal and McGill University.

Cundill History Prize jury pushes the boundaries of history writing with finalists that are "Great Literature"

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:50:18 +0000

Three exceptional American historians – writing passionate, innovative works of history about new frontiers at times when the world was undergoing dramatic change – have been named as finalists for the world’s leading history prize, run by McGill University.

Making the announcement on behalf of the jury at an exclusive event in Toronto this evening, eminent Canadian journalist and author Jeffrey Simpson said:

Scientific breakthrough: promising new target for immunotherapy

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:45:24 +0000

Following the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine, global attention is now more than ever turned toward the promise of immunotherapy in oncology. An international team’s work has shed new light on a molecule called TIM-3 that might play a key role in the regulation of the immune response.

Alterations to seabed raise fears for future

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:48:34 +0000

The ocean floor as we know it is dissolving rapidly as a result of human activity.

The spiders who came in from the cold

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:26:49 +0000

A sprawling study of spiders across northern Canada has turned up more than 100 species in provinces or territories where they had never before been recorded. The findings, by researchers from McGill University, provide a valuable new benchmark for monitoring biodiversity across Canada’s vast northern expanses.

Safe cannabis pain relief without the “high”

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:58:16 +0000

In the wake of cannabis legalization, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University have delivered encouraging news for chronic pain sufferers by pinpointing the effective dose of marijuana plant extract cannabidiol (CBD) for safe pain relief without the typical “high” or euphoria produced by the THC. The findings of their study have been published in the journal PAIN.

Naomi Azrieli, Ken Dryden to receive honorary degrees

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:04:41 +0000

Naomi Azrieli, a passionate champion of support for brain research, and hockey great-turned-public servant Ken Dryden will be honoured at McGill University’s Fall Convocation ceremonies.

The two honorary doctorate recipients will address graduating students at the Nov. 26 ceremonies at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts. In all, more than 1,640 students will be graduating this fall.

Good spatial memory? You’re likely to be good at identifying smells too

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:06:11 +0000

People who have better spatial memory are also better at identifying odors, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. The study builds on a recent theory that the main reason that a sense of smell evolved was to aid in navigation, since most animals rely primarily on smell to find food and avoid predators.

Bone cell response to mechanical force is balance of injury and repair

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:19:34 +0000

Scientists have revealed the intricate process that bone cells use to repair themselves after mechanical injury, according to a study in the open-access journal eLife.

The research provides new insight on how the body adapts to all kinds of mechanical stresses – from pressure placed on bones during simple walking, to extreme forces experienced during intense exercise.

How Brexit Can Transform the Governance of Global Civil Aviation

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:00:56 +0000

The McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law has released a detailed new paper by its Director, Professor Brian F. Havel, that comprehensively analyses the legal and policy consequences of Brexit for the airline industries of the United Kingdom (UK), the European Union (EU), and the United States (US).

VIU And McGill Partner To Create Learning And Research Opportunities In Indigenous Studies

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:35:45 +0000

A deep and shared commitment to supporting the recommendations of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have led McGill University and Vancouver Island University (VIU) to form a unique collaboration to create new opportunities in Indigenous studies.

Youth violence lower in countries with complete ban on corporal punishment

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:58:08 +0000

A study published today in the BMJ Open shows that in countries where there is a complete ban on all corporal punishment of children there is less fighting among young people. There was 31% less physical fighting in young men and 42% less physical fighting in young women in countries where corporal punishment was banned in all settings, compared with those where corporal punishment was permitted both at school and at home.

Why heart contractions are weaker in those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:03:54 +0000

When a young athlete suddenly dies of a heart attack, chances are high that they suffer from familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Itis the most common genetic heart disease in the US and affects an estimated 1 in 500 people around the world. A protein called myosin acts as the molecular motor which makes the muscles in the heart contract. Researchers had suspected for some time that the R403Q mutation in some of the myosin genes is among those that play a role in causing HCM. But experiments using mice models failed to show that this was indeed the case.

Expanded financial support for new and returning Indigenous students at McGill

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:50:58 +0000

McGill University’s Indigenous students can now rely on dedicated financial support thanks to a new partnership with Indspire, an Indigenous national charity that invests in the education of Indigenous peoples. Indspire will manage the awarding process through its Building Brighter Futures: Bursaries, Scholarships and Awards program to secure matching funds from the Government of Canada. This nearly doubles McGill’s $500,000 investment towards its prospective and enrolled Indigenous students over the next two years.

Young Canadians face heightened crash risk after consuming cannabis, new study finds

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:38:55 +0000

Young Canadians are more at risk of a vehicle crash even five hours after inhaling cannabis, according to results of a clinical trial conducted at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University, and funded by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA).

Quantifying evolutionary impacts of humans on the biosphere is harder than it seems

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:03:06 +0000

Are human disturbances to the environment driving evolutionary changes in animals and plants? A new study conducted by McGill researchers finds that, on average, human disturbances don’t appear to accelerate the process of natural selection. While the finding may seem reassuring, this unexpected pattern could reflect the limited number of species for which data were available.

Cognitive Aging Research: Agreeing on Key Terms’ Definitions

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:06:59 +0000

Interpreting age-related changes and differences in brain structure, activation and functional connectivity is an ongoing challenge. Ambiguous terminology is a major source of this challenge. For example, the terms “compensation”, “maintenance”, and “reserve” are used in different ways by researchers. Most of the time, they disagree about the kind of evidence or patterns of results required to interpret findings related to these concepts.

Seemingly 'useless' organ makes huge soldier ants

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:11:41 +0000

$5-million gift to McGill’s global food security institute supports efforts to understand and reverse world hunger and malnutrition

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:46:10 +0000

Every night, some 800 million people – one in nine people on earth – go to bed hungry. And projections suggest that unless creative solutions are found, the world will need to increase food production by an additional 50% in the next 30 years, when the planet’s population is expected to exceed 9 billion.

McGill researchers share in largest investment in discovery science in Canadian history

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:50:17 +0000

Today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced more than $558 million in discovery research funding across Canada, including the largest investment in research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) this year. Through the 2018 Discovery Grants, Scholarships and Fellowships competition, 130 McGill researchers received funding totaling more than $30 million.

Sibling rivalry: When the fighting crosses the line

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 14:24:20 +0000

Sibling rivalry. Every parent and every sibling understands what this means. Siblings fight. A lot. And sometimes those fights escalate to involve physical, verbal, and psychological aggression. Aggression between siblings is so common that people often believe that these behaviors are part of the normal process of growing up, but recent research shows us that sibling aggression can cross the line and parents need to know when to seek help.

Existing cancer drugs could prove beneficial for more patients

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:30:58 +0000

A set of targeted cancer drugs, known as BRAF and MEK inhibitors, have proven to be beneficial for some metastatic melanoma patients whose tumours include a specific mutation in the BRAF gene, known as V600E. A recent study conducted in the lab of Dr. Peter Siegel at McGill University’s Goodman Cancer Research Centre suggests that these same drugs may prove beneficial for a broader range of cancer patients.

No-Nonsense Approach to Genetic Kidney Disease in Children

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:34:56 +0000

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre’s (RI-MUHC) push to treat a rare genetic disease in children – with a higher percentage found in French Canadians – has received $2 million as part of a national genomic contest led by Genome Canada.

AI Could Predict Cognitive Decline Leading to Alzheimer’s Disease in the Next 5 Years

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:16:31 +0000

A team of scientists has successfully trained a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to make accurate predictions regarding cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease.

ArcelorMittal Mining Canada G.P. to fund major mining research collaboration at McGill University

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:52:20 +0000

ArcelorMittal Mining Canada G.P. announced today a long-term funding programme to support mining and materials engineering R&D in the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University. The strategic partnership pledges to provide $360,000 over four years to create the ArcelorMittal Mining and Mineral Processing Fund, which will finance research projects and program development in the University’s Mining Department.

Mixed-metal catalysts split up water

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:17:22 +0000

An inexpensive new catalyst for water splitting could support the development of a future hydrogen economy by enabling hydrogen to be produced readily and inexpensively, according to researchers from McGill University in Canada and Queen Mary University of London in the UK [Merle et al., Materials Today Energy 9 (2018) 247].

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Habit change is key to success for weight loss

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:00:09 +0000

Can experts in behaviour change help boost weight loss for overweight people? McGill University researchers think so: they report significant results -- up to 10% of body-mass loss with this approach.

Podcast: An interview with Prof. Merve Emre, author of The Personality Brokers

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:56:20 +0000

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s used regularly by Fortune 500 companies and lots of other organizations. Its language of personality types has inspired TV shows and online-dating platforms. Yet, experts in the field of psychometric testing have struggled to validate its results – let alone account for its success.

McGill receives $5-million gift from noted Canadian geologist Bob Wares

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:57:10 +0000

As an entrepreneurial geologist, Bob Wares, (BSc’79, DSc’12), became a mining rock star when he discovered one of Canada’s largest gold deposits in the Abitibi region of Quebec. Now, he is bringing that Midas touch to his alma mater in the form of a landmark $5-million gift that will support research programs, fellowships, innovative research, a lecture series and outreach efforts in McGill University’s Faculty of Science, with a particular focus on his home department, Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS).

New study uncovers vast variation and significant deficits in tuberculosis care in urban India

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:12:59 +0000

On September 26, Heads of State will gather in New York at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s first-ever high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) to accelerate efforts to end TB and reach all affected people with prevention and care.

Sex in plants requires thrust

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:57:21 +0000

Plant sex relies on a combination of prodding and a lot of communication and guidance suggests a study published in the September 2018 issue of Technology. Read more: https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/article/sex-plants-requires-thrust

A $3.5-million gift to McGill aims to level playing field for female athletes

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:22:29 +0000

McGill alumni and long-time Athletics benefactors Sheryl Kerr (BCom'67) and David Kerr (BSc'65) are chalking up another important "assist" for Team McGill with a $3.5-million gift to create the Kerr Family Women in Sport program. This "WIS" initiative aims to advance the role of women as athletes, coaches and decision-makers by increasing the number of full-time female coaches and helping female athletes become future leaders.

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:28:23 +0000

The 4th Industrial Revolution topped the agenda at The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Champions as leaders met to shape the impact and use of sci & tech on geopolitical, economic & social agendas. McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier co-chaired the Meeting which took place in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

On video:

Panel with the co-chairs

McGill University to partner with Xebec to develop Power-to Gas process for renewable energy storage

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:42:36 +0000

McGill University today announces it will co-develop with Xebec Adsorption Inc. (TSXV: XBC) a prototype reactor to produce Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) using the Power-to-Gas (P2G) process which combines electricity generated by renewable sources and CO2 generated from waste. The project is being partially funded by a Collaborative Research and Development grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The value of the grant is $360,000 for a period of three years.

Do we trust people who speak with an accent?

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:16:15 +0000

You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone’s dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a local and speaks in a nonchalant manner, while the other uses a loud, confident voice but speaks with a strong accent. Who are you going to trust?

Wild African monkeys are infected with the bacterium causing yaws in humans

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:49:49 +0000

By Katherine Gombay

Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:38:49 +0000

A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe.

Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University, and his colleagues from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology, successfully ran the largest computer simulations ever conducted of neutron star crusts, becoming the first to describe how these break.

New means to fight ‘un-killable’ bacteria in healthcare settings

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:39:23 +0000

Scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have identified new means of fighting drug-tolerant bacteria, a growing global threat as menacing as drug-resistant microbes. Little is known about the mechanisms leading to tolerance, a strategy that makes bacteria “indifferent” to antibiotics and almost “un-killable,” which results in chronic infections extremely difficult to treat and cure.

Eleven McGill scholars honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:56:11 +0000

Today, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced the induction of 89 new Fellows, five of which are McGill researchers and scholars. The RSC also announced 52 new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, including six McGill scholars. The new cohorts of Fellows and Members will be formally inducted into the RSC in November, in Halifax.

Complete make-over in fight of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:59:02 +0000

Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by Dr. Dick Menzies, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal. These findings precipitated a complete overhaul of worldwide TB treatment guidelines, with the results of this work published today in the British medical journal The Lancet.

Life-saving epinephrine underused during anaphylaxis outside of hospital, study finds

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:56:19 +0000

Fewer than half of adults and children experiencing food-induced anaphylaxis use their epinephrine autoinjector (EAI) before being treated at a hospital emergency room, according to a new Canadian study.

“It’s a disappointing reality that epinephrine is seriously underused,” says lead researcher Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, a pediatric allergist and immunologist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at McGill University.

Preterm birth: The "Nodal" gene under the microscope

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:33:59 +0000

Preterm birth is a major global public health problem. Every year, 15 million babies are born prematurely and many will suffer from neurodegenerative disorders, including cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, impaired vision, and behavioural problems.

Students at McGill University receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:55:31 +0000

Miasya Bulger and Raphael Hotter have been named McGill’s recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leaders Scholarship.

This year, out of a pool of 350,000 potential candidates across Canada, 1,400 students were nominated, of which 50 received this celebrated award.

New genetics findings unravel key components of fracture risk in osteoporosis

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:42:36 +0000

The largest study ever to investigate the genetics of osteoporosis and fracture risk determined that only two examined factors – bone mineral density (BMD) and muscle strength – play a potentially causal role in the risk of suffering osteoporotic fracture, a major health problem affecting more than 9 million people worldwide very year. Other clinical risk factors like vitamin D levels and calcium intake, historically considered to be crucial mediators of fracture, were not found to directly predispose people in the general population to fracture. This research was published in the BMJ.

How we judge personality from faces depends on our pre-existing beliefs about how personality works

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:00:35 +0000

PHOTO: In a series of experiments, NYU researchers tested how much we believe different traits co-occur in other people's personalities—for instance, how much we think competence co-occurs with friendliness in others. They then used a method able to visualize the subjects’ mental image of a personality trait, allowing them to see if subjects who believe competent people tend to also be friendly have mental images of a competent face and friendly face that are physically more resembling. (Image courtesy of Ryan Stolier and Jonathan Freeman, New York University.)

Analyzing extreme weather and climate: a new statistical tool

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:58:54 +0000

Due to processes occurring over vast ranges of scale, from fast to slow and from small to large, extreme weather and climate events aren’t as rare as scientists have thought – and that could complicate efforts to determine when extreme events signal perilous climate change, according to a new analysis published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Carbon reserves in Central American soils still affected by ancient Mayan deforestation

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:49:25 +0000

Deforestation is suspected to have contributed to the mysterious collapse of Mayan civilization more than 1,000 years ago. A new study shows that the forest-clearing also decimated carbon reservoirs in the tropical soils of the Yucatan peninsula region long after ancient cities were abandoned and the forests grew back.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, underscore how important soils and our treatment of them could be in determining future levels of greenhouse gases in the planet’s atmosphere.

New technology can detect hundreds of proteins in a single sample

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:59:03 +0000

New technology developed by a team of McGill University scientists shows potential to streamline the analysis of proteins, offering a quick, high volume and cost-effective tool to hospitals and research labs alike.

Proteins found in blood provide scientists and clinicians with key information on our health. These biological markers can determine if a chest pain is caused by a cardiac event or if a patient has cancer.

NSERC awards $9.9M to McGill-led research projects

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:17:36 +0000

By Amanda Testani

On August 10, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) announced the recipients of the 2018 NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants program. Eight McGill-led projects are receiving more than $4.4 million to collaborate with a supporting organization on strategic research in hopes of enhancing Canada’s economy, society, and environment within the next 10 years.

Nordic nations, North Americans and Antipodeans rank top in navigation skills

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:51:21 +0000

People in Nordic countries, North America, Australia, and New Zealand have the best spatial navigational abilities, according to a new study led by UCL and the University of East Anglia.

Researchers assessed data from over half a million people in 57 countries who played a specially-designed mobile game, which has been developed to aid understanding into spatial navigation, a key indicator in Alzheimer’s disease.

With so many people taking part the team were able to reveal that spatial navigation ability across all countries declines steadily across adulthood.

“Citizen Science” field observations yield updated predicted distributions for rare species

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:25:22 +0000

Online “citizen science” data initiatives may be able to help map the distribution of rare species in the wild, according to a study published August 8 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Yifu Wang of McGill University and colleagues.

Paul Gérin-Lajoie 1920 - 2018

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 20:01:10 +0000

The University Flag is lowered August 9, 2018, on the day of the state funeral, for The Honourable Paul Gerin-Lajoie; C.C., G.O.Q., L.L.D. honoris causa.

Mr. Gérin-Lajoie put forward several principles: free public education, the obligation to attend school until age 16 for all Quebec youth, the establishment of the secondary education network, exchanges of higher-level students with France and improved teacher training. He created CEGEPs in 1967 and established the Université du Québec in 1968.

Update: McIntyre Medical Building

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 17:49:30 +0000

Following the July 13 McIntyre fire, regular activities have gradually resumed in roughly half of the building. Floors 7 and up have largely seen a return to normal operations.

Latent TB Treatment: Shorter is Better

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:38:58 +0000

Treatment of latent tuberculosis is set to transform after a pair of studies from the Research-Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) revealed that a shorter treatment was safer and more effective in children and adults compared to the current standard. These findings are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Chirality switching in biomineral structures

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:10:40 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or counterclockwise using only either the left-handed or right-handed version of a single acidic amino acid.

Nano-sized traps show promise in diagnosing pathogenic bacterial infections

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:09:44 +0000

A new type of “lab on a chip” developed by McGill University scientists has the potential to become a clinical tool capable of detecting very small quantities of disease-causing bacteria in just minutes.

The device designed by Sara Mahshid, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at McGill, is made of nano-sized “islands,” about one tenth of the thickness of a single human hair, which act as bacterial traps or snares.

AACR Announces New Editors-in-Chief of Cancer Prevention Research

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:55:10 +0000

PHILADELPHIA — The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is pleased to announce the appointments of Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, and Michael N. Pollak, MD, as editors-in-chief of Cancer Prevention Research, one of eight highly esteemed journals published by the AACR. DuBois and Pollak began their tenures as editors-in-chief July 1, 2018.

Rewriting our understanding of gastric tumours

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:00:49 +0000

The immune system can be an important ally in the fight against cancer. A study from McGill scientists published today in Science suggests that the reverse may also be true – that abnormal inflammation triggered by the immune system may underlie the development of stomach tumours in patients with a hereditary cancer syndrome known as Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS). The findings are likely to prompt a re-thinking of how gastric tumours form in patients with this syndrome and in others with gastrointestinal cancers.

Bystanders in cyberbullying

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:29:01 +0000

Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad. Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social media. As a parent, you’re worried about cyberbullying. Indeed, up to 30% of children and adolescents admit to cyberbullying others, while 25% of students report being victimized on electronic platforms. You rationalize that your child has lots of friends and that they will stand up for them in a bullying situation. Do they? What is the role of the bystander/friend during a bullying incident?

McIntyre Update

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:19:23 +0000

Following the fire at the McIntyre Medical Building on Friday, July 13, teams of McGill and external experts have been working around the clock to return the building to normal operations as soon as possible. We are taking occupants’ research, work, studies, and safety extremely seriously.

The McIntyre will remain closed until at least the morning of Wednesday, July 25, as further assessment, remediation, and preparation take place. However, we hope to potentially begin reopening portions of the building as early as mid-next week.

Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth’s ancient biosphere

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:05:54 +0000

A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4 billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere were like during the interval leading up to the emergence of animal life.

McIntyre Medical Building Closed

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:57:33 +0000

Following the weekend fire at the McIntyre Medical Building, McIntyre will remain closed until further notice. We are working around the clock to verify the integrity of the structure, replace damaged fire systems, and complete other crucial assessments and remediations. We may be able to re-open some unaffected portions of the building in the coming days. Other areas may remain off-limits longer.

McIntyre fire damage: building closed

Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:16:36 +0000

(July 14, 2018 - 12:15 pm - updated 9:25 pm) On the evening of July 13, a fire was reported on the outdoor terrace of the McIntyre Medical Building. Authorities arrived quickly and the fire was soon extinguished. No one was injured. We ask that people continue to avoid the area.

15-minutes of exercise creates optimal brain state for mastering new motor skills

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:24:51 +0000

If you want to learn to walk a tightrope, it’s a good idea to go for a short run after each practice session. That’s because a recent study in NeuroImage demonstrates that exercise performed immediately after practicing a new motor skill improves its long-term retention. More specifically, the research shows, for the first time, that as little as a single fifteen-minute bout of cardiovascular exercise increases brain connectivity and efficiency.

Towards a better understanding of Parkinson’s disease

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:33:34 +0000

A new study, published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, moves researchers closer to understanding one of the crucial proteins involved in Parkinson’s disease.

Canada to lead ‘coldbox’ technology for Large Hadron Collider upgrade with $10M from Government of Canada

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:06:37 +0000

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the most massive and complex science experiment in human history, is a prime example of global achievement through collaboration. Driven by a multinational community of researchers, engineers, and technicians from over 100 countries, the LHC has enabled us to push the boundaries of scientific knowledge.

New Insight Into How Autism Might Develop in Human Brain

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:41:18 +0000

In a study published in Stem Cell Reports, a McGill University team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, revealed a molecular mechanism that may play a role in the development of autism.

By taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming those cells to become brain cells through genetic engineering, Dr. Ernst, graduate student Scott Bell, and Edward A. Fon and Thomas M. Durcan, colleagues at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, tracked how a brain cell with the patient’s own mutation develops improperly.

Quebec funds next steps in RVH project

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:24:33 +0000

The Government of Quebec is investing $37 million for McGill University to continue its plans to transform the old Royal Victoria Hospital into a global hub for learning, research and innovation in environmental sustainability and public policy. The announcement was made at McGill on Friday, June 22, by three cabinet ministers: Hélène David, Minister responsible for Higher Education; Dr.

$10-million gift strengthens McGill's commitment to brain research, young researchers and faster results for patients

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:36:37 +0000

A transformative gift of $10 million from the Irving Ludmer Family Foundation in support of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health will expand the Centre’s internationally renowned role in brain research and establish a Global Brain Consortium of leading research institutions. The consortium will focus on sharing research methodologies and results, with the goal of accelerating the finding of novel and ground-breaking solutions to mental health and neurodegenerative diseases.

Rare mutation of gene carried by Québec family gives insight into how the brain is wired

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:24:27 +0000

The study of a Québec family with an unusual gene provides novel insight into how our brain is built and, according to the McGill led team of scientists, offers a better understanding of psychiatric disorders such as depression, addictions and schizophrenia.

Very little is known about how the human brain wires itself. Mouse studies conducted by Cecilia Flores, Professor in McGill’s Department of Psychiatry, have previously shown that the gene, DCC, helps dopamine producing cells in the developing adolescent brain make specific connections.

McGill University to partner with industry in developing virtual-reality training platform for spinal surgery

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 20:18:55 +0000

McGill University today announces an agreement with CAE Healthcare, and DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, to develop a Virtual Reality (VR) platform to train orthopedic and neurosurgeons in advanced spinal surgery techniques. The new platform will leverage Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) technology and Finite Element Method (FEM) modeling to create a real life surgical simulation environment using haptics with the potential to drastically reduce the training time for spine surgeons.

AIDS and aging focus of research study

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:51:33 +0000

By Neuro Staff

When the general public thinks of HIV, they do not think of a neurological disease, yet people living with HIV infection know they need to worry about their brain health.

Untreated, HIV can cause severe dementia. Even with good control of the infection, a third or more of patients have problems with thinking or concentration, and many have mental health challenges. These issues are of particular concern in those over 50, a rapidly expanding group given the success of modern antiretroviral treatment.

No grain self-sufficiency in China without changes to land policies

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:28:52 +0000

If China is to achieve its target of 95% grain self-sufficiency by 2030 it will need to restrict the conversion of arable land to other uses say researchers from McGill. This may prove challenging in a country with a population of almost 1.4 billion, but with just under 13% of arable land, close to half of which is suffering from soil degradation. After analyzing the potential impacts of various current trade-related food policies, the researchers have arrived at the conclusion that the current Red Line arable land protection policy is insufficient to reach the government’s desired goal.

Male guppies grow larger brains in response to predator exposure

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:48:51 +0000

Male guppies exposed to predators in the wild or in captivity have heavier brains than those living in relatively predator-free conditions, according to new research published in the journal Functional Ecology.

Behavioural ecologists at McGill University in Montreal sampled guppies from two rivers in northern Trinidad. In each river, guppies live both above a waterfall, a location that only guppies and a few other small species of fish have managed to colonize, and below the fall, where many predators including pike cichlids live.

Bright warning colours on poison dart frogs also act as camouflage

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:10:04 +0000

Poison dart frogs are well known for their deadly toxins and bright colours, which have made them a classic example of warning coloration.

The Dyeing Dart Frog, for example, is highly toxic and warns its predators with a bright yellow-and-black pattern.

However, new research led by scientists at the University of Bristol has revealed that the colour pattern does more than simply signal “danger”. Counterintuitively, it also works as camouflage.

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Older men with higher levels of sex hormones could be less religious

Thu, 31 May 2018 20:54:41 +0000

The level of sex hormones such as testosterone in a man's body could influence his religiosity. A new study by Aniruddha Das of McGill University in the Springer journal Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology adds to the growing body of evidence that religiosity is influenced not only by upbringing or psychological makeup, but that physiological factors could also play a role.

Canadians are aging well, but …

Thu, 31 May 2018 19:25:06 +0000

It's not every day that one receives a call from a researcher asking if they want to participate in a study on aging for the next 20 years of their lives. That's what 50,000 Canadians aged 45 to 85 have agreed to do in taking part of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), one of the largest and most comprehensive studies on the health and well-being of the country’s aging population.

The secret to longevity is in the microbiome and the gut

Wed, 30 May 2018 18:42:07 +0000

You are what you eat. Or so the saying goes. Science now tells us that we are what the bacteria living in our intestinal tract eat and this could have an influence on how well we age. Building on this, McGill University scientists fed fruit flies with a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement called Triphala that was able to prolong the flies’ longevity by 60 % and protect them against chronic diseases associated with aging.

Pain-induced changes in the brain’s opioid system may explain the limited effectiveness of opioid therapy in chronic pain

Sun, 27 May 2018 16:19:57 +0000

Pain-induced changes in the brain’s opioid receptor system may explain the limited effectiveness of opioid therapy in chronic pain and may play a role in the depression that often accompanies it, according to a study from the NIH’s Intramural Research Program and McGill University. Although the study, published in the journal Pain, was conducted in rats, and the results of animal studies may not be directly applicable to people, the findings provide new insights into how the brain may respond to pain and opioids.

As harmful as dehydration?

Tue, 22 May 2018 19:59:32 +0000

We are all familiar with the drawbacks of dehydration, but we rarely hear about the harmful effects of overhydration. It is known that excess fluid accumulation can lead to dangerously low sodium levels in the blood or hyponatremia – a life-threatening condition that can result in brain swelling. Similarly, more is known about the mechanisms in the body that detect and drive thirst while little is known about how the brain detects a state of overhydration.

New approach to global-warming projections could make regional estimates more precise

Tue, 15 May 2018 15:01:54 +0000

A new method for projecting how the temperature will respond to human impacts supports the outlook for substantial global warming throughout this century – but also indicates that, in many regions, warming patterns are likely to vary significantly from those estimated by widely used computer models.

Climate change = a much greater diversity of species + a need to rethink conservation paradigms

Tue, 08 May 2018 19:13:57 +0000

A team of researchers believe that Quebec’s protected areas are poised to become biodiversity refuges of continental importance. They used ecological niche modeling to calculate potential changes in the presence of 529 species in about 1/3 of the protected areas in southern Quebec almost all of which were under 50 km2 in size. Their results suggest that fifty - eighty years from now (between 2071–2100) close to half of the protected regions of southern Quebec may see a species turnover of greater than 80 %.

Beyond Killing Tuberculosis

Fri, 11 May 2018 19:03:57 +0000

Historically, our view of host defense against infection was that we must eliminate pathogens to eradicate disease. However, this perspective has recently been challenged as scientists have taken a lesson from plant biologists about an ancient strategy involving the ability to “tolerate” rather than “resist” infection to maintain health. This concept, referred to as “disease tolerance”, provides an opportunity to develop new strategies that mitigate the consequences of infection.

How heart tissue combines mechanical strength and electrical reliability

Thu, 10 May 2018 15:40:16 +0000

The human heart can be viewed as both a mechanical and an electrical device – one that contracts and pumps billions of times over an average lifespan. How does it manage to achieve this feat without lapsing into dangerous irregularities?

Hanadi Sleiman, C.J. Li awarded Killam Research Fellowships

Mon, 07 May 2018 23:08:15 +0000

McGill chemistry professors Hanadi Sleiman and Chao-Jun Li are among the six recipients of this year’s Killam Research Fellowships. The two-year fellowships, awarded to exceptional researchers working on groundbreaking projects of broad significance, are valued at $70,000 a year.

The effect of night shifts: gene expression fails to adapt to new sleep patterns

Mon, 07 May 2018 19:28:49 +0000

Have you ever considered that working night shifts may, in the long run, have an impact on your health? A team of researchers from the McGill University affiliated Douglas Mental Health University Institute (DMHUI) has discovered that genes regulating important biological processes are incapable of adapting to new sleeping and eating patterns and that most of them stay tuned to their daytime biological clock rhythms.

A new molecular target identified in depression

Mon, 07 May 2018 14:23:36 +0000

The discovery of a new mechanism involved in depression – and a way to target it with a drug as effective as classical antidepressants -- provides new understanding of this illness and could pave the way for treatments with fewer side effects.

Nine McGill experts named new Canada Research Chairs

Thu, 03 May 2018 20:50:39 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

New chair holder Sarah Harrison, who holds joint appointments in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, and Physics, will continue her investigations in string theory, a theoretical framework that proposes a unified description of all particles and forces in nature, including gravity. Among the questions Professor Harrison explores, the mysterious relationship in mathematics between finite groups and modular forms (ominously named “monstrous moonshine”), which appears to have deep connections to physics and string theory.

NEOMED Institute partners with McGill University to identify small molecule inhibitors of a novel oncology target: Cut-Like Homeobox 1 (CUX1)

Wed, 02 May 2018 17:44:46 +0000

The NEOMED Institute announced today that it has entered into a development collaboration with McGill University. Kemal Payza, Senior Project Director at NEOMED Institute will collaborate with Professor Alain Nepveu, Professor at the Goodman Cancer Research Centre and Departments of Oncology, Biochemistry and Medicine at McGill University, to discover new therapeutic small molecules to inhibit the protein target, Cut-Like Homeobox 1 (CUX1).

Garvin Brown & Steffanie Diamond Brown boost public policy at McGill, endowing Chair in Democratic Studies

Wed, 02 May 2018 19:41:16 +0000

A $5-million gift from McGillians G. Garvin Brown IV, BA’91, and his wife Steffanie Diamond Brown, will make a major contribution to research and teaching at McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy by establishing an endowed Chair in Democratic Studies. The Chair will promote further scholarship and public outreach, encourage public discussion of key challenges facing the world’s democracies, and contribute to evidence-based policy decision-making.

Nurses’ care of young mothers leaves traces in babies’ DNA

Tue, 01 May 2018 19:24:32 +0000

Researchers have known for a couple of decades that early life adversity can affect the way that particular genes function through a process called epigenetics - a bit like a dimmer switch on a light, pushing gene activity up or down. What they haven’t been able to show until now is that POSITIVE early life experiences can have a similar effect, and that these effects can be seen over thirty years later.

Jozsef Kövecses awarded NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation

Tue, 01 May 2018 14:24:33 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

Joelle Pineau awarded NSERC’s Steacie Memorial Fellowship

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:57:33 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

For Joelle Pineau, becoming a medical doctor was—in her words—not in the cards. However, this Associate Professor from McGill`s School of Computer Science is now the driving force behind promising research whose aim is to use AI to improve the treatment of cancer and heart disease.

Introducing McGill’s Honorary Degree recipients for Spring Convocation 2018

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:44:06 +0000

Extraordinary $15-million gift will create unique powerhouse initiative to fight infections and immune threats to human health

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:08:08 +0000

Major funding awarded to RI-MUHC scientists for innovative genomics geared to Quebec patients

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:39:29 +0000

Pioneering work to advance genomics and precision health treatments at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has been rewarded by Génome Québec. Dr. Nada Jabado and Dr. Ruth Sapir-Hichhadze, the RI-MUHC scientists who received the reward, were among the winners of a nation-wide competition emphasizing precision treatments in genomics.

Suicide and homicide rates show large racial disparities across U.S. states

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:44:19 +0000

Southern and Western states have the highest rates of white firearm suicide, while Midwestern states have highest rates of black firearm homicide, according to new research from McGill University. The findings place a spotlight on states where firearm policies may help reduce homicide and suicide rates.

Gun violence has a long history in the U.S. Less understood is how homicide or suicide varies amongst black and white men across US states and how household gun ownership influences them.

Potential gender bias against female researchers in peer review of research grants

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:02:21 +0000

Female health researchers who applied for grants from Canada's major health research funder were funded less often than male counterparts because of potential bias, and characteristics of peer reviewers can also affect the result, found a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Applicants who had not been previously funded also received lower scores, making them less likely to be funded.

Low-Income HIV Patients Suffer with Healthcare Access

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:34:57 +0000

Quebeckers do not have equal access to anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for HIV and AIDS, a long-term study undertaken by a team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in collaboration with clinics and university health centres in Montreal, has revealed. Researchers observed that HIV-infected persons who count on social assistance and other income security programs in Quebec do not have early access to ART due to their presumed lower socio-economic status.

Safety concerns over tungsten

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:00:34 +0000

UPDATE: Freezing rain warning

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:16:58 +0000

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McGill researchers to get $2.2M in CFI funding

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:22:21 +0000

Eleven McGill researchers have received grants totaling $2.2 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). The announcement was made earlier today by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. The McGill recipients will receive matching funds from the Quebec government.

Protecting young adults’ sexual health

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:23:02 +0000

Gilla Shapiro studies clinical psychology at McGill. She earned her BA and MA in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and dual degrees in public policy and public administration at the Hertie School of Governance and London School of Economics and Political Science. Gilla became interested in understanding and promoting sexual health during her doctoral research examining the relationship between sexually transmitted diseases (such as HPV) and cancer prevention.

Like babies, eggs send signals when “hungry”

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:45:48 +0000

Cracking eggshell nanostructure

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:06:09 +0000

Jonathan Sievers and Jennifer Welsh named Canada 150 Research Chairs

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:18:53 +0000

Cosmologist Jonathan Sievers and international-relations scholar Jennifer Welsh will become Canada 150 Research Chairs at McGill University. The appointments were among the 24 Chairs announced today at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.

Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:36:37 +0000

Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from McGill University and Université de Montréal.

Tackling adherence to treatment on several fronts

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:14:28 +0000

Learning to become self-sufficient and responsible is part of life’s journey through the teen and young adult years. Mistakes are often made, and lessons are learned. However, for young kidney-graft patients, any mistake or failure in keeping to their strict immunosuppressive therapy can lead to tragic results. In fact, low-adherence to medication remains a major contributor to the high level of organ rejection in this age group.

Workplace wellness programs yield positive effects for Canadian employees

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:48:06 +0000

Employee wellness programs in the workplace have been shown to work with some success in the United States, particularly when participation is tied to substantial incentives like a reduction in health insurance premiums for participating employees. In Canada, as a result of the publicly funded health care system, incentives for employers and their employees to participate in such programs are primarily focused on the goal of becoming healthier -- and the programs are few and far between, despite evidence showing their effectiveness.

Bank of Canada announces recipients of 2018 Fellowship and Governor’s awards

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:16:04 +0000

The Bank of Canada has announced that Markus Poschke, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University, was selected as the recipient of this year’s Governor’s Award. Professor Poschke is an increasingly prominent member of the Canadian economics community. His research, which focuses on inequality and economic growth, has been published in some of the top journals in macroeconomics.

Pushing screening of ovarian and endometrial cancers one step further

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:23:46 +0000

A team from the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has joined forces with researchers at Johns Hopkins to bring screening and early detection of ovarian and uterine cancers one step closer to clinical implementation. Researchers developed a test that provides a safe and minimally invasive method for earlier diagnosis of ovarian and endometrial cancers.

Time for bed: Bad sleep habits start early in school-age children

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:23:44 +0000

Bad sleep habits in children begin earlier than many experts assume. That’s the takeaway from a new study led by McGill University researchers. The findings suggest that official sleep guidelines for young school children should be revisited – and that parents ought to maintain firm bedtime rules throughout children’s primary-school years.

Brain genes related to innovation revealed in birds

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:21:10 +0000

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers. The findings could provide insight into the evolutionary mechanisms affecting cognitive traits in a range of animals.

The study, published in Science Advances, was conducted by McGill biologists Jean-Nicolas Audet and Louis Lefebvre, in collaboration with researchers from Duke and Harvard universities.

Barbados birds

Clinical trial reveals that aspirin is effective at preventing venous thromboembolism following major orthopedic surgeries

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:01:58 +0000

Montreal, March 12, 2018 – A multicentre, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial of patients who underwent total hip or knee replacement surgery showed that aspirin was as effective as rivaroxaban, the standard anti-coagulation medication, at preventing post-operative venous thromboembolism (VTE). Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital (JGH) was among the participating institutions. The results were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

Canadian researchers open a new front in the fight against MS

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:14:25 +0000

By Ross Neitz, University of Alberta

A discovery led by scientists at the University of Alberta and McGill University is providing hope of a new therapeutic target in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients, which could one day be used to prevent the symptoms and progression of the disease.

A near-universal way to measure enzyme inhibition

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:26:43 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have invented a new technique for measuring how quickly drugs interact with their molecular targets. The discovery provides scientists with a new way to investigate the effectiveness of drug candidates that might otherwise have been overlooked.

The new method centres on the principle of enzyme inhibition. Countless pharmaceuticals, ranging from antibiotics to chemotherapy drugs, work by blocking the action of enzymes, and the search for new enzyme-inhibiting substances remains a major focus of drug development.

McGill welcomes major injection of federal funds to support research

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:32:57 +0000

The federal government’s announcement of a major investment in research in Tuesday’s 2018 budget was welcomed by McGill University Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier.

“I am delighted to see increased federal support for fundamental research,” Prof. Fortier said. “This investment will open up opportunities for our country’s talented researchers to explore new areas of knowledge and train the next generations of researchers.”

Building bridges: Ashukin program connects McGill Nursing students with Quebec Indigenous communities

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:25:54 +0000

By Christina Kozakiewicz, Ingram School of Nursing

Source: Med-e-News

McGill Dobson Centre ranked among world’s top incubation programs

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:48:25 +0000

By Rosalie Nardelli

UBI Global has released its World University-linked Business Incubator and Accelerator Ranking and has placed the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in the eight position of the World Top Business Incubator – Managed by a University category.

McGill-led genomics centres win $9.8 M, three-year funding support from Genome Canada

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:23:59 +0000

The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre and the Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics will receive a total of $9.8 million in funding over three years through Genome Canada awards announced Feb. 21.

National study to shed light on aging

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:18:00 +0000

by Brenda Branswell

Source: McGill News Magazine

Imagine getting a phone call asking if you’d like to take part in a study … for the next 20 years.

It’s a pitch that makes telemarketing look like child’s play.

Products derived from plants offer potential as dual-targeting agents for experimental cerebral malaria

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:49:29 +0000

Malaria, a life-threatening disease usually caused when parasites from the Plasmodium family enter the bloodstream of a person bitten by a parasite-carrying mosquito, is a severe health threat globally, with 200 to 300 million cases annually and 445,000 deaths in 2016.

With pregnant women and children most vulnerable from infection, complications including anemia and cerebral malaria, the most severe neurological complication from malaria, are responsible for approximately 25% of the infant mortality rate in some regions of Africa.

Media advisory: Who Pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:06:33 +0000

Are Canadians fair or is that just a story we tell ourselves? Can we reason our way to lessened inequality or are violent cataclysms the only levelling power, as Thomas Piketty and Walter Schiedel argue? How do we maintain a sense and an approximation of fairness in our globalizing and polarizing world? Certainly there can be no fairness without tax fairness: tax policy is where we negotiate the relationship between wealth and poverty.

McGill to participate in two of Canada’s five new ‘superclusters’

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:37:29 +0000

McGill University will participate in two of the five “superclusters” selected by the Government of Canada for funding under its Innovation Superclusters Initiative:

Not being aware of memory problems predicts onset of Alzheimer’s disease

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:02:05 +0000

Doctors who work with individuals at risk of developing dementia have long suspected that patients who do not realize they experience memory problems are at greater risk of seeing their condition worsen in a short time frame, a suspicion that now has been confirmed by a team of McGill University clinician scientists.

Najafabadi, Trenholm named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:53:43 +0000

Canadian Genomics Cloud launched to provide widespread access to genomics infrastructure for Canada

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:10:02 +0000

A national consortium of industry and academic collaborators announced today the launch of the Canadian Genomics Cloud (genomicscloud.ca), an integrated software platform to manage, analyze, and share genome sequence and clinical data. This public cloud computing platform, the first of its kind in Canada, promises to give every scientist in the country unfettered access to award-winning technology empowering precision medicine and other applications in genome research.

Meet RIPK3: Good Cop, Bad Cop, all in one

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:08:59 +0000

Each year, influenza kills half a million people globally with the elderly and very young most often the victims. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 37 children have died in the United States during the current flu season. Aside from getting the flu shot and employing smart hand hygiene, there are no other methods of prevention. However, a team of scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University, led by Immunologist Dr.

Global project to reduce health inequalities in cities around the world

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:02:56 +0000

A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.

We’re not addicted to smartphones, we’re addicted to social interaction

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:43:51 +0000

We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.

These are examples of what many consider to be the antisocial behaviour brought on by smartphone addiction, a phenomenon that has garnered media attention in the past few months and led investors and consumers to demand that tech giants address this problem.

But what if we were looking at things the wrong way? Could smartphone addiction be hyper-social, not anti-social?

Unusual lung structures may raise risk of pulmonary disease

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:27:41 +0000

The internal anatomy of our lungs is surprisingly variable, and some of those variations are associated with a greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study led by researchers at McGill University and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center has found.

How viruses disarm the immune system

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:53:43 +0000

How do viruses that cause chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis C virus, manage to outsmart their hosts’ immune systems?

The answer to that question has long eluded scientists, but new research from McGill University has uncovered a molecular mechanism that may be a key piece of the puzzle. The discovery could provide new targets for treating a wide range of diseases.

McGill benefactor Richard Tomlinson made history

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:24:07 +0000

Dr. Richard Tomlinson made philanthropic history for Canadian universities in 2000 when he donated $64 million to McGill. At the time, it was the largest gift ever made in support of higher education in Canada by an alumnus, and still ranks as the largest single gift McGill has ever received from an individual.

McGill University recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2018

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:31:12 +0000

First published in 2006, Montréal's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. This special designation recognizes the employers in Greater Montréal that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. This year's winners, including McGill University, were announced on February 1, 2018 in a special magazine published in the Montreal Gazette.

Here are some of the reasons why McGill University was selected as one of Montreal's Top Employers (2018):

Misery does not love company

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:56:11 +0000

Comparing to a role model may help reduce burnout among teachers.

With as many as four in 10 Canadian teachers leaving the field within their first five years, what can be done to keep more of them in the classroom?

Misery does not love company

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:54:01 +0000

With as many as four in 10 Canadian teachers leaving the field within their first five years, what can be done to keep more of them in the classroom?

McGill research team studies how calcium compounds accumulate in the arteries

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:07:08 +0000

Team leader Marta Cerruti, using the tools of the Canadian Light Source, has examined the mineralized arteries of genetically modified laboratory mice and found that the pathway in the body that leads to what laypeople call “hardening of the arteries” is not what medical experts previously assumed.

Epigenetic alteration of a vitamin B12 processing gene shines new light on our understanding of rare diseases

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:16:41 +0000

Rare hereditary recessive diseases were thought to be expressed in offspring only when both parents carry a mutation in the causal gene, but a new study is changing this paradigm. An international research team led by scientists at the University of Lorraine in France along with McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Canada discovered a new cause of a rare condition known as cblC, that they named “epi-cblC”. They reported it in patients from Europe and the United States.

The high cost of short-term rentals in New York City

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:00:46 +0000

A new report from McGill Urban Planning professor David Wachsmuth and his team provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). Relying on new methodologies to analyze big data, here are some of the findings:

Nutritionally speaking, soy milk is best plant-based milk

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:28:02 +0000

How healthy is your almond milk really? It may taste good and may not cause you any of the unpleasant reactions caused by cow’s milk. But though plant-based milk beverages of this kind have been on the market for a couple of decades and are advertised as being healthy and wholesome for those who are lactose-intolerant, little research has been done to compare the benefits and drawbacks of the various kinds of plant-based milk.

Financial Times Global MBA rankings place Desautels MBA #1 in Canada

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:46:12 +0000

McGill's Desautels MBA program is ranked #1 in Canada and 78th in the world by the 2018 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking—one of only three Canadian schools which made the list, released January 29, 2018.
Every year, the FT ranks the world’s best 100 MBA programs using multiple criteria. Read more about the methodology here. The MBA Class of 2014 was surveyed for this ranking.

A greener way to make ketones

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:22:13 +0000

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a new, more environmentally friendly way to make ketones, an important chemical ingredient in pharmaceuticals. While ketones are found in a wide range of useful chemicals, they are commonly prepared through energy-intensive, multi-step technologies that create significant chemical waste. In an article published online last month in Nature Chemistry, the McGill scientists demonstrate how carbon monoxide, a widely available by-product of combustion, can instead be used to form high-energy chemicals that react directly with benzene to

Canadian brain bank network to advance research on Alzheimer’s disease

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:07:54 +0000

More than 400,000 Canadians aged 65 and over live with diagnosed dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for approximately 70 percent of cases. The cause of this degenerative brain disease is largely unknown and no effective treatment exists. The disease has a devastating effect on individuals and their families.

Discovery of a 'pioneer' that opens the genome

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:26:28 +0000

Our genome contains all the information necessary to form a complete human being. This information, encoded in our DNA, stretches over one to two metres long but still manages to squeeze into a cell about 100 times smaller than a green pea. To do so, the genome has to be compacted.

A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:53:02 +0000

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn’t where astrophysicists expected it to be – a discovery that challenges scientists’ understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

Unlike our familiar planet Jupiter, so-called hot Jupiters circle astonishingly close to their host star -- so close that it typically takes fewer than three days to complete an orbit. And one hemisphere of these planets always faces its host star, while the other faces permanently out into the dark.

More than $59 million awarded by the CFI and the Government of Quebec to six McGill research projects

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:05:17 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

New labs and equipment through the CFI’s Innovation Fund will help six transformative McGill research projects to collaborate, innovate and train the next generation of scientists for the jobs of tomorrow.

New technique for finding life on Mars

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:16:00 +0000

Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, used miniaturized scientific instruments and new microbiology techniques to identify and examine microorganisms in the Canadian high Arctic — one of the closest analogs to Mars on Earth.

Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicists

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:56:53 +0000

The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger detected last August has continued to brighten – much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took place about 138 million light years away and sent gravitational waves rippling through the universe.

Flawed research methods exaggerate the prevalence of depression

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:28:57 +0000

An over-reliance on self-report screening questionnaires, wherein patients essentially define their own condition, in place of diagnostic interviews conducted by a health care professional, has resulted in over-estimation of the prevalence of people with depression in many research studies – often by a factor of two to three times. This is according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study found that over 75% of recent research on depression prevalence has been based exclusively on patient completed questionnaires.

Alzheimer’s disease: neuronal loss very limited

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:09:32 +0000

Frequently encountered in the elderly, Alzheimer’s is considered a neurodegenerative disease, which means that it is accompanied by a significant, progressive loss of neurons and their nerve endings, or synapses. A joint French and Canadian study published in Scientific Reports now challenges this view.

Being bilingual may help autistic children

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:04:30 +0000

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often have a hard time switching gears from one task to another. But being bilingual may actually make it a bit easier for them to do so, according to a new study which was recently published in Child Development.

Re-programming innate immune cells to fight tuberculosis

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:59:57 +0000

Progression of Parkinson’s disease follows brain connectivity

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:37:18 +0000

A study by a group of researchers including those from The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University has tested the theory that brain degeneration in Parkinson’s disease (PD) originates in subcortical regions and spreads along neural networks to the cerebral cortex. By analyzing data on PD patients and healthy controls collected over one year, the researchers found that brain regions closely connected to subcortical regions showed the most degeneration over the one-year period in PD patients, and that this happens earlier than previously thought.

A repeating fast radio burst from an extreme environment

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:23:56 +0000

New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source’s environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.

The findings by an international team of astronomers, including Victoria Kaspi and Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University, appear in the January 11 edition of Nature and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.

McGill researchers contribute to three of 10 ‘discoveries of year’ selected by Quebec Science for 2017

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:20:56 +0000

Québec Science magazine has selected its 10 Discoveries of the Year for 2017, including three involving McGill researchers. The annual list has highlighted top scientific research from across Quebec for the past 25 years, and McGill has been cited more than any other institution during that quarter-century.

Here are the selected discoveries involving McGill scientists for the past year:

Clinical trial of novel approach to treating osteoporosis represents “significant breakthrough,” according to clinician-scientist at the Lady Davis Institute

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:06:47 +0000

A regimen of a novel bone anabolic medication (which builds bone mass) followed by an antiresorptive agent (which maintains bone mass) has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of fracture among post-menopausal women with severe osteoporosis, according to results of a clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:00:28 +0000

The world’s oldest algae fossils are a billion years old, according to a new analysis by earth scientists at McGill University. Based on this finding, the researchers also estimate that the basis for photosynthesis in today’s plants was set in place 1.25 billion years ago.

A non-invasive method to detect Alzheimer’s disease

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:21:00 +0000

New research has drawn a link between changes in the brain’s anatomy and biomarkers that are known to appear at the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), findings that could one day provide a sensitive but non-invasive test for AD before cognitive symptoms appear.

Scientists have known for some time that one of the first signs of AD is buildup of amyloid-Beta and tau proteins in the brain. They have also known that the hippocampus atrophies and loses volume in some AD patients years before cognitive decline.

Using DNA strands to design new polymer materials

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:56:12 +0000

McGill University researchers have chemically imprinted polymer particles with DNA strands – a technique that could lead to new materials for applications ranging from biomedicine to the promising field of “soft robotics.”

In a study published in Nature Chemistry, the researchers describe a method to create asymmetrical polymer particles that bind together in a spatially defined manner, the way that atoms come together to make molecules.

Does Chagas disease present a health risk to Canadians?

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:57:50 +0000

Believe it or not, a tropical blood parasite native to Latin America could be harmful to Canadians. Infectious diseases like malaria or Zika may have dominated recent headlines but Chagas – the “Kissing Bug” disease – is in the spotlight following the publication of a new case study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). Tropical and laboratory medicine experts from Winnipeg and Montreal warn natives of specific Central and South American nations and their offspring are at risk of contracting Chagas disease - even after they have moved to Canada.

American cities with large Hispanic populations are less likely to police the police

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:53:01 +0000

How individual police forces treat those that they suspect of being illegal immigrants varies greatly from one city to the next in the U.S. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the police department has a policy that states clearly, “Officers shall not stop, question, detain or arrest any person on the ground that they may be undocumented and deportable foreign nationals.” But this is unusual. Local police departments across the U.S. have become increasingly involved in enforcing federal immigration laws since the mid-1990s.

Borrowing a leaf from biology to preserve threatened languages

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:53:52 +0000

One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, McGill University scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.

Being a musician can help you decipher language in loud environments

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:57:48 +0000

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that musical training helps people hear speech syllables in loud environments, and has shown how this happens. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers Yi Du and Robert Zatorre monitored brain function as musicians and non-musicians listened to speech fragments and varying background noise levels.

Get up and boogie

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:54:26 +0000

Clinical trial reveals risky clot busters do not benefit most patients suffering from deep vein thrombosis

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:36:55 +0000

A clinical trial almost ten years in the making has revealed that risky, but powerful, clot busting drugs and medical devices do not improve outcomes for patients experiencing deep vein thrombosis (DVT), nor do they prevent the development of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) when compared with conventional blood thinning medications. The results of the Acute Venous Thrombosis: Thrombus Removal with Adjunctive Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis (ATTRACT) study are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Digging in the dirt – history revealed and shared

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:23:49 +0000

By Jennifer Bracewell

Lotteries Join Campaign Urging Adults to Give Responsibly this Holiday Season

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:07:16 +0000

For the past ten years, the International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors at McGill University and the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) in Washington, D.C. have come together for the annual Holiday Lottery Campaign, a corporate social responsibility program designed to help lotteries make adults aware of the risks of giving lottery products as holiday gifts to minors.

McGill study finds people infected with HIV more likely to develop fatty liver

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:43:25 +0000

Fatty liver is among the most frequent causes of liver disease in Canada and in Western countries and is one of the main indications for liver transplant. For some time, researchers have suspected that people living with HIV could be at higher risk of developing liver disease, which, as a result of longer life expectancy thanks to antiretroviral therapy, has become the major cause of their mortality in North America.

Why some European countries are more hostile to immigrants than others

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:13:24 +0000

By Katherine Gombay

McGill commits to carbon neutrality by 2040

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:21:54 +0000

McGill University is committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040, under its new Climate & Sustainability Action Plan (2017-2020), released today.

Caroline Palmer receives 2017 NSERC CREATE program funding

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:37:36 +0000

By Amanda Testani

Professor Palmer is one of the few researchers to receive two CREATE training grants to date. From 2009-2015, Professor Palmer led an NSERC funded CREATE program in auditory cognitive neuroscience, training over 180 students and postdoctoral fellows. Her significant findings from that program informed her training program application in Complex Dynamics.

As climate warms, mice morph

Fri, 24 Nov 2017 19:20:29 +0000

New research by McGill University biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years – providing a textbook example of the consequences of climate change for small mammals.

The findings also reveal a stark reversal in the proportions of the two mice populations present in the area, adding to evidence that warming temperatures are driving wildlife north.

Mindfulness training shows promise for maintaining weight loss

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:29:28 +0000

Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off? McGill University researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.

Kimberly Carrière, Bärbel Knäuper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.

The researchers found that:

Do birdsong and human speech share biological roots?

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:32:11 +0000

Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?

Scientists who study birdsong have been intrigued for some time by the possibility that human speech and music may be rooted in biological processes shared across a variety of animals. Now, research by McGill University biologists provides new evidence to support this idea.

Imagining the cities of the future through a better understanding of Montreal today

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:45:15 +0000

Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city’s four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city’s nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?

British historian Daniel Beer wins US$75,000 International Cundill History Prize

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:51:59 +0000

The international Cundill History Prize today announced the British historian Daniel Beer as the 2017 winner of the US$75,000 prize – the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English. The London-based historian was awarded for his ground-breaking study of Siberian penal colonies, The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Allen Lane)

Better data for governments

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:59:50 +0000

Today, the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx), part of Johns Hopkins University, and GeoThink, a part of McGill University, launched a new open data standards directory that will identify standards for open data regularly shared by governments. The directory will ensure reliability and coordinated information for many city government data sets on services ranging from public safety, to building permits, to public transit, and budgets.

Pregnancy-related conditions taken together leave moms – and dads – at risk

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:51:30 +0000

Research has already shown that women who develop either diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease years later. Now, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women had both diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy. The study, published today in the American Journal of Epidemiology, doesn’t end with the mother’s risks.

Breastfed babies are less likely to develop eczema as teenagers, study shows.

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:19:28 +0000

A new study, which is published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, and was led by researchers from King’s College London, Harvard University, University of Bristol and McGill University, examined more than 13,000 Belarussian teenagers enrolled in the PROmotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) and found a 54% reduction in cases of eczema amongst teenagers whose mothers had received support to breastfeed exclusively.

A $10-million donation establishes a new school of public policy at McGill University

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:23:20 +0000

In a world of political polarization, environmental threats, a changing labour market and growing gaps between rich and poor, there has never been a greater need to engage in a thoughtful examination of public policy and train a new generation of policy leaders.

Against this backdrop, McGill University is pleased to announce that it has received a $10-million donation from Max Bell Foundation to establish a new school of public policy at McGill. The School will reside in McGill’s Faculty of Arts.

Statistical tool reveals climate change impacts on plants

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:08:05 +0000

Early flowering, early fruiting: Anecdotal evidence of climate change is popping up as quickly as spring crocuses, but is it coincidence or confirmation that plants’ timing is shifting in response to warming temperatures?

Identification of a new gene causing scoliosis and bone malformations

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:53:22 +0000

A unique collaboration among Shriners Hospital for Children – Canada, CHU Sainte-Justine and McGill University has enabled researchers to identify genetic mutations involved in a rare disease that causes scoliosis and bone malformations.

The findings, published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, are likely to help doctors recognize the genetic disease, and could someday lead to therapies for the condition.

Giving rookie dads the online info they really need

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:07:37 +0000

Expectant and new parents often turn to the internet for parenting prep, but it turns out that dads often don’t seem to find the information they say they need about pregnancy, parenthood and routes to their own mental health and well-being. Now, a new study from a Canadian team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) with funding from global men’s health charity the Movember Foundation highlights just what soon-to-be and new fathers want to see in a dad-focused website and how best to meet those needs.

Three historians shortlisted for international Cundill History Prize

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:16:42 +0000

Montreal-based historian Christopher Goscha, US-based historian Walter Scheidel and British historian Daniel Beer are the three contenders for the international Cundill History Prize.

Run by McGill University, the Cundill History Prize rewards the best history writing in English. The jury of world-class historians and authors has chosen the finalists from a longlist spanning the globe and covering issues ranging from religion to race relations. The winner will be awarded US$75,000; the two runners-up receive US$10,000 each.

The 2017 finalists are:

Transformative donation of $16 million establishes new autism research centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:49:47 +0000

A new research centre in Montreal will help lift the shroud of mystery surrounding autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and lead to the development of better diagnostic tools and more effective therapies for people with autism.

Pollution linked to nine million deaths each year worldwide, equivalent to 1 in 6 deaths

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:27:51 +0000

Prof. Niladri Basu, McGill University, is one of the Commissioners on The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health which was released today.

Nil Basu’s research, mainly in Africa, is on:

1.     artisanal and small-scale gold mining (there are approximately 100 million people worldwide practicing mining like this in very unsafe conditions)

2.     electronic waste recycling (E-waste). Does work on the world’s largest e-waste dump in Agbogbloshie, Ghana.

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Latest gravitational-wave detection opens new era for astronomy

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:26:19 +0000

The discovery of a gravitational wave caused by the merger of two neutron stars, reported today by a collaboration of scientists from around the world, opens a new era in astronomy. It marks the first time that scientists have been able to observe a cosmic event with both light waves -- the basis of traditional astronomy -- and gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

New mechanism detected in Alzheimer’s disease

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:02:42 +0000

By Chris Chipello

McGill University researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that may contribute to the breakdown of communication between neurons in Alzheimer’s disease.

Take two: McGill duo named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:43:34 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

McGill to honour two trailblazing Canadian leaders

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:20:28 +0000

McGill will confer honorary doctorates upon two remarkable women during the Fall 2017 convocation ceremonies. Heather Munroe-Blum and Heather Reisman will be awarded the University’s highest honour for their dedication to the advancement of education and literacy.

Predicting when a sound will occur relies on the brain’s motor system

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:02:36 +0000

By Shawn Hayward

Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually sharpen sound perception, and this effect is increased when we move in rhythm with the sound.

Q&A with Doina Precup

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:37:51 +0000

DeepMind, the AI company famous for its Go-playing AlphaGo program, is setting up an office in Montreal, making it the latest high-profile company to join the city’s artificial-intelligence research community. Doina Precup, an Associate Professor in McGill’s School of Computer Science, will lead DeepMind’s office here, while continuing to teach and do research at the University. We spoke with Prof. Precup about her new role at DeepMind, her ongoing work at McGill, and the rapidly evolving AI scene in Montreal.

Illustrious Chinese architect invests in future of education: landmark $12-million gift to transform teaching and research, build stronger academic ties to China

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:37:19 +0000

RI-MUHC scientist takes HIV self-testing global with HIVSmart!™

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:50:59 +0000

By Julie Robert

US$75,000 Cundill History Prize reveals longlist that spans the globe

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:15:27 +0000

Child abuse affects brain wiring

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:11:42 +0000

By Katherine Gombay

Mitochondria drive cell survival in times of need

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:09:24 +0000

By Cynthia Lee

McGill University researchers have discovered a mechanism through which mitochondria, the energy factory of our body’s cells, play a role in preventing cells from dying when the cells are deprived of nutrients – a finding that points to a potential target for next-generation cancer drugs.

The research, published in Molecular Cell, builds on previous work by McGill professor Nahum Sonenberg, one of the senior authors of the new study.

Claudia Mitchell named Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:40:56 +0000

By Meaghan Thurston

Professor Claudia Mitchell was in an Ethiopian airport on her way to Russia when she received an email from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation asking her to give them a call. With no phone in sight, Mitchell waited anxiously until landing some hours later to learn that she had garnered a prestigious Fellowship. “They said, ‘you clearly walk the talk because you are traveling from one girl-led project to another’”.

McGill duo honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:00:24 +0000

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced today that Professor Michel Tremblay (Department of Biochemistry and the Director of the McGill Cancer Institute) has been awarded the McLaughlin Medal for important research of sustained excellence in medical science. Recognized for his leading-edge work on the role and function of particular enzymes in the development of cancer, Professor Tremblay is among the 12 Canadian researchers honoured with an RSC medal or award this year. Also among the RSC 2017 award winners is Dr.

Teenage aggression linked to neglect

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:39:06 +0000

By Katherine Gombay

McGill researcher to head Facebook’s new Montreal AI lab

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:49:12 +0000

Facebook is opening a new Artificial Intelligence Research Lab in Montreal — FAIR Montreal. This is the company’s first research and development investment in Canada, and only its fourth AI research lab in all. Prof. Joelle Pineau, from the School of Computer Science and co-director of McGill’s Reasoning & Learning Lab, will head the new Montreal AI lab while maintaining her academic position at the university.

NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:13:06 +0000

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space. This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.

Royal Society of Canada elects seven McGill scholars to The College

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:21:44 +0000

Today, the Royal Society of Canada announced 70 new members to The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, including seven McGill scholars. With seven members, McGill has more new inductees this year than any other university in the country. The new members of the College will address issues of particular concern to Canadian society, including mental health and environmental management, taking advantage of the interdisciplinary approaches fostered by the College.

Message from Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier on the passing of Chancellor Emerita Gretta Chambers

Sat, 09 Sep 2017 23:26:20 +0000

I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our Chancellor Emerita, Gretta Chambers. On behalf of the McGill University community, I extend my condolences to her family and pay homage to the many ways she supported McGill throughout her life. She has made an immense contribution to our university and to the society in which she lived.

NSERC awards over $35M to McGill scientists and engineers

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:48:44 +0000

Meeting a microbe in the morning or in the evening: is it all the same?

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:20:21 +0000

Does the time of day matter when our body is infected by a parasite? According to new research from McGill University, it matters a great deal.

New Canadian telescope will map largest volume of space ever surveyed

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:22:42 +0000

A Canadian effort to build one of the most innovative radio telescopes in the world will open the universe to a new dimension of scientific study. The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, today installed the final piece of this new radio telescope, which will act as a time machine allowing scientists to create a three-dimensional map of the universe extending deep into space and time.

The “reality” of accent change

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:47:30 +0000

Students at McGill University receive Canada’s largest STEM scholarship

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:54:09 +0000

Katherine Sirois of Quebec and Iveta Demirova of British Columbia have been named McGill University’s recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships.

Hydro-Québec to sponsor TeamMTL’s entry in Solar Decathlon China

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:53:05 +0000

Pinpointing the origins of autism

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:41:55 +0000

The origins of autism remain mysterious. What areas of the brain are involved, and when do the first signs appear? New findings published in Biological Psychiatry bring us closer to understanding the pathology of autism, and the point at which it begins to take shape in the human brain. Such knowledge will allow earlier interventions in the future and better outcomes for autistic children.

New understanding of how muscles work

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:24:05 +0000

Muscle malfunctions may be as simple as a slight strain after exercise or as serious as heart failure and muscular dystrophy. A new technique developed at McGill now makes it possible to look much more closely at how sarcomeres, the basic building blocks within all skeletal and cardiac muscles, work together. It’s a discovery that should advance research into a wide range of muscle malfunctions.

Talk about finicky work

Artificial intelligence predicts dementia before onset of symptoms

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:16:47 +0000

Imagine if doctors could determine, many years in advance, who is likely to develop dementia. Such prognostic capabilities would give patients and their families time to plan and manage treatment and care. Thanks to artificial intelligence research conducted at McGill University, this kind of predictive power could soon be available to clinicians everywhere.

Searching for the “signature” causes of BRCAness in breast cancer

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:18:47 +0000

By Tom Ulrich from the Broad Institute

Hypertension during pregnancy may affect women’s long-term cardiovascular health

Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:37:47 +0000

Women who experience hypertension during pregnancy face an increased risk of heart disease and hypertension later in life, according to a new study.

MUHC study calls for action to help adolescents with diabetes transition to adult care

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:38:44 +0000

Adolescence can be a turbulent period of life, with struggles to establish autonomy, identity issues and risk-taking behaviours. For young adults with a chronic illness such as type 1 diabetes, this transition phase also brings about other challenges as they assume an increased responsibility for their overall health. A new study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) sheds light on gaps in transition care practice in Quebec, pointing out a lack of standardized policies across pediatric diabetes centres.

CFI invests $4.2 million to boost 23 McGill research projects with cutting-edge labs and equipment

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:18:11 +0000

At Laurentian University today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced a total investment of $52 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund for 220 new infrastructure projects nationally. Among the 51 universities across the country with funded projects, McGill leads the pack with an impressive number—23 projects totaling $4.2 million—in this latest round of the funding competition.

Could olfactory loss point to Alzheimer’s disease?

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:26:14 +0000

By the time you start losing your memory, it's almost too late. That's because the damage to your brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may already have been going on for as long as twenty years. Which is why there is so much scientific interest in finding ways to detect the presence of the disease early on. Scientists now believe that simple odour identification tests may help track the progression of the disease before symptoms actually appear, particularly among those at risk.

Airbnb’s impact on Canadian housing markets

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:51:45 +0000

Stress heightens fear of threats from the past

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 22:00:38 +0000

Recognizing threats is an essential function of the human mind — think “fight or flight” — one that is aided by past negative experiences. But when older memories are coupled with stress, individuals are likely to perceive danger in harmless circumstances, according to a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments

Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:20:15 +0000

The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace the use of opioids in chronic pain treatment, according to scientists at McGill University.

Because many therapeutic options, such as opioids, for patients with chronic pain carry the risk of addiction and undesirable side effects, this breakthrough offers promising lines of research into chronic pain treatment, says Luda Diatchenko, professor at McGill’s Faculty of Dentistry and co-lead author of the new study

Playing with your brain

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:31:22 +0000

Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in Molecular Psychiatry. For over 10 years, scientists have told us that action video game players exhibit better visual attention, motor control abilities and short-term memory. But, could these benefits come at a cost?

Speeding up SSRIs

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:14:11 +0000

For people suffering from depression, a day without treatment can seem like a lifetime. A new study explains why the most commonly prescribed antidepressants can take as long as six weeks to have an effect. The findings could one day lead to more effective and faster acting drugs.

Costs associated with homelessness are high, suggesting need for shift to programs to end homelessness

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:07:44 +0000

New MUHC study calls for targeted screening of high-risk healthcare workers for tuberculosis

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:48:51 +0000

Sticky when wet: strong adhesives for wound healing

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:16:51 +0000

UAlberta and McGill scientists uncover a hidden calcium cholesterol connection

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:58:46 +0000

By Ross Neitz, University of Alberta

It’s well known that calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth, but new research shows it also plays a key role in moderating another important aspect of health—cholesterol.

Scientists at the University of Alberta and McGill University have discovered a direct link between calcium and cholesterol, a discovery that could pave the way for new ways of treating high blood cholesterol.

Fear, fearlessness and animal extinction

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:14:36 +0000

Too much fear can be dangerous for species’ survival. In fact, fear alone, even in the absence of a live predator, can lead to species’ extinction if the population size is small enough suggests a recent study from McGill and Guelph universities. To read: “How fear alone can cause animal extinction”

“Rebalancing society” module launched

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:02:25 +0000

On the occasion of the High Level Political Forum held on 18 and 19 July at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, PRME in collaboration with McGill University and KEDGE Business School are pleased to announce the launch of a new Sustainability Literacy Test (Sulitest) module based on Henry Mintzberg’s book Rebalancing Society.

Brains are more plastic than we thought

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:32:12 +0000

Practice might not always make perfect, but it’s essential for learning a sport or a musical instrument. It's also the basis of brain training, an approach that holds potential as a non-invasive therapy to overcome disabilities caused by neurological disease or trauma.

Research at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University (The Neuro) has shown just how adaptive the brain can be, knowledge that could one day be applied to recovery from conditions such as stroke.

John Dobson Foundation makes its largest donation to McGill to support X-1 entrepreneurs

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:14:09 +0000

The John Dobson Foundation has announced a donation of $2 million dollars – its largest gift to McGill yet – to fund the McGill X-1 Accelerator program run by the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship. The donation will support the program now in its third year, as it grows to support entrepreneurs across McGill University.

Detecting long-term concussion in athletes

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:43:39 +0000

Lawyers representing both sides in concussion lawsuits against sports leagues may eventually have a new tool at their disposal: a diagnostic signature that uses artificial intelligence to detect brain trauma years after it has occurred.

Lost in translation: To the untrained zebra finch ear, jazzy courtship songs fall flat

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:06:30 +0000

Zebra finches brought up without their fathers don’t react to the singing of potential suitors in the same way that female birds usually do, hinting that the environment in which the birds are raised can have a determining effect on their behaviour.

The finding, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by McGill researchers, highlights how learning and experience, including developmental auditory experience, can shape how the brain perceives vocal signals.

Crafting better beer

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 17:48:18 +0000

Canada’s extensive malting and brewing industry could get a further boost from new insight into the science of malting.

Differences in U.S. infant mortality rates among black and white babies

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:06:48 +0000

A new research letter published by JAMA Pediatrics examined trends in overall and cause-specific infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic black and white infants because infant mortality is an important indicator of population health.

Corinne A. Riddell, Ph.D., of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and coauthors analyzed data from the U.S. National Vital Statistics System from 2005 to 2015. The infant mortality rate was calculated as the number of deaths divided by the number of births. Rates for the top four causes of death also were calculated.

How a few drops of blood led to a breakthrough in immunology

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 17:21:06 +0000

Scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) may have cracked the code to understanding the function of special cells called regulatory T Cells. Treg cells, as they are often known, control and regulate our immune system to prevent excessive reactions. The findings, published in Science Immunology, could have a major impact in our understanding and treatment of all autoimmune diseases and most chronic inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, Crohn’s disease as well as broader conditions such as asthma, allergies and cancer.

Cancer researchers overestimate reproducibility of preclinical studies

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:40:17 +0000

Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies can be successfully replicated, new research from McGill University suggests.

No detectable limit to how long people can live

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:04:07 +0000

Emma Morano passed away last April. At 117 years old, the Italian woman was the oldest known living human being.

Super- centenarians, such as Morano and Jeanne Calment of France, who famously lived to be 122 years old, continue to fascinate scientists and have led them to wonder just how long humans can live. A study published in Nature last October concluded that the upper limit of human age is peaking at around 115 years.

Erasure of negative memories one step closer to reality

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:16:14 +0000

Scientists have known for some time that a memory is stored in the brain through changes in the strength of particular synapses, the structures that pass signals between neurons. However, how the change in strength persisted remained a mystery. Solving this mystery has important implications for remedying neurological and psychological disorders.

Biofilms—the eradication has begun

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:16:36 +0000

Canadian scientists take a step forward in the fight against microbial armour‎.
Read more here.

$3 million for research to help farmers cut greenhouse gas emissions

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 18:45:43 +0000

Two McGill University research projects aimed at helping farmers mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will receive nearly $3 million in funding from the Government of Canada, federal officials announced.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Jean-Claude Poissant, and Francis Scarpaleggia, Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Louis, made the announcement today at McGill’s Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que.

Kidney graft success — does age and sex matter?

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:37:56 +0000

A more sustainable way to refine metals

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:56:20 +0000

A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without using toxic solvents and reagents. The system, which also consumes far less energy than conventional techniques, could greatly shrink the environmental impact of producing metals from raw materials or from post-consumer electronics.

We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back

Tue, 30 May 2017 20:18:46 +0000

Brain area involved in addiction activated earlier than previously thought in recreational cocaine users

Tue, 23 May 2017 18:19:58 +0000

Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to researchers at McGill University.

The findings, published in Scientific Reports, suggest that people who consider themselves recreational users could be further along the road to addiction than they might have realized.

Teaching practices could play an important role in preventing bullying

Fri, 19 May 2017 18:51:39 +0000

Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That’s one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by McGill University researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the Journal of Adolescence. But it’s only part of the story.

Turning skin cells into brain cells

Wed, 17 May 2017 17:42:06 +0000

Diabetes drug may help symptoms of autism-associated condition

Mon, 15 May 2017 15:43:15 +0000

Metformin, the most widely used drug to treat type 2 diabetes, could potentially be used to treat symptoms of Fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of intellectual disability and a cause of some forms of autism.

A new study led by researchers at McGill University, the University of Edinburgh and Université de Montréal has found that metformin improves social, behavioural and morphological defects in Fragile X mice.

McGill University set to become world leader in retail management education thanks to a $25-million gift from the Bensadoun Family Foundation

Thu, 11 May 2017 14:59:29 +0000

Retail icon and philanthropist Aldo Bensadoun has stepped forward with a visionary gift to his alma mater, McGill University, aimed at creating new knowledge and developing leaders for the rapidly changing retail industry. Thanks to a donation of $25 million from the Bensadoun Family Foundation, announced today, McGill will work on developing the Bensadoun School of Retail Management: an inter-disciplinary, state-of-the-art school dedicated to all facets of the retail industry.

Protecting life’s tangled ecological webs

Tue, 09 May 2017 13:31:04 +0000

Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat destruction. In a paper published this week in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers from McGill University and University of British Columbia have developed a new theory to understand how complex ecological networks will reorganize in the future.

Faculty of Engineering Dean Nicell elected vice chair of NCDEAS

Tue, 09 May 2017 15:12:23 +0000

The National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science | Conseil canadien des doyens d'ingénierie et des sciences appliquées (NCDEAS│CCDISA) met on April 29, 2017 for its biennial meeting in Ottawa. This national council, comprised of all forty-four engineering deans in Canada, is committed to the continuous improvement of engineering education and research that enhances the innovation and leadership skills of Canadian engineering graduates.

[UPDATED] Flooding update: Classes will resume on Tuesday, May 9

Mon, 08 May 2017 02:35:14 +0000

[UPDATE - Monday 3:30 pm]

Day and evening summer classes and exams will resume on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at both McGill’s Macdonald Campus and its downtown campus.

Some employees and some students may still be dealing with flooding issues, so we ask supervisors and instructors for their continued understanding.

The University will send updates as required.

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New theory on how Earth’s crust was created

Wed, 03 May 2017 22:40:34 +0000

More than 90% of Earth’s continental crust is made up of silica-rich minerals, such as feldspar and quartz. But where did this silica-enriched material come from? And could it provide a clue in the search for life on other planets?

Scientists scan horizon for future invasive species challenges

Thu, 04 May 2017 14:11:54 +0000

Shipping and mining in the Arctic. The spread of invasive microbial pathogens around the world. Changing agricultural practices. Use of genomic-modification tools. Those are among the 14 most significant issues that could affect the science and management of invasive species over the next two decades, according to an international team of ecologists, who published their findings in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

New hope in the fight against superbugs

Wed, 03 May 2017 19:16:34 +0000

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health threat. So much so that a 2014 study commissioned by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom predicted that, if the problem is left unchecked, in less than 35 years more people will die from antibiotic resistant superbugs than from cancer. It is critical that researchers develop new antibiotics informed by knowledge of how superbugs are resistant to this medication.

McGill Honorary Doctorates 2017

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:14:32 +0000

Each year McGill University is proud to confer honorary degrees to highly talented and engaged individuals who serve as an inspiration for our community of students, professors, researchers and staff.

Bright future for self-charging batteries

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:27:50 +0000

Who hasn’t lived through the frustrating experience of being without a phone after forgetting to recharge it? This could one day be a thing of the past thanks to technology being developed by Hydro-Québec and McGill University.

Lithium-ion batteries have allowed the rapid proliferation of all kinds of mobile devices such as phones, tablets and computers. These tools however require frequent re-charging because of the limited energy density of their batteries.

McGill and Schulich School of Music award honorary doctorate to Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:46:11 +0000

McGill University is proud to present the degree of doctor honoris causa to a great name on the Quebec cultural scene, Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

85th Acfas Annual Congress: May 8 to 12, 2017 at McGill University

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:42:32 +0000

For the third time in its history, the Acfas Annual Congress, the largest multidisciplinary research event in the Francophonie, will be hosted by McGill University.

When children see war as better than peace

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:02:16 +0000

For most people, the end of a war offers relief, hope, and an end to violence. This may not be the case for children born of wartime rape, however, who often endure continued brutality in the post-war period.

That finding emerges from a new study of children born to mothers who were abducted, held captive, and sexually violated by members of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group led by Joseph Kony during the civil war in northern Uganda from 1986 to 2007.

Students receive $50K from Ottawa for innovative urban green housing design

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:38:49 +0000

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Catherine McKenna announced a $50,000 grant from Natural Resources Canada’s Program for Energy Research and Development (PERD) to help TeamMTL participate in the international Solar Decathlon, to be held next year in Dezhou, China.

Solving medical “cold cases” through genetics

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:17:44 +0000

Researchers have identified the genetic mutation responsible for one patient's serious health problems, finally solving a medical mystery that has endured for over 30 years. Thanks to this discovery, the researcher developed a therapy that could also help a lot of people who have problems related to the immune system, whether they are genetic or due to a transplant or an illness.

Melting snow contains a toxic cocktail of pollutants

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 15:30:16 +0000

With spring finally here and warmer temperatures just around the corner, snow will slowly melt away, releasing us from the clutches of winter. However, that’s not the only thing that the melting snow will release. Researchers from McGill University and École de technologie supérieure in Montreal have found that urban snow accumulates a toxic cocktail from car emissions - pollutants that are in turn unleashed into the environment as the weather warms up.

Nearly $3.8 Million for Macdonald Campus’ Farm Management and Technology program

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:55:10 +0000

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Laurent Lessard, and Geoffrey Kelley, MNA for Jacques-Cartier and Minister responsible for Native Affairs, announced today on behalf of the Government of Quebec $3,772,000 in funding over three years for the Farm Management and Technology Program (FMT), a three-year academic and practical college program offered on the Macdonald campus and taught by the staff of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

$5 Million for agri-food innovation

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:23:31 +0000

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Laurent Lessard, and Geoffrey Kelley, MNA for Jacques-Cartier and Minister responsible for Native Affairs, announced on behalf of the Government of Quebec $5 million for the Consortium de recherche précompétitive en transformation alimentaire at McGill University’s Macdonald campus today. The funds will be awarded in five annual instalments of $1 million

Improving memory with magnets

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:30:41 +0000

The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives — without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New research is shedding light on how sound memory works in the brain, and is even demonstrating a means to improve it.

Message from the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:00:03 +0000

Dear members of the McGill community,

Professor Andrew Potter resigned from his position as Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC). He made his letter of resignation public on social media.

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Professor Potter and his courage in making this very difficult and painful decision.

Encouraging results for patients with aggressive brain cancer

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:33:26 +0000

Being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor is devastating news for patients and their loved ones. Whereas some types of tumor respond well to treatment, others such as glioblastomas – the most common and aggressive brain tumors – are known to recur and progress within short times from the diagnosis. Patients diagnosed with this type of cancer, and who undergo current standard treatment, have a median survival of 16 months.

Long-term limitations imposed on patients with pulmonary embolism

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:10:22 +0000

A multi-centre clinical study, led by Dr. Susan Kahn at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH), determined that nearly half of the patients who suffer a pulmonary embolism (PE) – a blood clot in the lung – experience long term limitations to their capacity for physical activity and that this had a negative impact on their quality of life. This research, published in Chest, is the first to demonstrate that PE may have a lasting effect on patients.

March 16: Back to business as usual

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:45:21 +0000

UPDATE: Thursday, 6:00 am

Back to business as usual today, after our very rare snow day. Students should consult with professors about rescheduled tests, exams, assignments and so on. Thanks to all staff who made it in yesterday. Now, let’s look forward to Spring!

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UPDATE: Wednesday, 10:45 am

Child marriage remains widespread in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:25:45 +0000

A lawyer and a philosopher on “us and them” – the migrant question

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:31:10 +0000

Global migration has stirred questions of human rights, democracy, of living together, of ‘us and them.’ The philosopher Charles Taylor and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, and McGill law professor, François Crépeau, explore these and other questions at a time of rising populism and what may be called the fear of others.
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Why guillemot chicks leap from the nest before they can fly

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:03:53 +0000

Before they have the wing span to actually permit them to fly, young guillemots (also known as murres) leap hundreds of metres off towering cliffs and flutter down towards the sea, guided by their fathers. Scientists have long wondered why these tiny chicks make this remarkable leap, hoping to avoid the rocks below them, in what seems an unlikely survival strategy for a species.

Molecule shown to repair damaged axons

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:26:31 +0000

A foray into plant biology led one researcher to discover that a natural molecule can repair axons, the thread-like projections that carry electrical signals between cells. Axonal damage is the major culprit underlying disability in conditions such as spinal cord injury and stroke.

McGill ranked world’s 3rd best university for study of Anatomy & Physiology

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:54:58 +0000

McGill University is the world’s third-best university for the study of Anatomy & Physiology, behind only the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, according to the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The seventh edition of QS Quacquarelli Symonds’s analysis of subject-specific university performance, released today, lists the world’s best universities for the study of 46 different subjects. Anatomy & Physiology is one of four new subject categories introduced in this year’s listing.

Ottawa to provide $70 M to McGill for research-facility upgrades, energy-saving renovations

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:57:14 +0000

The Government of Canada announced today in Montreal that McGill University and two of its affiliated hospitals will receive $70.7 million through the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund, for upgrades to research facilities and energy-saving renovations. The Quebec government will provide an additional $5.1 million toward the cost of the work.

Access to cutting-edge research equipment, laboratories and tools

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:18:08 +0000

At the University of New Brunswick this morning, The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced $51,968,051 for 223 projects at 39 universities across the country, including over $4.5 million across 14 projects at McGill, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund. The Fund was established to help universities like McGill innovate, as well as to attract and retain top research talent, by giving them access to cutting-edge research equipment, laboratories and tools.

Woodstoves are good for the soul, bad for the heart

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:35:54 +0000

The risk of acute myocardial infarction for the elderly living in and around small cities is increased by air pollution caused by biomass burning from woodstoves.

It is well documented that air pollution in big cities causes heart and lung problems. But what are its consequences on people in smaller urban centres?

Addressing sexual violence

Sat, 25 Feb 2017 14:18:16 +0000

Media reports of events involving an executive of one of McGill's student associations have raised questions from some members of the community about whether the University’s Policy against Sexual Violence, approved by Senate and Board last fall, applies to members of student societies. This Policy was drafted with the deliberate intention of applying universally across the University.

Mouse Model Could Shed New Light on Immune System Response to Zika Virus

Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:56:02 +0000

A new mouse model with a working immune system could be used in laboratory research to improve understanding of Zika virus infection and aid development of new treatments, according to a study published in PLOS Pathogens.

A prescription with legs

Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:40:14 +0000

Nine innovative projects backed by NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:54:51 +0000

During an announcement at the University of Ottawa today, 94 research projects in universities across the country were awarded funding from the NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants program. Nine McGill projects are together receiving more than $4.1 million from the funding envelope to partner with a supporting organization on strategic research, including highly innovative research in green energy storage.

Targeting the biological clock could slow the progression of cancer

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:02:51 +0000

Does the biological clock in cancer cells influence tumour growth? Yes, according to a study conducted by Nicolas Cermakian, a professor in McGill University’s Department of Psychiatry.

Published in the journal BMC Biology, these results show for the first time that directly targeting the biological clock in a cancerous tumour has an impact on its development.

Montreal named world’s best student city

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:54:06 +0000

Montreal has ended Paris’s five-year stint as the world’s best student destination, according to global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The fifth edition of the QS Best Student Cities ranking, featuring a ‘Student View’ indicator for the first time, provides further evidence of Canada’s increasing popularity and desirability as a student destination, particularly following recent political events in the United States and United Kingdom.

Big Plans for Big Classes

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:27:59 +0000

McGill University was one of 12 recipients of a mini-grant awarded today by the American Association of Universities (AAU) to support reform in undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education.

McGill was the only Canadian institution to receive an award and, in addition to being one of only two Canadian members of the AAU Network, will now join the AAU’s STEM Education Network along with such peer American universities as Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, and Cornell University.

A call for respect

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:54:12 +0000

Dear members of the McGill community,

The community received a message last week from Provost Christopher Manfredi regarding a disturbing communication on social media that was sent by one of our students. I was shocked to read that Twitter post and want to make it clear that the University condemns all expressions of hatred and attempts to incite violence, including any that have been made in reaction to the post.

McGill steadfast in support for respectful discourse

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:59:04 +0000

McGill recently became aware of a disturbing communication on social media by a student. The University strongly condemns expressions of hatred or incitement to violence against any individual or group. Such statements do not represent the views or the values of the University and we believe they violate a number of our policies, including the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures.

Sex, drugs, and rock & roll chemistry in the brain

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 20:49:25 +0000

The same brain-chemical system that mediates feelings of pleasure from sex, recreational drugs, and food is also critical to experiencing musical pleasure, according to a study by McGill University researchers published today in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

Response to U.S. Executive Order restricting travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven countries

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:02:50 +0000

McGill is responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s Executive Order restricting travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Christopher Manfredi said Tuesday, Feb. 7.

More: https://www.mcgill.ca/provost/mcgill-university-response-us-executive-order

Tomislav Friščić awarded NSERC’s Steacie Memorial Fellowship

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:51:22 +0000

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada has awarded an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship to Prof. Tomislav Friščić, to support his work in an innovative branch of chemistry that aims to develop environmentally friendly alternatives to solvent-based chemical processes.

NSERC awards up to six of these two-year, $250,000 fellowships annually to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising scientists and engineers.

The making of Antarctica

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:20:06 +0000

One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.

There are 2 competing theories:

The first explanation is based on global climate change: Scientists have shown that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels declined steadily since the beginning of the Cenozoic Era, 66 million years ago. Once CO2 dropped below a critical threshold, cooler global temperatures allowed the ice sheets of Antarctica to form.

Why the bar needs to be raised for human clinical trials

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:02:45 +0000

Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are lax, and should be strengthened in several ways, McGill University researchers argue in a paper published today in Nature.

Protective wear inspired by fish scales

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:40:07 +0000

They started with striped bass. Over a two-year period the researchers went through about 50 bass, puncturing or fracturing hundreds of fish scales under the microscope, to try to understand their properties and mechanics better. “The people at the fish market must have wondered what we were up to,” says François Barthelat smiling ruefully.” He teaches in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at McGill, and is one of a growing number of scientists who look to nature for inspiration as they search for solutions to engineering problems they see around them today.

We need to talk about school start times

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:52:09 +0000

Bell Let’s Talk support for the Neuro will enhance mental health access for multicultural communities

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:26:32 +0000

Bell Let’s Talk today announced a donation of $250,000 to McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – known as The Neuro – to fund the development of online mental health resources focused on the needs of multicultural communities.

A boost for artificial-intelligence research in Montreal

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:45:10 +0000

To help spur artificial-intelligence research in Montreal, Microsoft will provide a gift of $1 million to McGill University.

A surprise advance in the treatment of adult cancers

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:52:55 +0000

A team of researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has found an epigenetic modification that might be the cause of 15% of adult cancers of the throat linked to alcohol and tobacco use. This is a first in the field of epigenetics and the researchers are hopeful that the discovery can blaze a path in the development of new, targeted, more effective treatments that could arise over the next few years.

Breakthrough in MS treatment

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:47:38 +0000

In separate clinical trials, a drug called ocrelizumab has been shown to reduce new attacks in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), and new symptom progression in primary progressive MS.

Three studies conducted by an international team of researchers, which included Amit Bar-Or and Douglas Arnold from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University, have discovered that ocrelizumab can significantly reduce new attacks in patients with relapsing MS, as well as slow the progression of symptoms caused by primary progressive MS.

Homing in on source of mysterious cosmic radio bursts

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:25:53 +0000

Astronomers have pinpointed for the first time the home galaxy of a Fast Radio Burst, moving scientists a step closer to detecting what causes these powerful but fleeting pulses of radio waves. FRBs, which last just a few thousandths of a second, have puzzled astrophysicists since their discovery a decade ago.

Lack of joy from music linked to brain disconnection

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:38:40 +0000

Have you ever met someone who just wasn’t into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.

Researchers at the University of Barcelona and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University have discovered that people with this condition showed reduced functional connectivity between cortical regions responsible for processing sound and subcortical regions related to reward.

McGill researchers contribute to six of 10 discoveries of year picked by Quebec Science

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 14:48:47 +0000

Québec Science magazine has selected its 10 Discoveries of the Year for 2016, and McGill researchers figure in six of them. The annual list highlights top scientific research from across Quebec.

Two of the discoveries were led by researchers at McGill:

McGill University announces a transformative $20 million donation to the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:51:24 +0000

Bacteria control levels of dangerous pollutant in seabirds

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:06:46 +0000

Despite ongoing global pollution, researchers have discovered that levels of mercury in seabirds off the coast of B.C. have remained relatively stable over the past 50 years. Surprisingly, mercury in seabirds is now actually slightly lower. This might appear to be good news, but unfortunately it is due to a decline in fish stocks near the surface which has forced seabirds to change their diet, and in the process to feed in areas low in bacteria (known as sulfate-reducing bacteria) which act to control the levels of mercury in their bodies.

Fast track control accelerates switching of quantum bits

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:32:26 +0000

From laptops to cellphones, today’s technology advances through the ever-increasing speed at which electric charges are directed through circuits. Similarly, speeding up control over quantum states in atomic and nanoscale systems could lead to leaps for the emerging field of quantum technology.

Taking stock of the world’s lakes

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:04:57 +0000

The total shoreline of the world’s lakes is more than four times longer than the global ocean coastline. And if all the water in those lakes were spread over the Earth’s landmass, it would form a layer some four feet (1.3 metres) deep.

Lottery tickets aren’t child’s play

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:30:38 +0000

Lottery tickets may be fun-filled and exciting presents, but they are not suitable gifts for minors. Studies suggest that gambling is a popular yet risky activity among youth. Additionally, researchers have reported a correlation between age of gambling onset and problem gambling later in life. Lottery play is sometimes an initial introduction to gambling activities for minors.

McGill researchers lead development of tool to assess environmental risks of chemicals

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:39:57 +0000

Assessing the risks that toxic chemicals pose to natural ecosystems is a huge challenge, given the thousands of chemicals that require testing. But the task is expected soon to become less daunting, thanks to a new tool being developed by McGill University researchers.

McGill announces Dr. Thomas Robinson as the 2016 winner of the Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:12:40 +0000

McGill University, in association with Lawrence and Frances Bloomberg and Manulife, is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Robinson, a Stanford University professor of Pediatric Medicine and pioneer in using novel motivational techniques to combat childhood obesity, is the winner of the 2016 Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health.

Fast evolution affects everyone, everywhere

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:44:35 +0000

Rapid evolution of other species happens all around us all the time – and many of the most extreme examples are associated with human influences.

4-week prehabilitation prepares cancer patients for surgery

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:01:09 +0000

Just four weeks of prehabilitation (pre-surgery preparation) may be enough to help some cancer patients get in shape for surgery. That’s according to a recent study of close to 120 colorectal cancer patients in Montreal. This potentially means that, barring unforeseen circumstances that stem from the surgery itself, their recovery is likely to be speedier too, according to earlier research from the same McGill-led team.

Gene discovered to cause rare, severe neurological disease

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:13:15 +0000

Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development through control of protein movement within neuronal cells.

Major ALS Research Funding Announced

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:25:26 +0000

By Shawn Hayward, Montreal Neurological Institute

Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University are playing key roles in uncovering the mechanisms underlying ALS and will share in $3.9 million, part of $4.5 million in research funding announced on Nov. 23 by the ALS Society of Canada in partnership with Brain Canada.

Olfactory perception influenced by background and semantic information

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:23:21 +0000

When two people smell the same thing, they can have remarkably different reactions, depending on their cultural background. Researchers at the Neuro have found that even when two cultures share the same language and many traditions, their reactions to the same smells can be different.

Newly created Jean Béliveau Award recognizes achievements and community leadership of McGill athletes

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:08:41 +0000

A new athletic financial award -- known as the Jean Béliveau Award -- has been established at McGill University to recognize outstanding student-athletes and honour the memory of the legendary Montreal Canadiens captain and inspirational community leader.

Prof. Claudia Mitchell receives SSHRC’s top research honour

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:04:22 +0000

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) today awarded its 2016 Gold Medal to Prof. Claudia Mitchell of McGill’s Department of Integrated Studies in Education, in recognition of her work to strengthen HIV/AIDS education and prevention.

Two for the Rhodes

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:18:27 +0000

Source: McGill Reporter staff

(UPDATED: 6:30 PM NOV. 22)

Men have a lot to learn about their own fertility

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:09:01 +0000

The first large-scale study of its kind has revealed that Canadian men generally lack knowledge about the risk factors contributing to male infertility. Research led by Dr. Phyllis Zelkowitz, head of psychosocial research at the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital, found that men could only identify about 50% of the potential risks and medical conditions that are detrimental to their sperm count and, thus, their prospects to father children.

The Work of the Dead wins Cundill Prize in Historical Literature

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:03:12 +0000

The winner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature at McGill was announced tonight at a gala awards dinner held in Toronto. Now in its ninth year, the Cundill Prize is one of the world’s most lucrative international awards for a nonfiction book. The Work of the Dead/ The Invention of Science/ The Invention of Nature took home the top prize of US$75,000.

International Human Epigenome Consortium studies mark major step forward for epigenetics research

Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:00:28 +0000

One of the great mysteries in biology is how the many different cell types that make up our bodies are derived from a single cell and from one DNA sequence, or genome. We have learned a lot from studying the human genome, but have only partially unveiled the processes underlying cell determination. The identity of each cell type is largely defined by an instructive layer of molecular annotations on top of the genome – the epigenome – which acts as a blueprint unique to each cell type and developmental stage.

Montreal universities unite to host the 2017 Conference of the Americas on International Education

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:31:02 +0000

Montreal, November 15, 2016 – The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Concordia University, McGill University, Université de Montréal and ÉTS (École de technologie supérieure) will host the Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAIE) in Montreal from October 11 to 13, 2017.

Keeping our balance - a tale of two systems

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:04:22 +0000

The transition from being sea creatures to living on land, even if it happened over 300 million years ago, seems to have left its traces on the way we keep our balance today.

“It’s a discovery that is likely to be controversial,” says Kathy Cullen, the senior researcher on a paper on the subject that was published recently in Nature Communications. She has been working on this problem for over a decade with her colleague Maurice Chacron who also teaches in McGill’s Department of Physiology.

Measuring protection of the world’s rivers

Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:16:17 +0000

To what extent are the world’s rivers protected?

In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, set a 17% target for the protection of ‘inland waters,’ including rivers. But there was a problem: there was no good way to measure progress toward that target.

Towards better hip replacements

Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:52:16 +0000

By Katherine Gombay
Some potentially good news for aging Baby Boomers: researchers believe that they have developed a hip replacement that will last longer and create fewer problems for the people who receive them than those currently in use. The secret? An implant that “tricks” the host bone into remaining alive by mimicking the varying porosity of real bones.

Interestingly, the key factor that distinguishes the new implant is that is LESS rather than more solid than those in current use, while still being just as strong.

Murray Humphries named McGill Northern Research Chair

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:39:08 +0000

Institut nordique du Québec (INQ)’s founding partners have unveiled the first foundational elements of the Institute’s scientific program by simultaneously announcing three northern research chairs and introducing its newly recruited director of science and innovation, Louis Fortier.

Representatives from INQ’s three founding universities made a joint announcement of funding for three research chairs supported by INQ, allocated to INRS, McGill University, and Université Laval—a historic first for northern research.

Researchers identify gene associated with intracranial aneurysm in French-Canadian population

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:42:17 +0000

Scientists have identified a gene in the French-Canadian population that predisposes them to the development of intracranial aneurysm (IA), a potentially life threatening neurological condition that is responsible for approximately 500,000 deaths worldwide per year, half of which occur in people less than 50 years of age.

Using genetic analysis, the team of researchers found rare variations of one gene, RNF213, that appeared more frequently in IA patients than in the control group. Both patients and the control group came from French-Canadian families.

AMUSE/Casuals plan to strike Saturday

Sat, 29 Oct 2016 11:58:47 +0000

McGill has received an official notice from the Association of McGill University Support Employees (AMUSE/Casuals)/Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) indicating that the union has called a five-day strike effective Saturday, Oct. 29, at 7 a.m. until Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 11:59 p.m.

It’s what's underneath that counts

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:36:05 +0000

To the naked eye, ancient rocks may look completely inhospitable, but in reality, they can sustain an entire ecosystem of microbial communities in their fracture waters isolated from sunlight for millions, if not billions, of years. New scientific findings discovered the essential energy source to sustain the life kilometres below Earth’s surface with implications for life not only on our planet but also on Mars.

McGill tops Maclean’s ranking for 12th straight year

Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:34:02 +0000

McGill once again ranked first in the “medical-doctoral” category in scholarships and bursaries for students, as well as in social sciences and humanities grants relative to faculty size. Maclean’s published the results online Wednesday evening.

“Our leading position in scholarships and bursaries in this ranking underscores our commitment to ensuring accessibility to education for all talented students, regardless of their financial means,” said Principal Suzanne Fortier.

Why some dental implants work and others don’t

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:49:59 +0000

Each year, about 500,000 North Americans get dental implants. If you are one of them, and are preparing to have an implant, it might be a good idea to start taking beta blockers, medication that controls high blood pressure, for a while. And to stop taking heartburn pills.

A body of research from McGill led-teams indicates that in order to raise the odds that dental implants will attach properly, there are clear benefits to taking certain common medications and avoiding others.

Bone cell growth, healing and death

A key to unlocking the mystery of triple negative breast cancer

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:04:44 +0000

A study conducted at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) suggests screening breast cancer patients for the prolactin receptor could improve the prognosis for patients and may help them avoid unnecessary and invasive treatments. Using a database of 580 women with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), the researchers found that survival was prolonged in patients who expressed the prolactin receptor and that prolactin hormone was able to reduce the aggressive behavior of cancerous cells. It does so by decreasing their ability to divide and form new tumors.

Essential tremor sufferers needed for groundbreaking study

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:02:01 +0000

You probably know someone who has it. It is the most common movement disorder, yet most people don’t even know its name.

Essential tremor affects nearly one per cent of the world’s population, increasing to four per cent of those over 40. The involuntary shaking of hands is the most common symptom, but symptoms can also include shaking of the head and legs.

Is there such a thing as “rape culture” on campuses in Canada?

Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:55:23 +0000

Who are the key players and actors on the issue of sexual violence on university campuses across Canada and internationally?

Shaheen Shariff, Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education, Director of Define the Line Projects at McGill University has been awarded a $2.5 million Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant to address sexual violence on university campuses across Canada and internationally.

Easing the burden of terminal illness

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:49:40 +0000

The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) is pleased to announce the launch of a new clinical program designed to ease the suffering of seriously ill patients through specialized consultation and comprehensive care.

Public Forum on Electoral Reform (Oct. 20)

Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:02:40 +0000

The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University and the Research Chair in Electoral Studies at the Université de Montréal will be hosting a public forum on the Canadian electoral reform on October 20.

When: October 20, 2016 from 19h30 to 21h30
Where: McGill New Residence Hall, 3625 Av du Parc, Montréal

How migratory cells find their way through body tissue

Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:39:59 +0000

A new study published in Nature Communications could help biologists understand how various types of migratory cells, such as immune cells, find their way through tissues in the human body.

11 new invasive species detected in Canadian ports

Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:33:48 +0000

A mussel never reported in Canada was identified in the port of Montreal, a soft shell clam never seen in the Arctic was discovered in the Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, and a barnacle that was not thought to occur north of San Francisco was detected in Nanaimo, British Columbia. These are invasive species and researchers from McGill University detected 24 of these non-indigenous species across 16 major ports in Canada, including 11 that were identified in previously unreported locations. Their findings were published Biodiversity Research.

Science and the media

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:24:45 +0000

There is widespread worry today about the health effects of just about everything around us -- from the food we eat and water we drink, to the plastics we use and medications we take. A journalist’s task of sorting through all the latest studies and reporting the findings in a responsible fashion is more critical than ever.

Pair of proteins found to drive neuroinflammation 

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:22:54 +0000

McGill researchers have identified two proteins that work together to drive neuroinflammation in acute conditions such as microbial or autoimmune encephalitis, and in chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis.

Joanne Liu, Bertrand Cesvet to receive honorary degrees from McGill

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 20:27:04 +0000

Two inspirational McGill alumni -- Bertrand Cesvet, of the award-winning creative agency Sid Lee, and Joanne Liu, of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders -- will receive honorary doctorate degrees at the university’s fall convocation ceremonies.

Short list announced for 2016 Cundill Prize in historical literature

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:26:08 +0000

Today the jury for the world’s most lucrative award for historical non-fiction writing announced this year's short list. Antonia Maioni, Dean of McGill University’s Faculty of Arts and Chair of the Cundill Prize, said, “With this year's finalists for the Cundill Prize in History, the jury has identified three books that combine tremendous erudition, insight and élan.

Our future doesn’t have to be dismal

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:04:04 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

The truth about lying? Children’s perceptions get more nuanced with age

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:41:32 +0000

Parents don’t like it when children lie. But what do the kids themselves think about it? New research suggests truth telling isn’t black and white.

As children get older, their moral evaluations of both lies and truths is increasingly influenced by whether they think this behaviour will cause harm to either others or themselves.

KalGene gears up to manufacture and test promising Alzheimer’s treatment with NRC, McGill and CIMTEC

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:20:08 +0000

KalGene Pharmaceuticals and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) are proud to announce the signature of an agreement worth over $1M to develop, scale up, and transfer the technology needed to manufacture a promising novel Alzheimer’s treatment in Canada that the parties have been co- developing since 2015.

The treatment, a biologic molecule made up of a peptide that fights Alzheimer’s and an antibody-based carrier molecule designed to shuttle the peptide into the brain, is a custom- engineered therapeutic developed at NRC.

Socioeconomics play key role in Arctic Search and Rescue

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:24:03 +0000

Traveling and harvesting on the land and sea is of vital importance to Indigenous communities in the Canadian Arctic and subarctic, with links to food security, cultural identity, and wellbeing. A new study by the Climate Change Adaptation Research Group at McGill University however, finds that economic transitions, social shifts, and climate change are dramatically affecting the safety of Inuit during these activities.

Brain’s biological clock stimulates thirst before sleep

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:02:45 +0000

The brain’s biological clock stimulates thirst in the hours before sleep, according to a study published in the journal Nature by McGill University researchers.

Long List Announced For 2016 Cundill Prize In Historical Literature

Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:13:28 +0000

McGill launches Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Education

Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:44:10 +0000

McGill University launches its Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education, mandated by Provost and Vice Principal Academic, Christopher Manfredi, with a public event to be held on September 22 at the new site of the Hochelaga Rock. The Task Force will propose initiatives aimed at integrating indigenous perspectives into the academic curriculum and research, as well as the retention and recruitment of Indigenous students and faculty members.

Canada Foundation for Innovation provides $1.1M for CBRAIN computing platform at McGill

Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:08:52 +0000

McGill University will receive more than $1.1 million for CBRAIN, one of the world’s most advanced computing platforms for brain research, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.

Marc Miller, Member of Parliament for Ville-Marie — Le Sud-ouest — Île-des-sœurs, made the announcement at McGill on behalf of the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, the Minister of Science.

Could quality of sleep have to do with sex differences?

Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:25:23 +0000

You may have noticed that women are more prone to sleep disturbances than men. They are, for instance, up to twice as likely to suffer from insomnia than men. Could there be a link between the body clock that regulates sleep and being a female or a male? Yes, according to an original study conducted by Dr. Diane B. Boivin of McGill University’s Department of Psychiatry and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.

Campus-wide consultation launched on sexual-violence policy

Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:10:12 +0000

Sexual violence on campus is a matter of preeminent importance, meriting a clear response and commitment to action. The adoption of a university policy and protocol is a significant step in ensuring a safe campus environment for all members of the McGill community.

McGill University welcomes Martine Alfonso as Interim President and Executive Director of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:39:23 +0000

In the context of the MUHC’s recent announcement regarding Ms. Alfonso’s appointment and the MUHC’s strategic direction, McGill University is very supportive of any proposal that has as its primary goals to improve patient care and strengthen the academic mission in its affiliated health network.

Critical information missing in fight to save wildlife

Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:52:33 +0000

With global temperatures continuing to rise at an alarming rate, predictions for the impact of climate change on plants and wildlife must improve to give scientists a clearer picture of which species are most at risk of extinction.

Mammals, spiny plants and the savanna story

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:25:18 +0000

McGill Newsroom

The evolution and distribution of spiny plants holds clue to spread of African savanna

Medication against schizophrenia inhibits pancreatic cancer

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:22:40 +0000

A receptor for the dopamine neurotransmitter promotes growth and spread of pancreatic cancer -- and schizophrenia drugs, which block the function of this receptor, slowed tumor growth and metastatic spread in mice, according to researchers at McGill University and the German Cancer Research Center.

Aerosol emissions in East Asia driven by consumption in developed countries

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:44:07 +0000

Much of the influence on climate from air pollution in East Asia is driven by consumption in the developed countries of Western Europe and North America, according to research co-led by McGill University atmospheric scientist Yi Huang.

In a paper published online this week in Nature Geoscience, Huang and colleagues from China, the U.S. and U.K. report that international trade shifts the climate impacts of aerosols -- solid or liquid particles suspended in air -- from net consuming countries to net producing countries.

McGill maintains its position as top Canadian university in QS rankings

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:50:38 +0000

McGill remains Canada’s top university according to the QS World University Rankings 2016/17, which were released yesterday.

McGill University is ranked 30th globally, among the almost 1,000 universities surveyed for the annual report. McGill has been ranked as the top Canadian university for eleven of the thirteen years that the QS/THE rankings have been published, apart from in 2013 and 2014.

McGill wins $84 million grant for neuroscience

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:59:44 +0000

McGill University will launch an ambitious effort to advance understanding of the human brain and ease the burden of neurological and mental-health disorders, thanks to an $84 million, seven-year grant announced today under the federal government's Canada First Excellence Research Fund (CFREF).

The program, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives, will build on McGill's leading position in neuroscience to make the university a global hub for brain research – one of the major frontiers for 21st century medicine.

McGill University moving forward with Faculty of Medicine satellite medical campus in Outaouais

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 11:15:39 +0000

The funding, announced by Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, who was joined by Minister of Health and Social Services Gaétan Barrette, Minister of Higher Education Hélène David and Minister of Justice and Minister responsible for the Outaouais region Stéphanie Vallée, is earmarked to develop the operational plan for the McGill satellite medical campus and to break ground on construction of the required infrastructure.

Seeing Evolution in Fast Motion

Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:01:44 +0000

A new outdoor laboratory will serve as a facility for studying the effects on our lakes of climate change and chemicals commonly used in Quebec. It features a series of 96 experimental ponds containing 1,000 litres of water from Lac Hertel on McGill University’s Gault Nature Reserve in Mont St. Hilaire. This network of ponds, named LEAP (Large Experimental Array of Ponds), was opened on September 2, 2016.

Ferring Canada Donates $2 Million to McGill University

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 13:49:54 +0000

TORONTO – September 1, 2016 – Ferring Canada, a subsidiary of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, is proud to announce a $2 million donation to McGill University in Montreal, Canada that will be used to create fellowships in health and health leadership, and to finance environmental research in the Canadian Arctic.

Gaming for gut research

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:16:40 +0000

You may not think of yourself in this way – but in some ways your body is just a host for hundreds of trillions of microbes (including bacteria) that colonize us in fairly unique combinations in our guts, inside our various orifices and on the surface of our skin. These tiny creatures are essential to our survival – we couldn’t digest anything without them, for instance.

McGill University, in partnership with CBI-Concordia Physio Sport NDG, becomes FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence site

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:23:30 +0000

During a ceremony held August 29, 2016 at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy (SPOT), in partnership with CBI-Concordia Physio Sport NDG, was officially recognized as a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence. Joining the University of British Columbia as one of only two such sites accredited by FIFA in Canada, the primary focus of the Centre will be to educate the soccer community about different aspects of athletic performance from training principles, to nutrition and sport specific skills.

Launch of Roddick Roast, McGill’s Unique Coffee Blend

Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:57:33 +0000

On Tuesday, August 30th, at the McGill a la Carte event, Student Housing and Hospitality Services will launch McGill’s unique Fairtrade coffee blend. This new coffee will be available across both campuses in all non-branded SHHS food service locations as of August 29th, 2016. The price of the coffee will range from $1.79 to $2.19.

Researchers find new role for cannabinoids in vision

Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:38:22 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Chemicals found to improve low-light vision of tadpoles by sensitizing retinal cells

A multidisciplinary team including researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute has improved our understanding of how cannabinoids, the active agent in marijuana, affect vision in vertebrates.

Simulated patient study sheds new light on antibiotic use in India

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:43:10 +0000

McGill Newsroom

As a result of the overuse or misuse of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistant superbugs represent an extraordinary threat to global health. This threat is particularly great in India, the world’s largest consumer of antibiotics and the country facing the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world.

Students at McGill receive Canada’s largest STEM scholarship

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:31:39 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Universities announce their 2016 Schulich Leader Scholarship winners

Ontario high school student Abtin Ameri and Mana Moshkforoush of British Columbia have been named McGill University’s recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships.

McGill duo named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:54:51 +0000

By James Martin

McGill professors Corinne Maurice and Kieran O’Donnell have been appointed to the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program, a new initiative that helps outstanding early-career researchers develop the leadership and communication skills, and network connections, they’ll need to solve some of our most pressing problems

Novel therapy holds promise of remission in relapsed patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:07:14 +0000

Gaming camera could aid MS treatment

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:40:05 +0000

McGill Newsroom

3D depth-sensing camera shown to measure walking difficulties

A commonly used device found in living rooms around the world could be a cheap and effective means of evaluating the walking difficulties of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.

The Microsoft Kinect is a 3D depth-sensing camera used in interactive video activities such as tennis and dancing. It can be hooked up to an Xbox gaming console or a Windows computer.

Legions of nanorobots target cancerous tumours with precision

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:10:06 +0000

Don’t scan so close to me

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:35:34 +0000

What does the 1960s Beatles hit “Girl” have in common with Astor Piazzolla’s evocative tango composition “Libertango”?

Probably not much, to the casual listener. But in the mind of one famously eclectic singer-songwriter, the two songs are highly similar. That’s one of the surprising findings of an unusual neuroscience study based on brain scans of the musician Sting.

Hot ‘new’ material found to exist in nature

Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:10:57 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Rare minerals from Siberia found to have same structure as some man-made metal-organic frameworks

One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These man-made materials were introduced in the 1990s, and researchers around the world are working on ways to use them as molecular sponges for applications such as hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.

DJI and McGill Go Live with Fish + Forest Project

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:46:03 +0000

DJI is proud to present, together with Canada's McGill University and Brazil's Federal University of Pará - Altamira Campus, the Fish + Forest Project. Tune in to watch a special livestream from the Amazonian Xingu River in northern Brazil, a home to up to 600 unique species of fish, many found nowhere else, narrated by experts in the river's flora and fauna.You will also have the opportunity to ask questions live on Twitter.

Dot-drawing with drones

Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:17:38 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Flying robots could someday help artists create outdoor murals

You may have heard of plans to use drones for delivering packages, monitoring wildlife, or tracking storms. But painting murals?

That’s the idea behind a project in Paul Kry’s laboratory at McGill University’s School of Computer Science. Prof. Kry and a few of his students have teamed up to program tiny drones to create dot drawings – an artistic technique known as stippling.

En route for Rio!

Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:35:27 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Three athletes are among a 23-member entourage of McGill University students and graduates headed to Rio de Janeiro to serve in an official capacity at the Summer Olympic Games, Aug. 5-21.

Search and rescue in the Arctic

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:55:17 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Minimum daily temperature -3 C increases need of search and rescues in Nunavut, affecting culturally valued hunting activities of Inuit

Search and rescue operations in Nunavut have more than doubled over the past decade. In the communities of the vast northern Canadian territory, it’s commonly felt that climate change is one factor making hunting riskier in the spring and fall.

Depression screening in children and adolescents

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:23:23 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Researchers find tools inaccurate and advise against routine screening in this age group

Adverse effects and incretin-based drugs for diabetes

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:19:07 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Extensive population-based studies on a popular group of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes revealed no association with acute pancreatitis, but increased risk of bile duct and gallbladder disease

McGill in global top 50 of Nature Index Rising Stars

Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:51:56 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Ranks first in Canada for increase in high-quality research publications from 2012 to 2015

McGill University ranks first in Canada and 37th globally in the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars supplement, which identifies institutions showing the most significant growth in high-quality scientific research publications over the past four years.

Maintaining a healthy heart through bile acids

Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:10:57 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Canadian discovery may soon lead to the prevention of cardiac fibrosis

Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta and McGill University has opened the door towards the future prevention of cardiac fibrosis—a condition leading to heart failure for which there is currently no treatment.

Preventable deaths of children with HIV

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:28:45 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Reducing opportunistic infections such as TB in children with HIV could save both lives and money

What hibernating toads tell us about climate

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 06:15:31 +0000

McGill Newsroom

24-year study of spring emergence of Fowler’s Toads creates model for predicting climate-change effects

The ability to predict when toads come out of hibernation in southern Canada could provide valuable insights into the future effects of climate change on a range of animals and plants.

Understanding bone death

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:36:55 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Researchers discover new genetic mutation linked to osteonecrosis of the hip

Scientists at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have discovered a new genetic mutation linked to osteonecrosis of the hip, specifically the femoral head – the spherical-shaped mass at the top of the femur. This breakthrough could allow doctors to identify and treat the disease before symptoms arise and potentially avoid hip replacements.

Great performance of Québec researchers at last GAPP

Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:19:33 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Génome Québec is happy to report that Québec has achieved excellent results in the 5th cycle of the Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP).

Middle-age memory decline a matter of changing focus

Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:24:07 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Research sheds new light on what constitutes healthy aging of the brain

The inability to remember details, such as the location of objects, begins in early midlife (the 40s) and may be the result of a change in what information the brain focuses on during memory formation and retrieval, rather than a decline in brain function, according to a study by McGill University researchers.

“Big Data” study discovers earliest sign of Alzheimer’s

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:12:54 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Research underlines importance of computational power in future neurological breakthrough

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital have used a powerful tool to better understand the progression of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD), identifying its first physiological signs.

Dr. Mark Ware, vice-chair of task force on cannabis

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:54:04 +0000

World-renowned pain specialist and medical cannabis researcher Dr. Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), has been nominated vice-chair of an important federal task force that will provide guidance to the Canadian government as it prepares to introduce legislation to legalize marijuana in spring 2017.

New path of discovery in Parkinson’s disease

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:27:43 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Neuron cell death may be caused by overactive immune system

A team of scientists led by Dr. Michel Desjardins from the University of Montreal and Dr. Heidi McBride from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) at McGill University have discovered that two genes associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) are key regulators of the immune system, providing direct evidence linking Parkinson's to autoimmune disease.

$4 million for research on intellectual disabilities

Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:35:09 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Couche-Tard founder gives $4 million to McGill for groundbreaking research on intellectual disabilities

Decoding connectivity

Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:25:56 +0000

McGill Newsroom

It’s all math: How Professor Alan Evans is using cutting-edge statistics to unravel the complexity of brain disorders.

When Alan Evans was starting out in the 1970s, researchers didn’t ask the boss to foot their bar tab. But that’s exactly what some of the coders in his Montreal Neurological Institute lab recently proposed: a 9-to-5 Saturday hackathon, held in an Irish pub a few blocks from the McGill University campus.

Creation of neuroscience research hub

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:01:25 +0000

McGill Newsroom

EMC working with McGill to support data storage and visualization technologies to help with the NeuroHub project

The Canadian research team that helped spearhead the international brain-mapping project known as BigBrain is about to get a major boost in its effort to produce sharply higher-resolution brain maps, thanks to technology from EMC Corporation.

The impact of night work on our immune system

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:22:50 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Study reveals the impact of night work

You cross paths with him at the break of dawn in the corridors of the Metro. He looks bleary-eyed and pallid. This worker’s night shift just ended. His body clocks are out of sync with one another, and, imperceptibly, they’re also out of sync with his environment. In the long run, this night owl could be at greater risk of developing cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases or certain types of cancer.

New name for McGill Department of Oncology

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:31:05 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Newly named Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology recognizes family’s enduring support

In recognition of the Bronfman family’s enduring support for oncology programs and research at McGill University, the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Oncology has been named the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, in honour of one of the family’s major benefactors.

New vision, model for genomic and clinical data sharing

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:02:38 +0000

McGill Newsroom

A molecular on/off switch for antibiotic resistance

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:11:31 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Antibiotic resistance represents a major challenge in treating pathogenic bacterial infections.

Now, researchers at McGill University have discovered a possible target for fighting back against resistant bacteria.

Goodman Cancer Research Gala raises $2.1 million

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:32:04 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Pioneering research at McGill’s Goodman Cancer Research Centre gets boost

The 4th Goodman Cancer Research Gala has raised more than $2.1 million to fund foundational research, more effective diagnostic tools and the development of new treatments and therapies for cancer patients. The Gala was held on Sunday, June 5 in Montreal, bringing together more than 800 guests in support of McGill University’s Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre.

$17 Million to shape the future of music

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:04:26 +0000

McGill Newsroom

This significant investment of public and private support will redefine the future of music research in Canada by transforming the way musicians compose, listen and perform music.

Are EEG neurofeedback benefits due to placebo effects?

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:29:41 +0000

Neurofeedback using electroencephalograpy boasts thousands of practitioners and appears to both improve normal brain function and alleviate a wide variety of mental disorders – from anxiety to alcoholism. But after examining the scientific literature and consulting experts in Europe and the U.S., McGill University researchers Robert Thibault and Amir Raz conclude that clinical improvements from this increasingly popular alternative therapy are due to placebo effects.

Podcast: Pedro Valdes-Sosa

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:49:13 +0000

By the Media Relations Office, McGill Newsroom

Spotlight on neurosciences

Neuroinformatics stands at the intersection of neuroscience and information science. One of the world leaders in this discipline is Prof. Pedro Valdes-Sosa, General Vice-Director for Research of the Cuban Neuroscience Center (CNEURO) which he co-founded in 1990.

‘Baby talk’ can help songbirds learn their tunes

Tue, 31 May 2016 14:46:05 +0000

McGill Newsroom

The research has implications for understanding human developmental disorders such as autism

Adult songbirds modify their vocalizations when singing to juveniles in the same way that humans alter their speech when talking to babies. The resulting brain activity in young birds could shed light on speech learning and certain developmental disorders in humans, according to a study by McGill University researchers.

Impact of minimum wage on child health varies

Fri, 27 May 2016 14:07:10 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Study of low-, middle-income countries shows increase in minimum wage not always linked to better health

Raising the minimum wage in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) does not necessarily lead to better health for young children, according to a new study by McGill University researchers.

Great Migration and African-American genomic diversity

Fri, 27 May 2016 19:04:23 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Study examines genetic data to analyze regional differences in ancestry

A new study of genomic diversity in the U.S. clarifies the role of pre-Civil War admixture and early 20th century transit routes in shaping the migration history and genomic diversity among African-American communities. The research by McGill University professor Simon Gravel and colleagues, was published May 27 in PLOS Genetics.

McGill installs inaugural Chair in Pharmacoepidemiology

Fri, 27 May 2016 14:16:19 +0000

McGill Newsroom

McGill alumnus tagged to boost capacity and discovery in growing field

Dr. Robert Platt, Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine was officially announced as the inaugural Albert Boehringer (1^st) Chair in Pharmacoepidemiology during an event held May 26 at McGill.

Victor Phillip Dahdaleh supports neuroscience research

Thu, 26 May 2016 17:18:53 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Gift expands scholarship program at McGill with $3.5 million gift

$3.5 million gift from McGill alumnus and long-time university supporter, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh, will make a major contribution to the field of brain research at the University and provide expanded support to the Victor Dahdaleh-Clinton Foundation Scholarship program.

Why is there no Labor Party in the United States?

Tue, 24 May 2016 14:02:32 +0000

McGill Newsroom

McGill Sociologist uses historical data to provide a new take on an old question

Antidepressants: rise in off-label prescriptions

Tue, 24 May 2016 13:45:21 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Antidepressant use in North America has increased over the last 2 decades. A suspected reason for this trend is that primary care physicians are increasingly prescribing antidepressants for nondepressive indications, including unapproved (off-label) indications that have not been evaluated by regulatory agencies.

Your friends have more friends than you do

Wed, 18 May 2016 14:32:09 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

Research uncovers the inherently hierarchical nature of social media

Converting cells to burn fat, not store it

Mon, 16 May 2016 13:23:49 +0000

McGill Newsroom

McGill-led discovery could help fight obesity, metabolic disorders

Researchers have uncovered a new molecular pathway for stimulating the body to burn fat – a discovery that could help fight obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Rapid eye movement sleep: keystone of memory formation

Fri, 13 May 2016 15:52:18 +0000

By Bruno Geoffroy

For decades, scientists have fiercely debated whether rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – the phase where dreams appear – is directly involved in memory formation.

Now, a study published in Science by researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (McGill University) and the University of Bern provides evidence that REM sleep does, indeed, play this role – at least in mice.

New global guidelines for stem cell research

Thu, 12 May 2016 14:09:05 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Guidance addresses key scientific, ethical, social, and policy challenges raised by new technologies and emerging areas of stem cell discovery and application

Brain cells that aid appetite control identified

Wed, 11 May 2016 14:35:00 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

Discovery opens door to development of new drugs to control weight gain and obesity

It’s rare for scientists to get what they describe as “clean” results without spending a lot of time repeating the same experiment over and over again. But when researchers saw the mice they were working with doubling their weight within a month or two, they knew they were on to something.

Exploring the mathematical universe

Wed, 11 May 2016 20:08:04 +0000

A team of more than 80 mathematicians from 12 countries is charting the terrain of rich, new mathematical worlds, and sharing their discoveries on the Web. The mathematical universe is filled with both familiar and exotic items, many of which are being made available for the first time. The “L-functions and Modular Forms Database” abbreviated LMFDB, is an intricate catalog of mathematical objects and the connections between them.

Scientists create a new way to categorize music

Tue, 10 May 2016 16:05:05 +0000

A team of scientists from McGill University, the University of Cambridge, and Stanford Graduate School of Business developed a new method of coding and categorizing music. They found that people’s preference for these musical categories is driven by personality. The researchers say the findings have important implications for industry and health professionals.

Gene mutations shown to cause form of HSP

Tue, 10 May 2016 14:15:53 +0000

By Shawn Hayward, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Discovery will aid development of treatments for this debilitating disease

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) have identified novel gene mutations that cause hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a step forward in efforts to treat this debilitating disease.

Podcasts: Innovations in global health care

Thu, 05 May 2016 14:56:53 +0000

By the McGill Media Relations Office

The Simnovate Podcasts

Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis

Wed, 04 May 2016 14:27:49 +0000

McGill University Health Centre

New study reinforces importance of implementing screening in Quebec

McGill University joins Global University Leaders Forum

Wed, 04 May 2016 13:59:39 +0000

The Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, Prof. Suzanne Fortier, has been invited to join the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF). This forum acts as an intellectual community within the World Economic Forum to advise its leadership on matters relating to higher education and research, and also serves as a resource for the Forum’s members and constituents.

Less body fat for toddlers taking vitamin D

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:01:52 +0000

By Fergus Grieve, McGill Newsroom

Supplement given during first year of life critical for muscle-mass development

A healthy intake of vitamin D in the first year of life appears to set children up to have more muscle mass and less body fat as toddlers, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatric Obesity.

A ‘tropical’ parasitic disease emerges in the Arctic

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:31:18 +0000

By Julie Robert, McGill University Health Centre

Canadian researchers describe the first outbreak of Cryptosporidium parasite in Nunavik

Analyzing the psyche of risky drivers

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:02:13 +0000

By Cynthia Lee, McGill Newsroom

Study of repeat drunk drivers, speeding offenders finds distinct behavioural profiles

Road crashes are the world’s leading cause of preventable death and injury in people under 35, accounting for around 5 million casualties every year. Repeat offenders make a disproportionate contribution to these statistics – and are known for their poor response to education and prevention efforts.

Key mechanism identified in brain tumor growth

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:14:36 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Discovery offers hope for more effective treatments of deadly glioblastomas

A gene known as OSMR plays a key role in driving the growth of glioblastoma tumors, according to a new study led by a McGill University researcher and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Increasing cases of anaphylaxis among children

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:25:09 +0000

Anaphylaxis, known to be a sudden and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction, seems to be increasing among children, according to a new study led by a team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC). The findings, published this week in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI), reveal that the percentage of emergency department (ED) visits due to anaphylaxis doubled over a four-year period based on data collected from the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the MUHC (MCH-MUHC).

Brighter prospects for chronic pain

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:20:57 +0000

The potential of light as a non-invasive, highly-focused alternative to pain medication was made more apparent thanks to research conducted by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre.

Alzheimer’s disease : It takes two (proteins) to tango

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:20:26 +0000

For years, neuroscientists have puzzled over how two abnormal proteins, called amyloid and tau, accumulate in the brain and damage it to cause Alzheimer's disease (AD). Which one is the driving force behind dementia? The answer: both of them, according to a new study by researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.

Spring 2016 honorary degree recipients

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:50:45 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

Fourteen outstanding individuals will inspire and encourage McGill University’s graduating class of 2016, as they receive honorary degrees during spring convocation ceremonies.

Isabelle Daunais Wins 2016 Killam Prize in Humanities

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:56:24 +0000

By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

Three of the six Killam Research Fellows also teach at McGill

$1.2 M for McGill from CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:34:05 +0000

McGill Newsroom

To support six research projects in fields from neuroscience to food safety and Arctic ecosystems

McGill gets $1.65 M from NSERC for training project

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:59:10 +0000

McGill Newsroom

CREATE project to prepare graduates for high-skills work in surgical-devices industry

A team led by McGill University professor Jake Barralet will receive $1.65 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to provide nearly 90 students with cross-disciplinary training to prepare them for high-skill jobs in the surgical devices industry.

How depression may compound risk of type 2 diabetes

Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:27:45 +0000

By Fergus Grieve, McGill Newsroom

Depression, metabolic factors combine to boost risk of developing diabetes, study finds

Depression may compound the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people with early warning signs of metabolic disease, according to researchers from McGill University, l'Université de Montréal, the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and the University of Calgary.

Skin tests useless in predicting antibiotic allergies

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:02:25 +0000

McGill University Health Centre

HIV target shows surprising resistance

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:31:31 +0000

By Tod Hoffman, Lady Davis Institute

Research reveals that even a tiny mutation can allow the HIV virus to become resistant to therapies using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing platform

A new discovery in the human auditory system

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:14:13 +0000

By Shawn Hayward, Montreal Neurological Institute

Discovery will inform further research into hearing disorders and brain training

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University have made an important discovery about the human auditory system and how to study it, findings that could lead to better testing and diagnosis of hearing-related disorders.

Small increases in sleep improve grades

Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:59:05 +0000

By Cynthia Lee, McGill Newsroom

Family and community involvement key in empowering students to make healthier choices regarding their sleep

Elementary school-age children who improved their sleep habits also improved in their academic performance, according to a study by researchers at McGill University and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in partnership with the Riverside School Board in Montreal.

Exec. Director of McGill Athletics and Recreation named

Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:57:58 +0000

Marc Gélinas, a former Pittsburgh Pirate pitching prospect and a McGill alum with strong sports leadership background at both federal and provincial levels, has been appointed the new Executive Director of McGill Athletics and Recreation, Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Ollivier Dyens announced on Monday, April 4.

Marc Gélinas brings over twenty years of sports leadership experience to his new role . With both undergraduate and graduate degrees from McGill, Gélinas comes to McGill from the Institut national du sport (INS) du Québec.

RI-MUHC leads innovative network to support children

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:59:47 +0000

McGill University Health Centre

RI-MUHC will lead an innovative pan-Canadian network that aims to improve life outcomes for children with brain-based development disabilities

RI-MUHC will lead an innovative pan-Canadian network that aims to improve life outcomes for children with brain-based development disabilities

Link between diabetes drug and bladder cancer confirmed

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:55:49 +0000

Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research

A study conducted at the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital revealed that pioglitazone is associated with a risk of bladder cancer that increases with duration of use and dosage.

Longer maternity leave linked to better infant health

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:42:08 +0000

McGill Newsroom

McGill, UCLA study of low- and middle-income countries shows paid maternity leave policies could help prevent infant deaths

For each additional month of paid maternity leave offered in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), infant mortality is reduced by 13%, according to a new study by researchers from McGill University and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Harmonizing ethics review for international research

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:19:05 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Policy experts advocate mutual recognition for reviews of data-intensive international research

Genomic research holds great potential to advance human health and medicine. But for the millions of data points now being collected through large-scale sequencing efforts to be truly valuable, they must be analyzed in aggregate and shared across institutions and jurisdictions. This raises many challenges, including navigation of complex ethics-approval processes at multiple sites and in multiple jurisdictions.

No increased heart failure with incretin-based drugs

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:49:58 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Canadian drug safety network provides reassuring evidence regarding risk of heart failure of anti-diabetes medications

Incretin-based drugs, a type of medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, do not increase the risk of being hospitalized for heart failure relative to commonly used combinations of oral anti-diabetic drugs, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

New Quebec budget includes $1M for agrifood innovation

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:42:19 +0000

McGill Newsroom

Quebec’s recently unveiled provincial budget includes one new line-item that means a lot for McGill research.

City birds are smarter than country birds

Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:52:28 +0000

By Cynthia Lee, McGill Newsroom

Life in the city changes cognition, behavior and physiology of birds to their advantage

Birds living in urban environments are smarter than birds from rural environments.

But, why do city birds have the edge over their country friends? They adapted to their urban environments enabling them to exploit new resources more favorably than their rural counterparts, say a team of all-McGill University researchers.

Winds hide Atlantic variability from Europe’s winters

Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:43:07 +0000

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom

Study reveals how wind patterns change along with sea-surface temperatures

Shifting winds may explain why long-term fluctuations in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures have no apparent influence on Europe’s wintertime temperatures. The findings, published in Nature Communications, could also have implications for how Europe’s climate will evolve amid global warming.

Global shift in farmed fish feed raises new questions

Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:40:50 +0000

By Cynthia Lee, McGill Newsroom

A move toward plant-based feeds alters the environmental footprint of farm-raised seafood, may change levels of healthy fatty acids in these fish

Heart attacks could be reduced by rethinking statins

Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:59:33 +0000

By Julie Robert, McGill University Health Centre

Millions of people today take statins to help lower their cholesterol level.

Teens test their smarts in the Brain Bee

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:48:38 +0000

By Maya-Olivia Eyssen, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Montreal high school students to take part in brain quiz.

"Smart soles" help patients recover from a broken hip

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 17:35:11 +0000

By Julie Robert, McGill University Health Centre

Hip fractures are one of the most common injuries sustained by the elderly population following a fall.

Mysterious cosmic radio bursts found to repeat

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:03:23 +0000

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom

Astronomers for the first time detect repeat ‘fast radio bursts’ from same sky location

Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The findings indicate that these “fast radio bursts” come from an extremely powerful object which occasionally produces multiple bursts in under a minute.

$2.4M from NSERC for five McGill researchers

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:37:30 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

McGill is proud to announce that five researchers have been awarded over $2.4 million in NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for 2016.

From backyard pool chemical to nanomaterial

Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:17:13 +0000

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom

Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials?

Building living, breathing supercomputers

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:48:41 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

The substance that provides energy to all the cells in our bodies, Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), may also be able to power the next generation of supercomputers.

What makes the brain tick so fast?

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:39:34 +0000

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom

Surprisingly complex interactions between neurotransmitter receptors and other key proteins help explain the brain’s ability to process information with lightning speed, according to a new study.

Diabetes drug found not to cause pancreatic cancer

Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:09:23 +0000

By Tod Hoffman, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research

The use of incretin-based drugs is not associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

The research was conducted by the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), which used the health records of almost 1 million patients with types 2 diabetes.

The brain gives up more secrets

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:03:15 +0000

By Julie Robert, McGill University Health Centre

A research team, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal, has broken new ground in our understanding of the complex functioning of the brain.

McGill alumnus Victor Goldbloom dies at 92

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:22:07 +0000

By Cynthia Lee, McGill Newsroom

A distinguished McGill alumnus, Victor Goldbloom, died Monday night at age 92.

A pediatrician by academic training, Goldbloom graduated from McGill with a BSc in 1944, an MD in 1945 and a DipEd in 1950. In 1992, McGill presented him with an honorary degree in recognition of his many years of service to Montreal, Quebec and Canadian society.

Astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi wins top Cdn science prize

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:48:07 +0000

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom

McGill researchers Elena Bennett and Yasser Gidi also honoured by NSERC

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has named McGill University astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi as this year’s recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, NSERC’s highest honour, in recognition of the excellence and influence of her research contributions.

Vulnerability to depression linked to noradrenaline

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:56:32 +0000

By Bruno Geoffroy, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal

First-ever connection between noradrenergic neurons and vulnerability to depression

Same gene can encode proteins with divergent functions

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:17:27 +0000

By Cynthia Lee, McGill Newsroom

It’s not unusual for siblings to seem more dissimilar than similar: one becoming a florist, for example, another becoming a flutist, and another becoming a physicist.

McGill launches Masters of Management in Finance

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:04:31 +0000

By Leilani Ku, Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University

McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management is launching a new twelve-month Masters of Management in Finance (MMF).

Common gene variant influences food choices

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:12:19 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

If you’re fat, can you blame it on your genes? The answer is a qualified yes. Maybe. Under certain circumstances. Researchers are moving towards a better understanding of some of the roots of obesity.

25 Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:41:45 +0000

Twenty-five outstanding McGill researchers are being awarded Canada Research Chairs (CRC), as announced today by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, at the University of British Columbia.

Find a partner who marches to the beat of your own drum

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:45:11 +0000

By Cynthia Lee

Newsroom

Everyone marches to the beat of their own drum: From walking to talking to producing music, different people’s movements occur at different speeds.

Suicide: victimized teens more at risk

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:05:51 +0000

A new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) by the team of Dr Marie-Claude Geoffroy, researcher at the CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (Douglas mental health university institute, McGill group for suicide studies) and the Sainte-Justine hospital research centre, reports that adolescents chronically victimized during two school years at least, are about five times more at risk of thinking about suicide and six times more at risk of attempting suicide at age 15

Location may be key to effectively controlling pain

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:44:57 +0000

By Cynthia Lee

Newsroom

In real estate, location is key. It now seems the same concept holds true when it comes to stopping pain. New research published in Nature Communications indicates that the location of receptors that transmit pain signals is important in how big or small a pain signal will be -- and therefore how effectively drugs can block those signals.

Anonymous browsing hinders online dating signals

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:51:28 +0000

By Chris Chipello

Newsroom

Big data and the growing popularity of online dating sites may be reshaping a fundamental human activity: finding a mate, or at least a date. Yet a new study in Management Science finds that certain longstanding social norms persist, even online.

Canada on the Global Stage

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:37:33 +0000

By Cynthia Lee

McGill Newsroom

Heart attack: Gender matters in predicting outcomes

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:10:01 +0000

Newsroom

Want to rewire a neuron? You’ve got to take it slow

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:02:11 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

New technique offers potential to reconnect neurons of people with central nervous system damage

Chronic pain changes our immune systems

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:04:50 +0000

By Cynthia Lee
Newsroom

Chronic pain may reprogram the way genes work in the immune system, according to a new study by McGill University researchers published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Why do some fish thrive in oil-polluted water?

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:19:43 +0000

By Melody Enguix

McGill Newsroom

When scientists from McGill University learned that some fish were proliferating in rivers and ponds polluted by oil extraction in Southern Trinidad, it caught their attention. They thought they had found a rare example of a species able to adapt to crude oil pollution.

Leadership: Key to care, retention among nurses

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:29:27 +0000

By Cynthia Lee

Newsroom

Nurses faced with abusive managers are more likely to quit. But a recent study by McGill University and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières researchers finds that the opposite is also true – transformational leadership - a style of management in which employees are encouraged to work towards a collective goal within a supportive milieu, is linked to nurses’ well-being, and has positive impacts upon job retention.

Word-of-mouth recruitment can help workforce diversity

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:45:25 +0000

By Chris Chipello
Newsroom

Word-of-mouth recruitment is the most common way to fill jobs, and management scholars have long thought that this practice contributes to job segregation by gender: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.

Guidelines for human genome editing

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:56:57 +0000

By Vincent C. Allaire
Newsroom

Human genome editing for both research and therapy is progressing, raising ethical questions among scientists around the world.

Fight tumors and infections with targeted drugs

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:17:23 +0000

By Cynthia Lee

Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it’s not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize this risk, researchers in Quebec have developed nanoparticles that only release a drug when exposed to near-infrared light, which doctors could beam onto a specific site. Their report appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Cost burden of Quebec’s carbon market seen as modest

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:57:44 +0000

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom

Study by McGill researchers assesses short-run impacts on households, industries

The cost burden of Quebec’s carbon-pricing policy, is likely to be modest across income groups and industries, according to a McGill University research team.

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:11:06 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Human sounds convey emotions better than words do

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:59:10 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

Brain uses “older” systems/structures to preferentially process emotion expressed through vocalizations

3D images of enzymes may lead to improved antibiotics

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:37:24 +0000

Andrew Potter to head the MISC

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:25:42 +0000

The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) has announced that Andrew Potter, Editor of the Ottawa Citizen, has been appointed to the position of Director of the Institute for a three-year term effective August 2016.

A ‘printing press’ for nanoparticles

Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:55:23 +0000

Gold nanoparticles have unusual optical, electronic and chemical properties, which scientists are seeking to put to use in a range of new technologies, from nanoelectronics to cancer treatments.

Overcoming hurdles to Arctic climate change adaptation

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:03:31 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors

Droughts hit cereal crops harder since 1980s

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:53:07 +0000

Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries – and the impact of these weather disasters was greatest in the developed nations of North America, Europe and Australasia, according to a new study led by researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia.

Québec Science honours three McGill discoveries

Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:43:28 +0000

By Chris Chipello

$5M for Malaria, Tuberculosis Drug-discovery Research

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:34:42 +0000

University of Toronto and McGill University scientists are leading an international partnership to discover new and improved drug treatments for tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases -- thanks to a contribution from Merck Canada Inc., as well as an additional $5 million supplement to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new funding brings the total investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to nearly US $12 million since 2012.

Divorce: on the decline in sub-Saharan Africa

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:52:34 +0000

With education, employment and income levels all rising for women in sub-Saharan Africa, many observers have speculated that divorce rates would follow suit – as they have in much of the developed world. But a new study by McGill University researchers finds that divorce rates across 20 African countries over the past 20 years have remained stable or declined.

What is your memory style?

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:35:51 +0000

Why is it that some people have richly detailed recollection of past experiences (episodic memory), while others tend to remember just the facts without details (semantic memory)?

A research team from the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences has shown for the first time that these different ways of experiencing the past are associated with distinct brain connectivity patterns that may be inherent to the individual and suggest a life-long “memory trait”.

The study was recently published online in the journal Cortex.

Cleaning wounds: saline water trumps soap and water

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:54:23 +0000

Now, an international team of researchers led by McMaster University in collaboration with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre has found that soap and water is actually less effective than just using saline water.

The findings, which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to significant cost savings, particularly in developing countries where open fractures are particularly common.

Quebec ecology student scoops trio of BES photo prizes

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:55:57 +0000

PhD candidate Kiyoko Gotanda captured the award-winning photos on her Canon 7D Mark II camera while on a research trip to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos in January 2015.

The Galápagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution almost 150 years ago and have since been crucial to evolutionary biology, including to Gotanda’s own research on Darwin’s Galápagos finches.

There’s More Than Meets the Eye When Making Choices

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:56:35 +0000

If you’re pondering whether to buy a Galaxy smartphone or an iPhone this holiday season, a part of the brain called the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (PFC) might ultimately determine your choice. Results of a new study by Avinash Vaidya and Dr. Lesley Fellows, researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), suggest that this region of the brain plays a critical role in making choices.

H. Arnold Steinberg, Chancellor Emeritus (1933-2015)

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:01:43 +0000

Dear members of the McGill community:

It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of H. Arnold Steinberg, McGill Chancellor Emeritus. Mr. Steinberg died suddenly this morning in Montreal. He was 82 years old.

On behalf of the McGill community, I send my deepest condolences to his wife, Professor emerita Blema Steinberg, their three children, Margot, Donna and Adam, and their families.

Inside McGill Inside My Head

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:32:27 +0000

« La demande était pas mal corpo au début, » says Alain Farah with a laugh. He is anything but. Farah teaches in the department of French languages and literature at McGill. He’s also the author of a novel called Pourquoi Bologne that came out in French in 2013 and appeared in English in 2015 under the title Ravenscrag. The work tells a fractured, spinning kind of story about a writer called Alain Farah who works at McGill in 1962 and in 2012. In the novel, there are episodes, both in 1962 and 2012, where the character Alain Farah wanders around the McGill campus, clearly in bad shape.

Could metal particles be the clean fuel of the future?

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:44:35 +0000

Can you imagine a future where your car is fueled by iron powder instead of gasoline?

Metal powders, produced using clean primary energy sources, could provide a more viable long-term replacement for fossil fuels than other widely discussed alternatives, such as hydrogen, biofuels or batteries, according to a study in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Applied Energy.

Lottery Tickets Aren’t Child’s Play

Sat, 05 Dec 2015 07:40:55 +0000

Lottery tickets are fun-filled and exciting presents, but they are not suitable gifts for minors. Studies suggest that gambling is a popular yet risky activity among youth. Additionally, researchers have reported a correlation between age of gambling onset and problem gambling later in life. Lottery play is sometimes an initial introduction to gambling activities for minors.

Treatment for dry eye disease based on McGill research

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:35:16 +0000

The discovery that tavilermide induces the production of mucin, a crucial lubricant in tears, offers hope of relief to people who suffer from chronic dry eye disease. The invention and the development of a drug based on this small molecule was made by the team of Dr. H. Uri Saragovi, Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute (LDI) at the Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Pharmacology at McGill University.

First language wires brain for later language-learning

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:35:58 +0000

Research also demonstrates brain's plasticity and ability to adapt to new language environments

Improving health, one step at a time

Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:25:19 +0000

It may be surprising, but Canadians who live in densely-populated areas where stores, banks, schools and other services are close by do not walk as much as they should.

How can I tell if they're lying?

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:30:00 +0000

Sarcasm, white lies and teasing can be difficult to identify for those with certain disorders – new video inventory developed at McGill may help

Suzanne Fortier calls for fostering young entrepreneurs

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:18:27 +0000

University head urges Montreal business leaders to help students fulfill their entrepreneurial ambitions

Clinical Trial for Type 1 Diabetes Begins at JGH, MUHC

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:34:56 +0000

Landmark Clinical Trial of a Novel Combination Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes Begins at Jewish General Hospital and McGill University Health Centre

McGill announces 2015 Bloomberg Manulife Prize winner

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:25:00 +0000

$50,000 research award to promote active health goes to Dr. Lora Giangregorio, whose work has led to the development of internationally endorsed exercise guidelines for osteoporosis, and tools for physicians, physiotherapists and patients

Youth violence on a global scale

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:38:47 +0000

Most comprehensive look at youth violence on a global scale

City of Montréal partners with the CIRM

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:14:27 +0000

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Je fais MTL event, McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM), the Je fais MTL Office and the Montréal, Smart and Digital City Office today announced a new association that will enable the City of Montréal to expand on the possibilities offered by the Jefaismtl.com interactive platform, which features 181 projects overseen by the Je fais MTL movement

Impact of climate change on the Pike River watershed

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:30:25 +0000

Models provide researchers with a view to the future, allowing stakeholders the opportunity to adapt to the effects of climate change

Top award for spinal cord injury research

Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:21:45 +0000

Innovative research aims to improve the quality of life for those living with spinal cord injuries

Statement: Principal Fortier on situation in Paris

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 01:49:23 +0000

Comme vous tous, je suis profondément choquée et attristée par les événements survenus en France ce soir. Nos pensées vont à nos étudiants français, à leurs familles et amis, ainsi qu’aux étudiants de McGill qui sont actuellement en France. Nous offrons nos condoléances au peuple français et à tous ceux qui ont perdu des proches dans cette terrible tragédie. Si vous êtes touchés directement par ces événements, que vous soyez étudiant, professeur ou membre du personnel, sachez que l’Université peut vous offrir du soutien.

Parkinson’s disease: A new tool for diagnosis

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:34:15 +0000

The results of their study, published in the journal Movement Disorders, could also have a major impact on the quality of research on Parkinson’s disease.

Computer accurately predicts Scotiabank Giller winner

Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:36:40 +0000

But then the human intervened...

Geophysics could slow Antarctic ice retreat

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:17:50 +0000

Gravitational effects, variations in Earth structure could damp rise in global sea levels

Black women in Canada: higher risk of preterm births

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:46:16 +0000

Similar to relative disparities in the United States, although rates lower among both racial groups in Canada

Climate change adaptation in high income countries

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:19:01 +0000

McGill-led team developing new ways of tracking adaptation

Climate change adaption: a global snapshot

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:51:38 +0000

A McGill University-led group of researchers (TRAC3) are looking at whether progress is being made in designing initiatives and policies to reduce vulnerability to climate change across countries. Their aim is to contribute new ways of monitoring the global climate adaptation process.

No more ‘sugar-coating’ on invasive fungus

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:51:24 +0000

There are believed to be around 1.5 million different species of fungus on Earth, but one mold, known as Aspergillus fumigatus, causes the majority of cases of invasive aspergillosis – a devastating illness that kills 90 per cent of patients with weakened immune systems or lung diseases.

New Trudeau cabinet welcomed

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:31:15 +0000

The Guardians wins Cundill Prize

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:57:27 +0000

The winner of the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature at McGill was announced last night at a gala awards dinner held in Toronto. Now in its eighth year, the Cundill Prize is the world’s most lucrative international award for a nonfiction book. The Guardians took home the top prize of US$75,000.

BEWARE: off-label prescription drug use

Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:46:26 +0000

A new study led by researchers in Canada sheds light on the effects of off-label use of prescription drugs with the first-ever investigation in adult populations.

McGill tops Maclean’s 2016 Medical Doctoral ranking

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:53:46 +0000

McGill once again ranked first in the “medical-doctoral” category in student awards; budget spent on scholarships and bursaries; and social-sciences and humanities grants, relative to faculty size.

McGill launches centre for space research

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:30:06 +0000

$1 million donation from Trottier Family Foundation to fund McGill Space Institute fellowships

Our head movements convey emotions

Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:46:19 +0000

Head movements play an important role in conveying emotions through speech and music. Let your head do the talking.

$3.4 million gift from Dr. Yan P. Lin for new centre

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:24:59 +0000

A $3.4 million gift from McGill alumnus and long-time university supporter, Dr. Yan P. Lin, PhD’92, will establish an innovative interdisciplinary centre to explore the history and development of the fundamental ideas, systems and institutions which govern our lives.

New hope for treatment of multiple sclerosis

Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:26:38 +0000

A new study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University and the MUHC, gets closer to identifying the mechanisms responsible for multiple sclerosis and makes headway in the search for better treatments.

How parasites take a bigger bite

Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:48:44 +0000

Discovery explains how Leishmania parasite boosts its infection

Two distinguished alumni to receive honorary degrees

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:40:47 +0000

Brodhead, Stoddart to be recognized for contributions in fields of international development, human rights

New vision, new name for health care simulation

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:02:24 +0000

McGill University announced today a new name and vision that will position the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning at the forefront of simulated training in the health sciences. Thanks to a $7.5 million gift from Arnold and Blema Steinberg, the Centre will be expanding its facilities, enhancing its technologies and broadening its scope of activities.

A new way to starve lung cancer?

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:20:00 +0000

Preventing cancer cells from growing by understanding what they 'eat'.

Principal congratulates PM-designate Justin Trudeau

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:12:47 +0000

Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, extends her congratulations to Mr. Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada for the results of the 2015 Canadian federal election.

What’s behind your thirst?

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:29:22 +0000

Discovery advances our understanding of how our brain controls body hydration and temperature

Cancer research plagued by poor study design

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:41:04 +0000

Badly designed studies may lead to the efficacy of drugs being overestimated and money being wasted on trials that prove fruitless, according to a new study from McGill University in Canada.

Different types of child abuse: similar consequences

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:43:50 +0000

Emotional abuse may be as harmful as physical abuse and neglect. This finding led by a team of researchers at McGill University complements previous imaging research showing that emotional and physical pain both activate the same parts of the brain.

The father effect

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:17:20 +0000

Discovery of how environmental memories may be transmitted from a man to his grandchildren

National research network set on venous thromboembolism

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 20:01:33 +0000

WORLD THROMBOSIS DAY – OCTOBER 13, 2015

American Placebo

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:16:40 +0000

A new study finds that rising placebo responses may play a part in the increasingly high failure rate for clinical trials of drugs designed to control chronic pain caused by nerve damage.

Expectant dads get depressed too

Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:26:30 +0000

Transition to parenthood can be a difficult life event. It can have an impact on both parents and on the long-term development of the child. While mother’s "baby blues" have been widely investigated, little research has been conducted on antenatal paternal depression.

2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature finalists

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:11:18 +0000

Better donor-recipient match with genomics

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 14:42:31 +0000

It is all about finding the right person. More than 20,000 organ transplants have been performed in Canada over the last 10 years and routinely extend lives. But sometimes the recipient’s immune system recognizes the new organ as foreign and rejects it, which can lead to serious complications.

The media love men… bad news for women

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:36:23 +0000

Wrangling proteins gone wild

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:44:18 +0000

Medical cannabis in the treatment of chronic pain

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:13:15 +0000

“This is the first and largest study of the long term safety of medical cannabis use by patients suffering from chronic pain ever conducted,” says lead author, Dr. Ware, pain specialist at the Montreal General Hospital of the MUHC and associate professor in Family Medicine and Anesthesia at McGill University. “We found that medical cannabis, when used by patients who are experienced users, and as part of a monitored treatment program for chronic pain over one year, appears to have a reasonable safety profile.”

Predicting arrhythmias so as to prevent them

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:54:13 +0000

Researchers have discovered how to predict some cardiac arrhythmias several steps before they even occur. It’s a finding that could lead to an improved cardiac device, with equipment designed to detect when arrhythmias are about to occur and then act to prevent them.

The future of the Royal Victoria Hospital

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:05:18 +0000

Shortlist: 2015 Cundill Prize in historical literature

Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:42:11 +0000

The six books vying for the 2015 Cundill Prize in historical literature were announced today by Professor Hudson Meadwell, Interim Dean of McGill University’s Faculty of Arts.

Perceived threat: Aboriginals and visible minorities

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:27:50 +0000

Canadian cities that have significant visible minority and Aboriginal populations have bigger police forces than those without. No matter what the actual level of crime.

Innate immunity may help limit cancer growth

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:57:55 +0000

UK10K genome project examines rare variants, disease

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:25:36 +0000

The largest population genome sequencing effort to date is published today in Nature. Based on data collected by the UK10K project, the study was designed to explore the contribution of rare genetic variants to human disease and its impact on risk factors. Rare genetic variants are changes in DNA that are carried only by relatively few people in a population.

Breakthrough in fight against muscle wasting diseases

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:57:45 +0000

It is estimated that half of all cancer patients suffer from a muscle wasting syndrome called cachexia. Cancer cachexia impairs quality of life and response to therapy, which increases morbidity and mortality of cancer patients. Currently, there is no approved treatment for muscle wasting but a new study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and University of Alberta could be a game changer for patients, improving both quality of life and longevity. The research team discovered a new gene involved in muscle wasting that could be a good target for drug development.

Novel gene implicated in osteoporosis

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:03:44 +0000

NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant Heart

Fri, 11 Sep 2015 01:00:57 +0000

"Usually, the stars at the centers of galaxy clusters are old and dead, essentially fossils," said Tracy Webb of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, lead author of a new paper on the findings accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. "But we think the giant galaxy at the center of this cluster is furiously making new stars after merging with a smaller galaxy."

Why aren’t there more lions?

Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:21:10 +0000

Choosing to end it all

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:06:22 +0000

Difficulty making good choices is one of the factors that make certain people vulnerable to suicide

Association between low vitamin D and MS

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:26:01 +0000

Low levels of vitamin D significantly increase the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study led by Dr. Brent Richards of the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, and published in PLOS Medicine. This finding, the result of a sophisticated Mendelian randomization analysis, confirms a long-standing hypothesis that low vitamin D is strongly associated with an increased susceptibility to MS. This connection is independent of other factors associated with low vitamin D levels, such as obesity.

Harnessing the butterfly effect

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:46:07 +0000

The atmosphere is so unstable that a butterfly flapping its wings can, famously, change the course of weather patterns. The celebrated “butterfly effect” also means that the reliability of weather forecasts drops sharply beyond 10 days.

McGill students awarded largest Canadian scholarships

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:10:33 +0000

Ontario high school students Alexander Deans and Aditya Mohan have been named McGill University’s most recent recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships.

Gestational diabetes: A diabetes predictor in fathers

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:58:45 +0000

In a large study analyzing 20 years of data from Quebec, a team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has demonstrated that gestational diabetes signals future diabetes risk not only in mothers, but also in fathers. The study was recently published in Diabetes Care.

Breakthrough in "marriage-broker" protein

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:58:52 +0000

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, have made a breakthrough in understanding an important protein that appears to act as a kind of cellular “marriage broker.” The protein called Netrin1 brings cells together and maintains their healthy relationships. Netrin1 plays an essential role in the growth of the human organism, directing cell migration and the formation of cell circuits both at the embryo stage and after birth.

Pesticides: more toxic than previously thought?

Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:56:52 +0000

Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than scientists previously believed.

The personalities of spiders

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:07:06 +0000

Even jumping spiders have personalities scientists have discovered. A "shy" individual will not make the same choices as a "bold" individual. This means that some individuals, because of their personality type, will capture more prey than others, and will therefore have a larger effect on local ecosystems.

Scientists identify key gene associated with addiction

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:16:24 +0000

A new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry by a team led by Salah El Mestikawy, Ph.D., researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’île-de-Montréal), professor at McGill University and head of research at CNRS INSERM UPMC in Paris, opens the field to new understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying addiction in humans.

Waiting for pleasure

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 20:35:45 +0000

Researchers at McGill have clearly identified, for the first time, the specific parts of the brain involved in decisions that call for delayed gratification.

Our elegant brain: motor learning in the fast lane

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:07:19 +0000

It takes a surprisingly small cluster of brain cells deep within the cerebellum to learn how to serve a tennis ball, or line up a hockey shot.

Study sheds light on the causes of cerebral palsy

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:15:00 +0000

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in children. Every year 140 children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy in Quebec.

McGill gets $91.5 mln in CIHR funding

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:27:03 +0000

Researchers from McGill University and its hospital-affiliated research institutes have been awarded $91.5 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Practice doesn’t always make perfect

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:23:30 +0000

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? New research on the brain’s capacity to learn suggests there’s more to it than the adage that “practise makes perfect.” A music-training study by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at McGill University and colleagues in Germany found evidence to distinguish the parts of the brain that account for individual talent from the parts that are activated through training.

MUHC conducts first islet cell transplant in Quebec

Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:18:45 +0000

Are fish getting high on cocaine?

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:38:27 +0000

Almost $10 million for salmonella research

Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:37:22 +0000

Poultry used to be the usual suspect in cases of Salmonella poisoning. Today, however, most outbreaks of the illness come from fruit and vegetables that have become infected when the soil in which they grow is polluted by animal waste or non-potable water. There currently is no method of reducing the growth of Salmonella on such produce.

HIV uses the immune system’s own tools to suppress it

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 20:19:43 +0000

A Canadian research team at the IRCM in Montréal, led by molecular virologist Éric A. Cohen, PhD, made a significant discovery on how HIV escapes the body’s antiviral responses. The team uncovered how an HIV viral protein known as Vpu tricks the immune system by using its own regulatory process to evade the host’s first line of defence. This breakthrough was published yesterday in the scientific journal PLoS Pathogens and will be presented at the upcoming IAS 2015 conference in Vancouver. The findings pave the way for future HIV prevention or cure strategies.

Light can do more

Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:51:48 +0000

Big Data genomics researchers call for cloud support

Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:39:34 +0000

Today in the journal Nature prominent researchers from Canada, Europe and the U.S. have made a powerful call to major funding agencies, asking them to commit to establishing a global genomic data commons in the cloud that could be easily accessed by authorized researchers worldwide.

A glimmer of hope for patients with leukodystrophies

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:01:52 +0000

Could black phosphorus be the next silicon?

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:20:21 +0000

As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research from McGill University and Université de Montréal adds to evidence that black phosphorus could emerge as a strong candidate.

Taking the pain out of office work

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:01:22 +0000

Office work will become much less of a pain in the neck if Julie Côté has her way.

How insulin calms brain activity

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:01:01 +0000

Insulin has long been known as the hormone which controls the body’s sugar levels: humans who lack or are insensitive to insulin develop diabetes. Although insulin is also made and released in the brain, its effects there have remained unclear.

His and her pain circuitry in the spinal cord

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:59:48 +0000

New research released today in Nature Neuroscience reveals for the first time that pain is processed in male and female mice using different cells. These findings have far-reaching implications for our basic understanding of pain, how we develop the next generation of medications for chronic pain—which is by far the most prevalent human health condition—and the way we execute basic biomedical research using mice.

Examining dads’ influence on babies’ health

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:23:21 +0000

“Don’t diss dad” might mean more than making sure not to forget dad on Father’s Day, as researchers look at just how influential environmental exposures and genetic interactions are on dad’s sperm and, as a result, his offspring.

Proximity to Bixi stations augments property values

Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:27:49 +0000

We know that an extra bedroom, and a metro station nearby will make your house more valuable. Now it turns out that a bike-sharing station nearby will do the same.

Principal Suzanne Fortier receives honorary doctorate

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:53:09 +0000

Research recommends further safety evaluation of DINCH

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:53:21 +0000

A commonly used plasticizer known as DINCH, which is found in products that come into close contact with humans, such as medical devices, children's toys and food packaging, was put under the microscope by Montreal researchers.

New Segal Family Chair in Molecular Oncology

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:47:07 +0000

Last night, Dr. Christoph Borchers was formally installed as the inaugural appointment to the Segal Family Chair in Molecular Oncology at McGill University. He will carry out his research on clinical proteomics at the Segal Cancer Centre at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH).
By recruiting Dr. Borchers, who continues to serve as Director of the University of Victoria (UVic) – Genome BC Proteomics Centre, the JGH and McGill become a central hub for the first pan-Canadian proteomics program.

Statement on the death of Jean Doré

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:20:19 +0000

On behalf of McGill University, Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier today extended sincere condolences to the family of former Montreal Mayor Jean Doré, who died Monday at age 70.

Has the U.S. turned a corner toward less urban sprawl?

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:19:02 +0000

The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come. In the U.S., urban sprawl has become an enduring hallmark of the past century. Yet, there are some glimmers of hope.

Statement on the death of Jacques Parizeau

Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:46:12 +0000

Study on cerebral astrocytes in depression and suicide

Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:20:57 +0000

Limiting genetic tests for breast cancer susceptibility

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:26:01 +0000

Screening for genes whose risk association with breast cancer has yet to be proven is not justified and potentially harmful, argue an international team of leading geneticists and oncologists in a paper published this week in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

Over $100M in research infrastructure support to McGill

Fri, 29 May 2015 14:03:57 +0000

Cocaine addiction, craving and relapse

Tue, 26 May 2015 20:07:24 +0000

Two new deans for McGill

Fri, 22 May 2015 16:10:03 +0000

$1 Million donation to Macdonald College Campus

Fri, 22 May 2015 16:13:54 +0000

A $1-million gift from Macdonald College of McGill University alumnus J. William Ritchie, BSc(Agr)'51, will provide major support for McGill’s Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in its efforts to open its Macdonald campus to more visitors and provide a unique, hands-on education into the critical role of agriculture in the food supply chain.

Towards a better understanding of depression

Fri, 22 May 2015 13:56:10 +0000

Impact of video gaming on the brain

Wed, 20 May 2015 16:18:47 +0000

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B by the teams of Dr. Gregory West (Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal) and Dr. Véronique Bohbot (Douglas Institute researcher and associate Professor at McGill University and the Douglas Research Institute of the CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île de Montréal) shows that while video game players (VGPs) exhibit more efficient visual attention abilities, they are also much more likely to use navigation strategies that rely on the brain’s reward system (the caudate nucleus) and not the brain’s spatial memory system (the hippocampus). Past research has shown that people who use caudate nucleus-dependent navigation strategies have decreased grey matter and lower functional brain activity in the hippocampus.

CREATE grant to help study environmental change

Wed, 20 May 2015 15:59:37 +0000

Gay pay for straight work

Wed, 06 May 2015 20:26:36 +0000

Quantum physics on tap

Fri, 15 May 2015 17:35:44 +0000

Educating the immune system to prevent allergies

Thu, 14 May 2015 15:07:50 +0000

With the arrival of spring, millions of Canadians have begun their annual ritual of sneezing and wheezing due to seasonal allergies. A research team at the Montreal Children’s Hospital from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is bringing them hope with a potential vaccine that nudges the immune response away from developing allergies.

Baby talk: babies prefer listening to their own kind

Thu, 07 May 2015 18:27:09 +0000

Quebec registry for users of medical cannabis

Mon, 11 May 2015 14:23:40 +0000

Half of Canadians don't have enough savings

Fri, 08 May 2015 20:37:45 +0000

A better way to build DNA scaffolds

Wed, 06 May 2015 15:29:19 +0000

Elizabeth Wirth gives $7.5M to Schulich School of Music

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:17:10 +0000

New breast cancer gene identified

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:36:48 +0000

HPV vaccine shows early benefits in young girls

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:12:50 +0000

Finding the body clock’s molecular reset button

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:34:45 +0000

An international team of scientists has discovered what amounts to a molecular reset button for our internal body clock. Their findings reveal a potential target to treat a range of disorders, from sleep disturbances to other behavioral, cognitive, and metabolic abnormalities, commonly associated with jet lag, shift work and exposure to light at night, as well as with neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression and autism.

UAE Fellowships in Science and Engineering

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:31:00 +0000

Flameproof falcons and hawks

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:46:38 +0000

Arctic beetles may be ideal marker of climate change

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:54:57 +0000

Federal budget 2015

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:32:07 +0000

Understanding the barrier protecting the brain

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:03:35 +0000

McGill to award 16 honorary degrees 

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:06:59 +0000

Could maple syrup help cut use of antibiotics?

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:04:20 +0000

A concentrated extract of maple syrup makes disease-causing bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics, according to laboratory experiments by researchers at McGill University.

Clean ride mapper: Cycling the less polluted routes

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:55:01 +0000

Genetic testing for ovarian cancer patients

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:47:05 +0000

Tango could benefit Parkinson's disease patients

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:00:16 +0000

Vicky Kaspi wins 2015 Killam Prize in Natural Sciences

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:30:07 +0000

Four new Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:49:35 +0000

Skin cells for research into Parkinson's

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 19:19:52 +0000

Domestic violence deters contraception

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:22:39 +0000

Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman’s reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by McGill PhD student Lauren Maxwell, showed that women who are abused by their partner or ex-partner are much less likely to use contraception; this exposes them to sexually transmitted diseases and leads to more frequent unintended pregnancies and abortions. These findings could influence how physicians provide contraceptive counselling.

Another step forward for green chemistry

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:09:46 +0000

Bash brothers of chemistry discover unusual material

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:00:06 +0000

Forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:48:36 +0000

Myths and reality about NCRs

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:07:28 +0000

Training of new doctors jeopardized by Bill 20: Quebec’s four Departments of Family Medicine

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:41:37 +0000

Directors propose five solutions to improve access to family physicians

Genetics: no evidence of role in racial mortality gap

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:01:15 +0000

Despite numerous genomic studies, evidence for a genetic contribution to cardiovascular disease disparities in blacks versus whites provide little insight

Reducing cancer-related fatigue one step at a time

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:34:25 +0000

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Brain drain versus promoting African development

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:03:11 +0000

Since the 1960s, a number of programs have enabled promising students from developing countries to attend institutions of higher education in the global North with the goal of equipping them to contribute more effectively to development in their own countries. But, how do African scholarship recipients today understand their potential contributions to the development of their home societies? Does this differ among students who study in their home countries, in other African countries, or in the global North?

Honey, I shrunk the ants: how environment controls size

Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:18:15 +0000

Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of them traits that exist along a continuum, were a result of both genetic and environmental factors. But they didn’t know how exactly these things worked together. By studying ants, McGill researchers have identified a key mechanism by which environmental (or epigenetic) factors influence the expression of all of these traits, (along with many more).

Brain development controlled by epigenetic factor

Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:30:39 +0000

Most information in drug development is lost

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:07:25 +0000

$ 41 million to unlock the mysteries of aging

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:31:33 +0000

The science of beaks

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:50:35 +0000

Popular antioxidant likely ineffective, study finds

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:56:02 +0000

$1 million for two McGill projects

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:02:14 +0000

McGill congratulates new Minister of Education

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:39:54 +0000

Chairs in social pediatrics to be established

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:29:40 +0000

‘Blue-green algae’ proliferating in lakes

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:39:01 +0000

Current version of Bill 20 not supported

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:13:04 +0000

Communicating emotions

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:30:50 +0000

Building tailor-made DNA nanotubes step by step

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:24:00 +0000

Epigenetic study tabs genes linked to allergies, asthma

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 22:46:20 +0000

Can you judge a man by his fingers?

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:18:26 +0000

New hope in the fight against pain

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:19:52 +0000

Student mobility: McGill supports Quebec-France accord

Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:53:44 +0000

McGill researchers get $4.7M in NSERC project grants

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:20:12 +0000

Pick a card, any card

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:12:13 +0000

Magicians have astonished audiences for centuries by subtly, yet powerfully, influencing their decisions. But there has been little systematic study of the psychological factors that make magic tricks work.

Socioeconomic differences in adolescent health widen

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:18:13 +0000

Invasive Species in the Great Lakes by 2063

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:01:55 +0000

The Great Lakes have been invaded by more non-native species than any other freshwater ecosystem in the world. In spite of increasing efforts to stem the tide of invasion threats, the lakes remain vulnerable, according to scientists from McGill University and colleagues in Canada and the United States.

Blame it on your brain: salt and hypertension

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:00:10 +0000

Current nutrition labeling is hard to digest

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:36:16 +0000

Daily quiet time to improve new mothers’ health

Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:06:24 +0000

A quiet time scheduled every afternoon could improve the health of newborns and mothers in maternity wards according to researchers at McGill University.

Is it possible to reset our biological clocks?

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:41:14 +0000

Systems crucial to stability of planet compromised

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:24:06 +0000

The secret of empathy

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:52:33 +0000

Isotopic memory of atmospheric persistence

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:16:52 +0000

Genetic discovery about childhood blindness

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:45:58 +0000

Canada’s Largest Fair Trade Conference hosted at McGill

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:54:13 +0000

New strains of parasites identified

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:04:08 +0000

It’s all in a good night’s sleep

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:33:47 +0000

Making sure school-aged kids get to sleep at a regular hour is often a struggle for parents. But a study by researchers at McGill University and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal suggests it’s well worth the effort: the researchers found that a good night’s sleep is linked to better performance in math and languages – subjects that are powerful predictors of later learning and academic success.

Music cuts across cultures

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:40:24 +0000

Having a hard time focusing?

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:05:23 +0000

Social equity in urban transportation planning

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:41:21 +0000

Better dam planning strategies

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:14:11 +0000

Québec Science’s top 10 discoveries of 2014

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:32:06 +0000

Tracking down the origins of the Ebola outbreak

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:25:51 +0000

McGillians named to Order of Canada

Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:07:48 +0000

What the “fecal prints” of microbes can tell us about E

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:29:00 +0000

TB: avoiding and subverting immunity

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:44:23 +0000

Condolences to family of Michelle Tisseyre

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:23:38 +0000

Modern Greek Studies receives new gift of $1.2-million

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:36:44 +0000

Winner of 2014 Bloomberg Manulife Prize

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:22:34 +0000

Controlling obesity with potato extract

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:46:50 +0000

Tramadol and risk of hospitalization for hypoglycemia

Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:59:20 +0000

Punishing kids for lying just doesn’t work

Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:55:01 +0000

HPV vaccine: teen sexual behaviour not affected

Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:47:50 +0000

Sovereignty v. neoliberalism: trial over a treasure

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:01:40 +0000

Possible link between air pollution and breast cancer

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:42:33 +0000

Obesity may shorten life expectancy up to 8 years

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:09:02 +0000

Parasites and the evolution of primate culture

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:15:13 +0000

Social media data pose pitfalls for studying behaviour

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:46:35 +0000

Fragile X study offers hope of new autism treatment

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:46:59 +0000

Gary Bass' The Blood Telegram wins $75,000 prize

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:59:45 +0000

Antibiotics get a “time-out”

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:52:37 +0000

Top 8 Academic All-Canadian commendation

Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:27:01 +0000

McGill joins movement to create momentum for Montreal

Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:45:06 +0000

Total recall: the science behind it

Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:09:48 +0000

Mars, too, has macroweather

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:53:34 +0000

Oral cancer-causing HPV transmission

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:14:26 +0000

Canadian Government supports CEIM’s Innovation Project

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:06:43 +0000

The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism, and Agriculture) was at Centre d'entreprises et d'innovation de Montréal this morning to announce a funding contribution of up to $ 6.2 million over the next five years to support the launch of CEIM’s Québec Innovation project.

So, you think you can clap to the beat?

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:46:14 +0000

McGill's Lasko, Meaney among Prix du Québec winners

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:23:30 +0000

McGill tops Maclean’s university ranking

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:58:27 +0000

Light shed on genetic architecture of kidney cancer

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:53:41 +0000

Key to aortic valve disease prevention

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 19:36:38 +0000

Busty & the Bass win CBC Music and TD's #RockYourCampus

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:11:22 +0000

Watching the hidden life of materials

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:38:58 +0000

Corber, Winsor to receive honorary degrees

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:34:44 +0000

New funding to boost mental health research

Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:11:27 +0000

Six new Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:47:33 +0000

McGill “walks the talk” of sustainability

Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:29:19 +0000

Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize goes to Michael Meaney

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:21:12 +0000

Autism spectrum disorders share common molecular causes

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:03:16 +0000

Bell Let’s Talk donates $1M to U de M, McGill

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:27:56 +0000

McGill grad John O’Keefe wins Nobel Prize in medicine

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:39:12 +0000

A link between osteoporosis treatment and breast cancer

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:22:57 +0000

$3 million gift in pharmacoepidemiology

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:53:08 +0000

DNA signature found in ice storm babies

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:34:40 +0000

World-renowned green chemist joining McGill

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:20:24 +0000

Shortlist: 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:10:35 +0000

Microplastic pollution discovered in St. Lawrence River

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:23:09 +0000

A team of researchers from McGill University and the Quebec government have discovered microplastics (in the form of polyethylene 'microbeads,' less than 2 mm in diameter) widely distributed across the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, the first time such pollutants have been found in freshwater sediments.

Philippe Gros Awarded Royal Society's McLaughlin Medal

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:56:38 +0000

Myriam Denov awarded Trudeau Fellowship

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:39:43 +0000

There are thousands of children born of war-time rape worldwide, but very little is known about their lived experiences and their relationships with their families and communities. Professor Myriam Denov, of McGill's School of Social work, has been awarded one of Canada's most prestigious research awards to help fill this knowledge gap. Named Sept. 16 as one of three recipients of the Trudeau Foundation’s 2014 Trudeau Fellowships, she hopes to shed light on an “invisible, but resilient” population of children and youth.

The “hidden injury” in sports

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:46:07 +0000

Clerk, Pai named to RSC’s College of New Scholars

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:04:07 +0000

Two entering students awarded major scholarship

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:33:50 +0000

McGill-led projects awarded Brain Canada grants

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:13:24 +0000

Depression drugs linked to failure of dental implants

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:02:11 +0000

Memory and Alzheimer’s: towards a better comprehension

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:40:42 +0000

Mintzberg turns 75 and -- to Twitter

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:01:25 +0000

Family dinners reduce effects of cyberbullying

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:00:54 +0000

Reducing water scarcity possible by 2050

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:23:06 +0000

McGill-led partnership projects receive SSHRC funding

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:26:21 +0000

Walking fish reveal how our ancestors evolved onto land

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:52:18 +0000

Black carbon linked to risk of cardiovascular disease

Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:40:53 +0000

Jeffrey Mogil awarded Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:13:45 +0000

Two $ 40,000 scholarships to two outstanding managers

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:58:49 +0000

Important advance in brain mapping and memory

Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:22:06 +0000

New DNA analysis technique promises speedier diagnosis

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:13:46 +0000

Life expectancy gap varies between blacks and whites

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:01:40 +0000

Global warming ‘pause’ reflects natural fluctuation

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:06:18 +0000

Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to research by McGill physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.

A breakthrough for organic reactions in water

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:45:24 +0000

New hope for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:51:02 +0000

New treatment for a form of childhood blindness

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:22:58 +0000

Radio-burst discovery deepens astrophysics mystery

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:01:10 +0000

McGill profs among ‘Most Influential Scientific Minds'

Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:58:18 +0000

William Tetley (1927 – 2014)

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:29:20 +0000

McGillians named to Order of Canada

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:54:55 +0000

Damien Silès named Executive Director of QI

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:24:41 +0000

CEIM Innovation Québec shortlisted by Gov. of Canada

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:02:39 +0000

McGill congratulates Order of Quebec recipients

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:12:05 +0000

Stories that motivate children to be honest

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:35:16 +0000

Death by prescription painkiller

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:24:26 +0000

Study yields important clues to genetics of epilepsy

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:57:25 +0000

Condolences on the death of Professor Ellen Aitken

Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:27:05 +0000

Roderick A. Macdonald (1948-2014)

Sat, 14 Jun 2014 01:46:49 +0000

McGill Principal receives honorary degree from Carleton

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:46:19 +0000

New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:30:09 +0000

A tiny molecule may help battle depression

Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:09:28 +0000

What a 66M-year old forest fire reveals about dinosaurs

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:31:54 +0000

Goodman Cancer Research Gala raises $2.5M for McGill

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:33:08 +0000

One in four of world’s big cities water-stressed

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:59:49 +0000

Slowing The Insect Invasion

Wed, 28 May 2014 18:52:36 +0000

Melatonin makes old bones stronger

Mon, 26 May 2014 14:22:56 +0000

Cole Foundation gives $700,000

Fri, 16 May 2014 17:12:36 +0000

McGill researchers receive $3.3M in federal funding

Fri, 16 May 2014 14:32:17 +0000

Students win international competition

Thu, 15 May 2014 17:43:03 +0000

McGill participe au 82e Congrès de l’Acfas

Thu, 08 May 2014 18:36:48 +0000

What doesn’t kill you may make you live longer

Thu, 08 May 2014 15:13:09 +0000

Neutron star magnetic fields: not so turbulent?

Tue, 06 May 2014 14:54:24 +0000

Over $3.7M awarded to McGill researchers

Thu, 01 May 2014 16:46:15 +0000

Like puzzle pieces, 3D genomics offers key to disease

Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:25:37 +0000

14 individuals to receive honorary degree from McGill

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:36:11 +0000

Prostate cancer treatment: a more effective approach

Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:56:29 +0000

The scent of a man

Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:07:07 +0000

Paying closer attention to attention

Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:05:37 +0000

Couillard Cabinet:

Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:33:53 +0000

Pain curbs sex drive in female mice, but not in males

Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:09:24 +0000

Researchers aim to improve health of children in Ghana

Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:33:26 +0000

Antibiotics improve growth in children

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:55:39 +0000

Is global warming just a giant natural fluctuation?

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:24:46 +0000

Statement on the death of Mr. Jim Flaherty

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:58:55 +0000

Researchers find that influenza has an Achilles’ Heel

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:54:11 +0000

How our immune system kills abnormal blood cells

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:58:02 +0000

What songbirds tell us about how we learn

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:43:47 +0000

McGill Principal congratulates Philippe Couillard

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 02:01:34 +0000

McGill, a partner for Montreal

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:57:11 +0000

Plugged in but powered down

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:49:37 +0000

Whole-genome sequencing as part of newborn screening?

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:45:35 +0000

Malaysian Airlines: message of condolences

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:14:57 +0000

Making life simpler for control freaks

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:37:41 +0000

How the brain recognizes familiar music

Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:57:37 +0000

Tracking eating habits to promote healthier diets

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:55:37 +0000

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:05:19 +0000

No medicinal cannabis for rheumatology patients

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:55:07 +0000

Global warming felt to deepest reaches of ocean

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:30:07 +0000

Biodiverse agriculture as part of a food-secure future

Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:28:27 +0000

Federal budget: Increased university research funding

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:49:01 +0000

Study untangles divergent U.S. job-tenure patterns

Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:05:00 +0000

NSERC celebrates McGill research

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 02:20:06 +0000

Does vaccinating one sexual partner benefit the other?

Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:51:29 +0000

Glass that bends but doesn’t break

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:39:27 +0000

Diabetes: We are in it together

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:29:13 +0000

When nanotech meets quantum physics in one dimension

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:10:40 +0000

Petrocultures 2014: Oil, Energy, and Canada’s Future

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:23:16 +0000

Nahum Sonenberg awarded prestigious Wolf Prize

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:34:02 +0000

Michael A. Meighen named 19th Chancellor of McGill 

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:47:02 +0000

How metabolism and brain activity are linked

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:58:11 +0000

Taking on the “big data” challenge

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:23:02 +0000

Resisting the flu

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:06:35 +0000

McGill Announces Winner of Bloomberg Manulife Prize

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:02:37 +0000

Statement on the death of Edgar M. Bronfman

Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:49:01 +0000

McGill Holiday story suggestions

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:11:33 +0000

Health spending: more efficient for men than women

Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:08:29 +0000

Groundbreaking discovery in deadly childhood cancer

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:34:42 +0000

You are what your father eats

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:11:35 +0000

McGill salutes the memory of Nelson Mandela

Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:19:29 +0000

McGill welcomes the official creation of the MESRST

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 21:27:07 +0000

Deep-sea study reveals cause of 2011 tsunami

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:57:24 +0000

Dads: how important are they?

Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:35:02 +0000

McGill's performance 'remarkable,' says Principal

Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:09:51 +0000

Target identified for a public health risk parasite

Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:21:43 +0000

Detecting Twitter users’ gender, en français

Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:05:35 +0000

A brain reward gene influences food choices

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:29:53 +0000

Canadians lukewarm about protection of human rights

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:24:35 +0000

Anne Applebaum wins 2013 Cundill Prize

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:07:36 +0000

Mike Babcock to receive honorary doctorate from McGill

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:47:36 +0000

Every breath you take

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:34:02 +0000

Quartier de l’innovation Board members announced 

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:29:12 +0000

Schulich Leader Scholarships reward excellence, service

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:46:43 +0000

Special guests to attend McGill installation

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:38:15 +0000

McGill Principal congratulates mayor-elect of Montreal

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:02:24 +0000

Heather Munroe-Blum to receive honorary degree

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:15:49 +0000

McGill top university in Canada for 9 consecutive years

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:18:33 +0000

  Installation of McGill Principal and Vice-Chancellor

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:59:26 +0000

Phil Gold and Michel Tremblay Prix du Québec recipients

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:29:17 +0000

Library acquires important collection on Voltaire

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:30:57 +0000

Sharing the power of the crowd

Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:00:02 +0000

New partnership with Chinese university

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:46:14 +0000

Finalists: Cundill Prize in Historical Literature

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:59:50 +0000

Lower cost dental services move to heart of downtown

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:12:24 +0000

McGill welcomes National Research and Innovation Policy

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:02:56 +0000

McGill discovery should save wheat farmers millions

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:21:34 +0000

Statement on the death of Paul Desmarais Sr.

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:28:46 +0000

Merck Canada awards $4 M to Faculty of Medicine

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:45:14 +0000

McGill hosts international symposium on pain

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:23:06 +0000

BAnQ and McGill sign a partnership agreement

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:46:47 +0000

2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:22:26 +0000

World-leading expert on pain genetics joining McGill

Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:05:59 +0000

Heart attacks in young women - not all have chest pain

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:25:42 +0000

McGill receives $1.5-million gift to bolster humanities

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:27:06 +0000

How birds got their wings

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:00 +0000

McGill statement on proposed charter of values

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:48:33 +0000

Building bridges across the Pacific

Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:25:22 +0000

Beijing clean-water program offers lessons for cities

Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:41:43 +0000

McGill among top 25 universities for 10th year

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:17:00 +0000

How to map cell-signaling molecules to their targets

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:44:38 +0000

DNA ‘cages’ may aid drug delivery

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:49:04 +0000

Nanoscale “cages” made from strands of DNA can encapsulate small-molecule drugs and release them in response to a specific stimulus, McGill University researchers report in a new study.

The research, published online Sept. 1 in Nature Chemistry, marks a step toward the use of biological nanostructures to deliver drugs to diseased cells in patients. The findings could also open up new possibilities for designing DNA-based nanomaterials.

RNA double helix structure identified using synchrotron

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:34:41 +0000

Morphing manganese

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:18:10 +0000

Putting sleep disorders to bed

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:55:16 +0000

A new role for sodium in the brain

Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:06:54 +0000

Alcoholism: effects on the brain's dopamine system

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:07:29 +0000

New network in medical physics

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:01:06 +0000

Understanding the effects of genes on human traits

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:09:55 +0000

Quantum of sonics: Bonded, not stirred

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:25:27 +0000

Keeping your balance

Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:37:40 +0000

How to make preclinical animal research more effective

Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:03:33 +0000

"I may have an erection but I’m just not that into it"

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:49:32 +0000

McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA in world's Top 30

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:32:11 +0000

How cranberries impact infection-causing bacteria

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:32:05 +0000

New avenue for improved treatment of cystic fibrosis

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:50:12 +0000

Genomic atlas of gene switches in plants

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:32:28 +0000

How the body aids and abets the spread of cancer

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:48:42 +0000

McGill and RIKEN to establish joint research centre

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:35:21 +0000

Making hydrogenation greener

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:02:40 +0000

Fighting one of the leading causes of death in Canada

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:02:08 +0000

Donor generosity changes lives

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000

Study points to role of nervous system in arthritis

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:14:47 +0000

Study of oceans’ past raises worries about their future

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:11:50 +0000

McGill Principal honoured by the University of Glasgow

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:04:03 +0000

Chancellor Steinberg named to Order of Quebec

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:29:35 +0000

How does inbreeding avoidance evolve in plants?

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:39:41 +0000

How do immune cells detect infections?

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:09:08 +0000

Childhood abuse leaves marks in the brain

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:07:45 +0000

Mother’s education impacts depression in her children

Fri, 31 May 2013 14:31:10 +0000

$1.1 million gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Thu, 30 May 2013 18:03:44 +0000

A New Kind of Cosmic Glitch

Wed, 29 May 2013 17:19:46 +0000

Calcium supplements linked to longer lifespans in women

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:02:42 +0000

Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic and life on Mars

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16:40 +0000

$58 million pledge for Rossy Cancer Network

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:07:38 +0000

A dozen outstanding individuals to get honorary degrees

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:26:35 +0000

A district dedicated to innovation

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:25:40 +0000

New chair enhances McGill ties to India

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:22:47 +0000

New Canadian guidelines for treating fibromyalgia

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:19:00 +0000

Decreased Risk of death for children on dialysis

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:59:57 +0000

Ethics and social utility of early-phase drug testing

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:36:24 +0000

UPDATE: Fire on Gault Nature Reserve

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:48:49 +0000

TELUS Health, McGill announce research partnership

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:37:29 +0000

McGill joins The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:26:39 +0000

$5 million gift strengthens interfaith scholarship

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:17:00 +0000

The right amount of vitamin D for babies

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:53:11 +0000

Rare galaxy found furiously burning fuel for stars

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:30:58 +0000

Lazy-eye disorder -- a promising therapeutic approach

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:57:09 +0000

Innovative pediatrics project in personalized health

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:33:38 +0000

McGill food and dining to serve sustainable seafood

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:58:50 +0000

A step toward optical transistors?

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:29:17 +0000

HIV Self-testing:key to controlling the global epidemic

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:52:13 +0000

Bringing climate-change lessons out of the lab

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:56:52 +0000

Only fifteen minutes of fame?

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:19:14 +0000

Major health benefits of music uncovered

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:41:02 +0000

Investment in universities make Canada more competitive

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:30:49 +0000

The U15 responds to 2013 federal budget

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:07:02 +0000

Budget: McGill welcomes renewed support for research

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:17:03 +0000

Family dinners nourish mental health in adolescents

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:26:07 +0000

Nine McGill researchers among recent CRCs announced

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:31:44 +0000

Challenge of Developing Countries from the Bottom-up

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:21:21 +0000

ALMA rewrites history of Universe's stellar baby boom

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:08:37 +0000

Mouskouri, Barré-Sinoussi to receive honorary degrees

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:59:54 +0000

Reducing effects of traumatic events

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:07:12 +0000

Meetings with Books: Raymond Klibansky

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:48:16 +0000

Democracy, Human Rights and the Fragility of Freedom

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:46:00 +0000

Rapid, point-of-care tests for Syphilis

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:15:52 +0000

McGill researchers to help make electric cars cheaper

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:50:19 +0000

McGill researchers receive prestigious NSERC award

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:06:28 +0000

Macroweather is what you expect

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:05:14 +0000

Feeding McGill project wins prize

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:06:32 +0000

McGill groups unite to denounce cuts to universities

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:20:46 +0000

McGill partners with edX to offer open online courses

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:11:53 +0000

Gains made towards treatment of rare bone disease

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:23:59 +0000

Eye movements reveal impaired reading in schizophrenia

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:46:14 +0000

Chronic pain alters DNA marking in the brain

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:25:05 +0000

Global governments’ failure to support family policies

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:45:58 +0000

McGill, ÉTS announce collaborative aerospace projects

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:32:34 +0000

Few women, visible minorities among top decision makers

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:56:23 +0000

Making mobile robots work together

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:30:44 +0000

Heart valve disease linked to unusual cholesterol

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:15:10 +0000

Lifting Off and Flying High: Talent, Success in Canada

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:20:08 +0000

McGill Principal receives prestigious leadership award

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:57:48 +0000

Media Advisory: Flood update

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:24:28 +0000

Lupus drugs carry no significant cancer risk

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:42:02 +0000

Facing life after death

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:18:33 +0000

Dietary shifts driving up phosphorus use

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:28:24 +0000

Investing in the future

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:56:53 +0000

Foot soldiers of the immune system

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:17:26 +0000

McGill launches major study on prevention of HPV

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:57:39 +0000

Cellular fuel gauge may restrict cancer growth

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:57:38 +0000

McGill honoured in Quebec Science’s 2012 breakthroughs

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:36:07 +0000

How embryos scale vertebrae

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:24:51 +0000

The Green Revolution is wilting

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:26:28 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Holiday sources

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:55:11 +0000

Wallace’s century-old map of natural world updated

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:47:13 +0000

McGill credit rating confirmed by S&P

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:00:40 +0000

$1-million gift for new Korea Foundation Professorship

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:57:26 +0000

McGill announces winner of Bloomberg Manulife Prize

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:36:43 +0000

Reconsider lotto tickets as holiday gifts for minors

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:51:46 +0000

Mining ancient ores for clues to early life

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:48:22 +0000

An analysis of sulfide ore deposits from one of the world’s richest base-metal mines confirms that oxygen levels were extremely low on Earth 2.7 billion years ago, but also shows that microbes were actively feeding on sulfate in the ocean and influencing seawater chemistry during that geological time period.

14 Montréal personalities join QI

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:27:05 +0000

A better way to make chemicals?

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:57:06 +0000

Bulk solvents, widely used in the chemical industry, pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. As a result, there is growing interest in avoiding their use by relying on “mechanochemistry” – an energy-efficient alternative that uses high-frequency milling to drive reactions. Because milling involves the intense impact of steel balls in rapidly moving jars, however, the underlying chemistry is difficult to observe.

Golden Violin awarded to Baptiste Rodrigues

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:02:39 +0000

Stephen Platt wins 2012 Cundill Prize at McGill

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:55:44 +0000

Newly discovered effects of vitamin D on cancer

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:44:59 +0000

New hope for understanding autism spectrum disorders

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:55:24 +0000

Study reveals clues to cause of hydrogen embrittlement

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:25:05 +0000

Partnership agreements signed

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:45:58 +0000

Study sheds light on genetic “clock” in embryonic cells

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:03:49 +0000

New cause of thyroid hormone deficiency discovered

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:50:09 +0000

Renowned Quebec scientist to head the Neuro

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:09:43 +0000

Guy Rouleau appointed director of The Neuro

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:33:25 +0000

Study reveals challenge for chip designers of future

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:39:43 +0000

Philanthropist Lorne Trottier makes transformative gift

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:46:01 +0000

McGill hosts Remembrance Day ceremony

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:41:39 +0000

McGill tops Maclean’s ranking for 8th year in a row

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:55:50 +0000

Media reminder: Fall Convocation Ceremonies on Oct. 31

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:42:11 +0000

Short list announced: Cundill Prize at McGill

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:07:54 +0000

Photojournalism: Then and Now

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:25:56 +0000

Marine sponges advance cystic fibrosis research

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:53:25 +0000

Michael Meighen and Daniel Lamarre honoured

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:17:44 +0000

Key funding for ground-breaking epigenetics research

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:50:04 +0000

International students essential to Quebec’s prosperity

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:17:30 +0000

Report finds no evidence of research misconduct

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:46:44 +0000

Study advances understanding of volcanic eruptions

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:45:48 +0000

Engineering a better future for McGill students

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:06:29 +0000

Six new Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:47:48 +0000

Study of research-paper submissions sheds new light

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:58:20 +0000

McGill Mini-Med examines acute care medicine

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:12:21 +0000

McGill researchers link mutation to psychiatric disease

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:52:20 +0000

Early life adversity affects broad regions of brain DNA

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:41:24 +0000

Cundill Prize in History at McGill 2012 long list

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:19:14 +0000

Human Rights Lecture: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:54:19 +0000

McGill researchers explore big questions about universe

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:58:06 +0000

Quebec government recognizes neuroscience partnership

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:44:07 +0000

Is a dignified death at home asking too much?

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:45:21 +0000

McGill's Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellows

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:42:05 +0000

Treating ovarian cancer: new pathways through genetics

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:10:41 +0000

I want to ride my bicycle… and breathe cleaner air

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:28:51 +0000

McGill Principal appointed to NYAS President's Council

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:51:35 +0000

When Art and Law Meet

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:00:35 +0000

McGill to partner with Israeli research institutions

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:39:28 +0000

Boomers and beyond

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:58:16 +0000

Desautels students to benefit from markets software

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:21:26 +0000

How genetics shape our addictions

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:14:56 +0000

McGill places 18th in QS World University Rankings

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:02:10 +0000

Transformative investment signals start of new era

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:26:35 +0000

Vanier scholarships bring the world to McGill

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:53:35 +0000

Medical training: Clarifications from McGill

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:05:53 +0000

Vitamin B12 deficiency: tracking the genetic causes

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:29:51 +0000

MEDIA ADVISORY: McGill prepares to put together biggest fruit salad ever

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:06:33 +0000

Newly-discovered Phoenix Cluster sets record pace for creating stars

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Coordinated protein breakdown and synthesis: a key to healthy growth of cells

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:52:42 +0000

Unlocking a major secret of the brain

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:52:11 +0000

Groundwater footprint highlights challenging global water situation

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:17:33 +0000

McGill and Intellectual Ventures partner on new inventions

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:41:14 +0000

Caffeine may ease Parkinson's symptoms

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:10:00 +0000

New cause of child blindness identified

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:38:25 +0000

Can protected tropical forest reserves prevent a biodiversity collapse?

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:06:48 +0000

Decoding the secrets of balance

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:41:27 +0000

Why do anti-hunger and anti-obesity initiatives always fall short?

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:39:24 +0000

McGill’s spending on security responsible and effective

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:09:37 +0000

Vanier scholarships bring the world to McGill to help shape the future

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:50:02 +0000

CREATE grants will help McGill build on leadership in green chemistry, medical imaging

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:55:33 +0000

Illegal marijuana used by 10 per cent of fibromyalgia patients

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:03:14 +0000

McGill researchers discover the cause of an inherited form of epilepsy

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:09:00 +0000

Developing a better potato for indigenous communities in Colombia

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:46:28 +0000

Lessons for U.S. but also for Canada in report on U.S. universities

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:03:35 +0000

Ethics framework urged to manage conflicts of interest in medicine

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:11:16 +0000

Promising tool to combat cachexia-induced muscle wasting discovered

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:38:50 +0000

McGill confers honorary degrees on renowned sociologist and bass-baritone

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:02:02 +0000

McGill discovery: Alzheimer’s drugs make bones stronger

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:39:44 +0000

SSHRC grants to McGill researchers put youth first

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:18:01 +0000

McGill confers honorary degrees on Edgar Miles Bronfman and André Desmarais

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:42:09 +0000

$29 million from NSERC to support McGill researchers

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:20:40 +0000

Loss of biodiversity increasingly threatens human well-being

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:04:10 +0000

McGill confers honorary degrees on Alzheimer’s researcher and Montreal business leaders

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:17:59 +0000

McGill’s Dept. of Jewish Studies receives $1 million gift

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:55:16 +0000

McGill confers honorary degrees on longest-serving speaker of the House, Nobel laureate and business leader

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:01:31 +0000

McGill confers honorary degrees on Robert Wares and Julian Adams

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:57:54 +0000

McGill confers honorary degree on Kanayo F. Nwanze

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:56:36 +0000

McGill researcher helps NASA open a new window on the universe

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:57:20 +0000

Canada poised to become world leader in next-generation biofuel development

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:56:35 +0000

Study provides new insights into structure of heart muscle fibres

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:57:03 +0000

McGill explores possible move for football team to Ontario league in 2013

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:35:42 +0000

Herschel Space Observatory study reveals galaxy-packed filament

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:55:03 +0000

One step closer to the Quartier de l’innovation

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:58:51 +0000

Cole Foundation injects $1 million to bolster pediatric leukemia research in Montreal

Fri, 11 May 2012 19:14:06 +0000

Elderly women with irregular heartbeat at higher risk for stroke

Fri, 11 May 2012 19:15:00 +0000

Biologists turn back the clock to understand evolution of sex differences

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:46:44 +0000

Rethinking Research Ethics: Researchers Challenge Post-marketing Trial Practices

Thu, 03 May 2012 21:08:07 +0000

Ecosystem effects of biodiversity loss could rival impacts of climate change and pollution

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:19:51 +0000

Primary-care advocate takes helm of Family Medicine

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:54:30 +0000

McGill strengthens academic ties with Brazil

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:25:38 +0000

New study sheds light on debate over organic vs. conventional agriculture

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:49:45 +0000

Taking it all in: revealing how we sense things

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:43:41 +0000

Letting go can boost quality of life

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:29:34 +0000

How common is off-label drug prescription?

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:52:12 +0000

Scotiabank funds conference room, fellowships for business students

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:17:41 +0000

Detecting breast cancer’s fingerprint in a droplet of blood

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:31:27 +0000

$7.6 million for the McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Darwin in the genome

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:25:44 +0000

Dr. Mark Wainberg awarded 2012 Killam Prize in Health Sciences

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:44:19 +0000

The new frontier: online support for those who self-injure

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:37:00 +0000

South Pole Telescope data shedding light on dark energy

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:04:44 +0000

CIBC scholarships to benefit McGill students

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:31:20 +0000

Occupy This: Exploring the Occupy Movement

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:24:35 +0000

Reintegration of work life remains an important issue for Canadian mothers and public policy

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:29:32 +0000

McGill’s Institute of Islamic Studies receives $1.25 M gift from State of Qatar

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:48:42 +0000

Study suggests new way to treat chronic pain

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:12:14 +0000

From campus to consumer: rewarding ideas with winning potential

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:32:16 +0000

Provincial budget: McGill welcomes essential funding for restoration of historical academic building

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:32:10 +0000

Mining and Corporate Social Responsibility: McGill University conference

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:08:18 +0000

The Walrus and McGill return to the Segal Centre

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:08:05 +0000

Charles Taylor at 80: An international conference

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:08:00 +0000

Media advisory: Ouch! The science of pain from onset to relief

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:52:33 +0000

Nine McGill researchers appointed Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:52:37 +0000

Fielding questions about climate change

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:52:45 +0000

Passing of Madeleine Parent: McGill salutes a great activist

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:52:24 +0000

The shape of things to come

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:52:15 +0000

“Two steps” ahead in cystic fibrosis research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:51:53 +0000

McGill and Freie Universität Berlin team up

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:52:04 +0000

McGill researchers crack degeneration process that leads to Alzheimer’s

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:51:45 +0000

Pond hockey heats up

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:51:41 +0000

Crime and the Law: The Future of Justice in Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:51:23 +0000

Desautels student Mia Morisset wins HSBC Women in Business Leadership Award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:51:33 +0000

McGill graduate pledges $1.5 million to support global food security efforts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:51:11 +0000

From extreme cold to mining returns, it’s all about math

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:50:59 +0000

How accurate are rapid flu tests?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:50:49 +0000

Hold the salt: coastal drinking water more vulnerable to water use than climate change

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:50:41 +0000

The beat goes on: the geometry that makes music pleasing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:50:32 +0000

Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:50:21 +0000

Genetic breakthrough for brain cancer in children

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:50:11 +0000

McGill University’s Life Sciences Complex earns LEED Gold certification

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:49:54 +0000

McGill University’s Life Sciences Complex earns LEED Gold certification

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:49:57 +0000

Exploring how a parent’s education can affect the mental health of their offspring

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:49:46 +0000

Supporting Innovation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:49:26 +0000

Saliva HIV test passes the grade

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:49:36 +0000

Solving the mystery of an old diabetes drug that may reduce cancer risk

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:49:15 +0000

Four McGill discoveries among Québec Science magazine’s top 10 of 2011

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:48:52 +0000

Tribal Nova and McGill develop interactive and participative reading method in conjunction with HarperCollins Publishers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:49:00 +0000

Back to the future: Supersoldier ants illuminate evolution

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:48:48 +0000

How do we split our attention?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:48:38 +0000

Glacial tap is open but the water will run dry

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:48:29 +0000

In hot water: Ice Age findings forecast problems

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:48:20 +0000

Tireless research reveals secrets of the “sleep hormone”

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:48:10 +0000

Lotteries worldwide encourage adults to give responsibly

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:47:52 +0000

Researchers develop one of the world’s smallest electronic circuits

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:47:41 +0000

Video game players advancing genetic research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:47:22 +0000

Budding scientists explore their career options at Discovery Day

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:47:04 +0000

Principal Munroe-Blum recognized as a top public sector leader

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:47:30 +0000

McGill Announces Inaugural Winner of Bloomberg Manulife Prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:46:55 +0000

Gene acts as a brake on breast cancer progression

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:46:47 +0000

Drug-resistant Hepatitis C

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:46:38 +0000

Gerald Bronfman Centre turns 20

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:46:24 +0000

A new model for understanding biodiversity

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:46:18 +0000

Douglas Institute appoints new executive director

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:16:31 +0000

Padre Pio wins the 2011 Cundill Prize in History at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:46:02 +0000

Fabulous foursome to garner honorary degrees at fall convocation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:52 +0000

New target identified to stop the spread of breast cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:42 +0000

The public face of science at McGill gets a major boost

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:33 +0000

We are what we eat. We eat what we believe ... And what we believe may protect us against obesity

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:26 +0000

Adolescent amphetamine use linked to permanent changes in brain function and behaviour

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:17 +0000

McGill makes notable jump in Times Higher Education rankings for Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:01 +0000

Nahum Sonenberg to receive 41st Rosenstiel Award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:58 +0000

McGill tops Maclean’s ranking for seventh straight year

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:49 +0000

McGill announces trio shortlisted for $75,000 U.S. Cundill writing prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:46 +0000

Harsh discipline fosters dishonesty in young children

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:43 +0000

Your DNA may carry a ‘memory’ of your living conditions in childhood

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:27 +0000

Two health care giants named to Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for 2012

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:32 +0000

Major gift from Macdonald Stewart Foundation
bolsters water resource management studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:22 +0000

McGill Named to Canada’s Top 100 Employers and Most Admired Corporate Culture lists

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:51 +0000

McGill awarded 15 new CRCs, eight chairs renewed

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:43 +0000

Feeding the world while protecting the planet

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:36 +0000

David Eidelman named Dean of Medicine and Vice-Principal (Health Affairs)

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:46 +0000

OCD Awareness Week: Lack of expertise on OCD putting sufferers at risk, says world-renowned expert

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:28 +0000

Crab pulsar beams most energetic gamma rays ever detected from a pulsar

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:20 +0000

McGill makes big jump in prestigious Times Higher university rankings

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:03 +0000

Dr. Ralph Steinman’s work on immune system  celebrated by Nobel Prize Committee

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:06:55 +0000

McGill ranks third in coveted national employer survey

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:06:46 +0000

Understanding the metabolism of the Arctic landscape

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:06:38 +0000

Rémillard family establishes the Yosh Taguchi Chair in Urology

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:06:28 +0000

Canadian Academy of Health Sciences appoints eight new Fellows from McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:06:14 +0000

Vacuum-like device makes cellular exploration easier

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:05:58 +0000

The voters have spoken: Greatest McGillians are Chang, Cohen and Rutherford

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:05:45 +0000

McGill researchers awarded highest number of newly inaugurated fellowships

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:05:33 +0000

Scientific Lifetime Achievement Recognized: Francis Glorieux Chair in Pediatric Musculoskeletal Research

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:05:22 +0000

Nursing care in a virtual world

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:05:11 +0000

McGill listed 17th in QS World University Rankings

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:56 +0000

What songbirds have to ‘say’ about human speech

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:46 +0000

Statement by McGill University’s Principal  on the death of Jack Layton, BA’71

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:36 +0000

McGill University statement on Desautels MBA program

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:26 +0000

The grass is always greener

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:20 +0000

Research on TB tests prompts first-ever WHO negative policy

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:09 +0000

25 McGill-based Vanier scholars to research outer space, diseases and disorders, and social issues

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:59 +0000

Home is where the healthy meal is

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:52 +0000

Spare the rod and develop the child

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:45 +0000

Here come the medical tools of the future

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:36 +0000

No room for inaccuracy in the brain

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:22 +0000

Montreal researchers awarded for pioneering research into music and brain plasticity

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:30 +0000

A toothy grin only a palaeontologist could love

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:15 +0000

McGill Law places 12th in the world in QS World University Rankings

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:04 +0000

Creative ideas to tackle disease, child labour among innovative projects rewarded

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:56 +0000

McGill entrepreneurs create socially innovative startups

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:54 +0000

To walk or not to walk? That is the question

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:47 +0000

Parasitic worms: A hidden global health threat

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:40 +0000

Evolution to the rescue

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:32 +0000

Green Chemistry Summer School at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:25 +0000

McGill University, IBM develop Quebec’s most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputer cluster

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:17 +0000

McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine formalizes its agreement with the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:09 +0000

Research Institute of the MUHC awarded $1.4M grant for Innovative Medicine

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:00 +0000

Lifelong gap in health between rich and poor set by age twenty

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:57 +0000

Expert Alert: Quebec measles outbreak worsens

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:51 +0000

Protein folding made easy

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:41 +0000

Pierre Beaudoin and Heather Munroe-Blum will head up Centraide Campaign 2011

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:31 +0000

Eye on the environment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:01 +0000

Building a better dam map

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:23 +0000

A Joint Message from Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum and MUHC Director-General and CEO, the Hon. Arthur T. Porter

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:13 +0000

The Greatest McGillian of all time:  190 years in the making

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:00:56 +0000

Better weather forecasting – now

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:15:37 +0000

Counting on bigger mining returns

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:15:27 +0000

Rethinking endangered plants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:15:14 +0000

New website aims to help prevent cyber-bullying, promote digital citizenship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:58 +0000

Enlarged prostate: decade-long study demonstrates immediate and long-term benefits of holmium laser treatment

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:43:26 +0000

Law student wins prestigious $180,000  Trudeau Foundation Scholarship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:43:20 +0000

No pain. Big gain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:43:12 +0000

New $50,000 Bloomberg Manulife Prize  to promote research into active lifestyles

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:43:03 +0000

Cole Foundation injects $700,000 into childhood cancer research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:56 +0000

The power of placebos

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:51 +0000

Serendipity leads to life-saving discovery

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:44 +0000

Successful first year for new program  in Sustainability, Science and Society

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:37 +0000

National Bank Financial Group and McGill’s Desautels Faculty, partners in supporting tomorrow’s entrepreneurs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:16 +0000

Sean Ferguson named Dean of Schulich School of Music at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:27 +0000

New blood test for Alzheimer’s

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:41:52 +0000

Shatner to be awarded honorary degree

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:01 +0000

Mortimer Zuckerman to be awarded honorary degree

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:41:44 +0000

Rosalind, Morris Goodman to be awarded honorary degrees

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:41:37 +0000

Leading scientist and McGill alumnus helps launch Chair in Food Safety

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:41:34 +0000

Introducing the world’s first intubation robot

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:41:25 +0000

McGill profs who challenge long-held perceptions win prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:41:15 +0000

Filters that reduce ‘brain clutter’  identified

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:59 +0000

New sensor glove may help stroke patients recover mobility

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:55 +0000

Prevention key to a future of Bright Smiles

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:48 +0000

New sensor glove may help stroke patients recover mobility

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:44 +0000

World's reef fishes tussling with human overpopulation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:37 +0000

Repulsion more important than cohesion  in embryonic tissue separation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:28 +0000

Men who lose their jobs at greater risk of dying prematurely

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:19 +0000

Quartier de l’innovation: an urban development project connected to the world

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:15 +0000

Deep-sea volcanoes don’t just produce  lava flows, they also explode!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:00 +0000

Good news! Hope makes headlines

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:52 +0000

Enhancing the cultural life of a city:  If you build it, will they come?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:45 +0000

McGill applauds budget moves  to strengthen research funding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:38 +0000

The BCG World Atlas: a world first in the fight against tuberculosis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:34 +0000

Dr. Wagdi Habashi wins prestigious award from Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:25 +0000

“Bilingual” neurons may reveal the secrets of brain disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:15 +0000

Treatment for alcohol dependence might work best in certain populations, research suggests

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:09 +0000

McGill disappointed by government’s response on MBA

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:38:56 +0000

Ethicists outline ways to improve risk/benefit estimates in new drug trials

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:38:45 +0000

Baby Boom managers reinventing retirement

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:38:42 +0000

Conflicts-of-interest in drug studies sneaking back into medical journals, say investigators

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:38:35 +0000

Mapping human vulnerability to climate change

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:38:11 +0000

McGill music theorist William Caplin wins Killam Fellowship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:46 +0000

Planning and visualization lead to better food habits

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:41 +0000

Producing clean water in an emergency

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:26 +0000

E-health must be a priority, researchers say

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:34 +0000

Bacteria living on old-growth trees  may help forests grow

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:16 +0000

Rita Levi Montalcini awarded honorary degree from McGill at ceremony in Rome

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:01 +0000

Prestigious Sloan Fellowship awarded to McGill neurologist Brian Chen

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:53 +0000

Star genomics researcher takes helm of McGill
and Génome Québec Innovation Centre

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:40 +0000

‘Star’ researcher at McGill nabs Polanyi prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:37 +0000

Desjardins Group Sponsors Trading Room at Desautels Faculty of Management

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:49 +0000

McGill and Welcome Hall Mission launch unique dental clinic

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:29 +0000

Making city streets safer for cycling

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:26 +0000

First new C.difficile drug in a generation superior to existing treatments: researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:13 +0000

Helping feed the world without polluting its waters

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:18 +0000

Smart, happy kids at March break thanks to dinosaurs, origami – and a brand new book

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:59 +0000

McGill to host Black Histories, Black Futures

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:55 +0000

Montreal researchers solve decades-old medical mysteries using genetics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:46 +0000

Gerald Butts, Peter Coughlin, Samuel Minzberg join McGill’s Board of Governors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:36 +0000

New test discovered  to better predict breast cancer outcomes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:25 +0000

Breakthrough on Cystic Fibrosis one step closer as new research alliance formed

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:20 +0000

McGill hockey team receives million-dollar birthday gift

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:16 +0000

McGill awarded $1 million grant to address debilitating parasitic diseases in the developing world

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:48 +0000

Mobile lab takes to the streets

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:38 +0000

McGill researchers to receive more than $3 million in NSERC grants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:28 +0000

McGill, University of Hong Kong forge partnership in cutting-edge medical research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:25 +0000

Research shows single-patient rooms reduce hospital infections in ICU

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:21 +0000

Musical chills: why they give us thrills

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:12 +0000

Green Chemistry breakthrough named one of top discoveries of 2010

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:14:00 +0000

Announcement of an agreement between UQAC and McGill University regarding the implementation of physiotherapeutic training in Saguenay

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:13:50 +0000

‘You’ and Bieber top Xmas Tweet wishlists, but the hippo is closing in

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:13:40 +0000

Lotteries encourage parents to give responsibly this holiday season McGill Centre teams up with the NCPG and industry partners to send responsible gaming message

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:13:32 +0000

McGill researchers prolong worms’ life with banned herbicide

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:13:15 +0000

Major partnership establishes professorship in prevention of dementia and Alzheimer’s

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:13:23 +0000

McGill asked to reinvent the wheel

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:13:00 +0000

Forget Farmville, here’s a game that drives genetic research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:12:43 +0000

Collaboration with metal industry earns McGillians top research grant

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:12:52 +0000

From the birth of the Universe to the end of life, McGill’s Canada Research Chairs will cover it

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:12:35 +0000

McGill University to confer honorary doctorates on Robert Rabinovitch, J. John Cohen

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:12:26 +0000

What if we used poetry to teach computers to speak better?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:11:57 +0000

$3-million gift creates new Chair in Medical Education.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:12:12 +0000

Hepatitis C: is immunity on the horizon?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:11:48 +0000

$1.5 million raised for McGill, Hebrew University collaborations

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:11:40 +0000

Tony Blair celebrates connection with McGill in research on role of religions in public life

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:11:33 +0000

McGill maintains top ranking for sixth straight year

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:11:25 +0000

Caveman behavioural traits might kick in at dinner table before eating

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:11:14 +0000

Pigs reveal secrets: New research shines light on Quebec industry

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:10:58 +0000

Two McGill researchers honoured with 2010 Prix du Québec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:10:47 +0000

1000 Genomes Project publishes analysis of completed pilot phase

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:10:39 +0000

Five Québec next-generation researchers honoured in the “Ça mérite d’être reconnu!” competition

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:10:28 +0000

Two McGill luminaries inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for 2011

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:10:17 +0000

$2.4-million gift from McGill Chancellor kick-starts crucial Healthier Societies Initiative

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:10:00 +0000

Media advisory: Co-ordinator of UN high-level task force to open McGill Food Security Conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:09:51 +0000

Canadian leads publishing of first results from Large Hadron Collider

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:08:53 +0000

$12 million to be invested in genome research at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:09:04 +0000

Provocative new Montreal study probes link between breast cancer and air pollution

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:09:19 +0000

McGill partners with leading Swiss neuroscience research group

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:09:29 +0000

Bedouin tribe reveals secrets to McGill's GA-JOE

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:08:44 +0000

An innovative medical education program in Outaouais: integrated externship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:08:32 +0000

McGill announces three senior appointments

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:08:23 +0000

Media advisory: Dr. Muhammad Yunus to present ‘social business’ vision at McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:08:13 +0000

Striding toward a new dawn for electronics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:07:59 +0000

ICAO and McGill co-host Pre-Assembly Conference on Aviation Sustainability

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:07:49 +0000

Media Advisory: Pow-wow comes to campus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:07:44 +0000

McGill among best law schools for integrated common and civil law program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:07:36 +0000

Your body recycling itself – captured on film

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:07:15 +0000

World’s first transcontinental anesthesia

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:07:01 +0000

McGill again listed among world's top universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:06:52 +0000

The quality and performance of Quebec’s universities is threatened

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:19:04 +0000

Researchers Identify Protein that Fights West Nile Virus

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:56 +0000

Listening to ancient colours

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:09:39 +0000

Water management and malnutrition crucial issues at McGill food conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:07:26 +0000

New study investigates use of soy-rich diet for preventing chronic pain after breast cancer surgery

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:47 +0000

Research demonstrates benefits of medical cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:35 +0000

McGill front and centre at 13th World Congress on Pain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:34:06 +0000

Good Vibrations: new atom-scale products on horizon

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:33:55 +0000

Secrets of 12th-century medicine revealed in the Herbal of al-Ghafiqi

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:33:46 +0000

You could have found a new star with your PC!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:33:38 +0000

Arctic rocks offer new glimpse of primitive Earth

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:33:30 +0000

Inhibiting prostate cancer without disturbing regular body processes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:33:21 +0000

Get viral with the JGH family It’s good for you!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:33:11 +0000

MUHC/McGill Research: the use of invasive procedures ensures better survival in elderly after heart attack

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:33:01 +0000

A breakthrough in tuberculosis research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:55 +0000

Faculty of Medicine puts out call to "non-traditional" applicants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:47 +0000

Study finds structural brain alterations in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:36 +0000

Montreal epidemiological study shows that asthma and eczema sufferers have a lower risk of developing a cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:33 +0000

Unlocking the secrets of cellular energy holds promise for obesity, diabetes and cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:30 +0000

McGill Expert: French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in public

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:18 +0000

Minister Clément Gignac announces a total of $673,800 of financial support to McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:22 +0000

McGill Expert: Rate of Arctic sea ice melt heats up

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:16 +0000

McGill University congratulates former Principal on being named Governor-General of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:08 +0000

McGill health research gets $3.7-million boost

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:11 +0000

McGill Expert: Canada’s prosperity will suffer without national plan for digital literacy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:32:06 +0000

McGill to host second Echenberg Family Conference: The Global Conference on Human Rights and Diverse Societies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:59 +0000

McGill congratulates Order of Canada honorees

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:57 +0000

Research: Major breakthrough will revolutionize the screening and treatment of genetic diseases

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:55 +0000

How do you spell relief? Two more years of pain research for AstraZeneca and McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:50 +0000

First-in-Canada Virtual Health Library established

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:44 +0000

20 years post-Meech, pro-sovereignty rallies much quieter affairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:42 +0000

G8/G20 summits begin Friday, June 25

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:37 +0000

Major expansion announced at the JGH

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:30 +0000

Organic nanoelectronics a step closer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:17 +0000

MUHC brings “house calls” into the 21st century

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:24 +0000

Researchers discover genes which put you at risk for vitamin D deficiency

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:58 +0000

$2.5 million raised at inaugural Goodman Cancer Research Gala

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:03 +0000

Major breakthrough in the diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:31:09 +0000

Hormone replacement patches safer than pills in terms of stroke risk: JGH researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:53 +0000

Could life survive on Mars? Yes, expert says

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:48 +0000

Judes Poirier, McGill University, Douglas Mental Health Institute researcher, awarded a 2010 Genesis Award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:44 +0000

McGill Expert: Labor inductions may be boosting rate of earlier births

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:41 +0000

NSERC honours McGill pair

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:34 +0000

Squirrels show softer side by adopting orphans

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:32 +0000

McGill's "Orphan Drug" research offers hope

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:26 +0000

An important step in the green direction at McGill - University and Ville-Marie Borough make McTavish Street a pedestrian zone

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:19 +0000

McGill team discovers a piece of the puzzle for individualized cancer therapy via gene silencing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:12 +0000

Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance to be held in Montreal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:02 +0000

Banning all gay men from donating blood is unscientific and wrong, say AIDS research pioneers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:54 +0000

Royal recognition for McGill’s very own Victoria

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:44 +0000

Companies better their bottom lines by improving conditions for low-wage workers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:37 +0000

Renowned autism expert to speak at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:34 +0000

Introducing the McGill University Medal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:27 +0000

McGill to recognize outstanding individuals with honorary degrees

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:18 +0000

$150,000 each for 18 promising McGillians

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:01 +0000

McGill Social Work student receives coveted Trudeau scholarship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:10 +0000

Cole Foundation injects $536,000 to bolster leukemia research in Montreal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:55 +0000

Children's brains strained at the Neuro

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:42 +0000

McGill researcher honoured for groundbreaking work in epigenetics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:46 +0000

Ensuring the integrity of the research process

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:52 +0000

Engaging the next generation of medical professionals

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:35 +0000

Severity of binge eating disorder linked to childhood sexual or emotional abuse: JGH researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:27 +0000

American Pain Society bestows prestigious award on pain researcher

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:18 +0000

Quantum move toward next generation computing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:28:13 +0000

Waterpipes: A new pastime for the young

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:22 +0000

Trans-Atlantic agreement a boost to neuroscience research

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:26 +0000

How the Mouse Grimace Scale will help us cope with pain

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:14 +0000

MUHC/McGill Ocular Pathology Laboratory celebrates a decade of progress

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:05 +0000

JGH Director of Nursing wins prestigious award

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:17:57 +0000

JGH researchers help pinpoint osteoporosis genes

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:17:49 +0000

The bivalve effect

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:17:39 +0000

Biochemist unlocks gene’s role in breast-tumour growth

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:17:25 +0000

Eminent pediatrician and geneticist awarded 2010 Pollin Prize

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:17:02 +0000

Media Advisory: Personal and Cultural Enrichment at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:17:19 +0000

McGill Expert: Section of Turcot interchange reduced to one lane due to safety concerns

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:58 +0000

Palliative care: Shedding light on euthanasia

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:54 +0000

McGill’s new food-service provider to be greener, offer more variety

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:45 +0000

$1.7 million keeps McGill on edge

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:35 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Second British Election Debate Tonight

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:27 +0000

Dr. Marla Shapiro named Honorary Chair of inaugural Goodman Cancer Research Gala

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:30 +0000

You had me at hello: frisky yeast know who to ‘shmoo’ after two minutes

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:16 +0000

The geography of human disease and what it tells us about healthcare spending

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:49 +0000

McGill plays important role in new global cancer-research network

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:00 +0000

Shedding light on the dynamics of memory: Researchers find mechanism that maintains memories

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:45 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Second niqab case stirs controversy in Québec

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:40 +0000

U.S. and Russia Sign Nuclear Arms Pact

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:36 +0000

Cutting-edge medical research is on the curriculum at JGH Mini-Med School 2010

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:29 +0000

Pseudoscience: From Quirks to Quacks

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:22 +0000

University hails announcement of winning hospital consortium

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:15:10 +0000

Ten Reasons Why India Will Not and Must Not Become a Superpower

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:14:57 +0000

McGill adds to the ranks of CRCs

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:14:48 +0000

Quebec to levy health fee, raise sales tax

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:14:45 +0000

McGill students brace for subatomic collisions

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:14:36 +0000

Alzheimer’s rat created for human research

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:14:28 +0000

Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:14:03 +0000

New understanding of protein’s role in brain

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:14:18 +0000

High infection rates of tuberculosis among aboriginal groups in Montreal

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:56 +0000

Multilingualism and Globalization in Translation: Trends and Challenges

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:48 +0000

World Tuberculosis Day is March 24

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:45 +0000

The kids are all right: JGH Psychiatry Research Day focuses on supporting families and children

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:38 +0000

McGill Expert: Obama wins epic health-care battle

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:34 +0000

National Geographic puts McGill hydrographer on the map

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:27 +0000

DNA nanotechnology breakthrough offers promising applications in medicine

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:19 +0000

U.S. race relations in the age of Obama

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:03 +0000

McGill professor nationally recognized with 3M Teaching Fellowship

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:53 +0000

Stellar McGill researcher receives Killam research fellowship

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:48 +0000

Lots about clots: Learn how to protect yourself against DVT and embolism at Café Scientifique

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:35 +0000

Three strong earthquakes strike Chile in quick succession

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:26 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Controversy over niqab in Québec

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:21 +0000

Abbott Supports McGill University Nurse Practitioner Programs

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:05 +0000

“Avoid compensatory intentions when dieting,” McGill scientists say

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:11:53 +0000

Low levels of Vitamin D linked to muscle fat, decreased strength in young people

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:11:32 +0000

McGill, Quebec biotech firm partner for new bone-disease treatment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:11:40 +0000

McGill web partner Futurity expands to U.K.

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:11:24 +0000

Habitat corridors maintain biodiversity and healthy ecosystems in fragmented landscapes

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:11:16 +0000

Seeing the hidden services of nature

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:11:02 +0000

Babcock wins gold with McGill tie

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:05:26 +0000

$300,000 CIHR grant awarded to Medicago, the Research Institute of the MUHC and McGill University

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:10:51 +0000

McGill congratulates Olympic medal-winners, competitors

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:10:55 +0000

Prestigious Sloan Fellowship awarded to McGill astrophysicist

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:05:47 +0000

Babcock wins gold with McGill tie

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:05:35 +0000

McGill University reappoints Provost, four Deans, and names a new Dean of Law

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:27:10 +0000

McGill conference to tackle water issues

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:27:00 +0000

Nanotech discovery may green chemical manufacturing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:53 +0000

Media advisory: McGill launches Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:51 +0000

McGill discovery offers hope in diabetes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:45 +0000

Youth who self-identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual at higher suicide risk

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:38 +0000

Parkinson’s disease research uncovers social barrier

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:35 +0000

Some morbidly obese people are missing genes, new research shows

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:07 +0000

Media advisory: Excellence in Research a snapshot of McGill’s leading work

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:17 +0000

New accreditation for the Research Ethics Committee of St Mary’s Hospital Center

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:27 +0000

Double agent: glial cells can protect or kill neurons, vision

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:54 +0000

St. Mary’s Hospital and McGill give family medicine in Quebec a boost

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:03 +0000

Research breakthrough could lead to new treatment for malaria

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:46 +0000

Vitamin D supplements could fight Crohn's disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:39 +0000

Walkerton Tragedy: 10 years of research leads to breakthrough

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:31 +0000

70% of Inuit preschoolers live in food-insecure homes: McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:22 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Haiti Earthquake

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:15 +0000

Retail meat linked to urinary tract infections: strong new evidence

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:04 +0000

Daniel Gagnier and Claude Généreux join McGill’s Board of Governors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:56 +0000

McGill Expert: Magnitude 6.0 quake hits Guatemala coast

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:25:00 +0000

McGill-CHUM study: 56 per cent of young adults in a new sexual relationship infected with HPV

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:54 +0000

McGill Expert: Haiti quake could affect 3 million: official

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:51 +0000

Michael Meaney and Gustavo Turecki receive double honours for their work in epigenetics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:45 +0000

McGill Expert: Cracks in Laval metro tunnels

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:42 +0000

Québec Science gives top marks to McGill, Douglas and JGH researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:30 +0000

JGH discovery opens door to new treatments for prostate, brain and skin cancers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:21 +0000

Parents encouraged to avoid purchasing lottery tickets as gifts for minors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:17 +0000

New protein key for cell proliferation identified by McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:09 +0000

Discovery Day primes Montreal’s youth for a career in health sciences

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:24:00 +0000

McGill partners with Tony Blair Faith Foundation to expand research on religious issues

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:52 +0000

New research suggests climate change solution must focus on technology

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:49 +0000

McGill’s Ron Melzack wins Grawemeyer Award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:45 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Switzerland votes to ban minarets

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:39 +0000

McGill graduate gives $1.2 million for fellowships in Science

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:31 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Bombardier layoffs in Montreal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:27 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: ’Tis the season for Holiday sources

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:18 +0000

Introducing: BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:04 +0000

Raising the Global Floor: Where does Canada rank when it comes to working?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:52 +0000

The independent newspaper: elusive dream or beacon of democracy?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:00 +0000

McGill introduces new Chancellor and bestows Eleanor Wachtel and Richard W. Pound with highest honours

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:43 +0000

Avoiding dangerous climate change: is geo-engineering the answer?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:39 +0000

Remembrance Day Ceremony at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:36 +0000

McGill ranked first for fifth year in a row among Canada's medical-doctoral universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:26 +0000

McGill Expert: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall: the soundtrack of a revolution

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:23 +0000

McGill researchers identify key genetic factors which can lead to cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:12 +0000

The Health Impact Fund: Pharmaceutical Innovation also for the Poor: Dr. Thomas Pogge of Yale University lectures on health care and social justice

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:20 +0000

What is the origin of cosmic rays?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:21:51 +0000

Learning to talk changes the way we hear speech: McGill study

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:22:00 +0000

Presenting TEDxMcGill - Talks for Tomorrow

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:21:43 +0000

McGill hosts global conference on aviation liability

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:21:34 +0000

Bright star researcher gets Prix du Québec nod

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:21:25 +0000

Shortlist announced: Cundill International Prize in History at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:21:16 +0000

Once-in-a-lifetime coincidence offers new hope for lung-disease treatments

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:21:04 +0000

Campaign McGill surpasses $500 million only two years into its public phase

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:20:53 +0000

McGill University’s Brian Alters honored by Royal Society of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:20:48 +0000

$720,000 to fight depression associated with chronic diseases

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:20:39 +0000

McGill continues to be recognized among world’s top universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:20:29 +0000

McGill congratulates its second Nobel-winning alumnus of 2009

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:20:20 +0000

McGill congratulates Nobel-winning alumnus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:20:11 +0000

What's to Eat?: Entrées in Canadian Food History

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:05:14 +0000

New appointee to Order of Canada heads JGH Research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:04:53 +0000

Three McGill researchers to be inducted as RSC Fellows

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:05:01 +0000

Experts gather at McGill to address food security challenges

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:04:43 +0000

President Bill Clinton to receive honorary doctorate from McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:04:31 +0000

Media Advisory: Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:04:21 +0000

$5 million on the Richter scale: McGill-based seismic research network to help protect Canadians from earthquakes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:04:13 +0000

Why is religious literacy important?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:04:03 +0000

Media Advisory: pow-wow comes to campus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:53 +0000

McGill garners 19 Canada Research Chairs and more than $17 million in funding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:44 +0000

McGill joins the ranks of Project Hero

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:40 +0000

McGill Expert: Divisive terror law losing traction

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:26 +0000

Angela Davis on media, race and power

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:30 +0000

McGill Expert - World Alzheimer's Day

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:37 +0000

Longlist announced: 2009 Cundill International Prize in History

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:17 +0000

McGill’s new Integrated Program in Neuroscience: All of McGill neuroscience, together in one location

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:14 +0000

Starving in Guatemala: issues are at top of food conference agenda

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:03:02 +0000

McGill Expert: Reaction: Obama 'racism' row

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:51 +0000

Thirteen young international leaders in Jeanne Sauvé Foundation program promote education, human rights and performing arts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:54 +0000

McGill awarded over $100 million from Knowledge Infrastructure Program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:44 +0000

U.S.-Canada exchange: McGill to benefit from prestigious Fulbright program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:35 +0000

McGill Expert: Legal precedent could be set in Quebec drunk driving case

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:26 +0000

McGill Expert: Obama to speak on healthcare

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:29 +0000

Diabetes advance: Researchers find gene that causes resistance to insulin

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:08 +0000

Brenda Milner wins International Balzan Prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:18 +0000

Underground structures, buildings at risk, city warns

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:03 +0000

Harper warns Liberals against election push

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:01:56 +0000

MILR keeps learning fresh for seniors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:01:49 +0000

Temp work strains employee mental health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:01:42 +0000

Nicholas Kasirer appointed to the Court of Appeal of Quebec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:01:35 +0000

Heavy drinkers face significantly increased cancer risk

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:01:27 +0000

McGill Expert: Critics use Canada to assail Obama's health plan

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:01:16 +0000

Quebec billionaire's ex loses common-law case

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:56 +0000

First trip to moon recreated for Internet generation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:01:06 +0000

$14 million to train the next generation of biomedical researchers at McGill and the MUHC

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:34 +0000

Study reveals major genetic differences between blood and tissue cells

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:44 +0000

McGill-Oxford join in neuroscience partnership

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:28 +0000

Toward a better understanding of the brain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:31 +0000

McGill Expert: Poplars' seeds create mess

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:21 +0000

McGill conference examines impact of economic crisis on the hungry

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:16 +0000

McGill Expert: Canadiens to return to Molson family

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:10 +0000

Backing up your brain: McGill researchers discover how old memories are re-saved and changed

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:01 +0000

McGill University receives almost $63 million under CFI program to support five research projects

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:54 +0000

Another McGill/JGH breakthrough opens door to early Alzheimer's diagnosis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:48 +0000

Leading authority joining McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:42 +0000

US Lags World in Paid Sick Days: Report

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:36 +0000

What is Canadian-style health care really like?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:33 +0000

McGill Expert: Stratospheric balloon telescope launched to unravel secrets of Big Bang

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:31 +0000

Media Expert Alert: Canada getting out of medical isotope production

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:21 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Iranians head to the polls

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:25 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: WHO close to declaring swine flu epidemic

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:14 +0000

HIV-1’s “hijacking mechanism” pinpointed by McGill/JGH researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:08 +0000

McGill nets three of 20 inaugural NSERC CREATE grants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:03 +0000

Three prominent McGillians appointed to the Order of Quebec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:59:00 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Parents on the hook for $11 million for former students’ school arson

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:59:12 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Obama addresses Muslim world

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:31:25 +0000

Common diabetes drug may "revolutionize" cancer therapies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:19:23 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Lost Air France Airbus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:19:16 +0000

National firm and its lawyers give $1 million to support McGill’s Faculty of Law

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:18:53 +0000

McGill University Library becomes first Canadian content provider to participate in Digitize on Demand and Kirtasbooks.com

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:19:01 +0000

National firm and its lawyers give $1 million to support McGill's Faculty of Law

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:18:45 +0000

Dick Pound to preside over his last McGill Convocation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:18:31 +0000

Biodiversity, Climate and Evolution

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:18:38 +0000

Two McGill Scholars awarded prestigious Trudeau prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:18:22 +0000

Buddhism and Islam

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:18:13 +0000

McGill University Library buys rare manuscript of literary pioneer Fanny Burney

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:18:02 +0000

Canada's "Cranberry King" donates $1 million to Macdonald Campus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:17:51 +0000

Alzheimer’s discovery could bring early diagnosis, treatment closer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:17:41 +0000

Faculty of Management benefactor Marcel Desautels receives the Order of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:17:37 +0000

Arnold Steinberg named Chancellor of McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:17:28 +0000

Social Networks, Genes, and Human Nature

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:17:19 +0000

McGill scholars win 3 of 5 top academic prizes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:17:05 +0000

McGILL EXPERT ALERT: China bans imports of pork products from Alberta

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:16:50 +0000

Debt and Slavery: the History of a Process of Enslavement

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:16:56 +0000

Canada’s Kyoto Prize Laureates to Discuss Two Cultures: Humanities and the Sciences

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:16:42 +0000

Laws in Space

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:15:57 +0000

McGill and MCH discovery of cancer spread mechanism picked as “Discovery of the Year”

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:16:08 +0000

Top doctoral students awarded 12 Vanier Scholarships

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:16:22 +0000

How youngsters learn to bien parler

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:15:42 +0000

McGill to bestow 11 exemplary individuals with honorary degrees at Spring Convocation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:15:50 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Mexican Swine Flu Outbreak

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:15:35 +0000

Personality traits contribute to "placebo effect"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:15:28 +0000

Major international study challenges notions of how genes are controlled in mammals

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:15:03 +0000

$4.5 million from NSERC Discovery Grants program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:15:17 +0000

Charlotte Gray on the Truth and Truthiness in Biography

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:56 +0000

Another voice, another bridge? Al Jazeera English and Canada's news spectrum

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:47 +0000

McGill students grab top spots in architecture competition to rebuild New Orleans

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:40 +0000

DNA "tricked" to act as nano-building blocks

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:30 +0000

The challenges of the free press in a free market

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:22 +0000

The CFI awards more than $1.1 million to McGill in support of seven research projects

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:56 +0000

Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:08 +0000

The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:48 +0000

McGill researchers squeeze light out of quantum dots

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:40 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Afghanistan conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:21 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: G20 Summit

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:31 +0000

Montreal stroke survivors needed for study of new therapy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:12:54 +0000

Montreal stroke survivors needed for study of new therapy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:03 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Khmer Rouge trials begin

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:28 +0000

Islam and Evolution

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:12:47 +0000

McGill's new Institute for the Study of International Development to launch with a conference on the future of development

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:12:30 +0000

McGill physicist awarded Killam Research Fellowship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:12:19 +0000

Flaherty to speak about forging economic plan amid financial crisis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:12:08 +0000

MacKay to lead NATO?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:58 +0000

The Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:52 +0000

Vince Li found not criminally responsible for Greyhound killing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:46 +0000

Arrest warrant for al-Bashir

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:58:57 +0000

Two McGill researchers garner prestigious Steacie Fellowships

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:16:34 +0000

To infinity and beyond: space, stars & the universe

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:59:03 +0000

Public Policy in Crisis?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:12:39 +0000

National Blueprint aims to reduce injury and death of older drivers

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:58:43 +0000

McGill professor Grace Marquis and partner awarded International Research Chair

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:58:50 +0000

Peptides-on-demand: McGill researcher’s radical new green chemistry makes the impossible possible

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:58:37 +0000

Nine McGill researchers awarded Canada Research Chairs

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:58:30 +0000

Childhood trauma has life-long effect on genes and the brain

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:58:08 +0000

National announcement of Canada Research Chairs Program

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:58:21 +0000

President Obama in Canada

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:57:49 +0000

McGill recognized for diversity

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:57:56 +0000

Forget the antioxidants? McGill researchers cast doubt on role of free radicals in aging

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:57:40 +0000

Happy Birthday Mr. President!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:57:20 +0000

Climate change and society: It's time to go further

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:57:31 +0000

Mental deficiency: researchers identify gene mutations that affect learning, memory in children

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:57:08 +0000

Leading McGill researchers showcase their work at inaugural exhibition

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:56:57 +0000

Study to test benefits of rTMS therapy after stroke - volunteers needed

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:56:48 +0000

McGill receives $3-million gift to establish research chair in psychosocial oncology

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:56:38 +0000

The geography of hope: we need to move from despair to optimism

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:56:28 +0000

Federal spending on research infrastructure 'most welcome,' McGill principal says

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:56:15 +0000

John Ralston Saul to speak on roots of Canadian Law

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:56:02 +0000

McGill marks landmark Darwin year: Events and experts for 150th anniversary of "On the Origin of Species" and 200th birthday of Charles Darwin

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:55:51 +0000

McGill sets the stage for Open House as changing economy piques interest

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:59 +0000

Researchers discover three genes that increase risk of severe obesity in kids and adults

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:55:16 +0000

Our faces, not just our ears "hear" speech: McGill study

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:55:29 +0000

Pain, it's all in the brain: 13th Annual McGill Pain Day, Jan. 22

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:55:40 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Obama Inauguration

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:55 +0000

New drug holds out promise of normal diet for sufferers of devastating PKU genetic disease

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:47 +0000

McGill researchers discover gene that increases susceptibility to Crohn's disease

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:41 +0000

McGill, MUHC and Douglas researchers get top marks from Québec Science

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:34 +0000

Philippe Couillard appointed Senior Fellow in Health Law at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:26 +0000

Old gastrointestinal drug slows aging, McGill researchers say

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:18 +0000

McGill University Welcomes Ian Brodie

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:12 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Holiday Sources

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:04 +0000

CFI awards $1,155,638 to McGill in support of nine research projects

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:52 +0000

New leadership takes helm of health sciences research at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:58 +0000

Health impact of late preemie births still not well understood: MUHC/McGill expert

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:49 +0000

HM, a memorable amnesiac, dies at 82

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:14:53 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Harper addresses nation

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:42 +0000

Thrombosis patients face greater risks than previously believed: Researchers

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:30 +0000

Plants display "molecular amnesia"

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:36 +0000

Violence in Mumbai

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:23 +0000

McGill researcher on a quest to cure disfiguring parasitic disease

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:17 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Constitutional Crisis

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:10 +0000

Discovery Day primes Montreal's youth for a career in health sciences

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:00 +0000

Meet McGill's two newest Rhodes Scholars

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:52:53 +0000

McGill grad gives $8 million to support doctoral students in Faculty of Engineering

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:52:46 +0000

NSERC recognizes McGill innovation

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:51:31 +0000

McGill announces winner of inaugural Cundill International Prize in History

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:51:53 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Québec Leaders Debate

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:51:26 +0000

Feminist responses to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:58:19 +0000

McGill law professor elected president of the Royal Society of Canada

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:51:20 +0000

McGill researchers garner three of 10 Prix du Québec for 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:58:10 +0000

Worker ants of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your fertility

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:10:47 +0000

Election post-mortem: Did the media do their job?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:10:35 +0000

Galapagos finches yield new evolutionary insights

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:10:43 +0000

Rio Tinto Alcan invests in the future of international arbitration law at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:10:25 +0000

McGill professor awarded grant to continue neuropathy research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:10:08 +0000

McGill again tops Maclean’s university rankings

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:10:21 +0000

Trailblazing pain pioneer Ronald Melzack to be inducted into Medical Hall of Fame

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:09:53 +0000

McGill Experts: Global Financial Crisis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:55 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Québec Votes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:09:42 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Obama Wins

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:09:26 +0000

Acfas honors pair of McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:09:11 +0000

Africans to control own pharma research with boost from McGill, Gates Foundation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:08:54 +0000

The Global Doctor: Scientific Medicine and Social Movements

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:08:25 +0000

Earlier global warming produced a whole new form of life

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:08:12 +0000

McGill physicists find a new state of matter in a "transistor"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:08:00 +0000

Shortlist for largest historical lit prize announced

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:07:52 +0000

Fight against childhood obesity hits home, school and the streets

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:07:35 +0000

McGill Green Revolution 2.5 workshop to boost Gates global food effort

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:07:42 +0000

New wing of Meakins-Christie Laboratories opens its doors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:08:40 +0000

McConnell Foundation continues its legacy of supporting McGill students

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:07:28 +0000

Researchers discover baldness gene: 1 in 7 men at risk

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:07:10 +0000

What is the Origin of Ethics?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:07:20 +0000

Mary Walsh and Sheila Fraser to receive honorary degrees at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:50 +0000

McGill again ranks among world’s top universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:44 +0000

Overweight men face higher risk of dying of prostate cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:36 +0000

McGill and Montreal Matters: Youth

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:32 +0000

McGill University named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:24 +0000

McGill garners 11 Canada Research Chairs and $10 million in funding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:15 +0000

Campus bookstores go pink

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:05:53 +0000

Ethnic conflict stoked by government economic intervention, not globalization: McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:06:02 +0000

McGill Gets Greener Grade in New 'Report Card'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:05:43 +0000

McGill Conference on food crisis lays groundwork for solutions

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:05:35 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Federal election

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:05:25 +0000

Nobel Laureate Carl E. Wieman lectures on science education and physics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:05:14 +0000

Viral “magic bullet” targets cancer cells with help of new compound

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:21 +0000

Goodman gift to bolster cancer research at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:32 +0000

McGill celebrates new era of life sciences research in Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:42 +0000

McGill Life Sciences Complex delivers cutting-edge research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:50 +0000

McGill Life Sciences Complex - Fact Sheet

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:05:00 +0000

Reminder: Memorial for Jackie Kirk, McGill professor slain in Afghanistan

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:55 +0000

McGill conference on Global Food Crisis draws impressive list of international participants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:59 +0000

Herpes drug inhibits HIV in patients infected with both viruses

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:09 +0000

Mini-Biz 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:45 +0000

McGill supports tuition-fee changes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:48 +0000

McGill physician named "Family Medicine Researcher of the Year"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:41 +0000

McGill number theorist and earth scientist to receive Royal Society of Canada awards

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:30 +0000

Teens invited to focus on gambling

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:35 +0000

Six McGill scholars to be inducted as RSC Fellows

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:24 +0000

McGill Neuroscientist's New Book Explores How Music Shaped Civilization

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:18 +0000

Schulich gift boosts agricultural research on eve of McGill conference on food crisis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:02:55 +0000

Cundill International Prize in History longlist announced

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:03 +0000

McGill physicists to help launch world's most powerful particle accelerator

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:03:11 +0000

Remembering Jackie Kirk, McGill professor slain in Afghanistan

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:02:47 +0000

McGill garners nearly $13 million in SSHRC research funding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:58:04 +0000

Heart attack patients who stop statin risk death, say McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:59 +0000

Labour standards: Canada is lagging

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:54 +0000

CFCAS and McGill announce new air quality and climate change research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:49 +0000

Participants wanted for new post-stroke program in Montreal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:44 +0000

McGill student wins Olympic bronze in Beijing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:38 +0000

MUHC, McGill University receive largest-ever CFI research grant

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:33 +0000

U.S.-bound: McGill students receive Fulbright Student Awards

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:30 +0000

McGill Professor to represent Georgia at International Court of Justice

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:25 +0000

McGill fights brain drain, fuels brain gain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:28 +0000

McGill University Library embarks on a large-scale digitization strategy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:22 +0000

Unearthing China's past: Henry Luce Foundation gift supports Anthropology and East Asian Studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:13 +0000

McGill Experts: 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:16 +0000

How "hidden mutations" contribute to HIV drug resistance

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:19 +0000

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation bolsters humanities research at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:09 +0000

Researchers discover cell's "quality control" mechanism

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:04 +0000

St Mary’s Hospital Centre granted its university-affiliated hospital (CHAU) status by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:57:01 +0000

Hope for adults with "lazy eye" disorder, say McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:56 +0000

Men and women programmed differently when it comes to temptation: McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:52 +0000

Gene therapy research in developing world raises ethical red flags: experts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:45 +0000

"Food vs. fuel" debate to be featured at McGill science conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:49 +0000

McGill study shatters myths about postmenopausal pain during sex

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:37 +0000

McGill professor joins leadership of national synchrotron research facility

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:41 +0000

Eleven McGillians appointed to Order of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:29 +0000

Einstein was right, McGill astrophysicists say

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:25 +0000

McGill researchers overcome chemotherapy resistance in the lab

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:21 +0000

Charles Taylor awarded Kyoto Prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:13 +0000

McGill experts to anchor China earthquake conference on June 21

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:17 +0000

McGill conference tackles global food crisis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:08 +0000

Eight McGill researchers awarded Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:03 +0000

Québec Science honours Michel Tremblay and the McGill Cancer Centre

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:56 +0000

Cyber-Bullying: Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom and the Home

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:48 +0000

In a neuromusic state of mind

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:39 +0000

McGill researcher named CIHR Chair in Public Health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:29 +0000

Hip and knee replacement patients not receiving treatment to reduce blood clot risk

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:54:56 +0000

Best and brightest leukemia researchers receive $1-million from Cole Foundation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:26 +0000

Big bangs: researchers uncover secrets of deadly supervolcanoes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:04 +0000

Two McGill doctoral students named Trudeau Scholars

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:18 +0000

McGill welcomes Nobel laureate

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:22 +0000

The 2004 tsunami revisited: reflections after three years

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:54:32 +0000

McGill researchers net $30.5M in NSERC funding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:54:28 +0000

McGill panel to tackle Bouchard-Taylor report

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:54:20 +0000

McGill Experts: Bouchard-Taylor report released today

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:54:07 +0000

Media@McGill hosts Montreal launch of landmark World Bank study

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:53:57 +0000

McGill study links breastfeeding to increased intelligence

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:53:47 +0000

Fewer strokes for focused folks

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:53:38 +0000

World first: researchers develop completely automated anesthesia system

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:53:31 +0000

Campaign McGill reaches $400-million mark

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:53:17 +0000

McGill launches “Best in the West” student award program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:53:23 +0000

Rare genetic disease protects carriers against malaria

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:53:07 +0000

Studying religion: McGill to host regional conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:57 +0000

McGill Experts: Global Food Crisis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:53 +0000

Eleanor Wachtel unveils The Lives of Writers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:44 +0000

McGill scientist named one of world’s best

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:32 +0000

McGill appoints new Dean of Dentistry

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:29 +0000

Very premature babies at higher risk for autism, say McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:20 +0000

Researchers discover gene behind devastating Vitamin B12-related disorder

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:09 +0000

Sudden "ecosystem flips" imperil world's poorest regions, say water experts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:51:58 +0000

"Cut the Red Tape at McGill"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:51:33 +0000

McGill's "Redpath Mansion Mystery" unveiled

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:51:42 +0000

McGill researchers net $1.5M for innovation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:51:49 +0000

Universities: Key Actors in the Global Economy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:51:23 +0000

Encouraging a Fair Vote

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:51:10 +0000

Jekyll-Hyde neutron star discovered by researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:50:49 +0000

McGill researcher short-listed for Herzberg Gold Medal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:50:58 +0000

Two McGill scholars awarded Killam Fellowships

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:50:44 +0000

Canadian radio pioneer Fessenden commemorated with $1.25-million gift

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:09:42 +0000

McGill mourns with NIU

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:42 +0000

Research centre to develop supermaterials for the aerospace industry

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:50 +0000

New Executive Director heads Jeanne Sauvé Foundation and Scholars Program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:58 +0000

McGill contest aims to cut red tape

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:09:31 +0000

Genetic breakthrough supercharges immunity to flu and other viruses

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:24 +0000

Show & Tell for grownups: McGill hosts first-ever research gala

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:33 +0000

TD Bank Financial Group supports management leadership at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:05 +0000

Two McGill alums to boldly go…again!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:15 +0000

How it all began: Relics of the Big Bang

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:58 +0000

McGill and Boeing launch Initiative in Air and Space Law

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:51 +0000

Two McGill School of Nursing graduates honoured by Stephen Harper

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:44 +0000

Maude Barlow to talk on water at annual Founder's Day celebration

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:37 +0000

The Other North America

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:27 +0000

Dragons of hope: Boat racing improves lives of breast cancer survivors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:15 +0000

Mixing pop and politics: Gilberto Gil to speak at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:04 +0000

McGill University names Stuart Cobbett Vice-Chair of Board of Governors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:56 +0000

Sold-out Suzuki lecture anchors sustainability conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:48 +0000

Why your fertility cells must have "radio silence"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:40 +0000

McGill celebrates 28th Annual Management Achievement Awards

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:27 +0000

Dr. Lesley K. Fellows and Dr. Alyson Fournier appointed co-directors of MD-PhD Program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:34 +0000

David Suzuki anchors McGill sustainability conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:17 +0000

Probing Canada’s cultural identity

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:59:06 +0000

Michael Meaney honoured for work in fetal and early childhood development

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:56 +0000

McGill woodsmen have axe to grind

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:43 +0000

McGill viola player goes for gold

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:50 +0000

McGill welcomes all to Open House

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:26 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Heart Month/Valentine’s Day

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:35 +0000

Media Advisory: Retrovirus Evolution

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:18 +0000

Tiny genetic differences have huge consequences: McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:09 +0000

Depression and anxiety can double chances of coronary artery disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:57:58 +0000

Three McGill researchers rank high in Québec Science's "Discoveries of the Year"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:57:49 +0000

Type 1 diabetes triggered by "lazy" regulatory T-cells: McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:57:41 +0000

McGill researchers report breakthrough in rapid malaria detection

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:57:28 +0000

Researchers discover protein that controls bone growth

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:57:18 +0000

Giving lotto tickets to kids not worth the gamble

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:57:04 +0000

Are we American?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:56:52 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Holiday sources

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:56:45 +0000

Canada's first cloned pigs born at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:56:35 +0000

McGill researcher recognized as Young Innovator

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:56:25 +0000

McGill's latest Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:56:13 +0000

Researchers link enzyme to breast cancer malignancy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:56:01 +0000

Website by and for youth to go live on World AIDS Day

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:53 +0000

Environmental researchers propose radical "human-centric" map of the world

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:42 +0000

Oliver Sacks on Music and the Brain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:34 +0000

McGill's Michael B. Reed honoured by CIHR

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:26 +0000

Reporter Q&A: Akbar Ganji

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:18 +0000

Iran, Human Rights, and the Nuclear Question

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:08 +0000

CFI bolsters 22 outstanding McGill research projects

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:01 +0000

An interview with Madeleine Albright

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:54:55 +0000

Protein breakthrough sheds new light on kidney disease, cancer, mental retardation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:54:48 +0000

Covering reasonable accommodation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:54:43 +0000

Talking Management: Montie Brewer makes change happen

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:54:39 +0000

McGill again tops Maclean's University Rankings

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:09:22 +0000

McGill first in Canada, 12th in world rankings

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:08:59 +0000

McGill athletes ranked second in CIS academic prowess

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:09:11 +0000

Media, migration and a changing continent

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:08:50 +0000

Media advisory: Lecture on communities participating in medical research

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:08:40 +0000

Media advisory: Macdonald remembers

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:08:31 +0000

Art and the art of healing

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:08:21 +0000

Podcast: Sheila Fraser and Karl Moore talk about corporate governance

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:08:08 +0000

David Williams and Charles Scriver to receive honorary degrees at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:07:37 +0000

A. Jean de Grandpré to be named Chancellor Emeritus at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:07:46 +0000

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:07:55 +0000

Video game shown to cut cortisol

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:07:19 +0000

Study: Cannabis a double-edged sword

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:07:28 +0000

Podcast: BCE's CEO tells McGill's Karl Moore why everyone needs to be a leader

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:07:06 +0000

Media Advisory: Making a Great City by Design

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:57 +0000

McGill's Margaret Lock awarded SSHRC Gold Medal

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:47 +0000

Media Advisory: The Defense of Omar Khadr in Guantanamo

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:38 +0000

History in the Making

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:05:51 +0000

Senator Michael Meighen gives $5M to McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:01 +0000

John McCall MacBain gives back to McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:18 +0000

McGill receives major donation from Hydro-Québec

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:29 +0000

Four McGill researchers honoured by Acfas

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:05:40 +0000

Study: HPV test beats Pap in detecting cervical cancer

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:04:55 +0000

Changing the global dietary environment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:05:31 +0000

McGill researcher to lead hospital/ community collaboration project

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:05:20 +0000

Divided Cities: Between Hope and Despair

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:05:04 +0000

Rabinovitch reappointed Chair of McGill Board

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:04:44 +0000

Digging for bones in the Quebec savannah

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:04:35 +0000

McGill's Don Smith honoured by Acfas

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:04:25 +0000

Acfas honours McGill's Kaspi

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:04:12 +0000

Moshe Safdie to deliver Azrieli Lecture

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:04:01 +0000

150 Years from Normal

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:03:53 +0000

McGill Reporter Q & A: Roméo Dallaire on McGill Genocide Conference

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:03:47 +0000

McGill Journal of Medicine honoured by 2007 Forces AVENIR

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:03:40 +0000

McGill and Montreal Matters: The Environment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:03:33 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Quy Huy

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:03:25 +0000

Media Reminder: Very special vernissage

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:03:03 +0000

McGill Experts: Breast cancer

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:03:15 +0000

Genocide Prevention: Confronting the Past

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:45 +0000

Community Update: Electrical fire in Currie Gym, Macdonald substation

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:38 +0000

McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management and HEC Montréal launch Québec's first joint EMBA

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:55 +0000

New Wars and the New Media

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:32 +0000

Joe Clark: The World Needs More Canada

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:18 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Michael Sabia

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:26 +0000

Genocide prevention: Hope for the future

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:11 +0000

McGill Experts: Reasonable accommodation

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:01:54 +0000

Sixth annual Pow-wow to highlight education

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:02:03 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Phil LeNir

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:01:44 +0000

Putting the WOW in science education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:49:42 +0000

Media Advisory: ICAO, McGill co-host Global Aviation Conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:49:31 +0000

Breastfeeding does not protect against asthma, allergies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:49 +0000

Twelve McGill researchers awarded Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:39 +0000

What was the spark of life?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:32 +0000

McGill study promises faster-acting anti-depressants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:25 +0000

Better communicators make better doctors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:19 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Sandra Cha

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:10 +0000

McGill experts: Iraq

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:03 +0000

Drug resistance in river blindness

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:56 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Pierre Beaudoin

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:50 +0000

Princeton Review gives McGill high marks

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:44 +0000

Our neighbour, the neutron star

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:38 +0000

ICAO, McGill co-host global aviation conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:30 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Amrita Nain (part 2)

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:23 +0000

McGill's Mini series goes mega

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:57 +0000

McGill researchers find brain's "ordering centre"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:05 +0000

Strike three: Umpires show racial bias, study suggests

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:52:16 +0000

Defusing the heart "time bomb"

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:50 +0000

McGill welcomes pulsar pioneer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:41 +0000

Pluralism, Politics and God

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:33 +0000

Parasites and Us: Eradicating tropical diseases

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:24 +0000

McGill-led health survey drops anchor in Far North

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:15 +0000

How the brain responds as the beat goes on

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:03 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Amrita Nain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:50:53 +0000

Study: Circumcision does not dull sensation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:50:43 +0000

How bacteria evolve into superbugs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:50:33 +0000

McGill researchers find key to messenger RNA control

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:50:22 +0000

Conference to celebrate pulsar’s 40th

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:50:13 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Thierry Vandal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:50:01 +0000

Fighting drug resistance in hepatitis C virus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:49:53 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Dick Pound

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:49:44 +0000

McGill and Weizmann Institute join forces to fight cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:49:38 +0000

McGill physicist and jurist awarded Royal Society of Canada medals

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:49:28 +0000

Five McGill scholars elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:49:20 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Paul Tellier

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:49:12 +0000

Childhood cancer and delayed diagnosis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:49:02 +0000

Munroe-Blum: Lifting of tuition fee freeze a step in the right direction

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:56 +0000

First baby born from eggs matured, frozen in lab

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:41 +0000

Canada Foundation for Innovation to fund 18 more McGill projects

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:49 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore talks management with Robert Milton

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:35 +0000

Encouraging the study of Islam: The State of Kuwait donates to the Institute of Islamic Studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:29 +0000

Toxicology Congress: Discovery Serving Society

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:23 +0000

Podcast: McGill's Karl Moore and Henry Mintzberg talk management

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:15 +0000

MNI launches massive brain-imaging database

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:48:06 +0000

Munroe-Blum condemns proposed UK academic boycott

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:47:59 +0000

New drug resistance found in river blindness

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:47:52 +0000

Michael Meaney named Knight of the National Order of Quebec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:47:43 +0000

McGill to host Global Conference on Prevention of Genocide

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:47:34 +0000

Superbug antibiotic defence uncovered

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:47:26 +0000

McGill and the NRC to showcase promising new technologies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:47:18 +0000

Canada Foundation for Innovation recognizes McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:47:02 +0000

McGill gets $38.6M share of NSERC funds

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:46:57 +0000

Colour pattern spurs speciation in tropical fish

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:49:21 +0000

Daniel Dennett on the evolution of human culture

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:58 +0000

McGill expert alert: Preparing for summer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:49:10 +0000

Sixteen McGill researchers appointed Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:43 +0000

Babies see language differences

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:50 +0000

McGill architects given postage due

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:18 +0000

McGill researchers find key to calcification

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:26 +0000

McGill welcomes new V-P Administration and Finance

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:34 +0000

Biodiversity loss linked to economic inequality worldwide

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:08 +0000

Investigating our fascination with crime

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:47:57 +0000

Media Advisory: Media@McGill hosts technology, art and society symposium

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:47:48 +0000

Aboriginal youth aim high at High Performance Camp

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:47:38 +0000

McGill Q & A: Wendy Thomson

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:47:29 +0000

McGill gets $28.7 million for health research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:47:18 +0000

Daniel Levitin to present at New Yorker conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:47:05 +0000

McGill Islamic Studies prof named Carnegie Scholar

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:53 +0000

McGill to recognize fourteen outstanding individuals with honorary degrees

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:35 +0000

How cells deal with uncertainty

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:26 +0000

McGill hosts Universitas 21

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:15 +0000

Give it time, and sleep

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:02 +0000

Slavery, past and present

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:45:55 +0000

Ishmael Beah, Roméo Dallaire, reveal war’s brutalities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:45:48 +0000

McGill-led team provides new clue to family risk for breast cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:45:41 +0000

Preparing for a pandemic

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:45:28 +0000

McGill study: Genetic switch can control memory

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:45:34 +0000

McGill-led team identifies spina bifida gene

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:45:20 +0000

How we remember each other

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:44:58 +0000

Montreal Neurological Institute receives $15 million in federal support

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:45:09 +0000

Diamonds are forever… diverse

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:44:49 +0000

Media Advisory: Ebony Roots Symposium

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:44:41 +0000

Jody Heymann tells senators social equality leads to better health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:44:31 +0000

Munroe-Blum calls on leaders to resolve university underfunding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:44:22 +0000

The ice chasers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:44:14 +0000

McGill celebrates two Killam Prizes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:44:01 +0000

2007 federal budget, a step in the right direction for university teaching and research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:51 +0000

Media Advisory: McGill hosts reproductive health symposium

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:37 +0000

World Water Day: Coping with Scarcity

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:44 +0000

Political violence, natural disasters and mental health impact

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:43 +0000

AIDS: new data from a Montreal study

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:18 +0000

New embryo test could lead to fewer multiple births

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:28 +0000

McGill study: Black-white US life expectancy gap persists but has narrowed

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:52 +0000

McGill expert alert: Preparing for spring

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:03 +0000

Charles Taylor awarded Templeton Prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:46 +0000

Stephen Lewis to deliver Phyllis Shapiro Memorial Lecture in Education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:40 +0000

E. coli spreading between humans and chimpanzees in Ugandan wildlife park

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:34 +0000

Genetic mapping reveals TB vaccine may have evolved beyond usefulness

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:29 +0000

Media Advisory: Graham Fraser on language

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:22 +0000

Media Advisory: The search for life in the universe

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:15 +0000

Voices on the Rise: Afghan women making the news

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:10 +0000

Cosmetics, chemicals and breast cancer

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:01:39 +0000

Cole Foundation invests $1 million in new leukemia research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:45:43 +0000

Media Advisory: Free Speech in a Global Era

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:45:53 +0000

Printing better bones

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:45:35 +0000

Shuttle bound Canadian space patch unveiled

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:45:20 +0000

Common enzyme interaction could hold clues to Alzheimer’s

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:45:28 +0000

McGill study: Half of HIV spread by newly infected

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:45:09 +0000

Million dollar gift to McGill makes sporting history

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:57 +0000

International Polar Year: McGill researchers explore Inuit health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:44 +0000

International Polar Year: McGill researchers target climate change

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:49 +0000

McGill and Canadian Space Agency unveil shuttle bound winning patch

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:37 +0000

Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Ketterle on the coldest matter in the universe

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:30 +0000

McGill researchers awarded Sloan Fellowships

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:20 +0000

American Heart Association to honour McGill Dean of Medicine

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:14 +0000

McGill Expert Alert: Quebec elections

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:44:02 +0000

Jody Heymann testifies before US Senate Committee

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:50 +0000

Premier appoints Charles Taylor to explore cultural, religious co-existence

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:56 +0000

Research pushes physics forward

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:42 +0000

Four universities launch an appeal to resolve underfunding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:16 +0000

Media@McGill presents screenwriting mini-conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:22 +0000

The Charter @ 25 annual national conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:28 +0000

South Pole Telescope: Exploring the secrets of the universe from the bottom of the world

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:34 +0000

McGill research paves way toward less toxic HIV drugs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:43:03 +0000

McGill study: U.S. protections for working families worst of all affluent countries

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:56 +0000

Breast cancer: McGill discovers new path

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:51 +0000

McGill students to host Canada's premier model UN

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:45 +0000

Helping science inform policy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:39 +0000

McGill establishes biennial conference on human rights

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:34 +0000

McGill throws open its doors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:26 +0000

Can video games be good for you?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:17 +0000

McGill expert alert: Heart Month

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:42:02 +0000

Big-brained birds survive better in nature

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:57 +0000

McGill expert alert: Unseasonably mild weather

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:50 +0000

Why is the universe just right for life?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:42 +0000

CLUMEQ to play key role in new national high-performance computing network

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:34 +0000

McGill forging ahead with research into C. difficile

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:18 +0000

Heather Munroe-Blum reappointed McGill Principal and Vice-Chancellor

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:09 +0000

Taboos inhibit post-menopausal sex study

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:57 +0000

McGill professor Vicky Kaspi awarded coveted Steacie Prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:25 +0000

McGill welcomes fresh Quebec funding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:52 +0000

MUHC announces a Canadian first: the first successful implantation of a long-term mechanical heart as an alternative to transplant

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:48 +0000

Study predicts ice-free Arctic summers by 2040

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:43 +0000

McGill expert alert: Holiday sources

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:36 +0000

McGill nets four new Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:32 +0000

McGill engineering student awarded Rhodes Scholarship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:26 +0000

McGill lauds Quebec research and innovation strategy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:02 +0000

Bruce Trigger, 1937-2006

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:40:18 +0000

The weight of words in an age of terror

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:39:54 +0000

McGill music and science student named Rhodes Scholar

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:39:46 +0000

Funding minds and matter

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:39:38 +0000

McGill MBA students capture international title

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:39:30 +0000

McGill med students hit hard by FMSQ action

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:39:32 +0000

McGill expert alert: Liberal leadership race

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:51:08 +0000

McGill-India mission to boost researcher relations

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:31:02 +0000

Quebec lagging, needs new Quiet Revolution

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:55 +0000

McGill expert alert: Food safety

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:31:16 +0000

Media advisory: 'From Canada to Kandahar'

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:51:12 +0000

Lorne Trottier: The gift of passion for stars and sky

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:48 +0000

Three McGill researchers honoured with Prix du Québec

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:41 +0000

With great power comes great... physics

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:33 +0000

McGill scientists named research scholars

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:24 +0000

Macdonald honours its fallen soldiers

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:15 +0000

McGill ranked at the top of the class by Maclean's

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:03 +0000

Michaëlle Jean, Jean Béliveau and Judith W. Mappin to receive honorary degrees from McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:55 +0000

Michael Goldbloom takes on critical role at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:48 +0000

McGill/Cornell study: Screening, earlier treatment would substantially boost lung cancer survival

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:41 +0000

The right to a good doctor

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:35 +0000

McGill wins national baseball championship

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:30 +0000

McGill expert alert: Clean Air Act/ Environment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:24 +0000

McGill marks UN Day with new International Law Chair

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:17 +0000

McGill expert alert: Hockey

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:09 +0000

It Takes a Society: Fighting Childhood Obesity

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:00 +0000

Introducing Media@McGill...presenting Seymour Hersh

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:55 +0000

NSERC rewards McGill innovation

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:49 +0000

Ranking McGill: First in Canada, 21st in the world

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:44 +0000

McGill and Montreal Matters: All about school

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:36 +0000

McGill top laureate in 2006 Forces AVENIR awards

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:28 +0000

Rt. Hon. Joe Clark joins McGill University

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:19 +0000

Future of music takes centre stage at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:10 +0000

Thermal imaging shatters arousal gender gap myth

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:00 +0000

Seymour Schulich's golden encore

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:27:53 +0000

McGill tops Canadian universities in biotech patents

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:27:46 +0000

Special stamp to mark Macdonald centenary

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:27:40 +0000

McGill to receive $1 million from Petro-Canada Emerging Leaders Awards Program

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:27:34 +0000

Unusual island evolution happens faster than thought

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:27:28 +0000

Pow-wow to transform lower campus

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:27:17 +0000

Our Future: A Public Dialogue

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:27:08 +0000

McGill unveils Medical Simulation Centre

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:26:59 +0000

Using math to strike gold

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:26:41 +0000

McGill and Weizmann Institute join forces

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:26:50 +0000

McGill researchers debunk Oscar-winner 'longevity bonus'

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:26:34 +0000

Arthritis drugs may protect the heart

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:26:24 +0000

McGill experts: Five years after 9/11

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:26:14 +0000

Montreal researchers stimulate human immune cells to fight HIV

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:26:04 +0000

McGill praised in Princeton Review

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:25:55 +0000

McGill Athletics sets national record with 147 Academic All-Canadians

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:25:44 +0000

Revisiting religion post-9/11

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:25:34 +0000

Autism: New experts, new pathways

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:25:20 +0000

UK health care reform: Lessons learned

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:25:08 +0000

McGill nurses bring Tanzanian AIDS activist to campus

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:24:51 +0000

McGill professor recognized for legal scholarship

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:24:58 +0000

Back to school: Advice from McGill experts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:41:13 +0000

XVI International AIDS Conference: McGill delivers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:38:05 +0000

McGill applauds Quebec announcement on funding

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:37:56 +0000

McGill researcher maps slippery slope of teen smoking

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:37:49 +0000

Seven McGill faculty members elected to prestigious Royal Society of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:37:41 +0000

Holding a mirror up to humanity

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:37:28 +0000

Laughter is the best management

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:37:12 +0000

McGill researchers link estrogen levels, memory loss in younger women

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:36:56 +0000

McGill professor Ariel Fenster receives NSERC prize for science promotion

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:36:48 +0000

New McGill research shows mice capable of empathy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:36:41 +0000

CFI to fund new McGill research on aging, infectious diseases, reproduction and muscle cells

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:36:32 +0000

McGill-based Green Crop Network to tackle global warming

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:36:22 +0000

McGill's Jennifer Heil named hero by Time Magazine

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:36:12 +0000

McGill pain researcher awarded NSERC prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:36:00 +0000

McGill's Sonenberg elected to Royal Society

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:53 +0000

McGill researchers identify new antibacterial target

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:39 +0000

Wired for music: The sequel…

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:47 +0000

McGill-Indonesia ties put local face on humanitarian crisis

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:32 +0000

McGill's Sarah Ali-Khan wins Woman of Distinction award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:24 +0000

NYU star named McGill Dean of Medicine

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:16 +0000

McGill research shows positive results for CVT-E002 in a cancer model

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:03 +0000

McGill research offers hope for better treatment of epilepsy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:57 +0000

McGill launches first high-performance camp for aboriginal teens

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:52 +0000

McGill expert alert: Quebec anti-smoking law marks end of an era

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:46 +0000

Plummer, Huston among McGill honorary degree recipients

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:40 +0000

Human impacts altering Darwin's famous finches

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:26 +0000

'Spotless Mind' researcher makes 'Top 40 Under 40' annual list of best and brightest

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:33 +0000

McGill's Mintzberg awarded Molson Prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:20 +0000

McGill leadership in research enhanced with seven new Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:14 +0000

Fuel for thought: McGill experts on record oil prices

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:34:05 +0000

McGill prof Dr. Nahum Sonenberg elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:57 +0000

The sounds of music

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:51 +0000

Karen Armstrong: "In the beginning..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:46 +0000

The Charter @ 25

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:41 +0000

Quebec biotech investment boosts McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:35 +0000

Researchers map 'gene switches' within the human genome

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:24 +0000

McGill hails government green light on hospitals

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:30 +0000

McGill study: Whiplash program pays off

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:17 +0000

Window on another world

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:10 +0000

Three genocides, three survivors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:01 +0000

Justice Rosalie Abella to deliver Phyllis Shapiro Memorial Lecture in Education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:32:55 +0000

Wired for music: McGill researchers to study maestro's brain during Boston Symphony concert

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:32:47 +0000

McGill in 'Nature'…

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:32:40 +0000

McGill architecture students help rebuild

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:32:33 +0000

New society to promote ecology and evolution research, awareness

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:32:11 +0000

From trade law to genomics: CFI rewards nine outstanding McGill research projects

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:31:57 +0000

McGill's Guthrie awarded $100,000 Killam Prize

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:31:43 +0000

An intelligent critique of intelligent design

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:31:16 +0000

Further secrets of the snail love dart

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:31:11 +0000

Millions still suffer while diseases go untreated

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:40:57 +0000

McGill unveils video to prevent youth gambling

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:40:32 +0000

Afghan ambassador to speak at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:40:39 +0000

Beyond Hollywood: Forensic experts at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:40:24 +0000

Rwanda gorilla expert Bill Weber to speak at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:40:48 +0000

McGill researchers report widespread neglect of gay elderly

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:40:15 +0000

Antidepressants may cut risk of colorectal cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:40:02 +0000

McGill names Political Science chair as new Dean of Arts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:39:51 +0000

Branding our cities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:39:40 +0000

Sloan Fellowships recognize McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:39:31 +0000

Killams recognize outstanding McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:39:17 +0000

Globalization: Children and working parents pay too high a price

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:38:58 +0000

Protecting our children from cyber-bullying

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:38:47 +0000

Traumatic memories can be separated from others

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:38:39 +0000

Maternal behaviour during early childhood has profound effect on genes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:38:32 +0000

McGill expert alert: Turin Olympics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:38:23 +0000

New McGill drug testing model could reduce research costs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:38:15 +0000

McGill students honour business leaders

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:38:02 +0000

McGill study links erectile dysfunction/ heart disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:37:54 +0000

'What are we eating?'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:37:44 +0000

If you come, they will build it

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:37:33 +0000

McGill welcomes prospective students

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:37:24 +0000

McGill/MSU study: Reduced-load work arrangements gaining acceptance

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:37:15 +0000

Québec Science salutes McGill and MUHC researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:37:02 +0000

McGill-led team discovers fastest-spinning pulsar

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:36:54 +0000

McGill alumnus receives prestigious Young Innovators Award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:36:45 +0000

Media advisory: Black hole astrophysicist to speak at McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:36:36 +0000

Intelligent design decision reflects Dr. Brian Alters' testimony

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:36:27 +0000

McGill appoints Ann Dowsett Johnston as new Vice-Principal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:36:20 +0000

Heartburn medication a risk factor for community-acquired C. difficile

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:36:14 +0000

Professor Anthony Masi named McGill provost

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:55 +0000

New McGill secretary-general named

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:36:03 +0000

Media advisory: Rwanda tribunal judge at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:47 +0000

McGill media expert alert: WTO Hong Kong Ministerial

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:39 +0000

McGill researchers crack genetic code of Quebec C. difficile

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:29 +0000

McGill University holiday story sources

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:19 +0000

Media advisory: McGill researchers crack genetic code of Quebec C. difficile

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:11 +0000

Major construction project under way at McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:00 +0000

McGill student receives fabled Oxford scholarship

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:34:40 +0000

Media Alert: McGill experts offer insight into federal election campaign issues

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:34:28 +0000

McGill goes green at BIOCAP

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:34:50 +0000

McGill's Life Sciences Complex expands its research capabilities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:34:20 +0000

'Time to Deliver' for Canada on eve of World AIDS Day

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:34:09 +0000

Immigrants and language: A duty or a right?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:34:00 +0000

Study shows MDs, health workers misinformed about probability of contracting sexually transmitted infections

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:51 +0000

McGill Engineering master program boosted by 3M gift

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:43 +0000

Shall we dance?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:35 +0000

Media Alert: Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:27 +0000

Expert Alert: Climate change and energy needs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:18 +0000

From Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to childhood obesity: McGill highlights some of its best health research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:13 +0000

McGill University receives $22-million donation from Canadian Credit Management Foundation and Marcel Desautels

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:30:19 +0000

McGill recruits top international researchers as Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:30:10 +0000

McGill donors celebrated on National Philanthropy Day

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:30:00 +0000

Federal economic update provides critically needed support

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:52 +0000

McGill physician elected to National Academies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:46 +0000

Together across a continent: Bridging time and place with 'Shared Spaces'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:38 +0000

ALERT: NOTE NEW DATE, TIME AND PLACE - Brian Greene stars in McGill lecture series

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:29 +0000

Marc Angenot awarded prestigious Prix du Québec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:23 +0000

McGill takes top spot in Maclean's annual university rankings

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:17 +0000

Defying cancer with opera

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:09 +0000

New VP Research and International Relations

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:01 +0000

What's fueling climate change?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:55 +0000

Monkey genes and biobehaviour

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:48 +0000

'What's for dinner?'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:33 +0000

McGill shines as Canada's top school in international rankings

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:41 +0000

McGill most research-intensive university in Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:26 +0000

Expert Alert: Commentary on the 10th anniversary of the Quebec Referendum

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:18 +0000

Expert Alert: Avian flu and infectious diseases

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:10 +0000

Kent Nagano and Ruth Goldbloom set to receive honorary degrees from McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:28:00 +0000

McGill University cancels football season

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:54 +0000

Take the law into your hands!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:49 +0000

Announcing: New chair for Faculty of Medicine

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:44 +0000

McGill researchers honoured for excellence

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:39 +0000

Expert Alert: Breast Cancer Month

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:33 +0000

New Music Building opens through public and private support

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:06 +0000

The life of Seymour Schulich: Biographical notes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:14 +0000

New Music Building: Star attractions and features

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:19 +0000

CIRMMT: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:26 +0000

New name = new look

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:39 +0000

Did you know: Facts about McGill's internationally ranked music program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:45 +0000

Musical revival: Marvin Duchow Music Library

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:51 +0000

Schulich School of Music of McGill University named after benefactor

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:58 +0000

Media alert: Airplanes and outer space

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:34 +0000

$1-million endowment to bring top international talent to McGill's School of Architecture

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:27 +0000

The law of war: Finding rules to protect victims of conflict

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:19 +0000

One-stop shop for sex talk

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:08 +0000

Brighter diagnosis for Canadians: National health advisory board is born

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:00 +0000

Amnesia remembered: Saga hits big screen

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:25:54 +0000

Prominent Canadian businessman promotes human rights with $3-million gift to McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:25:47 +0000

McGill researcher pioneers the study of primate disease ecology

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:25:41 +0000

New cancer research pavilion for McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:25:35 +0000

McGill: The heart of a college 'town'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:25:27 +0000

Kent Nagano honoured by McGill and Université de Montréal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:25:17 +0000

Parasites, people and pets

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:25:03 +0000

Take the law into your hands

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:57 +0000

McGill experts offer insight on Katrina aftermath

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:50 +0000

Cutting-edge curricula at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:44 +0000

Citizen scholars: From the classroom to back alleys

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:39 +0000

McGill to admit Tulane University students affected by Hurricane Katrina

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:33 +0000

Montreal researchers probe the genetic basis of memory

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:25 +0000

Oscar-winning producer's family funds indigenous studies at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:50:26 +0000

Parents under the 'big top'

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:29 +0000

McGill says bienvenue to francophone students

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:19 +0000

Fuel for thought: Experts say gas prices hit more than wallets

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:11 +0000

Feed the world

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:02 +0000

New study: Preschoolers empowered with responsibility

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:50 +0000

Expert alert: Water issues in Quebec

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:56 +0000

McGill law prof to provide helping hand to Canada's judges

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:45 +0000

Latest Canada Research Chairs announced

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:40 +0000

McGill University mines top mineral expert

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:33 +0000

Expert alert: Commentary on 15th anniversary of Oka Crisis

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:24 +0000

Volunteering for science pays off big

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:14 +0000

McGill student receives national scholarship

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:01 +0000

Tech-smart McGill students scoop Quebec business prize

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:55 +0000

'Keeping it simple is a key to weight loss,' McGill scientists say

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:47 +0000

Introducing McGill's new dean of agricultural and environmental sciences

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:37 +0000

McGill recruits world-renowned IT pioneer

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:27 +0000

Anti-guru: Management professor bites big

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:10 +0000

Honouring those who give – after life is gone

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:19 +0000

Future of Canada's Medicare: Experts comment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:00 +0000

McGill leaders recognized by Ordre national du Québec

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:57:53 +0000

The Colour's Coming Back: Message of hope and healing

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:57:45 +0000

Trees on tour: A walk through McGill's leafy legacy

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:57:35 +0000

McGill receives $5.4 million

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:57:26 +0000

Bradley Vines, first Canadian university recipient of GRAMMY Foundation Grants Program funding

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:57:17 +0000

McGill caps students, leaders of society

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:57:08 +0000

McGill University and Université de Montréal hatch new research centre

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:56:58 +0000

CREPUQ's new Board

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:56:50 +0000

Lowered biodiversity a threat to humans

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:56:42 +0000

Growing your own in the city

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:56:35 +0000

Reviving the Renaissance

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:56:27 +0000

McGill string quartet triumphs at Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:56:17 +0000

Margaret Lock honoured by Trudeau Foundation

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:56:03 +0000

Brain gain at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:55:57 +0000

Hon. Lucienne Robillard announces $11.5 million allocation to McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:55:52 +0000

New study on workplace mistreatment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:55:45 +0000

Five giant impact basins reveal the ancient equator of Mars

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:55:36 +0000

'Ads aren't prescriptions for meds': McGill researcher

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:55:27 +0000

McGill surpasses Centraide 2004 goal

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:55:16 +0000

New Dean to lead McGill's Engineering Faculty

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:55:03 +0000

Researchers find new giant amphibian fossils in Africa

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:54:55 +0000

Next I Medici concert – A light symphonic delight

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:54:46 +0000

Can toddlers understand what's really going on?

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:54:35 +0000

Onus is on educators to protect students from anti-gay bullying

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:54:25 +0000

Fighting obesity: Why diets aren't enough

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:54:16 +0000

'Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s,' a new book by Gil Troy

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:54:01 +0000

Visually impaired Aboriginal an inspiration

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:53:50 +0000

Hat trick for McGill researchers

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:53:40 +0000

McGill University welcomes government support for new hospital centres

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:53:27 +0000

Chocolate: Addiction, aphrodisiac, or simply a sweet?

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:53:16 +0000

Luc Vinet next rector of U. de M.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:44 +0000

McGill statement on student protest

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:37 +0000

McGill researchers get funding to study molecules — and reach for the sky

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:31 +0000

New treatments for cancer and muscular dystrophy 'on the way'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:26 +0000

McGill students to decide on joining Quebec-wide strike

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:20 +0000

Shed pounds and improve blood lipid levels: McGill research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:08 +0000

Two McGill professors win Killam Research Fellowships

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:15 +0000

Important discovery about second most fatal cancer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:58 +0000

Canada in the World

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:51 +0000

Oh Canada...Our true international land?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:44 +0000

Making the best years better

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:37 +0000

Quebec's telecommunications experts connect on research and training

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:29 +0000

Quebec health care system gets a check-up

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:23 +0000

McGill University names new Dean of Faculty of Science

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:16 +0000

UN envoy at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:22:02 +0000

From blueprint to blue cheese

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:54 +0000

McGill researchers shed light on formation of carcinogen in processed food products

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:48 +0000

Extreme makeover, Canadian style

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:42 +0000

Science celebrated

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:37 +0000

Future scientists chop for trophy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:23 +0000

Can we live sustainably and harmoniously in a water-short world?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:13 +0000

Science that changes the world

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:03 +0000

McGill University honours Minister of Justice

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:20:51 +0000

Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Day: Honouring his spirit of humanity

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:20:42 +0000

McGill hosts pain research day

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:20:36 +0000

Star cluster buzzing with pulsars

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:20:29 +0000

McGill researchers to test new leukemia drug

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:20:20 +0000

Clean and quiet snowmobiles

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:20:09 +0000

Sterols and exercise may reduce coronary risks

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:20:00 +0000

Federal government grants $1.5 million to support McGill University pulp and paper research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:49 +0000

Marc Raboy: McGill University's new media expert

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:38 +0000

Who is Marc Raboy?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:43 +0000

Quebec popular music: The shape of an identity and evolution

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:32 +0000

From bench to marketplace

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:26 +0000

Tobacco addiction a matter of genes for some teens

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:20 +0000

McGill mourns the death of Phyllis Shapiro

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:14 +0000

Conference to examine Canada's changing social landscape

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:08 +0000

Quebec's new challenges in education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:00 +0000

Canada now: Our country re-imagined

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:55 +0000

Birth control pill may reduce knee injury

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:50 +0000

New Canada Research Chairs announced

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:43 +0000

Concert in honour of Dvorak centennial

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:37 +0000

Iraqi National Assembly member at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:31 +0000

McGill, UQAC and Saguenay-area partnership

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:18 +0000

McGill and UQAC leaders at Cercle de presse

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:11 +0000

McGill Principal visits the Saguenay

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:24 +0000

McGill researchers win Prix du Québec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:18:04 +0000

New interactive program for the prevention of gambling problems

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:30 +0000

New UQAC-McGill partnership: Panorama sur le Québec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:17:57 +0000

McGill one of Canada's top universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:17:54 +0000

McGill ranked among world's top 25 universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:32:26 +0000

Hacking on the body: Renowned philosopher at McGill on November 3

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:32:17 +0000

Quebec scientists aim to get better grasp of climate change and its effects

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:32:10 +0000

'Support for fragile X syndrome needed,' McGill researcher

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:32:03 +0000

Young McGill researchers achieve funding boost

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:31:48 +0000

McGill experts look south to U.S. election

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:31:40 +0000

Dining-at-McGill solicits views from across campus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:31:56 +0000

Director of McGill Middle East Program wins CBIE award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:31:22 +0000

McGill beefing up campus security

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:31:14 +0000

From medicine to music — McGill receives research boost

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:31:06 +0000

John Cleghorn and Joni Mitchell to receive honorary degrees from McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:54 +0000

Court dismisses Peggy Ann Sheppard case

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:48 +0000

Going beyond translation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:19 +0000

Physics pioneer at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:27 +0000

McGill on track to be among world's top 10 research universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:12 +0000

The shape of McGill to come

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:40 +0000

McGill Homecoming 2004: Variety and fun on the menu

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:03 +0000

International conference on Arctic coastlands

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:34 +0000

TELUS joins McGill-based photonics research initiative

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:51 +0000

McGill student death attributed to natural causes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:42 +0000

How to use math and a CT scanner to see how trees intercept light

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:32 +0000

Michael Oliver, former NDP president and VP (Academic) of McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:24 +0000

Science at Macdonald: Pushing research frontiers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:17 +0000

Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:09 +0000

McGill's big presence at 4th World Conference of Science Journalists

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:49 +0000

Bioaerosols: New element in climate mystery

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:54 +0000

A sampling of McGill expertise

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:59 +0000

McGill researchers celebrated with top awards

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:39 +0000

Dinosaurs to invade McGill campus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:44 +0000

Plants will not save us from greenhouse gases

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:34 +0000

Tragic accident claims two McGill students

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:28 +0000

McGill unveils multi-year plan

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:23 +0000

A fishy change in diet

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:19 +0000

Same-sex marriage debate: A moot point at McGill?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:14 +0000

International airline industry: Flying high or grounded?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:08 +0000

New funding for palliative care at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:28:01 +0000

Pharmacology pioneer at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:27:56 +0000

An art project a day keeps youth problems away?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:27:52 +0000

McGill and IDRC announce global three-city project: 'Making the edible landscape'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:31:31 +0000

Insight @ McGill: Expert gives crash course on asthma

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:27:44 +0000

Testing student savvy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:27:31 +0000

McGill mourns death of student

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:27:14 +0000

Pushing minds and bodies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:57 +0000

Meteorologists see silver lining in cutting-edge cloud research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:49 +0000

Roméo Dallaire at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:41 +0000

U.S. college rankings place McGill at head of class

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:33 +0000

McGill law grad and doctoral student win Trudeau scholarships

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:12 +0000

Another choice of treatment for Parkinson's disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:22 +0000

Women give peace a chance

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:01 +0000

University of Miami and McGill team up

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:17:03 +0000

International debate on education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:25:52 +0000

McGill researchers develop new carbon nanotube production method

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:16:56 +0000

Eight McGill faculty members elected to Royal Society of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:16:49 +0000

McGill welcomes go-ahead for MUHC project

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:16:42 +0000

Henry Mintzberg shares the essence of 'Managers Not MBAs'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:16:35 +0000

Education commission tables recommendations on quality, accessibility and funding of universities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:16:28 +0000

New asthma target identified

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:16:11 +0000

Right on the ball

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:15:51 +0000

McGill leaders appointed to Ordre national du Québec

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:15:59 +0000

Experts speak out on 2004 federal election

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:15:45 +0000

McGill researchers explore media election coverage

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:15:38 +0000

Can simple implant dentures improve health?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:15:21 +0000

McGill tames acrid manure smell

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:15:29 +0000

Innovative management approach inspires new leadership program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:15:08 +0000

Two McGill professors recognized by Royal Society of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:48 +0000

Healthcare policy under the microscope

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:53 +0000

Red Crescent honours McGill professor

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:38 +0000

Greening chemistry at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:58 +0000

One step further toward treatment for degenerative diseases

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:34 +0000

Two McGill students among Maclean's university stars

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:29 +0000

Celebrating 100 years of library studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:24 +0000

Alain Beaudet appointed president of the FRSQ

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:19 +0000

Playing games for self-esteem

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:01 +0000

Computer games that help boost self-esteem

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:12 +0000

A catalyst for Canada-Poland business ventures

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:55 +0000

Secrets of double pulsars revealed

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:50 +0000

Bernard J. Shapiro nominated first Ethics Commissioner of Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:45 +0000

Honorary doctorates 2004 Spring Convocation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:38 +0000

McGill forest ecologist selected next SFM Network Scientific Director

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:32 +0000

Earth Day public lectures: Man's impact on nature

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:24 +0000

Genome Canada funds McGill researchers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:18 +0000

Major developments in Alzheimer's disease research expected at symposium

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:04 +0000

McGill and John Abbott College make joint presentation to the Parliamentary Commission

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:52 +0000

McGill University's five newest Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:57 +0000

Beyond the Human Genome Project

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:47 +0000

World-first in laser research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:42 +0000

Quebec budget a positive step

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:38 +0000

Montreal researchers participate in HIV vaccine trial

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:33 +0000

Development and Alumni Relations

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:29 +0000

Seagram Building reborn as Martlet House

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:24 +0000

Dining at McGill to get a closer look

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:19 +0000

McGill med school gets $21 million for exciting new upgrades

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:14 +0000

Psychology professor moonlights as cartoonist

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:03 +0000

The Principal of Bishop's joins McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:11:57 +0000

Commentary on 2004 Liberal Budget

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:11:53 +0000

Analyzing the fine print

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:11:41 +0000

Putting the care in health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:11:47 +0000

Université du Québec à Trois Rivières in partnership with McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:11:36 +0000

The Richler Challenge

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:11:33 +0000

Singles in the city

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:25:47 +0000

McGill MBA team wins first place at international MBA eStrategy Case Competition

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:53:03 +0000

Saluting women trailblazers

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:52:57 +0000

Insight @ McGill: McGill microbiology expert Brian Ward on avian flu

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:50:20 +0000

McGill calls for incentives for private giving and measures to ease chronic underfunding of universities

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:50:12 +0000

Killam Research Fellows for 2004

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:50:01 +0000

McGill polymer expert wins Purvis Memorial Award

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:49:44 +0000

McGill University launches a Canada-wide Psychosocial Oncology Research Training Program

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:49:54 +0000

Increase in university funding urgently needed: McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:49:34 +0000

Celebrating life at Macdonald

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:49:23 +0000

Quebec's immigration and language policies under the microscope

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:49:13 +0000

Yeast mutations offer window into human disease

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:49:06 +0000

How do women and children survive war?

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:57 +0000

Tuques Bleues race

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:42 +0000

Sauvé scholars speak out

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:24 +0000

Wallenberg Memorial Lecture 2004

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:31 +0000

Open wide!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:37 +0000

Challenging cities in Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:18 +0000

Will that be Arts, Science or the combo?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:28 +0000

Media and PR leader recruited to McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:47 +0000

U.S. students grind axes with Canadian counterparts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:09 +0000

Nobel laureate to lecture at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:44:59 +0000

How long did their hearts go on?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:47 +0000

Offer a ticket to the movies instead

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:52 +0000

Two more for the Rhodes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:44:54 +0000

Heart disease in heartless microscopic worms

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:58 +0000

From Manitoba to Oxford

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:44:44 +0000

Romancing the bones

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:44:49 +0000

Centre for Intellectual Property Policy awarded $3 million SSHRC grant

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:44:39 +0000

McGill disappointed by rejection of final contract offer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:03 +0000

McGill University names new Dean of Faculty of Education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:54 +0000

New nanoscience centre to make Montreal world leader

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:47 +0000

Annual conference on biology and behaviour

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:41 +0000

McGill designated research university of the year

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:23 +0000

Incomparable scholarly experience

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:17 +0000

Thomas King weaves native tales

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:30 +0000

Will genomics change Oslerian medicine?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:36 +0000

Use of animals in research highly regulated at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:11 +0000

When Harry meets the Shaver

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:33 +0000

McGill University Fall Convocation: October 23, 2003

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:40 +0000

When Hairy meets the shaver

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:04:48 +0000

McGill University Fall Convocation: October 23, 2003

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:04:54 +0000

Mary Robinson to speak at McGill Homecoming

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:27 +0000

Mary Robinson to speak at McGill Homecoming

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:05:00 +0000

Home turfs explored

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:20 +0000

Volunteer MD and youth health care advocate McGill's Pierre-Paul Tellier devotes self to health awareness

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:04:34 +0000

Home turfs explored

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:04:41 +0000

McGill University welcomes the Institut d'Histoire de l'Amérique française

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:14 +0000

McGill University welcomes the Institut d'Histoire de l'Amérique française

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:50 +0000

A close look at Internet gambling

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:48:06 +0000

A close look at Internet gambling

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:40 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: Addressing future research needs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:35 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: United by a shared vision

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:51:51 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: Montreal Proteomics Network

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:04:22 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:44 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:04:26 +0000

McGill Bio-Business Incubator Facility

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:55 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: facts and features

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:25:02 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: A new research hub

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:30 +0000

740 Dr Penfield: Addressing future needs

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:58 +0000

Manure fumes be domed!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:20 +0000

Experts unite to fight global warming

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:15 +0000

Note to students: McGill and Montreal police to collaborate on neighbourhood relations

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:25 +0000

McGill welcomes government support for Glen Project

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:08:45 +0000

Renovated Percival Molson Stadium open again

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:08:36 +0000

Redpath Museum renovations completed

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:08:53 +0000

Ministry of Education and McGill team up to create novel teaching tools

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:08:29 +0000

Challenges, choices, visions and solutions: Quebec electoral campaign debriefing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:08:20 +0000

New range of antibiotics may present a threat to public health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:08:08 +0000

New cooking oil to fight fat and cholesterol

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:07:57 +0000

Spring Convocation 2003

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:07:50 +0000

Examining worldwide evil

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:07:35 +0000

Exploring education in Islam

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:07:43 +0000

McGill principal delivers major public address

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:07:20 +0000

Facilitating the development of anticancer drugs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:58 +0000

John Hall to lead Faculty of Arts for next five years

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:07:27 +0000

The role of religion in Lionel Groulx's religious nationalism

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:07:10 +0000

SSHRC grants over $5 million to McGill scholars

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:51 +0000

Arctic research to expand

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:39 +0000

Graduate teaching assistants on strike

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:45 +0000

Preventing depression in children alleviates adult condition

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:33 +0000

McGill acquires new residence space in downtown hotel

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:26 +0000

McGill University and Université de Montréal pool expertise to create Montreal Inter-University Group for Nursing Research (MIGNR)

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:16 +0000

Matched donation to libraries pushes pledge to $1 million

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:02 +0000

2nd annual McGill Rethink conference on the environment

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:03 +0000

Redheaded women respond better to painkilling drug

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:58 +0000

Nancy L. Wells recruited from Stanford University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:44 +0000

Is there life on Mars?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:54 +0000

McGill granted five new Canada Research Chairs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:39 +0000

Percival Molson Stadium: A new lease on life

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:32 +0000

McGill's Gault Nature Reserve obtains increased protection

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:49 +0000

Historic event celebrates McGill University's past and future

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:26 +0000

Fitting the economy to the biosphere

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:24:10 +0000

Scientists to examine the effects of cancer drugs on male reproduction

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:19 +0000

Scientists suggest existence of central aging process

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:11 +0000

Army of experts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:01 +0000

The back-loop of transformation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:40 +0000

Who Controls Canada's Media?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:33 +0000

Let's talk about war

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:55 +0000

Four licensing agreements on computer chip technology

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:47 +0000

Green Belt Movement founder on environmental activism

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:14:43 +0000

Love is in the air

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:26 +0000

Agile All-Photonic Networks (AAPN) research network

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:03 +0000

McGill Open House 2003

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:13 +0000

New scholarships for tomorrow's leaders

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:21:44 +0000

Timber! Lumberjack competition at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:21:50 +0000

Financial Times finds McGill MBA most international in North America

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:21:58 +0000

MNI researcher receives grant to study Parkinson's Disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:21:37 +0000

McGill University professor wins CNIB award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:20 +0000

McGill boosts recycling

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:21:30 +0000

The biology of induced memory

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:21:22 +0000

The ecology of pregnancy and childbirth

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:54 +0000

Who controls the media? Nobody

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:46 +0000

Chronogen Inc. secures exclusive licence from McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:21:01 +0000

In bed with the elephant: Health care and social solidarity in the neighbourhood of the United States

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:23 +0000

McGill International Conference on Federalism

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:30 +0000

Are we falling into fate?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:17 +0000

Research as a social enterprise: Are we asking the right questions?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:39 +0000

Muriel V. Roscoe Lecture

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:11 +0000

Leading international genome scientists in Montreal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:20:01 +0000

Precarious immigration status: Its impact on health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:19:53 +0000

Joint work on joint pain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:19:47 +0000

Rabinowitch on Rabinowitch

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:19:41 +0000

Four Montreal universities submit a brief on the fluctuation of the clientele in the education sector to the Commission de l'Éducation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:03:38 +0000

The dark suffering of neuropathic pain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:03:32 +0000

Students giving back to the community

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:03:08 +0000

Unity and diversity: European and Canadian debates

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:03:20 +0000

McGill University professor shares innovative research on new generation steels at national conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:03:14 +0000

Mini-Med mania continues

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:50 +0000

Mini-Med extra

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:55 +0000

Brain Tumour Research Centre inaugurated at McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:03:00 +0000

McGill in Indonesia: Major new project with CIDA targets social equity

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:44 +0000

Food for Thought: New lecture series on food, agriculture and the environment at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:03:25 +0000

$4.3 million in new research funds for McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:28 +0000

What is happening to the Saint Lawrence River?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:33 +0000

Rare class of exotic stars revealed as super-magnets

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:39 +0000

McGill University named one of Kaplan/Newsweek's 12 "Hot Schools" for 2003

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:22 +0000

McIntyre Building is safe

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:16 +0000

Important advances in the development of drug delivery vehicles

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:09 +0000

Breakthrough in profiling of yeast genome

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:01:57 +0000

Geography from the air

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:02:03 +0000

Major hiring boost in Faculty of Arts

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:19:32 +0000

McGill awarded five major health training grants

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:51:41 +0000

Industrial Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Computational Fluid Dynamics

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:51:30 +0000

McGill Faculty of Education-EMSB collaboration: "Teaching to learn and learning to teach"

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:51:20 +0000

Saluting young science achievers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:01:50 +0000

Earth from above

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:01:24 +0000

Let's talk about sex - and pain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:01:40 +0000

McGill and the future of Mount Royal

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:57 +0000

Brief

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:01:10 +0000

Mount Royal is for all Montrealers, a distinctive and cherished feature of their environment. After the Sulpician Fathers, McGill University, which was founded in 1821, can reasonably claim to be the second oldest continuous resident of the southern slope of the mountain. Our relationship with Mount Royal is therefore a long and treasured one. Despite its limited resources, most of which must be dedicated to the academic mission, McGill has taken many steps to try and protect the natural and built environment so dear to us all.

Tooth troubles?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:49 +0000

The Oscars of academia?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:42 +0000

Dealing with death

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:36 +0000

What is Canada's international environmental policy?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:20 +0000

Hush little baby

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:28 +0000

New language learning linked to early language experience: McGill researcher's team publishes landmark study

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:12 +0000

The ability to learn a new language is determined by the onset of language experience during early brain development -- regardless of the specific form of the language experience. This is the finding of a Canadian study led by Rachel Mayberry of McGill University.

Picturing your pain

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:02 +0000

New global address for genomics and proteomics research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:48 +0000

Who is Thomas J. Hudson?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:56 +0000

Does pain get on your nerves?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:41 +0000

Reconstruction and cultural expression

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:36 +0000

Heather Munroe-Blum to succeed Bernard Shapiro

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:29 +0000

Building for life

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:58:55 +0000

Essential facts on Francesco Bellini

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:04 +0000

CanLit treasures given to McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:58:48 +0000

McGill University Health Centre - Procter & Gamble announces strategic alliance with GMP companies for novel treatment of Diabetes Mellitus

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:14 +0000

McGill attracts prominent American scientist as new director of the Montreal Neurological Institute

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:59:22 +0000

Mixed-signal microelectronic chips testing...the (very, very) small picture

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:58:39 +0000

Where the flowers recount Montreal's history

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:58:30 +0000

Pluralism, Religion & Public Policy Conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:58:22 +0000

Sir John Maddox to speak at McGill on the future of science

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:58:11 +0000

Several years after his retirement as editor of the British scientific journal Nature, Sir John Maddox remains active as a speaker and writer on his favourite topic: the exciting road ahead for scientists. On March 19, Maddox will deliver the Beatty Memorial Lecture at McGill University (6 pm in the Fieldhouse Auditorium, Leacock 132).

McGill addresses Quebec Parliamentary Commission

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:58:00 +0000

Calling the Quebec government "an essential partner" if the University is to fulfil its promise to society, Principal Bernard Shapiro today addressed the parliamentary commission on education, in the company of other senior McGill officials and a student representative, at the National Assembly in Quebec City. While he thanked the government for last year's start on reinvesting in the system of higher education, Principal Shapiro noted that McGill has not received its fair share from Quebec.

MSBI: Universities launch $26 million venture capital fund

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:57:36 +0000

Facts concerning MSBI

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:57:53 +0000

Predicting flash floods

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:57:41 +0000

McGill marks birthday of Abraham Lincoln

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:57:47 +0000

Diagnostics and solutions: Building consensus for a health care reform in Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:57:30 +0000

Bright future for Montreal's photonics industry

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:19:35 +0000

Music biz legend @ McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:57:27 +0000

Green Belt Movement founder on environmental activism

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:15 +0000

Quebec makes big investment in McGill's Redpath Museum

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:50:50 +0000

Do drop by!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:50:59 +0000

New VP Research Louise Proulx to start April 1

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:50:41 +0000

Timber! Lumberjack competition at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:51:09 +0000

Hello Minerva and goodbye MARS

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:50:31 +0000

New expertise added to McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:50:23 +0000

Repeated human papillomavirus infection, a reliable predictor of cervical cancer precursor lesions

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:50:15 +0000

McGill reaps two Rhodes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:57 +0000

Extreme weather in Montreal

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:49 +0000

Art in movement

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:28 +0000

Panthéon-Assas University honours McGill professor Paul-André Crépeau

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:42 +0000

McGill Fall 2001 Convocation

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:36 +0000

Glycobiology: Health, disease and therapy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:14:11 +0000

25th Osler Lecturer: John Ralston Saul on 'Health care as a human right'

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:09 +0000

Activist @ McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:58 +0000

McGill Mini-Med School in high demand

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:14 +0000

New 'white coat ceremony' to take place at McGill University

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:19 +0000

McGill's Percival Molson Memorial Stadium to be renovated

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:51 +0000

Understanding biodiversity

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:45:52 +0000

Research team uncovers protein-folding mechanism

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:12 +0000

A wealth of web sites

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:44 +0000

Online Montreal family violence resource directory

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:36 +0000

Seeking answers in America

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:21 +0000

New McGill researchers win recognition

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:28 +0000

New home-safety assessment scale for people with dementia living at home

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:45:59 +0000

Babies' hands move to the rhythm of language

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:45:35 +0000

FIT@McGill pilot project launched

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:45:44 +0000

Forging economic and environmental links

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:45:28 +0000

Study identifies new source of stem cells

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:45:20 +0000

Cannabis on trial

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:59 +0000

Meet the scientists

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:45:10 +0000

A web of experts

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:54 +0000

Political scientist Antonia Maioni succeeds Desmond Morton

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:48 +0000

Sun therapy

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:34 +0000

McGill University committed to correcting gender differential in academic salaries

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:40 +0000

Geographers unite!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:27 +0000

The future of social democracy

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:43:58 +0000

Moments to remember

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:04 +0000

McGill University inherits the Noël-Vallerand Sound Recording Collection

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:44:18 +0000

Lessons in parenting

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:10:48 +0000

Canadian media giant launches new fellowship program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:10:42 +0000

Triple distinction

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:45 +0000

Noxious little molecule is key to a healthy body and mind

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:50 +0000

McGill physicist vindicates 80-year-old atmospheric model

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:39 +0000

Acclaimed Rockies researcher honoured

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:10:36 +0000

'Person of the Year' Award launched by McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:10:30 +0000

McGill to launch Mini-Med School in October 2001

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:10:24 +0000

Germany honours McGill history professor Peter Hoffmann

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:10:18 +0000

McGill University professor helps China open its economy to the global market

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:10:07 +0000

Welcome mat is being unrolled for McGill Open House

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:57 +0000

Navigating through time

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:23 +0000

Genomics specialist named Scientist of the Year 2000

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:32 +0000

Introducing McGill's 116th Rhodes Scholar

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:14 +0000

Chandra associates pulsar and historic supernova

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:01 +0000

Acclaimed McGill neuroscientist to head international brain research organization

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:19 +0000

Recent advances in biodiversity research at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:11 +0000

McGill and Quebec Department of Education sign performance agreement

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:03 +0000

Canadian scientist finalist for international development research award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:55:53 +0000

Bridging brain, mind and behaviour

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:55:58 +0000

Examining language from A to Z

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:55:45 +0000

New study finds speech-like brain activity in deaf signers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:55:35 +0000

In the wake of progress

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:48:38 +0000

Federal elections in the United States and Canada

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:48:29 +0000

Convocation time

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:48:21 +0000

Hola Mexico!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:48:05 +0000

Vivre c'est choisir: A woman in public life

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:48:13 +0000

Catholic studies at the forefront

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:27 +0000

Meteorites may have transferred life between planets in the solar system

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:21 +0000

Citizens!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:15 +0000

Artful Experiences

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:05 +0000

Estrogen therapy may help prevent memory decline in elderly women

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:48:57 +0000

British personality Jonathan Miller to speak at McGill University

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:48:48 +0000

New drug delays development of MS by 44 per cent

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:50:03 +0000

Let's Talk! Parlons-En!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:41 +0000

How has Quebec fared in terms of job creation?

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:54 +0000

McGill genetics pioneer honoured

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:48 +0000

Lies, damned lies and statistics

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:34 +0000

Can squatter settlements be good places to live?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:55:10 +0000

Pond scum: More Than Meets the Eye

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:55:22 +0000

McGill receives multimillion-dollar infrastructure funding

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:26 +0000

Pre-adoption limbo

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:31 +0000

McGill professor tops in Economic Geology

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:50 +0000

Mulroney's numbers best in a half century

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:42 +0000

McGill launches Centre for Bioinformatics

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:47:57 +0000

First Pew fellowship for McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:47:49 +0000

Climate experts at McGill University

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:47:20 +0000

Spring convocations at McGill University

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:47:39 +0000

Cohenists unite

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:47:00 +0000

Conference on colon cancer

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:47:31 +0000

McGill-Queen's Press agreement extended

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:54 +0000

A giant in the field of modern molecular biology

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:47 +0000

Women and health

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:35 +0000

Rediscovered rare book at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:51 +0000

New hope of cure for Parkinson's disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:59 +0000

Big-time bard conference co-hosted by McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:43 +0000

New Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:28 +0000

A new spin on a strange class of pulsars

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:29 +0000

New economic framework to protect the environment

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:07 +0000

Reaction to the Quebec budget

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:39 +0000

McGill calls for equitable funding

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:19 +0000

Nobel laureate Dr Paul Crutzen speaks at McGill

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:58 +0000

Women and business

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:32 +0000

Medical test helps children and cuts costs

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:26 +0000

McGill welcomes CEGEP students

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:11 +0000

McGill education research shows children's biliteracy potential underestimated

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:38 +0000

The road to public and environmental safety

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:16 +0000

Montreal tops North American cities for university students

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:03 +0000

Degree-granting institutions

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:18:43 +0000

Fijian 'singing culture' and implications for music education in Canada

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:43 +0000

Montreal: University capital of North America

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:54 +0000

CBC host Eleanor Wachtel on 'The Lives Of Writers'

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:45:21 +0000

Economic restructuring in India: New hope for young women?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:56:48 +0000

Nonchemical weedkiller has huge potential

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:41 +0000

Universities are not preparing students for professional writing

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:50 +0000

New tool analyzes climate change problems

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:19 +0000

Scouts Canada helping young immigrants

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:30 +0000

New vaccine approach to stimulate regeneration after spinal cord injuries

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:51 +0000

Major grant to aid efforts to improve school science teaching

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:43 +0000

Rebuilding the Indonesian nation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:02 +0000

December 6 special commemoration and exhibit at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:33 +0000

Debt relief for Canadian farmers?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:37 +0000

Inauguration of Promenade Sir William Osler

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:27 +0000

Richard Pound formally installed as Chancellor of McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:32 +0000

Becoming human: The evolution of mind and language

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:16 +0000

Minds that matter

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:59 +0000

Hong Kong today

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:06 +0000

Opening of William and Mary Brown Building

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:42 +0000

The Darwinism of disease

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:47 +0000

Grand opening of the Arts Multimedia Language Facility (AMLF)

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:22 +0000

A missing link in teaching?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:53 +0000

Bass affect lake ecosystems

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:44 +0000

The Great Controversy

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:50 +0000

Deans' mandates renewed

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:56 +0000

McGill proposes ambitious Plan of Action

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:53:38 +0000

The Grow Home wins World Habitat Award

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:12 +0000

Philosopher Steve Fuller delivers Beatty lecture

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:03 +0000

McGill Office for Chemistry and Society

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:22 +0000

First class of voluntary sector leaders experience innovative program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:36 +0000

Recent Arctic sea ice cover changes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:34 +0000

Nicola Terceira, Rhodes warrior

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:46 +0000

Great year for McGill Law students

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:40 +0000

Lost genes may be causing TB vaccine's failure

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:27 +0000

Health Sciences convocation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:22 +0000

Exhibit of works by architect Sverre Fehn

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:17 +0000

New Board chair for McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:37 +0000

New Dean of Law

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:03 +0000

Human Genetics academic program

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:54 +0000

McGill honours Sir William Osler

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:20 +0000

Alcohol and drug abuse in children and adolescents

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:45 +0000

Exploring the causes of premature childbirth

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:28 +0000

The Blueprint

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:53 +0000

McGill principal reacts to Quebec budget

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:59 +0000

Gene could lead to new therapy for diabetes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:52:10 +0000

War and peace at the dawn of the new millennium

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:18:37 +0000

Quebec medical deans react to federal budget

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:58 +0000

What turns cells off or on?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:18:09 +0000

Lost genes may be causing TB vaccine's failure

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:18:28 +0000

McGill IR group developing new analysis tools

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:18:19 +0000

Richard W. Pound is McGill's seventeenth chancellor

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:06 +0000

Prof. Luc Vinet is McGill's new VP (Academic)

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:27 +0000

Science-in-fiction is not science fiction

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:10 +0000

Major breakthrough leads to technology transfer

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:51:17 +0000

8th International Symposium on Spermatology, August 17-22, 1998

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:01 +0000

McGill and the 14th World Congress of Sociology

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:46 +0000

McGill University appoints new dean of the Faculty of Education: Dr Ratna Ghosh

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:37 +0000

Greek government announces financial support for chair in Greek Studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:59 +0000

Lieutenant Governor Mme Lise Thibault to open seminar on disabilities

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:52 +0000

Eleven honorary degrees awarded at Spring 1998 convocations

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:18 +0000

The Medical Research Council grants $10 million to McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:00 +0000

Numata Lectureship in Buddhist Studies at McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:14:45 +0000

School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition opens new clinical research facility

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:14:53 +0000

Quebec universities promoted in the USA

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:28 +0000

McGill à L'Acfas

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:14:38 +0000

Establishment of a charitable foundation Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:12:46 +0000

1995 Nobel Peace laureate Joseph Rotblat to speak tonight at McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:12:54 +0000

A must in March at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:14:30 +0000

McGill University celebrates revitalized Department of Jewish Studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:14:21 +0000

A new chapter in the future of McGill's bookstore

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:22 +0000

McGill University injects $4.9 billion into the Quebec economy over ten years

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:30 +0000

International language examination centre opens at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:46 +0000

McGill professor wins prestigious award in psychiatric research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:53 +0000

World AIDS Day, December 1, 1997: McGill University AIDS expertise

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:50:05 +0000

Mouvement Desjardins supports Quebec Studies at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:50:19 +0000

McGill University to award four honorary degrees at Fall 1997 convocation

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:11:38 +0000

McGill researchers present major findings at US neurosciences conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:12:05 +0000

Harvard researcher to head McGill science education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:50:26 +0000

The Brownie World of Palmer Cox

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:11:28 +0000

Lessons in living from the dying: Pioneer in palliative care to visit McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:12:20 +0000

Women's rights activist to speak at McGill

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:11:19 +0000

La Casa a la Carta: An affordable, exportable home for less than $15,000 US

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:11:46 +0000

Faculty of Management exports MBA program to Japan

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:11:55 +0000

Shoot an eagle and save the birds!

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:12:29 +0000

McGill's Sports Science Centre gets hyperbaric oxygen chamber

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:12:36 +0000

The MRC awards $16.4 million to McGill and its affiliated institutions

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:41 +0000

Canadian Society of Animal Science annual meeting

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:05 +0000

McGill University teacher named 1997 Canadian Professor of the Year

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:14 +0000

Opening of the McGill annual summer dental clinic: July 2 to August 8, 1997

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:19 +0000

New directory to aid frontline social workers and police officers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:25 +0000

Leading oncologist named Jack Cole Professor in Pediatric Oncology

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:26 +0000

World grain supplies have fallen to 25 days. Should we worry about it?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:41 +0000

McGill University to award eight honorary degrees at Spring 1997 convocations

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:54 +0000

The Canadian federal election

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:34 +0000

McGill professor increases yields in soybean crops by up to 25%

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:47 +0000

Hot off the presses: Recent works by McGill authors

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:18 +0000

Exclusive protein licensing agreement

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:29 +0000

Saving the seahorse: McGill biologist featured on public television

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:35 +0000

Former principal named president of Harvard's Board of Overseers

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:46:22 +0000

Major new teaching and research facility opens at McGill University

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:08 +0000

MRC/PMAC chair awarded to Dr Serge Gauthier

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:36 +0000

Inaugural lecture of the new dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:42 +0000

Scientific audit terminated

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:50 +0000

New evidence that Martian meteorite could have harboured life

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:57 +0000

March 1997 issue of Nature Genetics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:30 +0000

McGill welcomes federal government support for postsecondary education

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:14 +0000

McGill Consortium for Ethnicity and Strategic Social Planning (MCESSP) to release findings

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:00 +0000

McGill establishes important chair in schizophrenia research

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:40 +0000

First school of social work in Jordan

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:33 +0000

Legal settlement reached between McGill University and the Sergent estate

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:48 +0000

The Beatty Memorial Lectures committee presents 'The End of Science'

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:25 +0000