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McGill's Department of Psychology ranks 21st in the Times Higher Education Top 50 list

webfull — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:08:12 +0000

McGill provides a top-tier education in a wide variety of fields, as highlighted in the World University Rankings by Subject 2025, released on January 22 by Times Higher Education (THE).

McGill ranks among the top 90 in the world in all of the 11 subjects assessed, placing six subjects in the top 50. The number of institutions of higher education considered varied by discipline, from 389 for Law to 1,488 for Engineering.

Published: 24 January 2025

Geography Department celebrates 80th anniversary

webfull — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:03:17 +0000

McGill’s Department of Geography turns 80 this year!

This milestone marks the anniversary of George Kimble’s appointment as McGill’s first Professor of Geography and Department Chair on January 1, 1945.

Kimble, who had previously been a meteorologist with the Royal Navy, was allocated two rooms in the Arts Building (rooms 30 and 38) by the Faculty of Arts and Science to lay the foundation for the new department. A few months later, F.K. Hare was appointed as McGill’s second Professor of Geography (eventually becoming Dean of Arts and Science in 1961).

Published: 24 January 2025

McGill researchers awarded funding from NSERC for quantum science

webfull — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:28:53 +0000

On January 21, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), announced over $74 million in funding to support 107 quantum science projects, including fifteen to McGill researchers.

Published: 21 January 2025

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

webfull — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:41:09 +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.

Published: 21 January 2025

Bieler School of Environment welcomes new director

webfull — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:50:18 +0000

The Bieler School of Environment (BSE) is thrilled to announce Professor Anthony Ricciardi as its new director, effective immediately. An expert in invasion ecology and aquatic ecosystems, Ricciardi has been a key figure at the school since 2001 and now steps up to lead.

“My vision for the School is to become the gateway of environmental research at McGill,” said Ricciardi.

Founded in 1998, the BSE appoints directors for five-year terms.

Published: 21 January 2025

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

webfull — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:07:07 +0000

�㽶��Ƶ researchers have discovered that changes in clouds are slightly mitigating global warming.

Published: 15 January 2025

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

webfull — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:09:21 +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.

Published: 13 January 2025

Researchers link mysterious cosmic signals to collapsed stars

webfull — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:05:40 +0000

An international team of scientists led by �㽶��Ƶ 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.

Published: 2 January 2025

King Charles III Coronation Medals awarded to 19 members of the McGill community

webfull — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:51:39 +0000

Nineteen members of the McGill community have been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. The medal is conferred on individuals who have made significant contributions to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community, or have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada.

The recipients include Professor R. Bruce Lennox, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Tomlinson Professor of Chemistry.

Published: 23 December 2024

TSI Outreach Program Administrator, Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia, wins President’s Award

webfull — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:16:26 +0000

Congratulations to Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia, the Outreach Program Administrator at the Trottier Space Institute and Physics Department for being awarded the President's Award for Administrative and Support Staff! Winners of this award are honoured for the quality of their work, service to the community, innovation and initiative.

Published: 17 December 2024