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Homes For Heroes Kingston Veterans’ Village Grand Opening | Globe Newswire

webfull — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:50:48 +0000

June 4, 2024 | The Kingston Veterans’ Village is designed to support unhoused military Veterans and offers wrap around social support programing, in partnership with Veterans Affairs, to help with their transition to civilian life. Kingston Veterans’ Village features 20 tiny homes, a resource centre, two counsellor offices, recreation spaces, and community gardens. A recent study by the Max Bell School of Policy Studies at �㽶��Ƶ estimat

Published: 6 June 2024

Student simulation education ambassadors for community outreach: Participate, create and lead by joining the SCSIL Student Interprofessional Learners Committee

webfull — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:39:01 +0000

What is the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning (SCSIL)?

We are an interprofessional centre of excellence that uses the latest medical simulation technology to enhance the skills of health care professionals. Fully integrated into McGill's medical and health sciences programs, we provide the next generation of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists and more with hands-on training in difficult and potentially dangerous procedures without risk to patients.

Published: 1 August 2023

Post-doctoral fellow Mingxin Liu wins prestigious 2019 IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry

webfull — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:26:24 +0000

The IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry is a collaborative award established to encourage young and experienced chemists, and to emphasize the importance of advancements in Green Chemistry and the value of sciences to human progress. Mingxin is one of the 3 awardees in the junior category

Published: 11 June 2019

Congratulations to Richard Lincoln for receiving the 2017 Gerhard Closs Award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society

webfull — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:18:23 +0000

Richard Lincoln in the Cosa group received the 2017 Gerhard Closs Award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society in Florida in the New Year, where he gave an award lecture entitled “Lighting and Enlightening the Chemistry of the Cell”. This award was set in remembrance of Professor Gerhard L. Closs by the Inter-American Photochemical Society to reward contributions from graduate and undergraduate students for oral presentation at the I-APS Winter Conference on any subject involving photochemistry. Congratulations Richard!

Published: 5 February 2018

New understanding of how muscles work

webfull — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:24:07 +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

Published: 23 August 2017

Playing with your brain

webfull — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:29:44 +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?

Published: 8 August 2017

The second issue of the student-led McGill Green Chemistry Journal is out!

webfull — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:48:45 +0000

For the second year in a row, students from the Green Chemistry course (CHEM 462) are releasing their journal issue, published online as The McGill Green Chemistry Journal. This volume gathers the reviews written by students who took the course. Students used peer evaluation, similar to the standard in scientific publication as a means to raise the quality of all the papers submitted.

Published: 23 February 2017

Graduate student makes a video for the 2017 NSERC Science, Action! competition

webfull — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:09:41 +0000

Graduate student Bryan Lee from Dr. Ariya group has submitted a video for the 2017 NSERC Science, Action! competition. His video is titled “Mercury on the Move”, which briefly speaks on the impact of mercury pollution in the environment to the public. His video is live on YouTube now, which can be found here.

Published: 9 February 2017

Grad Student Cristina Mottillo receives a national thesis award

webfull — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:10:19 +0000

Dr. Cristina Mottillo is the recipient of the prestigious 2017 CCUCC Chemistry Doctoral Award from the Canadian Institute of Chemistry (CIC). The Award, sponsored by the Canadian Council of University Chemistry Chairs (CCUCC), recognizes a recent Ph.D. graduate for their outstanding achievement and potential in research. Cristina performed her Ph.D.

Published: 7 February 2017

Student Stipend Communication and Fact Sheet

webfull — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:12:07 +0000

This message is being sent on behalf of Lynne B. Gervais, Associate Vice-Principal (Human Resources), Cristiane Tinmouth, Associate Vice-Principal (Financial Services), Dr. Rosie Goldstein, Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation), Dr. Josephine Nalbantoglu, Dean (Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) and Cara Piperni, Director (Scholarships & Student Aid Office) to inform you of the process related to financially supporting students.

December 21, 2016

To all Researchers and Staff funding students via Research Funds:

Published: 21 December 2016