Scientists looking for water on other planets may learn from an award-winning researcher who's spent 40 years studying permafrost in Canada's Arctic. Wayne Pollard has won a lifetime achievement award from the W.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Call it a sign of the times: 香蕉视频 will teach students how to grow the perfect pot plant starting next year.聽McGill鈥檚 Diploma in Commercial Cannabis program launches in June and it鈥檚 meant to train biologists to cultivate weed, design strains, protect them against contaminants and understand the legal framework of Canada鈥檚 burgeoning weed industry.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2019
Oxygen needs to be present for iron to rust. It also needs to be present for animals and many other organisms to survive. If the iron rocks below the ancient oceans rusted, then there was also oxygen in those oceans. And if there was oxygen, then oxygen-breathing life-forms had a lifeline they could cling to.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2019
The designation for common law degrees from McGill's Faculty of Law has been changed to JD from the previous LLB, effective immediately. According to a news release from the law school鈥檚 official website, starting from the spring 2020 convocation, graduates will receive two degrees: a Bachelor of Civil Law and a Juris Doctor. The program will now be called BCL/JD, and no longer BCL/LLB.
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Published on: 29 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan discusses the聽Ecofiscal Commission's final report on how Canada can meet its 2030 emissions goals with a carbon pricing policy.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | In this opinion piece, it is argued how聽an escalating carbon price over the years accompanied by rebates, as shown by Chris Ragan,聽is the most transparent and the least costly for the economy and taxpayers.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School says quadrupling Canada's carbon price by 2030 is the easiest and most cost-effective way for the country to meet its climate targets.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | Director of the Max Bell School Chris Ragan on why the time is right for a serious conversation about how best to bridge the gap between Canada鈥檚 current emissions and our 2030 target.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 |聽The Ecofiscal Commission says聽Canada will either have to raise carbon prices to $210 per tonne or adopt more expensive policies funded by higher income taxes to meet its 2030聽targets.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | The Ecofiscal Commission's latest report says that if Canada were to meet its 2030 targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through carbon pricing, it must more than quadruple its carbon tax and rebate the revenues to consumers.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
Some might say it鈥檚 a relationship that was meant to be. Part of its continued growth and evolution, C2 Montr茅al is reinventing itself once again with the help of one of Canada鈥檚 most storied institutions of higher learning, 香蕉视频.
McGill鈥檚 illustrious history of world-leading innovation across industries and disciplines makes it a natural fit for C2, and we are proud to announce that the university will host the new site for the 2020 edition of C2 Montr茅al, May 27-29.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
"Because of Canada's alliance with the United States, there might be some pressure to adopt or toe a very similar line to the United States," said David Kuan-Wei Chen, executive director of the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law at 香蕉视频. "But so far, I think the political leadership and people at the Department of National Defence have resisted that."
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Published on: 25 Nov 2019
"The field of global health has evolved from colonial and military medicine, tropical medicine and international health. While it is evolving for the better, research shows that global health is still struggling to shake off its colonial past", says Madhukar Pai, Director of Global Health & professor at 香蕉视频, in an聽article he wrote in The Conversation.
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Published on: 22 Nov 2019
A project testing metal combustion developed by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 香蕉视频 is set to launch Friday morning on a European Space Agency rocket. The project, in cooperation with the Canadian Space Agency and Airbus Defence and Space, will launch aboard a Texus-56 rocket from Esrange, Sweden, at 3 am Montreal time.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2019
British scholar Julia Lovell has won a prestigious history writing prize run by 香蕉视频 for a book on the global impact of Chinese communist ideology. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian was awarded the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize at a Montreal gala Thursday evening.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2019
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