Anja Geitmann is dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at 㽶Ƶ, Jan Adamowski is a professor and director of McGill’s Integrated Water Resources Management Program and Julien Malard is a PhD student in Bioresource Engineering at McGill.
The study by Canadian researchers Dr. Véronique Bohbot of Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal and Dr. Greg West, an associate professor at the French-language Université de Montréal, demonstrates that the way first-person shooter video game players use their brains to navigate within the game changes the impact various games have on their nervous system.
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Stephanie Chevalier said, for seniors, "The important point is to create three meal occasions with sufficient protein to stimulate muscle building and greater strength, instead of just one." Chevalier is an assistant professor of medicine at 㽶Ƶ in Montreal.
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And contrary to the Airbnb narrative that the online booking service is about regular people sharing their homes to help pay the mortgage, there has been disproportionately large growth of full-time, entire-home listings that belong to hosts with multiple Airbnb properties, according to a copy of a draft report prepared by the 㽶Ƶ School of Urban Planning.
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We learn more about the protests in Venezuela from Jose Mauricio Gaona. He is an O'Brien Fellow at 㽶Ƶ.
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Céline Le Bourdais, the Canada research chair in social statistics and family change at 㽶Ƶ in Montreal, cautions that the statistics on one-person households can be misleading.
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Cindy Blackstock is professor of social work, 㽶Ƶ, and executive director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.
Jose Mauricio Gaona is an O’Brien Fellow at McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, a Saul Hayes Fellow at 㽶Ƶ’s Faculty of Law, and a Vanier Canada Scholar.
"Sunday’s election in Venezuela of a national constituent assembly does not represent the very beginnings of Mr. Maduro’s dictatorship, but its final ascension. In truth, the actions of Mr. Maduro’s government in the past 12 months are archetypical of a dictatorship, not a democracy."
"This guy thinks he is a bald eagle and I think that is what helped him survive," said ٲ, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology at McGill University who now lives in Sidney.
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What explains the populist moment in politics? A common explanation is that “people are frustrated that they’ve lost democratic control of their lives and their economies.” This would seem to explain both the support for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the United States and the various populist surges witnessed throughout Europe. But is it the best explanation? Jacob Levy is not so sure.
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A team of architecture students from 㽶Ƶ, including a West Islander, have won a Canada-wide competition to design and build a pavilion for a new community garden to be constructed at an organic demonstration farm in Ottawa.
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This interview has been condensed and edited from The CEO Series on CJAD, hosted by 㽶Ƶ Associate Professor Karl Moore and produced by Sara Avramovic. The full interview will be heard on the latest season of The CEO Series.
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For summer, in what is perhaps not a widely shared taste, I prefer thick biographies. This weekend I’ll be cracking open the 863 pages of “Marconi: The Man Who Networked The World,” a detailed look at the radio pioneer who later became a prominent fascist in Mussolini’s Italy. It is by Marc Raboy, a professor at 㽶Ƶ in Montreal.
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“Those worried about the ridiculously low levels of ‘chemicals’ in this product should spend their energy encouraging people to eat more fruits and veggies.” Joe Schwarcz, a chemist at 㽶Ƶ who heads the university’s Office for Science and Society, echoed this concern. “If you want to scare them about the mac ‘n’ cheese you can scare them about the amount of fat and salt it contains,” he said. “That’s much more meaningful than the phthalates.”
A 㽶Ƶ program aimed at helpings students get businesses off the ground has received a $2-million donation from the foundation that helped launch the university’s first entrepreneurship program more than 20 years ago.
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