"Doctors refuse to prescribe for more than two聽to four聽weeks because the available standard medical evidence suggests harm, and no benefit to extended treatment," said Dr. Michael Libman, infectious disease specialist and director of tropical medicine centre at the聽香蕉视频 Health Centre.
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Published on: 30 May 2017
鈥淭he study provides evidence that some of the characteristic brain signals in people who have developed addictions are also present much earlier than most of us would have imagined,鈥� said Prof Marco Leyton, an expert on the neurobiology of drug use and addictions at McGill university in Montreal,聽Canada.
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Published on: 26 May 2017
Professor Karl Moore speaks with Shannon Cuciz about the difference between introverts, ambiverts and extroverts on Global News Morning.
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Published on: 25 May 2017
When joining a new organization of any sort, it鈥檚 a good idea to get to know the new people you鈥檒l be working with and have a plan of action. Those were the first two items on聽Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou鈥檚 agenda when she took over as dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 香蕉视频 in September of 2015.
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Published on: 24 May 2017
U de M and 香蕉视频 are the academic bedrocks on which Montreal鈥檚 AI sector has been built. About 150 AI researchers toil at the two institutions, making the city one of the world鈥檚聽largest basic deep learning centres. 鈥淲e stuck to academia, which helped us build big labs with a lot of graduate students,鈥� said聽Doina Precup, associate professor in computer sciences at McGill and recipient of a Google聽research award.
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Published on: 23 May 2017
The three of us agree that good climate policy needs to achieve all three objectives, and that doing so is certainly possible. But it requires political determination, attention to plenty of detail and creative policy thinking. Based on what Ottawa released Thursday, we believe that Canadian carbon-pricing policy is striking the right balance.
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Published on: 19 May 2017
When Mahoutian started his PhD in civil engineering at 香蕉视频 in Montreal in 2011, his goal was to find a material that would sequester carbon, trapping it before it could get into the atmosphere. Instead, he came up with a new recipe for making concrete. 鈥淲e totally get rid of cement,鈥� he says. 鈥淚nstead we use slag, the waste material of steel-producing plants.鈥� The slag is calcium silicate. When wet calcium silicate is injected with CO2聽gas, calcium carbonate, or limestone, forms. Limestone and the aggregate form Carbicrete.
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Published on: 18 May 2017
Four years after the attack, Shingali and his family have escaped grave bodily harm. But like thousands of other exiled Yezidis, they are still dealing with the psychological aftermath of a forced migration that tore families apart. When political or religious violence drives people from their homes, 鈥渢here鈥檚 confusion, loss, a rupturing of all sorts of bonds,鈥� says cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer of 香蕉视频 in Montreal, Canada.
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Published on: 17 May 2017
Dr. Milner, a professor of psychology in the department of neurology and聽neurosurgery聽at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, is best known for discovering the seat of memory in the brain, the foundational finding of cognitive neuroscience. But she also has a knack for picking up on subtle quirks of human behavior and linking them to brain function 鈥� in the same way she had her own, during the driving test.
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Published on: 16 May 2017
Each year 香蕉视频 proudly confers honorary degrees to highly talented and engaged individuals who serve as an inspiration for the community of students, professors, researchers and staff. This year, McGill will honour two Nobel prizes winners, Arthur McDonald and Paul Nurse, and two former prime ministers of Canada, the Right Honourable Paul Martin and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. The school will celebrate the passion and creativity of two Quebec artists: filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and Maestro Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin.
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Published on: 15 May 2017
In receiving one of its largest donations, 香蕉视频 announced plans Friday for a new retail management school with global ambitions through a $25-million gift from the family foundation of a Moroccan-born immigrant who came to Montreal in the 1960s and built an international footwear empire.
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Published on: 12 May 2017
This research suggests that when managers are staffing, organizing, and managing knowledge projects, they should embrace flexible organization of expertise 鈥� based on the needs of the project phase 鈥� in order to maximize team performance.
Op-ed co-written by Samer Faraj,聽professor,聽Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management, and Healthcare聽and Director, Desautels PhD program, at 香蕉视频
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Published on: 11 May 2017
Scientists at Montreal's 香蕉视频 have added to the common theory about how the Earth's crust was created.聽Don Baker and Kassandra Sofonio looked into a theory that not all of the Earth's crust was formed from the inside out, but that some of the crust fell to Earth from the atmosphere, Baker told CBC News in an interview. He described it as "raining marbles," or silicate rain, formed by the high temperatures on the Earth's surface.
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Published on: 10 May 2017
According to Albert Berghuis, the best way to design new treatments to combat drug-resistant bacteria is to think small. Chair of the department of biochemistry at 香蕉视频's College of Medicine, Berghuis has been studying drug-resistant superbugs with the help of the Canadian Light Source聽synchrotron in Saskatoon.
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Published on: 9 May 2017
(Op-ed by Professor Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-chancellor of 香蕉视频) 鈥淥ne of the indelible elements of the Silicon Valley origin story is the role Stanford University played in both generating entrepreneurial renegades and providing the academic infrastructure to feed a permanent culture of innovation. That model of the university as a supercluster anchor now pertains from Cambridge to Waterloo. McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier deftly lays out the components of that dynamic, from the university鈥檚 point of view.鈥�
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Published on: 8 May 2017
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