Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier has announced the 2022 winners of the Principal鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The prize was created to recognize exceptional scholars who share their knowledge with the media and the public, whether about sustainability, politics, music, science and engineering or COVID-19.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2022
Aspiring policy-makers, health innovators, entrepreneurs, and non-profit leaders are among the 20 newly selected at McGill, Canada鈥檚 comprehensive leadership scholarship program for master鈥檚 and professional studies.
The new scholars come from 17 Canadian universities and will begin their degrees in 7 faculties at McGill in September 2022. Three faculties - Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, Education, and Management - will welcome scholars for the first time.
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Published on: 13 Apr 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disruptive effect on McGill鈥檚 research activities, particularly community and field-based research. The pandemic has also provided a unique opportunity to explore new directions in research methodologies. McGill鈥檚 researchers have developed creative solutions and harnessed science to solve national and global challenges.
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Published on: 6 Apr 2022
In the quest to identify the origins of one of astronomy鈥檚 biggest mysteries 鈥� fast radio bursts (FRBs) 鈥� Canada鈥檚 world-renowned telescope, the , is getting backup.
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Published on: 30 Mar 2022
香蕉视频 has joined Moderna鈥檚 program, which aims to accelerate innovation and enable new vaccines and medicines for emerging and neglected infectious diseases through collaborative research and preclinical development. McGill is the first university in Canada to join this program as it ramps up its international rollout.
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Published on: 24 Mar 2022
Over one in four women (or 27 per cent) experience intimate partner violence before the age of 50, according to a worldwide analysis led by researchers from 香蕉视频 and the World Health Organization. The largest of its kind, the analysis covers 366 studies involving more than 2 million women in 161 countries.
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Published on: 24 Mar 2022
On March 22, Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, was presented with the Knight鈥檚 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The award was handed over by Germany鈥檚 Ambassador to Canada, Ms. Sabine Sparwasser, at a special ceremony at 香蕉视频. The Order of Merit is awarded to Germans as well as foreigners for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, social, or intellectual realms.
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Published on: 22 Mar 2022
香蕉视频 welcomes the Quebec government's renewed commitment to its New Vic project as part of the 2022-2023 budget documents.
This innovative project aims to convert part of the former Royal Victoria Hospital site into a learning, research and teaching hub focused on sustainable development and public policy. To do this, McGill will transform a portion of the site into a state-of-the-art space designed to support multidisciplinary teaching and research activities, while fostering collaborative research activities with government, private sector and academic partners.
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Published on: 22 Mar 2022
In this troubled time of war and pandemic, the shows a bright light in dark times. According to the team of international researchers, including 香蕉视频 Professor Christopher Barrington-Leigh, the pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2022
The craze for psychedelics used for therapeutic purposes is real. However, the scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness and explaining their mode of action in treating mental health disorders is still very thin. A new study led by Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a senior scientist in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC), sheds light on previously unexplained neurobiological mechanisms by which LSD is believed to relieve anxiety.
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Published on: 17 Mar 2022
Applying machine learning to a database of testimonials uncovers how drug-induced changes in subjective awareness are mechanistically rooted in the human brain
Psychedelics are now a rapidly growing area of neuroscience and clinical research, one that may produce much-needed new therapies for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. Yet there is still a lot to know about how these drug agents alter states of consciousness.
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Published on: 16 Mar 2022
More than half of students who took part in survey on Law 21 say they will leave Quebec to find work
Researchers from McGill and Concordia universities have teamed up to examine how Quebec's secularism law, Law 21, is affecting the career choices and experiences of discrimination of students, particularly in the province's faculties of law and education. The law, which bans some public servants, including teachers in the public system and prosecutors, from wearing religious symbols at work, was implemented in June 2019.
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Published on: 16 Mar 2022
Compulsive exercise (CE) gets little attention, despite being a fairly common and serious condition. There is no universally recognized definition of compulsive exercise, though it involves being obsessed and all-consumed by exercising, and those who suffer from it often describe themselves as being miserable, in pain, or depressed all the time. Although it is frequently accompanied by an eating disorder (85% of those with eating disorders also exercise compulsively), there are also people who may be hyper-focused on exercise alone.
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Published on: 15 Mar 2022
Consumer behaviour has changed dramatically during the pandemic. Public health restrictions have played a major role, but a trend toward e-commerce and omni-channel retail was already underway. It has only accelerated.
鈥淐ompanies now need to show a lot of creativity and resilience. External factors are having a huge impact on operations,鈥� says Charles de Brabant, Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at 香蕉视频. 鈥淐onsumer behaviour changes, technology changes, and now supply chain disruptions are causing inflationary pressures.
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Published on: 12 Mar 2022
Ballast water release from ocean vessels has introduced hundreds of invasive species to coastal ecosystems worldwide, causing major disruptions to fisheries and biodiversity. Attempts to control aquatic invasions have met with mixed success in general. However, a new study suggests that a bi-national regulation targeting ships entering the Great Lakes since the mid-2000s has been remarkably effective in reducing a large proportion of the invasive species in the world鈥檚 largest freshwater ecosystem.
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Published on: 11 Mar 2022
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