McGill psychology professor honoured for achievements in child language acquisition
Published on: 17 Jul 2024
Professor Eyal Goren has received a prestigious Frontiers of Science Award听for his co-authorship in his landmark publication听
Published on: 15 Jul 2024
New McGill study sheds light on the cerebellar nuclei听
In a published today in Nature Communications, a team of McGill researchers led by of the Department of Biology examines the spatial organization of neurons in the cerebellar cortex. The findings offer new insight into how information is integrated in the cerebellum and shed light on the role of the often-overlooked cerebellar nuclei.听
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Published on: 9 Jul 2024
McGill honours its accomplished researchers with Distinguished James McGill Professor, James McGill Professor, and William Dawson Scholars awards.
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Published on: 3 Jul 2024
As the climate warms, many species are on the move, raising new challenges for policy-makers around the world. Shifts in the ranges of mosquitoes and disease-bearing ticks and bats are introducing illnesses such as malaria and Lyme disease into regions where health-care systems are unprepared. Movements of commercially important fish from one jurisdiction to another are shifting job opportunities and causing trade disputes.
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Published on: 2 Jul 2024
With generative AI tools readily available to students, student assessment was a recurrent topic of discussion at a bilingual, two-day symposium hosted by McGill last month in partnership with Google and the P么le interordres de Montr茅al.
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Published on: 2 Jul 2024
McGill awarded $10.9 million in federal funding through Canada Research Chairs Program
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Published on: 25 Jun 2024
Allie Vibert Douglas made history when she earned her PhD at McGill.
It was 1926 鈥� a time when higher education wasn鈥檛 an option for most women.
By then, Douglas already had a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science from McGill 鈥� and had been named a member of the Order of the British Empire for her wartime service. With her PhD, she became the first Canadian woman to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics.
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Published on: 25 Jun 2024
Congratulations to Professor Nigel Roulet, Department of Geography, for being awarded the 2024 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching!听
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This award recognizes an outstanding faculty member who has been supervising graduate students for more than ten years. Roulet started as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography in 1994 and began his term as Graduate Program Director of the department the following year.听
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Published on: 19 Jun 2024
Congratulations to Professor听Axel Hundemer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, for being awarded the 2024 Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching!听 This award is given each year to recognize a faculty member for superior teaching听at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Science. 听
Read below the citation for the announcement of the award.听
Published on: 19 Jun 2024
Twenty McGill doctoral and postdoctoral students have received important funding from the Government of Canada. Sixteen have earned Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and four, Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships.
The Vanier program awards doctoral students up to $50,000 per year for three years. The Banting program is worth up to $70,000 annually for two years.
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Published on: 7 Jun 2024
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Professor Christian Genest is one of the three recipients of the 2024
The award recognizes excellence in state-of-the-art听statistical work which considers problems of public听interest and which is potentially useful for formation听of Canadian public policy.听
Published on: 4 Jun 2024
Dr. Frederic Bertley (BSc鈥�94, PhD鈥�00), who received an honorary doctorate at the McGill Science convocation this past Friday, is featured in a new Global News article about his life growing up in Montr茅al and career as a doctor and science communicator. Known affectionately as 鈥淒r. B.,鈥� Dr. Bertley has won eight Emmy awards and is president and CEO of the听Center of Science and Industry听(COSI) in Columbus, Ohio.
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Published on: 3 Jun 2024
of the Department of Physics has been named a in the Gravity & the Extreme Universe program. 听
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Published on: 31 May 2024
of the School of Computer Science has received the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.听
Awarded annually by Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-Can/Info-Can), this award recognizes current or former faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the field of computer science in Canada.听
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Published on: 29 May 2024
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