The events of the past weeks have brought into sharp focus, yet again, the systemic racism and pervasive inequalities that are so deeply entrenched in our societies.
The magnitude of the worldwide public response reflects pain in the face of violence, anger and frustration in the face of persistent injustice, and recognition of the urgent and overdue need for change.
Debbie Moskowitz of 香蕉视频 is the 2020 recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Canadian Psychology. This award聽is presented to recognize CPA Members or Fellows who have given exceptional and enduring lifetime contributions to Canadian Psychology during their career.
While smaller dinosaurs needed speed, huge predators like T. rex were optimized for energy-efficient walking, according to a published in PLOS ONE.
By Morgan Sweeney
If you had told me five years ago that I would graduate college with a science degree, I would have said you were crazy. Sixteen-year-old Morgan thought science was dry textbooks and boring labs, too much work for things that would never affect her life. Until January 29th, 2017, when a serious knee injury forever transformed my relationship to science.
For the first time ever, 香蕉视频 will run a summer-semester version of CHEM 181, its enormously popular course on the chemistry of food.
Enrolments are now open for a June 2020 edition of the course that has been taken by tens of thousands of students over its nearly 40-year history.
Making sense of food
Researchers at 香蕉视频 have discovered a new, energy-efficient way to make key ingredients for the production of pharmaceuticals, polymers and fine chemicals.
Bird species that have the capacity to express novel foraging behaviors are less vulnerable to extinction than species that do not, according to a collaborative study involving 香蕉视频 and CREAF Barcelona and published today in .
By Nicole George
Academia Week 2020 began with an Undergraduate Poster Showcase, sponsored by the Office of Science Education (OSE), , and Teaching and Learning Services (TLS).
The Chemistry Outreach Group has taken home聽the Principal鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement聽through Media, winning the inaugural 'Collaboration' category聽for groups of undergraduate or graduate students that engage with the external community and/or the media.
The Prize recognizes the vital role outreach groups play in supporting the University鈥檚 commitment to being of service to society and engaging with the broader community.
A research team led by 香蕉视频 geochemist Peter Douglas has used a new method for measuring the rate at which methane is produced by microbes breaking down thawing permafrost. The breakthrough could lead to an improvement in our ability to predict future releases of the potent greenhouse gas as long鈥慺rozen layers of soil begin to thaw.
With the federal ban of single-use plastics planned for this year, the demand for alternatives to everyday plastic products, such as straws, is set to increase.聽, a startup company born through a collaboration between chemistry professors from McGill and Lakehead University, is betting on cellulose for making drinking straws that don鈥檛 suck for the environment.
A fossilised insect wing discovered in an abandoned mine in Labrador has led palaeontologists from 香蕉视频 and the University of Gda艅sk to identify a new hairy cicada species that lived around 100 million years ago.
Maculaferrum blaisi, described in a study published in , is the first hemipteran insect (true bug) to be discovered at the Redmond Formation, a fossil site from the Cretaceous period near Schefferville, Labrador.
Using a new microscopic "fishing" technique, scientists from the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), Universit茅 de Montr茅al and 香蕉视频 have successfully snagged thousands of proteins that play a key role in the formation of the cell skeletons or cytoskeletons. Cell skeletons, whose primary function is to give the cells their shapes, are also involved in things like muscle contraction. They are made up of an interlocking network of protein filaments that connect the cell nucleus to the cell membrane.
By Cynthia Feng and Kira Smith
Office of Science Education team members Cynthia Feng and Kira Smith are working with members of the Science Undergraduate Society (SUS) on planning the next edition of the SUS鈥檚 highly anticipated Academia Week.
Astronomers in Europe, working with members of Canada鈥檚 CHIME Fast Radio Burst collaboration, have pinpointed the location of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) first detected by the CHIME telescope in British Columbia in 2018. The breakthrough is only the second time that scientists have determined the precise location of a repeating source of these millisecond bursts of radio waves from space.
