The School of Continuing Studies is hosting its second annual Job Fair, exclusive to current students and recent alumni! This event is uniquely targeted to our students and will include employers who value your experience and drive.
At this event, you will have the opportunity to:
Professionals and researchers from around the world will be coming together in April to reflect on the ideological nature of translation and the ways in which engaged translators have promoted a wide variety of conceptual agendas throughout history. 听Researchers and practicing translators will reflect on translations as artefacts of sociopolitical change.
Oc茅ane Marescal outlined how science students can improve their writing skills in The McGill Tribune. The McGill Writing Center offers several courses that greatly benefit those who wish to make writing one of their strengths. The article outlines relevant courses to science majors.
Dr. James Archibald has been appointed to the ISO/TC 37 mirror committee on language and terminology in . The Standards Council of Canada is the Canadian arm of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the ISO/TC 37 has published internationally recognized standards on a variety of translation-related issues and technologies.
Read an interview with McGill School of Continuing Studies' former director of Translation Studies, James Archibald, in M茅tro. The flexibility of the program, along with the internship component and use of innovative software, was highlighted.
The article is available in French only. .
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Students completing the Graduate Diploma in Translation (GDIT) must sit a comprehensive examination at the conclusion of the GDIT Program.听 The examination consists of an oral defense of a best-work portfolio.听 This portfolio represents a record of progress made by the candidate throughout his/her studies.听 Each candidate prepares a written introduction and comments on selected examples of coursework with a view to demonstrating his/her progress toward greater translation competence.
At the soir茅e de reconnaissance acad茅mique, Mery Carolina Vasquez Cruz was awarded听the Prix de la rel猫ve on behalf of McGill and PMI. She graduated from McGill's School of Continuing Studies with a and
According to a 2015 census, there are just over 3,000 homeless people living in Montreal. This number does not account for those who听are dealing with hidden homelessness, such as temporarily living with friends or family or other short-term accommodation.
In addition to the many challenges and stresses of homelessness鈥攕uch as meeting immediate survival needs for food, water, clothing and shelter from the elements鈥攖aking care of health needs might seem insurmountable.
Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?听 香蕉视频 researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.
Kimberly Carri猫re, B盲rbel Kn盲uper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.
The researchers found that:
Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city鈥檚 four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city鈥檚 nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?
Research has already shown that women who develop either diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease years later.听Now, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and 香蕉视频 shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women had听both听diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy. The study, published today in the听American Journal of Epidemiology, doesn鈥檛 end with the mother鈥檚 risks.
Early flowering, early fruiting: Anecdotal evidence of climate change is popping up as quickly as spring crocuses, but is it coincidence or confirmation that plants鈥� timing is shifting in response to warming temperatures?
By Chris Chipello
香蕉视频 researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that may contribute to the breakdown of communication between neurons in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.
By Shawn Hayward
Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually sharpen sound perception, and this effect is increased when we move in rhythm with the sound.
By Julie Robert
