/mssi/articles/rss en /mssi/article/mssi-events/transforming-universities-just-and-sustainable-futures-lunch-learn-dr-julia-wittmayer <p>This past September, the <a href="https://www.learn2sustain.ca/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Leadership and Learning for Sustainability Lab</a>, in partnership with the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI), hosted a Lunch and Learn session with Dr. Julia Wittmayer from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The event brought together students, faculty, and other members of the McGill community to explore the role universities can play in addressing today’s most pressing societal and ecological challenges. </p> Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:03:48 +0000 phuong.hoang3@mcgill.ca 8442 at /mssi /mssi/article/mssi-funding/supporting-next-generation-sustainability-researchers <p>The <a href="/mssi/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative</a> (MSSI) Fellowship is an opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to work on co-designed sustainability research projects while cultivating a shared learning experience. The five funded teams will work on their projects over a nine-month period, meeting monthly to share progress, challenges and provide feedback.  </p> Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:31:48 +0000 The McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 8241 at /mssi /mssi/article/mssi-funding/mssi-social-sciences-and-humanities-ssh-ideas-fund-recipients-announced-2023 <p>MSSI has announced the results of its latest Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Ideas Fund competition. The SSH Ideas Fund awards seed funding to explore bold projects and novel ideas drawn specifically from humanities, arts, and social sciences research with the potential to illuminate or solve sustainability-related challenges.</p> <p>Read more about the funded projects below.</p> <p><strong>Preferences over Sustainable Trade Policies: Building Sustainability Coalitions in Canada</strong></p> <p><i>Leonardo Baccini (Political Science)</i></p> Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:11:40 +0000 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 7952 at /mssi /mssi/article/mssi-funding/mssi-innovation-fund-recipients-announced-2023 <p>Every year, the MSSI Innovation Fund provides support to McGill faculty members to accelerate the development of an idea or a technology toward widespread societal adoption by funding research that informs policy or moves an innovation toward commercialization. This year’s fund will distribute $100,000 to two projects that have the potential to make electric vehicle batteries and groundwater management more sustainable.</p> <p>Read more about the funded projects below.</p> Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:32:31 +0000 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 7951 at /mssi /mssi/article/2023-mssi-ideas-fund-awards The McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) has announced the results of its latest Ideas Fund competition. Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:22:50 +0000 Mcgill Sustainability Systems Initiative 7430 at /mssi /mssi/article/grinding-toward-greener-future-synthetic-dna <p>When Masad Damha started to investigate new ways of making oligonucleotides, he expected criticism.</p> <p>“The current method has been established for nearly 40 years, and it works really well,” said Damha, who is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Chemistry. “Why waste time trying to reinvent the wheel?”</p> Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:01:50 +0000 Katya Teague, McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 4158 at /mssi /mssi/article/recipients-announced-2022-social-sciences-and-humanities-ideas-fund <p>Solutions to sustainability challenges must consider the cultural, social, and economic realities that shape our beliefs and behaviours. This is why the annual MSSI Social Sciences and Humanities Ideas Fund supports McGill faculty members who are undertaking sustainability research that brings these perspectives to the forefront.</p> <p>This year’s fund will distribute a total of $40,000 to four projects led by researchers from the faculties of law, management, medicine, and science. Here is an overview of what they hope to achieve:</p> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:37:04 +0000 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 4068 at /mssi /mssi/article/mcgill-students-and-faculty-learn-how-bring-innovations-market <p>On the first day of the Sustainable Futures Festival, another first took place at an event hosted by the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative. For the first time since it launched in the fall of 2020, faculty and students collaborating as part of the CleanTech for Carbon and Energy Cycles research theme were able to come together in person.</p> Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:22:11 +0000 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 4152 at /mssi /mssi/article/mssi-funding/mssi-launches-2022-ideas-fund-competition <p>The McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative is now accepting applications for its 2022 Ideas Fund — five awards of up to $40,000 in seed funding for research that explores bold and novel ideas with the potential to significantly impact a sustainability-related challenge.</p> Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:16:23 +0000 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 4032 at /mssi /mssi/article/mssi-funding/mssi-innovation-fund-recipients-announced-2022 <p>Every year, the MSSI Innovation Fund provides support to McGill faculty members to accelerate the development of an idea or a technology toward widespread societal adoption by funding research that informs policy or moves an innovation toward commercialization. This year’s fund will distribute $90,000 to two projects that have the potential to make electric vehicle batteries safer and create a fully recyclable and highly reusable cellulose-based packaging material.</p> Fri, 13 May 2022 13:38:06 +0000 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative 3872 at /mssi