/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3333/all en /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-launches-sylvan-adams-sports-science-institute-advance-world-leading-research-sports-science-341123 <p>A $29-million gift from Quebec-born entrepreneur Sylvan Adams will launch an exciting venture for McGill’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education in the Faculty of Education, ushering in a new era of world-leading research and discovery in sports science, with the long-term goal of improving elite human performance, and promoting healthier living across the human lifespan.</p> Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:53:04 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288339 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/research-briefs-origami-inspired-design-and-why-mice-fear-bananas-333903 <p>Here are some interesting new stories from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Media Relations:</p> Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:42:39 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 278069 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/martha-crago-awarded-german-order-merit-338540 <p>On March 22, <a href="/research/about/vice-principal">Martha Crago</a>, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, was presented with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The award was handed over by Germany’s Ambassador to Canada, Ms. Sabine Sparwasser, at a special ceremony at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. The Order of Merit is awarded to Germans as well as foreigners for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, social, or intellectual realms.</p> Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:04:36 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 286882 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-engineering-youth-outreach-program-awarded-nserc-promoscience-grant-331419 <p>Education that changes outcomes for whole communities—that’s the aim of the project, Engineering Engagement in School Curricula: Multi-year Design-thinking Projects for Indigenous and Marginalized Youth, led by Professor and Chair of the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Richard Chromik, Faye Siluk, and Robert Pozeg of the Faculty of Engineering’s E-IDEA initiative (Engineering Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity Advancement), which today received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) PromoScience grants program.</p> Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:17:17 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 269429 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/federal-government-announces-17-canada-research-chairs-mcgill-336139 <p>Plastics, textiles, and electronics have revolutionized our modern world, but their massive production has led to the accumulation of non-biodegradable and toxic wastes. This is a problem McGill researcher Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne hopes to have a hand in solving. Today she was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biologically-Derived Materials, in recognition of the importance of her research for Canada’s future.</p> Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:11:37 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 283775 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/patently-harmful-fewer-female-inventors-problem-womens-health-331792 <p>"Necessity is the <em>father</em> of invention," but where is its mother? According to a new study published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba6990"><i>Science</i></a>, fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women.</p> Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:57:12 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 269912 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/origin-complex-life-form-revealed-324170 <p>Researchers from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ have revealed the steps by which two very distinct organisms – bacteria and carpenter ants – have come to depend on one another for survival to become a single complex life form. The study, published today in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2653-6"><i>Nature</i></a><i>, </i>shows that the two species have collaborated to radically alter the development of the ant embryo to allow this integration to happen. Understanding how such grand unifications originate and evolve is a major puzzle for biologists.</p> Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:42:22 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 237454 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/keeping-beat-its-all-your-brain-324171 <p>How do people coordinate their actions with the sounds they hear? This basic ability, which allows people to cross the street safely while hearing oncoming traffic, dance to new music or perform team events such as rowing, has puzzled cognitive neuroscientists for years. A new study led by researchers at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ is shining a light on how auditory perception and motor processes work together.</p> Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:22:58 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 237459 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/greater-local-earthworm-diversity-temperate-regions-tropics-301973 <p>Surprisingly, in any single location, there are typically more earthworms and more earthworm species found in temperate regions than in the tropics, according to a study published this week in Science. Global climate change could lead to significant shifts in earthworm communities worldwide, threatening the many functions they provide.</p> Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:17:09 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 188090 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/interactive-map-shows-natures-contributions-people-301455 <p>Nature supports people in critical ways, often at a highly local level. A wild bee buzzes through a farm, pollinating vegetables as it goes. Nearby, wetlands remove chemicals from the farm’s runoff, protecting a community drinking water source. In communities all around the world, nature’s contributions are constantly flowing to people. A team of international scientists including from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, have mapped these contributions at local levels for years, but a new Stanford-led study closes a critical gap in how this information can be used to drive global policy and development.</p> Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:23:23 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 188054 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mapping-international-drug-use-looking-wastewater-301944 <p>Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known source of wastewater, such as a sewage influent to a wastewater treatment plant, scientists can estimate the quantity of drugs used in a community from the measured levels of illicit drugs and their metabolites excreted in urine.</p> Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:36:19 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 188089 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-earthquakes-304038 <p>Early this morning, an earthquake of 4.0 magnitude, was felt in areas from Rigaud to Montreal to Saint-Bruno, and in parts of eastern Ontario, New York state and Vermont as well. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/earthquake-montreal-west-island-1.5424607">CBC</a>)</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.eps.mcgill.ca/~crowe/">Christie Rowe</a></strong>, from the Faculty of Earth and Planetary Science is available to provide background and comment on the earthquake.</p> Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:43:35 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 196198 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/cities-and-their-rising-impacts-biodiversity-global-overview-303253 <p><b>Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity </b>versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including <a href="/ssti/andrew-gonzalez">Professor Andrew Gonzalez</a> from McGill’s Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in <i>Nature Sustainability</i>.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:37:53 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 190437 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/rural-china-rapidly-adopts-clean-energy-use-traditional-wood-and-coal-stoves-persists-303128 <p>Old habits are hard to break. A McGill-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons behind people’s reluctance to give up traditional stoves, it will be difficult for policies in China and elsewhere in the world to succeed in encouraging this shift towards clean energy. The study was published recently in <i><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0432-x">Nature Sustainability</a></i>.</p> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:13 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 190089 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/human-song-universal-302755 <p>Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.</p> <p><b>Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music</b></p> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:04:31 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 188800 at /newsroom