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Hear from Manuela Gonzalez Barrantes, first-year Environmental Biology student and Canada Award recipient from New Brunswick, on why she chose McGill, how the Canada Award made that dream into reality, and her big plans for the future.  Check out the full article and video on the McGill Giving website Published: 4 December 2024

On Tuesday, November 26, 2024, HBHL hosted a Mentorship Lunch that brought together experienced industry professionals and over 40 McGill graduate students, postdocs and postgrads over coffee and lunch at the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship. Mentors shared about their experience navigating the workforce and engaged in lively roundtable discussions with the mentees. Topics ranged from academia-industry collaborations and social innovation to technology transfer,...

On November 27, The Macdonald Campus Office of Student Academic Services hosted the annual Lister Family Engaged Science Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, an event open to master’s and doctoral students from all disciplines in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.Published: 4 December 2024

Starting on January 31, 2025, McGill IT Services will begin decommissioning the McGill Staff Directory in several steps. This initiative aims to streamline processes, improve security against phishing attacks, and replace outdated technology.  Published: 4 December 2024

Last week, ACB had the opportunity to celebrate the retirement of Professor Elaine Davis, who has worked in the department for over twenty years. Congratulations to Prof. Davis!   Pictured from left to right: Carlos Morales, Hojatollah Vali, Elaine Davis, Chantal Autexier, Craig Mandato, and Gabriel Venne.  Published: 4 December 2024

Convenience stores can help customers improve their eating habits while at the same time boosting both their own sales and profits. It’s as simple as offering customers the choice between healthy snacks and pastries as a low-cost add-on to their cup of coffee, according to a new study out of McGill.Published: 4 December 2024

We’re excited to share new features to MyCredsTM, the platform accessed through the ES Services (Enrolment Services eStore & MyCredsTM) in Minerva, that allows students to securely share documents such as electronic transcripts, custom letters, documents, and forms. Published: 4 December 2024

For Vincent Wong, life truly is a journey. As a Loran Scholar, the Vancouverite moved across the country in 2021 to pursue his B.Sc. Honours in Neuroscience at McGill. He was drawn by The Neuro (The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital), Canada’s largest neuroscience research centre. In the summer of 2022, Wong traveled to Yellowknife to conduct a research project on the unique health-care challenges in...

McGill University scientists have discovered that pregnancy may trigger a natural immunity to boost protection against severe flu infection. Contrary to the common belief that pregnancy increases vulnerability to infections, researchers found that it strengthened an immune defense in mice, blocking the Influenza A virus from spreading to the lungs, where it can cause severe infection.Published: 2 December 2024

This summer, Gault Nature Reserve hosted four high schoolers from the West Island Black Community Association for this year’s Youth Biodiversity Internships Program. Led by Professor Bruno Tremblay, this collaboration brought together a diverse range of community members from McGill and beyond to connect on their passion for science. For 5 weeks, youth conducted fieldwork at Gault with McGill students, explored how scientific research happens...

Update - Monday, December 2, 2024 - Afternoon: Mercury online course evaluation system is back online. Original announcement - Monday, December 2, 2024 - Morning: We regret to inform you that the Mercury online course evaluation system is currently down due to unforeseen technical issues. IT Services is working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Staff and students will not be able...

A new study published today in Nature Sustainability uses advanced machine learning methods and large language models to assess the benefits and trade-offs of natural climate solutions (NCS).  Led by The Nature Conservancy and co-led by Brian Robinson, Associate Professor of Geography at McGill University, the researchers analyzed over 250,000 peer-reviewed publications to produce a global evidence map of NCS co-impacts. Published: 2 December 2024

Dear McGill Finance Community Member, It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the Financial Services Knowledge Base, a centralized repository of Financial Services’ procedures, documentation and how-to’s, where sign-in is required. The Financial Services Website will still display the Policies & Procedures, Contact Information, Reports, and Forms and will continue to be available to the general public.Published: 2 December 2024

Important update for Microsoft Teams users! Starting November 27, 2024, all newly created Microsoft Teams groups were set to Private by default. If you attempt to create a new team, the Public option will be unavailable (greyed out), as shown below: Published: 14 November 2024

Counting citations is an important way that a scholar’s academic influence is measured, but not all citations are created equal. Sometimes, widely-cited researchers don’t have much influence beyond their own narrow academic niche. New platforms like OpenAlex and Scite adjust for this type of difference and seek to provide a more balanced picture of influence across disciplines—as well as whether a citation is supporting,...

Dr. Paul Hébert (IMHL’20) has been appointed to a 5-year term as president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the federal organization that funds health research. A clinical scientist at the Bruyere Health Institute, practicing palliative care physician and professor at the University of Ottawa’s faculty of medicine, Hébert is a graduate of the International Masters for Leadership, a cohort-based graduate management degree...

The Emerging Topics in Health (EToH) seminar series is cohosted by the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Physiology and Human Genetics, the Goodman Cancer Institute (GCI), the McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits (MRCCT), and M[i]4. The organizers invite guest speakers to talk about their current research. This seminar series is part of the Current Topics & Seminars course and is open for attendance...

Integrating an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) lens into artificial intelligence systems is no longer a luxury or optional, writes McGill Desautels Faculty Lecturer Simon Blanchette in The Conversation Canada. Without it, AI risks reinforcing existing biases. The creators of the technology should integrate EDI from the ground up, and adopt practices that promote its integration into their tools, like ensuring that development teams...

The impact of time in finance is decisive, says Benjamin Croitoru, Academic Director of the McGill Personal Finance Essentials course. But people don’t realize how small decisions can make all the difference over time. Getting the timing right when you’re buying or selling stocks is one way that time plays an important role in long-term financial growth.Published: 29 November 2024

Scientists have uncovered a new link between the immune system and the development of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at McGill University have discovered that an immune response plays a key role in how toxic protein clumps, known as Lewy bodies, form in brain cells and contribute to disease. This suggests factors that trigger the immune system, such as chronic...

On December 2nd, myFuture will undergo scheduled maintenance, resulting in a brief site-wide outage lasting 5-10 minutes for all users, expected shortly before 9:00 AM. Additionally, recent graduates will temporarily be unable to log in to myFuture from 12:00 AM to 6:00 PM due to a data refresh. Rest assured, your data will remain secure and unaffected. If you encounter login issues, please try...

Representing McGill University’s Chemistry Department, the MC² facility, and the QCAM-FRQNT strategic cluster, Petr Fiurasek was honored to be invited to the University of Córdoba to deliver two lectures. One presentation was part of the advanced characterization course for physics master’s students. Beyond the scientific discussions, the visit aimed to foster collaboration between the University of Córdoba and Quebec universities through MITACS and various...