Research and Innovation

��ɫTVl Professor Simon Caron-Huot awarded a 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship

Meaghan Thurston — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:13:39 +0000

Simon Caron-Huot, Professor and Canada Research Chair in High-Energy Physics, has been awarded a 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship. The prestigious fellowship is awarded by the Killam Trusts. Eight Fellowships were awarded across the country.

The Dorothy Killam Fellowship provides researchers with up to two years of relief from teaching and administrative duties to focus on transformative research that has potential to positively improve Canadian lives.

Why we need Wetlands – World Wetlands Day Q&A

Sara Bauman — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:43:43 +0000

It’s no secret what unchecked greenhouse gas emissions are leading to: a much hotter planet. The recent LA fires are just one example of how this trend is manifesting itself. The Earth’s carbon system is out of balance: there’s too many carbon sources, and not enough ways to draw it out of the atmosphere.

2024 Beatty Lecture bridged the worlds of arts and science

Eunillyne Lazado — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:46:03 +0000

This year’s Beatty Lecture bridged the worlds of arts and science, bringing together an Irish writer and a Danish evolutionary geneticist to discuss shared concerns, including balancing creativity with rationality and the importance of storytelling in both their fields.

For the fourth year, the lecture was emceed by Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC Radio’s Ideas.

Five burning questions with Ehab Abouheif

Robin Koning — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:57:20 +0000

Ehab Abouheif, James ��ɫTVl Professor in the Department of Biology at ��ɫTVl, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest distinctions in the global science community, which recognizes contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership, and extraordinary achievements across disciplines.

��ɫTVl’s prize-winning researchers and scholars shine at Bravo Gala

Robin Koning — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:58:52 +0000

On March 21, ��ɫTVl celebrated 111 laureates at the 19th edition of Bravo, a gala event honouring researchers who won major provincial, national, and international research prizes and awards in 2023. Guests, including researchers, their families and friends, faculty, students, and members of ��ɫTVl's academic administration, gathered to celebrate their accomplishments.

��ɫTVl Researchers Win Acfas Awards at 2023 Gala

Charlotte Bawol — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:58:36 +0000

��ɫTVl congratulates Alain Brunet, winner of the Prix Acfas Léo-Pariseau 2023 for biological and health sciences, which was awarded at the 79th Acfas Gala held last night at the Port of Montreal's Pavillon du Grand Quai. Congratulations also go to Anja Geitmann, who receives the "La Preuve par l'Image" award, which is chosen by public vote.

The Prix Acfas Léo-Pariseau is named in honour of Léo Pariseau, radiologist and first President of Acfas. It is awarded to a researcher in recognition of the excellence and influence of his or her work in the biological or health sciences.

Alanis Obomsawin offers message of optimism at Beatty Lecture

Charlotte Bawol — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:25:51 +0000

On October 16, 2023, Alanis Obomsawin delivered the 69th annual Beatty Lecture at Pollack Hall on ��ɫTVl’s downtown campus. As the room fell dark her soft voice recalled her childhood, leaving everyone in the audience to paint in their own mind a picture of her early life. She recounted how she spent part of her childhood in Odanak, an Abenaki reserve near Sorel-Tracy, Quebec. “Odanak was very different then, there was no electricity or running water,” she reflected.

AI and mRNA draw full house to Gairdner lecture

Charlotte Bawol — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:08:59 +0000

Every year, ��ɫTVl hosts the Gairdner National Lecture Series program and invites laureates of the Gairdner Foundation’s awards to give a public lecture. These awards are among Canada’s most prestigious honours. This year, ��ɫTVl welcomed a current and past laureate to give talks in their respective fields of expertise.

What’s new on the website?

amanda.testani@mcgill.ca — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:28:11 +0000

Our new and improved Research + Innovation website has launched! Some features of the new website include:

$4.5 million for three FRQS Dual Chairs in Artificial Intelligence and Health co-led by ��ɫTVl researchers

Meaghan Thurston, Ms. — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:08:08 +0000

The rapid development and deployment of artificial intelligence demands we connect our best and brightest minds, and work to train the next generation of research leaders.