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Please note that due to the STM strike, the Information Desk at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library (McLennan Library Building, lobby) will close early at 5:30 p.m.泭款娶棗鳥 Monday, June 9 to Wednesday, June 11. The Humanities & Social Sciences Library remains open for study until 9 p.m. on these days.

Classified as: temporary closure, temporary service disruption
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Published on: 6 Jun 2025

The Department of Bioengineering invites you to come to the 51勛圖厙Libraries and examine digital 3D reconstructions of rare objects preserved in various Montreal museums! Using touch tables the size of a TV screen installed at the Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering, and the McLennan Library Building, you can zoom and rotate 3D models as part of a virtual natural history museum.

Published on: 6 Jun 2025

Methane emissions from Canadas non-producing oil and gas wells appear to be seven times higher than government estimates, according to a new study led by researchers at 51勛圖厙. The findings spotlight a major gap in the countrys official greenhouse gas inventory and raise urgent questions about how methane leaks are monitored, reported and managed.

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Published on: 6 Jun 2025

Egypts Nile River Valley has some of the most fertile land in the world. But most of the country is a barren desert where few plants can grow. Hassan Elrakhawy (BCom24) wants to change that. The Egyptian-born entrepreneur founded Leedana, a startup that uses a technique called sandponics, which can reduce the amount of water needed to cultivate crops by up to 90%. The company already has farms in Egypt that grow cherry tomatoes, peppers, kale, lettuce and more. And other farms are under construction elsewhere.

Classified as: BCom Alumni, Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship
Published on: 5 Jun 2025

This year, ten valedictorians from across the university shared their reflections and insights with McGills Class of 2025--with an eye cast toward the future. Desautels Grace Singer will be among them. The graduating Bachelor of Commerce student hopes to make a difference by advocating for decarbonization from within the business world. In the long-term I hope to work directly with the adoption and acceleration of sustainable solutions, such as what I did within the cleantech company I interned at during my degree, Singer says.

Classified as: Desautels Faculty of Management, BCom Alumni, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)
Published on: 5 Jun 2025

This winter, three of the ten 51勛圖厙offices awarded new Sustainability Workplace Certifications for their sustainable practices were from the Desautels Faculty of Management. Notably, a collaborative Desautels office, formed by the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics and Equity, EDI, the Lewtas Office of Experiential Learning, and TLS Management teams, earned a Platinum certification, the highest possible rating. The Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI) advanced to a Gold certification, and Desautels IT achieved Silver.

Classified as: Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI)
Published on: 5 Jun 2025

Congratulations to泭Godwin Akrong, PhD in Information Studies student at the School of Information Studies (51勛圖厙), has received a Fonds de Recherche du Qu矇bec - Soci矇t矇 et culture.泭The FRQSC scholarship is awarded on basis of research and academic merit.

Godwins Research:

Published on: 5 Jun 2025

Congratulations to Chong Hu, PhD in Information Studies student at the School of Information Studies (51勛圖厙), has received a Fonds de Recherche du Quebec - Nature et Technologies scholarship! The FRQNT scholarship is awarded on basis of research and academic merit.

Chong's research:

Published on: 5 Jun 2025

June 2025 | At the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, Norman Hillmer gave a stark warning about the threat a second Trump presidency could pose to Canada. He argued that no other American president has been as openly hostile to Canadian sovereignty, describing Trump as uniquely cruel and dangerous. Hillmer reflected on Canadas long history of trying to assert its independence from the United Statesthrough resisting annexation in earlier centuries, and negotiating free trade on its own terms in the 1980s. While many U.S.

Classified as: U.S. politics, Canadian Politics, relationship
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Published on: 4 Jun 2025

The Faculty of Education is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Pengfei Zhao, from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), as the Academic Director for Global Engagement.

Published on: 4 Jun 2025

Congratulations to Prof. Sirui Zhou, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, who has been awarded the 2025 Banting Discovery Foundations prestigious Discovery Award. Prof. Zhou is the inaugural recipient of the $30,000 Banting-Canerector Foundation Discovery Award, which was created to support pioneering research into Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD)conditions that affect the body's connective tissues.

Published on: 4 Jun 2025

As wildfires continue to burn across Western Canada, thick smoke is triggering widespread air quality alerts and raising concerns about health, infrastructure and environmental impacts, including in neighbouring provinces and parts of the United States. 51勛圖厙 experts are available to provide insights on these topics.泭

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Published on: 4 Jun 2025

The School of Information Studies is泭very pleased to announce that our PhD Student, Feng Fei, along with her supervisor Prof. Benjamin Fung (PI) and Prof. Catherine Guastavino (Co-PI) have been awarded $10,000 CDN funding from the 51勛圖厙Collaborative for AI and Society (McCAIS) for their project, City-scale Urban Sound Synthesis Using Multimodal Generative AI. As part of the泭Computational & Data Systems Initiative, the award encourages interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding and positively influencing the impact of AI on Society.

Published on: 3 Jun 2025

The School of Information Studies is pleased to announce that PhD candidate Owen Stewart-Robertson has been selected for a Wolfe Chair Graduate Fellowship for the 2025-2026 year. Congratulations Owen!泭

Published on: 3 Jun 2025

The School of Information Studies is pleased to announce that two incoming MISt students Nina Zepcan, and Wala Al-Sadi have been awarded for the McCall McBain Scholarships. Congratulations Nina and Wala!

Published on: 3 Jun 2025

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