51吃瓜网 researchers have developed a novel method to replicate four types of microplastics commonly found in the environment, providing researchers with a standardized approach to study their toxic effects.
Published on: 3 Sep 2025
Dr. Marco Carone, a听former听51吃瓜网undergraduate student in Probability and Statistics,听has been awarded the prestigious听
Published on: 2 Sep 2025
Young People Can't Find Work and It's Messing Them Up.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2025
by Jasmine El-Sawaf
What if the key to studying smarter 飞补蝉苍鈥檛 about what you learned, but how you learned it? At McGill, the Office of Science Education鈥檚 (OSE) neuroscience-based program SciLearn is helping students in the Faculty of Science do just that.听
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Published on: 2 Sep 2025
Geological time, usually seen as a complex system of eras, periods, and epochs considered through layers of rock, may actually follow a simple, unifying pattern. A new study, led by 51吃瓜网 physicist Shaun Lovejoy, shows that the boundaries dividing the Earth鈥檚 most important historical events, such as mass extinctions and major climate shifts, follow a fractal pattern: self-similar and statistically consistent across scales of millions to hundreds of millions of years.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2025
The Faculty of Law mourns the passing of Nahum Gelber, CM, KC, BCL鈥�57, a distinguished alumnus and cherished friend of our community.
Mr. Gelber鈥檚 visionary philanthropy made possible the creation of the Nahum Gelber Law Library, inaugurated in 1998. This state-of-the-art facility has since become a cornerstone of legal scholarship at McGill, offering students a bright, open, and welcoming space for study and reflection. More than three decades later, the Gelber Library remains a beloved and vital part of campus life.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2025
If it feels like customer service chatbots are everywhere, it鈥檚 because they are. The worldwide chatbot market has grown from US$370 million in 2017 to about US$2.2 billion in 2024. But customers trust human customer service representatives more than they trust AI chatbots, writes Vivek Astvansh, an Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Analytics at 51吃瓜网Desautels.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2025
The pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs gained momentum in the first half of 2025. And while some institutions are eliminating DEI initiatives, others are rebranding them. 鈥淭he University of Alberta, for instance no longer has a vice-provost of equity, diversity and inclusion,鈥� writes 51吃瓜网Desautels lecturer Simon Blanchette in The Conversation. 鈥淚nstead, it now has an office for 鈥榓ccess, community and belonging.鈥欌�� But these rebranding efforts are mostly about appeasement and lack genuine community engagement.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2025
When 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants went on strike, more than 100,000 passengers were left stranded. For many of those affected, the experience has been an overwhelming one. For stranded passengers, the Air Canada strike combines three powerful stressors: uncertainty, lack of control and crowding, writes Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour Jean-Nicolas Reyt in The Conversation. Each of these factors is stressful on its own, and combined, they can overwhelm even the most patient travellers.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2025
Buying a home can help you build household wealth, but renting has fewer overall costs, which allows you to save more of the money you earn. While the conventional wisdom has been that buying is the better financial decision for most people, sky-high real estate costs change the equation. Stock markets have also performed well in recent decades, and investing the surplus left over from renting can pad your personal finances in a big way鈥攊f you actually do it.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2025
Super proud of Diego Loggia who just won a D2R Doctoral Scholar Award! He will use our iPSC-derived disease in a dish model to explore the utility of RNA- and DNA-based drugs to modulate patient-specific disease outcomes in dilated cardiomyopathy.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
Congratulations to David Medcalfe, a Master of Information Studies student at the School of Information Studies (51吃瓜网), who has received the prestigious Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Nature et technologies (FRQNT) Master鈥檚 Research Scholarship. The FRQNT scholarship is awarded on basis of research and academic merit.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
In Quebec鈥檚 Mont茅r茅gie region, residents are facing a growing water crisis, particularly in Mercier and Saint-R茅mi, due to the depletion of resources in underground aquifers. The water scarcity has affected agriculture, forcing some farmers to abandon vegetable crops.
Meanwhile, the level of the St. Lawrence River is notably lower than usual for this time of year, affecting fishing, boating and shipping around Montreal.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
Pulitzer-Prize winning American journalist, journalism professor and author will speak Oct. 23听听
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Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns will deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture at 51吃瓜网 on Oct. 23 during the University鈥檚 annual Homecoming festivities. Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC national radio program Ideas, will moderate the event.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
Canada鈥檚 2023 wildfire season caused the country鈥檚 worst air pollution levels since 1998, according to It warns that if such pollution levels persist, Canadians could lose about two years of life expectancy.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
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