Our staff will curate the Info-Neuro cart to offer free resources for the following clinics this month:
August 5 鈹� Epilepsy Clinic
August 7 鈹� MS Clinic
August 13 鈹� Brain Tumour Clinic
August 15 鈹� Movement Disorders Clinic
August 18 鈹� ALS Clinic
August 19 鈹� MS Clinic
August 21 鈹� Cognitive Disorders听Clinic
August 29 鈹� Neuromuscular & Post-Polio Clinic
Discover curated eBooks from The Neuro鈥檚 Patient Resource Centre to support your health and well-being this summer.
Did you know that the Neuro Patient Resource Centre offers a collection of eBooks? Hosted on the platform OverDrive, the collection includes books on topics beyond just medicine and neurology.听听
To enhance your summer reading, explore the following titles hand-picked by our staff:听听
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Long dismissed as 鈥渏unk,鈥� viral fragments buried in human DNA may help regulate our genes, according to a new international study co-led by Guillaume Bourque, professor in McGill鈥檚 Department of Human Genetics, D2R-funded researcher and member of the D2R Research Steering Committee and Executive (RSC). The findings offer new insights into what makes us human, 25 years after the human genome was first mapped.
For those wanting to learn more about Parkinson鈥檚 disease through a visual format, this graphic book is available at the Patient Resource Centres of the Neuro and the Royal-Victoria Hospital (Glen Site). The book touches on the history of the disease as well as its major symptoms and offers diverse testimonials from those who have learned to live with it. This resource is an invitation to better understand Parkinson's disease and its physical, psychological and social impacts.
Our staff will curate the Info-Neuro cart to offer free resources for the following clinics this month:
August 5听鈹� Epilepsy Clinic
August 7听鈹� MS Clinic
August 13听鈹� Brain Tumour Clinic
August 15听鈹� Movement Disorders Clinic
August 18听鈹� ALS Clinic
August 19听鈹� MS Clinic
August 21听鈹� Cognitive Disorders Clinic
August 29听鈹� Neuromuscular & Post-Polio Clinic
Professors J. Donald Boudreau and Claire M. Brown named to Ordre de l鈥檈xcellence en 茅ducation.听The prize, awarded to 24 new honourees at the National Assembly, is Quebec鈥檚 highest distinction for educators.听more info
The department's SandClub is an informal, interdisciplinary journal club where students tackle the big issue of global sand scarcity. Since March 2022, SandClub has run 25 sessions with more than 60 students from five faculties鈥攖ransforming classic paper discussions into real-world peer-review workshops that build research confidence and demystify academic publishing. For more information on SandClub check out the piece here:
We want to extend our congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning this year's ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award! This is a major achievement!
Some statistics about this year's ICRA submissions: 4153 papers reviewed; 1606 papers accepted; acceptance rate of 38.7%.
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We are proud to celebrate MPP '25 Husein Pumaya Yakubu, whose social enterprise SheaMe placed second in both the Mastercard Foundation Dobson Start-up Awards and the Dobson Bootcamp and Cup Competition, 2025 鈥� two of the most competitive entrepreneurship programs hosted by the 51吃瓜网Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship听and supported by the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at 51吃瓜网.
Former doctoral student and current postdoc Heloisa Ehalt Macedo, along with her supervisor Prof. Bernhard Lehner, has co-authored a major new study revealing how antibiotics from human use are polluting rivers across the globe. Published with an international team, their work maps contamination hotspots and highlights urgent risks to ecosystems and public health. Read more in the 51吃瓜网Newsroom article.
Being a caregiver means dealing with multiple challenges on a daily basis. L'Appui offers training programs free of charge to support you on your journey.
We are excited to announce that the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and the Max Bell School of Public Policy (51吃瓜网) have joined the Global Alliance for Peace Operations 鈥� a collective endeavour of more than 50 leading think tanks, research institutes and civil society organizations working on UN and regional approaches to peace operations ().
