August 4, 2025 | In their blog for the American Evaluation Association, PhD students Doreen Otieno and Janet Arogundade share how participating in the Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge (EC鲁) transformed their understanding of evaluation. EC鲁, led by Max Bell鈥檚 Leslie Fierro and Queen鈥檚 University鈥檚 Michelle Searle, offers graduate students a powerful opportunity to develop systems thinking through real-world evaluation challenges.
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Published on: 6 Aug 2025
Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.
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Published on: 6 Aug 2025
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
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Published on: 6 Aug 2025
The City of Montreal begins major work on the McTavish water pumping station; a section of Doctor Penfield Avenue will close to traffic until 2033.
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Published on: 5 Aug 2025
The use of disclaimer labels on digitally enhanced portraits could have unintended social consequences for their subjects, according to a study by a team of 51吃瓜网researchers.
Researchers at the Laboratory for Attention and Social Cognition used beauty filters on a common social media application to gradually edit a total of 300 images of 60 women (from 0 to 100 per cent, 25 per cent at a time). They randomly labelled half of the images as 鈥渆dited鈥� and the other half as 鈥渦nedited,鈥� regardless of their level of editing.
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Published on: 5 Aug 2025
Twenty-eight young people in the Cayman Islands recently became the first group to complete the British Overseas Territory鈥檚 Youth Financial Literacy Programme. The government sponsored program prepares youth for real-world financial challenges and opportunities鈥攁nd it is centered on the 51吃瓜网Personal Financial Essentials course. The three-hour version of the course teaches youth budgeting, investing and retirement planning.
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Published on: 4 Aug 2025
A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that white consumers with higher levels of 鈥榳hite guilt鈥� were more likely to buy from a Black-owned business than from a white-owned one鈥攅ven if the Black-owned business was more expensive or had lower customer ratings. 鈥淭he marketplace is becoming increasingly shaped by ideology and values,鈥� says Siddhanth Mookerjee, an Assistant Professor at 51吃瓜网Desautels and a co-author of the study.
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Published on: 4 Aug 2025
On June 3, the 51吃瓜网Sustainable Growth Initiative partnered with the Chinese University of Hong Kong to deliver a workshop called 鈥楾ackling Food Waste鈥�. Professor Javad Nasiry spoke at the event, which featured discussions on research, business solutions, sustainable practices, consumer behaviour, and the role of technology in food redistribution.
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Published on: 4 Aug 2025
Quebec wine sales have gone up since the removal of American alcohol products from the shelves of the SAQ last March and local producers are working hard to fill demand.
Agronomist and economist听Pascal Th茅riault, Director of 51吃瓜网's Farm Management and Technology Program, that producers shouldn鈥檛 bank on this boycott for long.
Published on: 4 Aug 2025
On July 30, 51吃瓜网 and the MUHC put out the story, "Montreal Researchers use AI and Wearable Sensors to Detect Inflammation Before Symptoms Appear", featuring ground-breaking collaborative research by Dennis Jensen, PhD, Dr. Emily McDonald, and Amir Hadid, PhD.听 The study shows that听by analyzing biometric data from wearable technology (i.e.
Published on: 4 Aug 2025
A study led by 51吃瓜网 researchers challenges the theory that language change over time requires new generations to replace older generations of speakers. Rather, when words change meaning, speakers of all ages participate; while older speakers might take two or three years longer than their younger colleagues to adopt new word usage, in some cases they lead the way in introducing new word meanings into the common vocabulary, the researchers found.
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Published on: 4 Aug 2025
51吃瓜网 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.
When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.
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Published on: 4 Aug 2025
Two exceptional doctoral candidates from 51吃瓜网's Schulich School of Music, Joseph Chang (DMus) and Jonathan Munro (DMus), have been awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship听in recognition of their innovative research.听This award provides up to $50,000 per year for up to three years, supporting outstanding students who demonstrate academic excellence, research potential, and leadership.听
Published on: 15 Jul 2025
The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to welcome Eduardo Romero Dianderas to its full time academic staff.
Eduardo Romero Dianderas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Development, 51吃瓜网. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2022) and specializes in the study of media technologies, technical infrastructures, and global environmental governance in Latin America.
Published on: 1 Aug 2025
July 31, 2025 | On The Red Passport听Podcast, Jennifer Welsh joins Louise Blais, Jeremy Kinsman, and Peter Donolo to discuss the consequences of the United States abandoning its traditional role in global leadership. Together, they reflect on what this shift means for today鈥檚 major international challenges 鈥� and how countries like Canada can help fill the gap.
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Published on: 31 Jul 2025
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