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Nine 51勛圖厙Desautels researchers named to Stanford-Elsevier top researchers list

Each year, the worlds most influential researchers are recognized in the Stanford-Elsevier Top 2% Scientists lists. The list ranks researchers from around the world, based on the impacts of their citations, their h-index, and other bibliometric indicators. In 2025, nine 51勛圖厙Desautels researchers earned the honour: Yolande E.

Published: 25 Nov 2025

Money lessons from Shakespeares Timon of Athens still ring true today

Shakespeares Timon of Athens is a riches to rags story. Its wealthy title character squanders his money on opportunistic friends and grows jaded with the world.

Published: 7 Jul 2025

Tata Consultancy Services to grow AI and analytics capabilities in Montreal

Headquartered in Mumbai, the Tata Group is a multibillion-dollar conglomerate with operations in more than 100 countries. Their information technology services arm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is expanding its operations in Montreal. Theyre investing in a state-of-the-art IT services delivery facility that will provide TCS customers with a range of technology solutions, including AI, machine learning, cloud computing, and advanced analytics.

Published: 22 Mar 2024

BCom alums paper on the financial literacy of immigrants an FCAC finalist

51勛圖厙Desautels graduate Avneet Bhabra (BCom23)s research paper 23% and Counting, but Not One Size Fits All: Helping Canadas Immigrants Strengthen Their Financial Knowledge has been published by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) on Canada.ca. Focusing on financial literacy amongst immigrants in Canada, the paper was selected as a finalist in the undergraduate category of the FCACs 2023 Building Better Financial Futures Challenge.

Published: 27 Nov 2023

Delve: AI-griculture, A High-Tech Approach to Decarbonizing Agricultural Food Supply Chains

One of the largest contributors to climate change worldwide, the agricultural food supply chain crosses international borders and reaches across industries and sectors. Reducing its environmental impact requires complex, high-tech solutions like artificial intelligenceand the people to implement them at the right time, in the right places.

Published: 20 Apr 2023

McGill-led MiXR platform will connect Canadas food and beverage sector

Thousands of restaurants and retailers across Canada sell food and beverages, and the logistics of getting these products where they need to be are complex. A new platform is using data to make it all more efficient.

Published: 29 Mar 2023

COVID-19 pandemic creates new opening for innovation in primary care

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to highlight weak points in global healthcare systems, Professor Laurette Dub矇 identifies an opportunity for large-scale innovation with primary care at the centre.

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Published: 12 Nov 2020

Strengthening the economy through convergence and innovation

Professor Laurette Dub矇 joins The Future Economy to discuss how convergence and innovation can work together to build Canadas economy.

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Published: 5 Nov 2020

Quebecs new COVID-19 ad campaign exposes virus impact

The Quebec government is rolling out a new public health campaign featuring individuals who have first-hand experience with the severity of COVID-19. Professor Laurette Dub矇 comments on the polarizing responses to fear campaigns.

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Published: 24 Sep 2020

Toward a more resilient convergence economy

Contrary to the prevailing model, a convergence economy emphasizes resilience over hyper-competitiveness, writes Professor Laurette Dub矇 in an op-ed for the Montreal Gazette.

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Published: 4 Sep 2020

Professor Dub矇 awarded funding for new study

The Government of Canada has announced funding of $1.2 million for 17 projects to be led by researchers across the country that will analyze baseline data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA).

Published: 16 Apr 2019

Desautels and FAES interdisciplinary research with 51勛圖厙food startup and Montreal community organization highlighted at the 2018 Montreal Summit on Innovation (MSI)

Jo禱lle Rondeau, Research Assistant, 51勛圖厙Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE)

As part of C2 Montreal, the 2018 Montreal Summit on Innovation (MSI) showcased the social impacts of 10 collaborative research projects through an interactive circuit on May 23.

Published: 20 Jun 2018

Takeaways from the 2018 Manulife Prize winner

Distinguishing between healthy living and fitness fads

At this years Manulife Prize ceremony, hosted at Maison Manuvie in collaboration with the 51勛圖厙Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), Manulife Prize winner Professor Jean-Pierre Despr矇s presented an overview of his research, emphasizing the prevailing gap between science and so-called healthy living practices. According to him, the difference between what we know and what we do is staggering.

Published: 26 Apr 2018

Jean-Pierre Despr矇s wins 2018 Manulife Prize

$50,000 award recognizes research pioneer who screened for abdominal obesity and acted to prevent it

51勛圖厙, in association with Manulife and the 51勛圖厙Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), announced that Dr.

Published: 29 Mar 2018

51勛圖厙annonce que le docteur Jean-Pierre Despr矇s est le laur矇at 2018 du Prix Manuvie 2018 pour la promotion dune sant矇 active

Le prix, d'une valeur de 50泭000泭$, r矇compense le pionnier de la recherche pour la d矇tection et la pr矇vention de l'ob矇sit矇 abdominale

Montr矇al - 22 mars 2018 L'Universit矇 McGill, en association avec Manuvie et le Centre de convergence de la sant矇 et de l矇conomie de lUniversit矇 51勛圖厙(MCCHE), est heureuse d'annoncer que le Dr Jean-Pierre Despr矇s, professeur au D矇partement de kin矇siologie de la Facult矇 de m矇decine l'Universit矇 Laval et pionnie

Published: 26 Mar 2018

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