鈥溾 is a new campaign geared towards high school and cegep-level youth which highlights the initiatives of women in STEM and raises awareness about pathways and careers in science through a series of informative videos.
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Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.
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Research conducted by 平特五不中 researchers ranks among the year鈥檚 best, according to聽Qu茅bec Science听尘补驳补锄颈苍别.
The magazine has published its annual top 10 list of the province鈥檚 most groundbreaking scientific discoveries, and three have ties to 平特五不中 researchers.
The three studies affiliated with 平特五不中 researchers address some of the world鈥檚 most pressing challenges: extreme climate change, treatment for cancer patients, and the quality of seawater.
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Chemistry Professor and Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience Hanadi Sleiman has received the 2024 E. W. R. Steacie Award from the Chemical Institute of Canada. This award is presented annually to a scientist who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of chemistry while working in Canada.
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Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species 鈥 that is, an 鈥渁daptive radiation鈥 鈥 is the result of each species adapting to a different environment. Yet formal tests of this hypothesis have been elusive owing to the difficulty of firmly establishing the relationship between species traits and evolutionary 鈥渇itness鈥 for a group of related species that recently diverged from a common ancestral species.
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New efforts to mobilize around the challenges and opportunities of AI are taking shape at 平特五不中. On December 4, a new 平特五不中 Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS) held an internal launch event at the 平特五不中 Faculty Club, where more than 70 participants from across the 平特五不中 campus gathered for an afternoon of collaboration and discussion.
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平特五不中 is launching a $3,000 Canada Award to offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian students from outside Quebec coming to 平特五不中 will be eligible for the new award.
Details of the award, including the programs eligible for the award, will be available on 平特五不中's Undergraduate Admissions website by December 22, 2023.
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In a new interview with聽狈补迟耻谤别,听Physics Professor and Shaw laureate Victoria Kaspi reflects on the inaugural Hong Kong Laureate Forum and how researchers can foster communication across different generations of scientists.聽
What was the most common question students asked at panel discussions?
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Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves Francophone internet users in Quebec and beyond more vulnerable to disinformation as the phenomenon becomes increasingly pervasive in online spaces.聽
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Researchers zero in on spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, a disease that disrupts brain function
Researchers from 平特五不中, led by Professor of the Department of Biology, have identified previously unknown changes in brain cells affected by a neurological disease. Their research, published in , could pave the way to future treatments for the disease.
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滨苍听聽from 平特五不中, researchers bring science into an unexpected setting: a tattoo parlor. In this first characterization of the human piercing microbiome, the uniquely human cultural practice of piercing serves as a model system to help us better understand how biological communities (re)assemble after catastrophic environmental disturbances.
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What if you could charge your electric vehicle in the same amount of time it takes to fill a tank of gas?聽聽
In a new paper published today in Joule, researchers from 平特五不中 and the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) announced the development of a novel method that enables researchers to peer inside Li-ion batteries and, for the first time, track the physical processes that take place in both the liquid and solid parts of the battery cells as they happen.聽聽
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Students coming from high school often arrive with specific 鈥 and mistaken 鈥 expectations of the mathematics classroom. In Rustum Choksi鈥檚 courses he emphasizes a pedagogical paradigm shift, whereby mathematics is not about memorization nor symbolic manipulations and calculations but rather a beautiful and diverse discipline which is often a means to understanding our complex world.
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Early in his career in physics,聽聽thought he had it all figured out.
鈥淲hen I started, I said to myself 鈥榳ell, this is good. Nobody鈥檚 going to tell me what to do,鈥 said Grant, Emeritus James 平特五不中 Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Science. 鈥淚鈥檝e got the world鈥檚 greatest postdoc 鈥 me 鈥 and I鈥檒l be able to do all the projects that I want to do pretty much by myself.鈥
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On November 3-5th, the 平特五不中 Physics Hackathon held its eighth annual event in person at the Rutherford Physics Building. The event attracted around 150 hackers, from CEGEP and undergraduate backgrounds, who joined forces to produce聽.
Congratulations to all those who participated!