/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1312/all en /newsroom/channels/news/sustainable-data-science-training-program-awarded-165-m-nserc-create-357359 <p>Today, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)<a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsDetail-DetailNouvelles_eng.asp?ID=1461"> announced </a>more than $26 million in funding for聽<a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/CREATEResults-ResultatsFONCER_eng.asp?Year=2024">16 new training initiatives</a> through its <a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/CREATE-FONCER_eng.asp">Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)</a> program.</p> Thu, 16 May 2024 14:35:33 +0000 admin 310496 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ehab-abouheif-named-fellow-american-association-advancement-science-356867 <p><a href="/biology/ehab-abouheif">Ehab Abouheif</a>, James 平特五不中 Professor in the Department of Biology at 平特五不中, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest distinctions in the global science community, which recognizes contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership, and extraordinary achievements across disciplines.</p> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:11:25 +0000 admin 310453 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/seventeen-mcgill-researchers-announced-canada-research-chairs-356022 <p><em>From health and disability law to the emerging field of regenerative medicine, seventeen 平特五不中 scholars named to new or renewed Canada Research Chairs positions across diverse fields聽</em></p> Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:40:23 +0000 admin 309971 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-researchers-awarded-over-12-million-nserc-alliance-grants-356023 <p><em>Federal funding program supported 59 research projects in cleantech, astrophysics, medtech, and more.聽</em></p> Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:41:18 +0000 admin 309969 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/1075-million-eight-innovative-research-projects-led-mcgill-356021 <p align="center"><i>The Government of Canada makes major investment in research infrastructure through the Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 (CFI) Innovation Fund competition.</i></p> <p>Today at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Transport, on behalf of the Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced the results of the Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 (CFI) Innovation Fund (IF) 2023 competition.</p> Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:33:06 +0000 admin 309965 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/model-evolution-intelligence-355739 <p>When certain species of wild birds and primates discover new ways of finding food in the wild, it can serve to measure their flexibility and intelligence.</p> <p>In the largest experimental study ever conducted on this topic, a team of researchers from Rockefeller University headed by postdoctoral fellow Jean-Nicolas Audet have shown, in collaboration with 平特五不中鈥檚 Louis Lefebvre, that foraging problems requiring overcoming obstacles, such as removing the lid off a container of food, are the only predictors of brain size and innovative behaviour in the wild.</p> Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:24:32 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 308746 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/energy-poverty-canada-355502 <p>As many as one in five Canadian households can be considered to be in energy poverty, according to researchers from 平特五不中. Energy poverty occurs when households cannot afford or access the levels of energy necessary to meet their daily needs, live decent lives, and maintain healthy indoor temperatures all year round. More Canadians potentially suffer from energy poverty than from food insecurity.</p> Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:12:08 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 308044 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/uncertainty-measuring-biodiversity-change-could-hinder-progress-towards-global-targets-nature-355491 <p>More than ever before, there is a growing interest in dedicating resources to stop the loss of biodiversity, as recently exemplified by the <a href="//Users/../../../../../../../Users/andy/Downloads/The%2520GBF%2520focuses%2520on%2520understanding%2520why%2520biodiversity%2520is%2520declining%2520and%2520what%2520actions%2520are%2520needed%2520to%2520reverse%2520this%2520trend.%2520However,%2520implementing%2520the%2520plan%2520is%2520challenging%2520because%2520information%2520about%2520biodiversity%2520changes%2520is%2520not%2520evenly%2520available%2520everywhere,%2520meaning%2520that%25</body></html>"></a></p> Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:41:59 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 307802 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-understanding-avian-eggshell-attachment-355398 <div> <div></div></div> Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:25:13 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 307702 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/surprising-new-evidence-happiness-and-wealth-355286 <p>Global polls typically show that people in industrialized countries where incomes are relatively high report greater levels of satisfaction with life than those in low-income countries.</p> <p>But now the first large-scale survey to look at happiness in small, non-industrialized communities living close to nature paints quite a different picture.</p> <p><b>Looking at happiness in non-industrialized settings</b></p> Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:27:06 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 307690 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/m87-one-year-later-proof-persistent-black-hole-shadow-354399 <p>The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at 平特五不中, <a href="https://eventhorizontelescope.org/M87-one-year-later-proof-of-a-persistent-black-hole-shadow">has released new images of M87*</a>, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018. With the participation of the newly commissioned Greenland Telescope and a dramatically improved recording rate across the array, the 2018 observations give us a view of the source independent from the first observations in 2017.</p> Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:14:37 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 307597 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/stuck-traffic-researchers-identify-cellular-traffic-jams-rare-disease-354128 <p>Researchers from 平特五不中, led by Professor Alanna Watt of the Department of Biology, have identified previously unknown changes in brain cells affected by a neurological disease. Their <a href="http://elifesciences.org/articles/90510">research</a>, published in <i>eLife,</i> could pave the way to future treatments for the disease.</p> Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:56:10 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 307577 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/how-does-one-species-become-many-353924 <p>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.</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:16:32 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 307568 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/how-do-temperature-extremes-influence-distribution-species-352706 <p>As the planet gets hotter, animal and plant species around the world will be faced with new, potentially unpredictable living conditions, which could alter ecosystems in unprecedented ways.</p> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:34:14 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 307447 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/searching-signs-alien-life-our-own-solar-system-349046 <p>Scientists have long been captivated by the possibility of discovering evidence for extraterrestrial life in the universe. While many of the world鈥檚 largest telescopes are pointed toward distant galaxies and star systems, however, some think there鈥檚 a strong possibility that life could be detected much closer to home.</p> Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:30:42 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 305781 at /newsroom