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Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Bavo van Kerrebroeck and Prof. Palmer for their recent publication in Cognitive Science! The paper is titled, Virtual Partners Improve Synchronization in Human−Machine Trios, and more information (including the full article) can be found here. Great work! Published: 4 February 2025

Jay Ritchie, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, spoke to the Faculty of Arts about his newest collection of poems 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴, shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.Published: 3 February 2025

As a new initiative of the Faculty of Education, Dean Vivek Venkatesh recently launched the Dean's Speaker Series. This biannual series is expected to host prominent guest speakers on relatable topics that span the Faculty's departments and hosted by the Dean as a free event for academics, students, staff, and invited guests.Published: 3 February 2025

Thursday March 27th 2025 • 4:30pm to 6pm Leacock Building #232, 855 Sherbrooke West Lori Leibold Ph.D. Senior Director • Center for Hearing Research Speaker BioPublished: 3 February 2025

We enthusiastically announce the publication of Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China with Cambridge University Press in December 2024. It is the first volume in Cambridge’s new series Antiquity in Global Context. Profs. Griet Vankeerberghen and Hans Beck have edited this volume, and their long-standing collaboration was the foundation of the Global Antiquities cluster of the Yan P. Lin Centre, evolved and expanded into our...

Music has the best chance of providing pain relief when it is played at our natural rhythm, a McGill University research team has discovered. This suggests it may be possible to reduce a patient’s level of pain by using technology to take a piece of music someone likes and adjust the tempo to match their internal rhythm, the researchers said. The discovery was the...

The Department of Bioresource Engineering (BREE) enjoyed a visit last month from David Saint-Jacques, astronaut and Deputy Director, Lunar Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, and BREE graduate Chris Patterson. They met with BREE undergrad and grad students who presented their projects, highlighting links between their research and bioregenerative life support system goals for extended space missions on the lunar surface and beyond in the...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he plans to impose a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1. These experts from McGill University are available to share their insights:Published: 31 January 2025

Chinese startup Deep Seek recently launched its latest AI models, which are widely considered better than the current leading competitors and are available for a much lower price. These experts from McGill can share their insights:Published: 31 January 2025

Amazon Canada is closing all of its Quebec warehouses, affecting nearly 2,000 employees. The company claims the move is to provide long-term savings to customers and is unrelated to recent unionization efforts. However, industry experts, including McGill University business Professor Vivek Astvansh, suggest the closures are a response to union activities.Published: 31 January 2025

Collective agreements are taking longer to negotiate. For agreements reached in 2024, negotiations took more than 13 months on average. The year before, negotiations averaged just seven months. “Canada is still dealing with the lingering effects of the pandemic, including a return to normal inflation,” Professor John-Paul Ferguson tells The Globe and Mail. “That has been complicating a lot of negotiations because unions are...

At Café Origine on Sherbrooke Street, oat milk costs extra—and there’s a reason for that. Non-dairy milk substitutes like oat milk cost more than cow’s milk does. Some large chains like Starbucks have stopped charging extra for milk substitutes, but independent cafes can struggle to absorb the costs. “A local café doesn’t have the sales volume,” says Vivek Astvansh, Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing...

Canada has some of the world’s leading business schools and attracts MBA students from around the world. However, moving to a new country is a major change, and Nitin Bishnoi (MBA’25) recommends taking care of as much as you can before you make the move. “There are certain things which students are generally stressed about when they arrive in a new country,” said Bishnoi...

With the spectre of tariffs looming over the Canadian economy, should you hurry to buy an appliance before the added costs get built into their prices? There is no clear answer, and it is not yet known how much tariffs could affect prices, but according to Professor Saibal Ray, the way people think about tariffs could be as important as the tariffs themselves. “Rather...

Changes at the top of an organization can have a ripple effect through its ranks—and Justin Trudeau’s resignation as leader of the Liberal Party is a case in point. An organization’s culture starts at the top, and the personality of its leader influences how decisions are made and how to get ahead, says Associate Professor Jean-Nicolas Reyt in an interview with Canadian HR Reporter....

Christmas lights that glow softly through long winter nights are part of what makes the holiday season so atmospheric—but they can add to the ambiance any time of year. Some shopping districts are leaving their lights up for exactly that reason.Published: 29 January 2025

Founded by McGill Desautels Associate Professor Anisha Ghosh, with over $25 million in funding, CCM Biosciences is developing novel therapeutics in longevity. Recently, the company announced that it has developed an enzyme activator that can restore activity to youthful levels. This breakthrough has the potential to lead to drug development candidates for age-related disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease.Published: 29 January 2025

When Alberta commissioned a report on withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan, the resulting document claimed the province was entitled to $334 billion more than half of the plan’s total assets. However, the method used to calculate that share is deeply flawed. If applied to other provinces, the combined total of their share would exceed the plan’s actual assets.Published: 29 January 2025

In a Financial Times piece on the UK’s interest in replicating Canada’s pension system, Associate Professor Sebastien Betermier highlights concerns about the growing politicization of Canada’s pension funds. He notes that the success of the Maple 8 model relies on maintaining independence from government interference. Recent political actions such as Alberta’s abrupt overhaul of its pension board raise doubts about whether the model can...

A new episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast, a collaboration between RealAgriculture and the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, features McGill University economist and agronomist Pascal Thériault, Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program, in an expert panel discussing the economics driving land use change. The episode dives into the economics driving land use decisions by farmers and landowners, focusing on the impact of...

WiFi services are being gradually restored while IT Services works to resolve the issue. Clients may experience temporary delays while re-authenticating to the network. We will update this message. Thank you for your understanding.   Published: 29 January 2025

American companies that employ hundreds of Quebec workers could suffer from a call for a boycott as suggested on certain social media, reports TVA Nouvelles. McGill University economist and agronomist Pascal Thériault, Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program, told TVA that caution is required, despite the good faith of Quebecers who want to respond to Donald Trump's threats of putting tariffs on Canadian goods.Published:...

La version française suit. The following is a message from McGill IT Services. ALL owners of "Public" MS Teams groups / SharePoint sites are required to audit their groups.Published: 29 January 2025

A McGill University researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which had been thought to be simply a fortress where soldiers were garrisoned, was in fact a sprawling, fortified city. It covered 360 hectares, with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal...

A newly published dataset in Scientific Data highlights the results of a collaborative effort led by Prof. Bendixen and the McGill SandClub in 2022. During a workathon, 10 students contributed to gathering data along 250,000 km of Canada’s coastline, culminating in a significant contribution to coastal research.Published: 27 January 2025

The Arctic’s “Last Ice Area” (LIA) — a vital habitat for ice-dependent species — might disappear within a decade after the central Arctic Ocean becomes ice-free in summer, which is expected to occur sometime around mid-century, a new study by McGill University researchers using a high-resolution model has found.  Published: 27 January 2025

Professor Paul Zanazanian from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education is very pleased to announce the publication of his new book and the release of his new podcast series. Paul's new book, Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology, published by University of Toronto Press (2025), introduces a novel approach to examining how people construct and employ historical knowledge for navigating...

Please be advised that McGill University has mandated “Priest Construction-Électricité” to carry out the following project: 14-140 Life Sciences Complex – Shaft Reconstruction at room 140 Description: The project involves reconstructing the wall of the mechanical shaft in Room 140 and painting one side of Corridor 1-HALL12. Construction start date: January 27, 2025 Planned construction end date: February 21, 2025Published: 27 January 2025

With mixed feelings, the Faculty of Law extends its sincerest congratulations to the Hon. Robert Leckey on his appointment to the Superior Court of Quebec, District of Montreal. His appointment, effective immediately, was announced by the Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, on 27 January 2025. Justice Leckey replaces Justice Christian Immer, BCL’91, LLB’91, who has been elevated to...

Who? Any recreational, competitive, or elite-level runners can participate. You must be/you: aged between 18 to 40 years run at least 20 km per week and regularly participate in running for 3-6 months have not had any musculoskeletal injuries in the past 6 months, any neurological or cardiovascular and respiratory conditions or pregnancy should not be under any medications or rehabilitation programme What?Published: 27...

January 23, 2025 | On the Montreal Now with Aaron Rand podcast, Pearl Eliadis discussed Quebec’s Bill 21 and its Supreme Court challenge. She highlighted the months-long legal process ahead, with both sides submitting extensive documentation before a decision is reached. Eliadis called the case a key opportunity for Canada to reflect on how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is applied.Published: 27 January 2025

January 25, 2025 | The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether a law that Quebec enacted in 2019, barring public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols, violates their rights. Professor Pearl Eliadis said that while one of the main tenets of Quebec’s secularism was the idea that the state should be a neutral actor, she thought the law had imposed the government’s viewpoint of what nonreligion...

January 23, 2025 | Organizations advocating for LGBTQ2S+ rights in Quebec are speaking out against comments made by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who said he’s only aware of two genders. Professor and Human rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis said there’s a lot of disinformation on social media conflating sex and gender.Published: 27 January 2025

Most of the 500 Quebec teens surveyed recently are opposed to the use of cell phones in schools. The research was conducted as part of the first phase of work by a National Assembly special commission examining the impact of screens and social media on the health and development of youth.Published: 27 January 2025

McGill’s Department of Geography turns 80 this year!   This milestone marks the anniversary of George Kimble’s appointment as McGill’s first Professor of Geography and Department Chair on January 1, 1945.  Read the full announcement from the Faculty of Science here. Published: 24 January 2025

McGill provides a top-tier education in a wide variety of fields, as highlighted in the World University Rankings by Subject 2025, released on January 22 by Times Higher Education (THE).  McGill ranks among the top 90 in the world in all of the 11 subjects assessed, placing six subjects in the top 50. The number of institutions of higher education considered varied by discipline, from 389 for Law to 1,488 for Engineering. Published: 24 January 2025

McGill’s Department of Geography turns 80 this year!  This milestone marks the anniversary of George Kimble’s appointment as McGill’s first Professor of Geography and Department Chair on January 1, 1945.  Kimble, who had previously been a meteorologist with the Royal Navy, was allocated two rooms in the Arts Building (rooms 30 and 38) by the Faculty of Arts and Science to lay the foundation...

Attackers, scammers, marketers: these days they’re all taking advantage of AI to generate polished, typo-free content. Figuring out if an email is legitimate has definitely become more challenging. But when you access your McGill email through Microsoft Outlook, you benefit from several extra features that help protect you from phishing. Keep an eye out for: phishing safety tipsPublished: 24 January 2025

Changes in Cerebral and Hypothalamic Structure With Sleep Dysfunction in Patients With Genetic FTD. Listen here Published: 22 January 2025

Tendance chez les jeunes - Diversité : « Il y a un prix à censurer les désaccords et les malaises ». Écoutez ici Published: 22 January 2025

Clouds attenuate the increase of downwelling longwave radiation over land under global warming (Writes Lei Liu) Published: 22 January 2025

Un refuge sollicite des dons mensuels pour loger plus de sans-abri. Lire ici Published: 22 January 2025

In a display of academic excellence and innovative thinking, Khushi Toprani (BCom’25) has clinched the top paper award in the 2024 Building Better Financial Futures student competition. The Challenge is a post-secondary student paper competition designed to promote the creation of actionable, evidence-based solutions to current financial challenges faced by vulnerable communities.Published: 22 January 2025

From left to right: Academic Associate Laura Wittebol, Graduate Program Coordinators Maude Bélanger, Erin Minnett, and Simone Clamann, and Associate Dean (Graduate Education) Jean-Benoit CharronPublished: 22 January 2025

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce it was once again ranked as one of the world’s top universities at which to study law. The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings placed McGill 33rd worldwide.    Since the law ranking was introduced in 2017, McGill has consistently featured in the global top 35. This year, 389 law schools around the world were ranked....

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the start of long-awaited modernization of its teaching facilities. The second floor of New Chancellor Day Hall will be completely remodelled to create larger, updated classrooms, fit for our professors’ current pedagogical approaches.Published: 20 January 2025