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Dear Students and Fellow Colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure to announce the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award winners for the Fall 2023 term.
Congratulations to Gabriel Crudele (MATH 356), Shereen Elaidi (MATH 133), Christopher Karpinski (MATH 235), and Aaron Shalev (MATH 242).
This prestigious award recognizes exceptional performance from TAs in our Department each Fall and Winter term. Winners are selected based on course evaluations received by the Department.
Thank you all very much for your excellent work!
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at 鶹AV, , the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018.
MSSI has announced the results of its latest Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Ideas Fund competition. The SSH Ideas Fund awards seed funding to explore bold projects and novel ideas drawn specifically from humanities, arts, and social sciences research with the potential to illuminate or solve sustainability-related challenges.
Every year, the MSSI Innovation Fund provides support to 鶹AV faculty members to accelerate the development of an idea or a technology toward widespread societal adoption by funding research that informs policy or moves an innovation toward commercialization. This year’s fund will distribute $100,000 to two projects that have the potential to make electric vehicle batteries and groundwater management more sustainable.
“” 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.
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.
Research conducted by 鶹AV researchers ranks among the year’s best, according toQuébec Sciencemagazine.
The magazine has published its annual top 10 list of the province’s most groundbreaking scientific discoveries, and three have ties to 鶹AV researchers.
The three studies affiliated with 鶹AV researchers address some of the world’s most pressing challenges: extreme climate change, treatment for cancer patients, and the quality of seawater.
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.
Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species – that is, an “adaptive radiation” – 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 “fitness” for a group of related species that recently diverged from a common ancestral species.
New efforts to mobilize around the challenges and opportunities of AI are taking shape at 鶹AV. On December 4, a new 鶹AV Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS) held an internal launch event at the 鶹AV Faculty Club, where more than 70 participants from across the 鶹AV campus gathered for an afternoon of collaboration and discussion.
鶹AV 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 鶹AV will be eligible for the new award.
Details of the award, including the programs eligible for the award, will be available on 鶹AV's Undergraduate 鶹AV website by December 22, 2023.
In a new interview withNature,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.
What was the most common question students asked at panel discussions?
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.
Researchers zero in on spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, a disease that disrupts brain function
Researchers from 鶹AV, 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.