This year, PhD student, Asia Vighi will be the graduate instructor for the undergraduate team competing at iGem. Vighi is a Vadasz scholar in the Faculty. Read more ³ó±ð°ù±ðÌý(May 2024).
Dan Voicu (BEng’26), co-lead of the 2023 º«¹úÂãÎè iGEM team, described last year’s experience as busy! Students formed the team at the end of 2022 and spent the first two months of 2023 ideating their proposal. Read more ³ó±ð°ù±ðÌý(May 2024).
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As violent conflicts, forced migration, and an increase in natural disasters sparked by climate change trigger rising humanitarian needs around the globe, a new initiative to understand how to better support the mental health of those affected is being launched at º«¹úÂãÎè, thanks to a visionary gift from Flagship Pioneering Founder and CEO and Co-Founder and Chairman of Moderna, Noubar Afeyan, BEng’83, DSc’22, and his wife, Anna Afeyan Gunnarson.
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º«¹úÂãÎè scientists have discovered that pregnancy may trigger a natural immunity to boost protection against severe flu infection.
Contrary to the common belief that pregnancy increases vulnerability to infections, researchers found that it strengthened an immune defense in mice, blocking the Influenza A virus from spreading to the lungs, where it can cause severe infection.
Men’s health awareness doesn’t end with Movember.
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This summer, Gault Nature Reserve hosted four high schoolers from the West Island Black Community Association for this year’s Youth Biodiversity Internships Program. Led by Professor Bruno Tremblay, this collaboration brought together a diverse range of community members from º«¹úÂãÎè and beyond to connect on their passion for science. For 5 weeks, youth conducted fieldwork at Gault with º«¹úÂãÎè students, explored how scientific research happens in nature and made links to their own lives and future careers. Â
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A new study published today in Nature Sustainability uses advanced machine learning methods and large language models to assess the benefits and trade-offs of natural climate solutions (NCS).Â
Led by The Nature Conservancy and co-led by Brian Robinson, Associate Professor of Geography at º«¹úÂãÎè, the researchers analyzed over 250,000 peer-reviewed publications to produce a global evidence map of NCS co-impacts.Â
Dear º«¹úÂãÎè Finance Community Member,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the , a centralized repository of Financial Services’ procedures, documentation and how-to’s, where sign-in is required.
The Financial Services Website will still display the Policies & Procedures, Contact Information, Reports, and Forms and will continue to be available to the general public.
Counting citations is an important way that a scholar’s academic influence is measured, but not all citations are created equal. Sometimes, widely-cited researchers don’t have much influence beyond their own narrow academic niche. New platforms like OpenAlex and Scite adjust for this type of difference and seek to provide a more balanced picture of influence across disciplines—as well as whether a citation is supporting, challenging or simply mentioning the original work.
Dr. Paul Hébert (IMHL’20) has been appointed to a 5-year term as president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the federal organization that funds health research. A clinical scientist at the Bruyere Health Institute, practicing palliative care physician and professor at the University of Ottawa’s faculty of medicine, Hébert is a graduate of the International Masters for Leadership, a cohort-based graduate management degree for health professionals.
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The Emerging Topics in Health (EToH) seminar series is cohosted by the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Physiology and Human Genetics, the Goodman Cancer Institute (GCI), the º«¹úÂãÎè Research Centre on Complex Traits (MRCCT), and M[i]4. The organizers invite guest speakers to talk about their current research. This seminar series is part of the Current Topics & Seminars course and is open for attendance by MIMM students and all interested individuals.
Details about upcoming seminar:Â
Integrating an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) lens into artificial intelligence systems is no longer a luxury or optional, writes º«¹úÂãÎè Desautels Faculty Lecturer Simon Blanchette in The Conversation Canada. Without it, AI risks reinforcing existing biases. The creators of the technology should integrate EDI from the ground up, and adopt practices that promote its integration into their tools, like ensuring that development teams are diverse, establishing accountability frameworks, and cultivating inclusive work places.
The impact of time in finance is decisive, says Benjamin Croitoru, Academic Director of the º«¹úÂãÎè Personal Finance Essentials course. But people don’t realize how small decisions can make all the difference over time. Getting the timing right when you’re buying or selling stocks is one way that time plays an important role in long-term financial growth.
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Scientists have uncovered a new link between the immune system and the development of Parkinson’s disease.
Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at º«¹úÂãÎè have discovered that an immune response plays a key role in how toxic protein clumps, known as Lewy bodies, form in brain cells and contribute to disease.
This suggests factors that trigger the immune system, such as chronic inflammation, exposure to toxins, or prolonged stress may not only correlate with Parkinson’s, as previous research has found, but drive its development.
Update - Monday, December 2, 2024 - Afternoon:
Mercury online course evaluation system is back online.
Original announcement - Monday, December 2, 2024 - Morning:
We regret to inform you that the Mercury online course evaluation system is currently down due to unforeseen technical issues. IT Services is working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.
Staff and students will not be able to access Mercury during this time.