The pandemic hit many businesses hard, and the artisanal bakery and café Mamie Clafoutis was one of them. Their seven locations in Montreal and Ottawa were forced to reduce their hours to one shift per day. As they’ve emerged from the storm, they have sought ways to keep their costs low, and one of them is by automating checkout. Working with the Bensadoun School of Retail Management (BSRM), Mamie Clafoutis is sensitizing its clientele to the idea of self-checkout by stationing a single employee to oversee the process. But they have ambitions to become even more automated.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at º«¹úÂãÎè, , the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018.

On December 7, the Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network, the Pan-Canadian Voice on Women’s Housing, the National Indigenous Housing Network, and an intersectional, nation-wide coalition of feminist advocates joined together to deliver a clear call to action to the Government of Canada.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at º«¹úÂãÎè, , 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.
Our 2023-2024 Richler Writer-in-Residence Heather O’Neill has generously offered to offer a two-part creative writing workshop this semester.
Here is Heather’s description; a short biography is included below.
“We will workshop one another’s submitted writing. We will also do some delightful writing exercises to tap into each of the students’ creative and unique worlds. As well, each of the students will be offered a one-on-one consultation about their submitted work, or just to ask me whatever they find mysterious about the writing/publishing practice.â€
On December 19, 2023, º«¹úÂãÎè announced it is launching a $3,000ÌýCanada AwardÌýto offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian students from outside Quebec coming to º«¹úÂãÎè will be eligible for the new award.

A recent study from researchers in Canada and Germany has revealed that an unlikely event, occurring over 12 million years ago played an important role in shaping one of Canada’s most damaging invasive species. Zebra and quagga mussels, belonging to the Dreissenid family, are widespread freshwater invasive species throughout North America that present a significant danger to native ecosystems by competing for resources. Using a fibrous anchor called a byssus, Dreissenid mussels contribute to biofouling on surfaces and obstruct intake structures in power stations and water treatment plants.

Guatemala is now the third-largest palm oil producer after Malaysia and Indonesia (which produce 88% of the global supply) and is often seen as a more sustainable alternative. Today, more than 60% of Guatemala’s plantations are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). High certification rates are largely attributed to plantations owned by a handful of producers, making it easier to certify large chunks of the industry, according to RSPO.

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 º«¹úÂãÎè 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.
°¿²ÔÌýFriday April 5th, 2024,Ìýº«¹úÂãÎè Psychology Department will host Dr. Vijay Namboodiri, who will deliver a Bindra Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place atÌý3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
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For more information about the speaker please visit ourÌýwebsite
°¿²ÔÌýFriday February 23, 2024,Ìýº«¹úÂãÎè Psychology Department will host Dr. Paul Bloom, who will deliver a Hebb Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place atÌý3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
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For more information about the speaker please visit ourÌýwebsite

Every year an estimated 20 million babies worldwide are born with low birth weight, according to the World Health Organization, leading to a wide range of significant short- and long-term consequences. And though you may think the obvious answer is greater emphasis on food and nutrition for pregnant women, leading º«¹úÂãÎè researchers are proposing an unexpected solution: the cellphone.

The Faculty of Law is pleased to share that Professor Lara Khoury, Ad E, has been appointed Associate Vice-President, Research. Her three-year term began on 1 January. She will share her time between this office and the Faculty of Law.

A º«¹úÂãÎè-led team of researchers have made an important discovery shedding light on the genetic basis of a rare skeletal disorder. The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that a defect in a specific gene (heterozygous variants in the matrix Gla protein, or MGP) may cause a disorder that affects the structure of connective tissues that supports the body.