First year med student Madeline Yaaka is on track to become Nunavik’s first Inuk physician. We caught up with her while she was visiting her hometown of Kangiqsujuaq just before UGME orientation. She shares her hopes and fears for med school and beyond, as well as her perspectives on Indigenous health and education.

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Published on: 28 Sep 2023

Alongside ALL IN 2023 happening in Montreal, global video game leader Ubisoft, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, the world’s largest academic deep learning (DL) research institute, and are proud to announce the creation of Ubisoft-Mila's new research Chair,Scaling Game Worlds with Responsible AI. This five-year Chair will be led by ’s Associate Professor, Dr. Derek Nowrouzezahrai, and will explore the ethical use of AI in the large-scale game development content creation pipeline.

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Published on: 28 Sep 2023
Come visit us and borrow the books below today from room 354 at The Neuro:
  • Être du monde byMaryse Rouy

  • Voir la mer byRuth Fitzmaurice

  • Epilepsies de l'enfant, de l'adolescent et de l'adulte : de la physiopathologie à la prise en charge bySophie Dupont

  • Les Épilepsies N. éd. byNathalie Tordjman

  • Épilepsie et psychiatrie byPierre Thomas&Arnaud Biraben

  • L'Après-cancer : tout un programme ! by Philippe Gourdin & Gersande Bargine

Classified as: New Books, Neuro-Patient Resource Centre (NPRC), ALS, epilepsy, Cancer
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At this year’s ACFAS conference, which took place from May 8th to May 12th at the University of Montreal, MoBI hosted a 2-day colloquium, highlighting multilingualism research in Quebec. Our invited presenters: Natalia Dankova (UQO), Marianne Paul (UQTR), Marie-Lourdes Lira-Gonzales (UQAT), Julie Bouchard (UQAC), joined many MoBI collaborators and PIs to showcase their research. This event allowed us to showcase our research in French!

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Published on: 28 Sep 2023

In June, MoBI headed to Toronto for the Canadian Psychological Association’s 84th annual convention. Check out the abstract for our symposium called Multilingualism across the lifespan: Research from the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative:

Published on: 28 Sep 2023

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the appointment of three professors to endowed research chairs.

Professor Helge Dedek was named to the Wainwright Chair in Civil Law, held most recently by former dean Daniel Jutras, OC, Ad E.

Professor Frédéric Mégret was named to the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, of which the inaugural chairholder was François Crépeau, OC, OQ, FRSC, Ad E.

Published on: 28 Sep 2023

Congratulations to the Desautels professors who received 2023 SSHRC Insight Grants.


The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and training in the humanities and social sciences.

Taha Havakhor (Principal Investigator) and Hyunji So (Co-Applicant) for “Social Media Use and Workforce Disparities: A Study of Gender Pay and Promotion Gaps”

Classified as: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Sustainability, Sustainability (R), SSHRC Funded, Taha Havakhor, Ernan Haruvy, Sebastien Betermier, Samer Faraj, Hyunji So
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Published on: 28 Sep 2023

With fall officially here, it's time for Lennoxville, Quebec's annual Giant Pumpkin Festival, where people can see pumpkins that weigh as much as 680 kilograms.

The festival — which is taking place at the Amédée Beaudoin community centre Sundayfrom 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — is a family event with bouncy castles, a petting zoo, a farmers'market, music and even horse-drawn carriages.

Alexandre Lemire started growing giant pumpkins three years ago after being inspired by festival founder MikeMacdonald's crops. Last year, his biggest pumpkin weighed 704 kilograms.

Classified as: david wees, Farm Management and Technology Program, Department of Plant Science
Published on: 27 Sep 2023

It is impossible to imagine modern agriculture without plastics—12 million tons are used every year. But what about the environmental consequences? An international team of authors, including Department of Bioresource Engineering Professor Jan Franklin Adamowski and Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry Associate Professor and ChairStéphane Bayen, addresses this question in a recent study.

Classified as: Stephane Bayen, Jan Adamowski, Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Department of Bioresource engineering
Published on: 27 Sep 2023

Wonder found chasing bugs: A summer in the Yukon Arctic

In a new Reporter article, Renewable ResourcesMaster's student Will Hein writes about his journey to the heart of the remote Arctic wilderness to study wildlife interaction in the face of climate change.

Classified as: renewable resources, Bieler School of Environment
Published on: 27 Sep 2023

Several staff members and teams were honoured at the annual Security Services Community Barbecue, on September 15.

“Each year, the Campus Public Safety (CPS) teams recognize colleagues they consider to be safety champions by naming them Safety Ambassadors,” said Pierre Barbarie, Senior Director, Campus Public Safety. “These are individuals or groups of individuals, whose jobs are not necessarily related to safety, but who go out of their way to make their building, their department or the campuses a safer place for everyone.”

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Published on: 27 Sep 2023

With this donation from Pfizer Canada, early career scientists and researchers across the and MUHC community have an opportunity to carry out research across three broad thematic areas: Pandemic Threats, Antimicrobial Resistance, Microbes that Shape Human Health.

Classified as: Institute of Parasitology, Qian (Vivian) Liu
Published on: 27 Sep 2023

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