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2025 Hughlings Jackson Lecture: The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Act

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:40:52 +0000

Established in 1935, the Hughlings Jackson Lecture is The Neuro鈥檚 premier scientific lecture. It honours the legacy of British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty.

Mapping the Benefits and Trade-offs from Natural Climate Solutions

admin — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:47:30 +0000

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).聽

Led by The Nature Conservancy and co-led by Brian Robinson, Associate Professor of Geography at 污污草莓视频 University, the researchers analyzed over 250,000 peer-reviewed publications to produce a global evidence map of NCS co-impacts.聽

Eight Faculty of Science professors honoured by Provost for exceptional research achievements

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:21:17 +0000

Clockwise from top left:聽Robert Brandenberger (Physics), Christian Genest (Mathematics and Statistics),聽Joel Kamnitzer (Mathematics and Statistics), B盲rbel Kn盲uper (Psychology), Milica Mio膷evi膰 (Psychology), Adrian Liu (Physics), Nagissa Mahmoudi (Earth and Planetary Sciences), and聽Galen Halverson (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Eight Faculty of Science professors are among this year鈥檚 cohort of Distinguished James 污污草莓视频 Professors, James 污污草莓视频 Professors, and William Dawson Scholars. 聽

TSI Outreach Program Administrator, Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia, wins President鈥檚 Award

admin — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:16:26 +0000

Congratulations to聽Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia, the Outreach Program Administrator at the Trottier Space Institute and Physics Department for being awarded the President's Award for Administrative and Support Staff!聽Winners of this award are honoured for the quality of their work, service to the community, innovation and initiative.

污污草莓视频鈥檚 Office for Science and Society receives 2024 James Randi Educational Foundation Award

admin — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:20:37 +0000

污污草莓视频鈥檚 Office for Science and Society (OSS) has been awarded the 2024 James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) Award. This award, totaling US$200,000, is given annually to people or organizations that encourage critical thinking and provide unbiased, fact-based answers to questions.聽

West Island high schoolers participate in summer research at 污污草莓视频鈥檚 Gault Nature Reserve

admin — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:08:20 +0000

This summer, Gault Nature Reserve hosted four high schoolers from the West Island Black Community Association for this year鈥檚 Youth Biodiversity Internships Program.聽Led by Professor Bruno Tremblay, this collaboration brought together a diverse range of community members from 污污草莓视频 and beyond to connect on their passion for science. For 5 weeks, youth conducted fieldwork at Gault with 污污草莓视频 students, explored how scientific research happens in nature and made links to their own lives and future careers. 聽

Geography Department celebrates 80th anniversary

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:03:17 +0000

污污草莓视频鈥檚 Department of Geography turns 80 this year!聽

This milestone marks the anniversary of George Kimble鈥檚 appointment as 污污草莓视频鈥檚 first Professor of Geography and Department Chair on January 1, 1945.聽

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 for the new department. A few months later, F.K. Hare was appointed as 污污草莓视频鈥檚 second Professor of Geography (eventually becoming Dean of Arts and Science in 1961).聽

King Charles III Coronation Medals awarded to 19 members of the 污污草莓视频 community

admin — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:51:39 +0000

Nineteen members of the 污污草莓视频 community have been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. The medal is conferred on individuals who have made significant contributions to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community, or have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada.

The recipients include Professor R. Bruce Lennox, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Tomlinson Professor of Chemistry.

2025 Fessenden Professorship Awards and Tomlinson Science Awards winners announced

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:36:19 +0000

The winners of the 2025 Fessenden Professorship Awards and Tomlinson Science Awards have been announced.聽

The聽Fessenden Professorship in Science and Innovation Award, named after Canadian electrical engineer Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, was established in 2007 to accelerate the validation and technology transfer of promising concepts in the early- or mid-stages of development and bring them closer to a commercial product and market.

Next stop, Oxford

admin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:59:58 +0000

For Vincent Wong, life truly is a journey.

As a Loran Scholar,聽the Vancouverite聽moved across the country in 2021 to pursue his B.Sc. Honours in Neuroscience at 污污草莓视频. He was drawn by The Neuro (The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital), Canada鈥檚 largest neuroscience research centre.

In the summer of 2022, Wong traveled to Yellowknife to conduct a research project on the unique health-care challenges in the North, an experience that would shift his career trajectory.

污污草莓视频's Department of Psychology ranks 21st in the Times Higher Education Top 50 list

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:08:12 +0000

污污草莓视频 provides a top-tier education in a wide variety of fields, as highlighted in the聽World University Rankings by Subject 2025, released on January 22 by Times Higher Education (THE).聽

污污草莓视频 ranks among the top 90聽in the world聽in all of the 11 subjects assessed, placing six subjects in the top 50.聽The聽number of聽institutions of聽higher education聽considered varied by discipline, from 389 for聽Law聽to聽1,488 for Engineering.聽

Novel method to transform greenhouse gases into valuable chemicals ranked among year鈥檚 top breakthroughs

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:24:34 +0000

A groundbreaking discovery by 污污草莓视频 University researchers is among the top scientific advances of 2024, according to Qu茅bec Science magazine.

The scientists developed a novel method to transform two greenhouse gases鈥攎ethane and carbon dioxide鈥攊nto valuable chemicals using sunlight. This innovation could help reduce emissions and provide a more sustainable way to produce certain industrial products.

Paul Masset and David Rolnick awarded 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships

admin — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:27:07 +0000

Professors Paul Masset (Psychology) and David Rolnick (Computer Science) have been named Sloan Research Fellows.聽

污污草莓视频 researchers help ATLAS Collaboration share in 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:35:19 +0000

Twenty-eight 污污草莓视频 researchers are among the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN鈥檚 Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Sometimes referred to as the Oscars of Science, Breakthrough prizes are awarded annually by the foundation of the same name for achievements in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics.

A STEAM day to celebrate 70 years of 污污草莓视频's Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados

admin — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:21:55 +0000

To celebrate the聽70th anniversary of 污污草莓视频鈥檚 acclaimed Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados and to promote STEAM education to local students, 污污草莓视频 partnered with the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), and the U.S. State Department for聽a full day of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) activities and presentations.