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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!

Published on: 22 Jan 2024

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at ۲ݮƵ University, , the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018.

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Published on: 19 Jan 2024

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.

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Published on: 17 Jan 2024

Every year, the MSSI Innovation Fund provides support to ۲ݮƵ 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.

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Published on: 17 Jan 2024

“” 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.

Classified as: STEM Outreach, Redpath Museum
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Published on: 15 Jan 2024

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.

Published on: 11 Jan 2024

Research conducted by ۲ݮƵ 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 ۲ݮƵ researchers.

The three studies affiliated with ۲ݮƵ researchers address some of the world’s most pressing challenges: extreme climate change, treatment for cancer patients, and the quality of seawater.

Published on: 11 Jan 2024

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.

Published on: 10 Jan 2024

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.

Published on: 9 Jan 2024

New efforts to mobilize around the challenges and opportunities of AI are taking shape at ۲ݮƵ. On December 4, a new ۲ݮƵ Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS) held an internal launch event at the ۲ݮƵ Faculty Club, where more than 70 participants from across the ۲ݮƵ campus gathered for an afternoon of collaboration and discussion.

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Published on: 20 Dec 2023

۲ݮƵ University 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 ۲ݮƵ will be eligible for the new award.

Details of the award, including the programs eligible for the award, will be available on ۲ݮƵ's Undergraduate Admissions website by December 22, 2023.

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Published on: 20 Dec 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 ۲ݮƵ of scientists.

What was the most common question students asked at panel discussions?

Published on: 18 Dec 2023

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.

Published on: 15 Dec 2023

Researchers zero in on spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, a disease that disrupts brain function

Researchers from ۲ݮƵ University, 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.

Published on: 12 Dec 2023

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