Canada Research Chairs
McGill has been awarded nine new Canada Research Chairs and five renewals, amounting to $9.7 million to support research in fields ranging from brain disorders, to eighteenth century literature, to earthquakes.
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Sustaining our Vision
McGill continues to enhance and expand its commitment to sustainability through the Vision 2020 Climate & Sustainability Action Plan, with twin targets of achieving carbon neutrality by 2040 and attaining a Platinum sustainability rating by 2030.
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Dance to the music
Humans experience more pleasure by dancing spontaneously to music rather than by simply listening to it according to a team of Montreal-based researchers, including McGill’s Nicolò Bernardi.
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Conserving language
In an effort to preserve linguistic diversity, a team of McGill scientists has proposed building “language trees”—a design borrowed from conservation biology—to examine the world’s 7,000 languages, half of which, experts say, might not survive the 21st century.
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