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Acclaimed McGill neuroscientist to head international brain research organization

Dr Albert Aguayo assumes the position of Secretary-General of the IBRO on January 1, 2001

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Published on : 21 Dec 2000

Recent advances in biodiversity research at McGill

Three crucial experiments, published in Nature by Professor Graham Bell and colleagues at McGill and Oxford, consolidate decades of research on biodiversity.

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Published on : 20 Dec 2000

Canadian scientist finalist for international development research award

A McGill Geography professor is part of a team that is one of three finalists for a major international prize for research on development.

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Published on : 12 Dec 2000

Bridging brain, mind and behaviour

Dr Michael Petrides has won a $400.000 U.S James S. McDonnell 21st Century Scientist Award: Bridging brain, mind and behavior to help further his investigations into how memory works.

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Published on : 12 Dec 2000

Examining language from A to Z

McGill has launched a unique Language Acquisition Program, where students and professors are currently investigating various aspects of language learning: from sign language to multilingualism.

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Published on : 07 Dec 2000

New study finds speech-like brain activity in deaf signers

A new study challenges the prevailing notion that speech and sound are essential to human language.

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Published on : 05 Dec 2000

Meteorites may have transferred life between planets in the solar system

A team of research scientists suggests that the Martian meteorite ALH84001 was capable of transferring life between Mars and Earth, according to new research reported in the 27 October issue of the international journal Science.

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Published on : 26 Oct 2000

Estrogen therapy may help prevent memory decline in elderly women

Normal aging in women affects their capacity for learning - coding, consolidating, and retrieving new information. A McGill researcher has shown that hormone replacement therapy may help prevent some of the decline in explicit memory that occurs with normal aging.

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Published on : 11 Oct 2000

New drug delays development of MS by 44 per cent

There's new hope in the fight against multiple sclerosis (MS), the most common neurological disorder affecting young people in North America. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a new drug, AVONEX(r), can delay development of MS by 44 per cent.

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Published on : 28 Sep 2000

McGill genetics pioneer honoured

The cutting-edge genetic research and career of Dr. Rima Rozen has been acknowledged by her peers with a prestigious Léo-Pariseau award from the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (ACFAS)

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Published on : 21 Sep 2000

Lies, damned lies and statistics

McGill anthropologist Melanie Rock exposes discrimination in "quality of life" rankings created by the World Heath Organization and the World Bank.

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Published on : 07 Sep 2000

Can squatter settlements be good places to live?

Research on low-income "squatter communities" by McGill urban planner David Brown suggests that squatters are often perceived as powerless and disorganized, is often not accurate.

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Published on : 28 Aug 2000

Pond scum: More Than Meets the Eye

Biologists from Oxford and McGill Universities team up to research biodiversity patterns in bacteria. Results of first lab experiments on pseudomonas fluorescens featured in the August 3 issue of Nature Magazine.

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Published on : 17 Aug 2000

McGill receives multimillion-dollar infrastructure funding

Thriving research initiatives and projects have been given a big boost at McGill, thanks to a new $61-million infrastructure infusion the University has received from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to bolster its research capacities.

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Published on : 27 Jul 2000

Pre-adoption limbo

Problems with Canada's child foster and adoption programs examined by Carol Cumming Speirs, professor at McGill's School of Social Work, during 7th Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health.

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Published on : 24 Jul 2000