July 11, 2025 | In an opinion piece published in Canada’s National Observer, Marc Fortin, alongside Richard Gold, Evan Henry, and Martin Bader, argue that Canada should seize the moment created by U.S. research setbacks to build a stronger, more collaborative innovation ecosystem. With American universities facing cuts and instability, the authors call on Canada to rethink how they support research, moving away from patent sales toward long-term industry partnerships, open data, and simplified licensing.

D2R is pleased to launch the call for proposals for the Foundational and Research in Motion funding program.
This program integrates two previously separate funding programs - Foundational Projects and Research in Motion (RIM) - into a single, unified call. This program provides researchers with the flexibility to explore novel ideas and develop cutting-edge solutions that have the potential to lead to commercialization or clinical application.

McGill University hosted its annual Bravo Gala on Thursday, March 27, celebrating research excellence and recognizing faculty members and researchers who have received awards, memberships, and prizes over the past year.
McGill Desautels is proud to celebrate three distinguished faculty members among this year’s honourees:

Submit your work for a chance to win $1,000 with the Friends of the Libraries Student Library Awards
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Are you an undergraduate student who has creatively and thoughtfully used McGill's library services and resources for a course project, lab report, research paper, or creative work?
Submit your project and tell us how the libraries supported your work for a chance to win a $1,000 prize generously supported by the Friends of the McGill Libraries!
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As of January 1, 2025, corresponding authors affiliated with McGill will be able to publish an unlimited number of their articles as open access in all Royal Society of Chemistry hybrid and gold journals for the duration of the agreement (2025-2027) without paying any article processing charges (APC).

Update March 14, 2025
Gen AI Modules now available in French. / Modules d'IA Générative maintenant offerts en français.
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August 2024 | Professor Vincent Rigby wrote a Working Paper #4 for The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, with collaboration of Canadian Global Affairs Institute. The paper consists of four sections that delves with Canada-U.S. Defence Relations in a Turbulent Time, U.S. Administration, and How to restore Canada's Military Credibility with the U.S., A Ten-Point Plan.
AI has become an omnipresent topic of discussion in our daily lives, both professionally and personally. While much has been written on the challenges, risks, and pitfalls of AI (and the strong need to regulate its development and deployment carefully), it's also important to highlight its numerous benefits and positive impacts on society and the economy.

Team chosen as part of a cohort of 10 projects identified by Axelys, a Quebec-based non-profit organization helping to accelerate innovation stemming from public research, for their high potential after a thorough 6-month review by an independent board


Discover the latest achievements of McGill's Indigenous Mentorship and Paid Research Experience for Summer Students (IMPRESS) program!
The IMPRESS team was honored with the Principal’s Award for Administrative & Support Staff at the Fall 2023 Convocation Ceremony on November 20, 2023. We are proud to highlight HBHL's pivotal role in this transformative initiative.

Cell biology researcher Dieter Reinhardt explains why his lab is cool with turning up the temperature of their freezers

Helium is probably not the first thing that comes to mind for most people when they think about recycling – unless they’re experimental chemists working in McGill’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facilities.

Un consortium mené par l’UdeM et codirigé par McGill et L’Université Laval reçoit une importante subvention de 2M $ du Fonds de recherche biomédicale du Canada afin de dynamiser l’écosystème de découverte et d’innovation en sciences de la vie.

Biological research is crucial to understanding the environmental impacts of the climate crisis, but oftentimes this research involves disrupting the environment it is trying to understand and protect. This is why the Barrett lab decided to focus on how to make their research more sustainable.