Across the country, the week of November 21 to December 1 marks Canadian HIV/AIDS Awareness Week. It’s an occasion to raise awareness surrounding HIV/AIDS issues nationally and culminates in the international observance of World AIDS Day on December 1st of each year – a day dedicated to increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS issues worldwide. (Canadian AIDS Society)
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
Black Friday is just around the corner, but Black Friday deals are already here. While the exact date of the North American shopping extravaganza this year is Nov. 29, many retailers have turned what used to be a weekend of special deals into a weeks-long marathon of advertising and price-slashing. (Global News)
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | The Ecofiscal Commission says Canada will either have to raise carbon prices to $210 per tonne or adopt more expensive policies funded by higher income taxes to meet its 2030 targets.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | The Ecofiscal Commission's latest report says that if Canada were to meet its 2030 targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through carbon pricing, it must more than quadruple its carbon tax and rebate the revenues to consumers.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
For many stores, Black Friday is now a week-long sale catering to the needs of both online and in-store shoppers. Professor Saibal Ray talks to Global News about the rising popularity of Black Friday sales and how the Bensadoun School of Retail Management is preparing the next generation of retailers to enhance the customer’s journey.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
Fabienne Colas (EMBA’2021) has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100™ by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN).
This award recognizes Fabienne’s dedication to fostering, supporting and promoting diversity and inclusion in the arts and in Canada. Fabienne is currently president and founder of the Fabienne Colas Foundation, and CEO of Zaza Production.
Published on: 27 Nov 2019
Quebec’s Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur has approved McGill’s request to change the name of the common law degree conferred on graduates of the Faculty of Law’s double-degree McGill program from a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) to a Juris Doctor (JD). The BCL/LLB program will thus become the BCL/JD program. Graduates will continue to receive two diplomas; starting at the spring 2020 convocation, those degrees will be a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and a Juris Doctor (JD).
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food.
In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers from McGill University and the University of California, Davis, used thermal imaging cameras to measure heat dissipation off the bodies and beaks of wild tufted puffins in the minutes after flying.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
McGill team awarded contract to advance potential Canadian contribution for LiteBIRD space telescope
November 7, 2019 (MONTREAL, Quebec) - A team of researchers from the McGill Space Institute has secured a Phase 0 contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to advance a proposed Canadian contribution – including technology deliverables and scientific know-how -- for the LiteBIRD (Light satellite for the studies of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection) mission.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
The e-exams service, a repository of course exams deposited by McGill instructors in the Library from April 2008-December 2012, has now been relaunched. All e-exams content that was available prior to our catalogue migration is now available in WorldCat Discovery, and a targeted search box for only the e-exams content is now available on the McGill Library web site here.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
On Thursday November 7, 2019, we came together for the second annual reception honoring Professor Phil Distin’s memory. This year, students were actively involved in organizing the event as Phil would have liked to see. Students, staff, alumni and friends had the opportunity to share food bites-including oysters, have a drink or two all while Phil’s favorite piano music played.
Published on: 26 Nov 2019
A team of five undergraduate (U3) Architecture students from McGill has won top prize in the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) 25th Interuniversity Charrette. Olivier Therrien, Nathalie Marj, Nour Achrafie, Diana Nigmatullina, and Alice Lemay were judged first place in a field of almost 40 submissions from schools of architecture across Canada. This year’s theme was The City Around the Corner.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
Some might say it’s a relationship that was meant to be. Part of its continued growth and evolution, C2 Montréal is reinventing itself once again with the help of one of Canada’s most storied institutions of higher learning, McGill University.
McGill’s illustrious history of world-leading innovation across industries and disciplines makes it a natural fit for C2, and we are proud to announce that the university will host the new site for the 2020 edition of C2 Montréal, May 27-29.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
New research spearheaded by scientists at McGill University reports that exposing chicken embryos, a model of higher vertebrate development, to leachate from crumb rubber used for example in artificial turf infill allowed to assess the toxicity of environmental pollutants contained in such material.
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Published on: 25 Nov 2019
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