New research is shedding light on how the brain interacts with music. It also highlights how challenging it is to study the issue effectively due to the highly personalized nature of how we interpret it. "Music is very subjective," says Dr. Daniel Levitin, a professor of neuroscience and music at McGill University in Montreal and author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain on Music. "People have their own preferences and their own experience and to some extent baggage that they bring to all of this — it is challenging."
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Published on: 11 Nov 2019
CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup explored gaming addiction in an interview with Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky, Chair of McGill's Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP) with the Faculty of Education. Also featured, Cam Adair, upcoming guest speaker scheduled to be brought in by ECP and partnering organizations for an event in Spring 2020. Note that Dr.
Published on: 11 Nov 2019
Quebec’s commission into youth rights and protection continues its public consultations across the province in an effort to identify challenges facing its youth protection services. Created in response to the death of a seven-year-old girl in Granby in April, the commission will hear from youth, families, experts and caseworkers. (Montreal Gazette)
Here is an expert from McGill University that can provide comment on this issue:
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Published on: 11 Nov 2019
Dr Emily McDonald has organized the 2019 McGill Department of Medicine Clinical Research Symposium on High Value Medical Care that will take place on Friday 15 November in the Research Institute Auditorium, ES1.1129.
Learning Objectives:
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BCom student Maxime Lakat, co-president of the student-led Desautels Sustainability Network, joins Corporate Knights to chronicle the network’s efforts in bringing sustainability to the forefront of their education. The award-winning network has taken a cross-disciplinary approach to sustainability, bringing students and industry leaders together for a sustainable business conference, with plans to publish a student handbook highlighting how students can get involved in their own institutions.
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The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) is an international strategic partner for the upcoming Innovation for Sustainable Development Network symposium to be held in Mexico on November 12–15, 2019.
Samuel Compton, operations director of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), will present on the ongoing creation of the Food Convergence Platform in Canada, a joint initiative between GODAN and MCCHE.
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Today Corporate Knights released its 2019 Better World MBA ranking. The Better World ranking, now in its 17th year, analyzes how business schools across the world fare in integrating sustainability into their MBA programs. With rising concerns of climate change, business schools are ensuring the next generation of business leaders have the environmental know-how to contribute to a cleaner, more sustainable future.
The Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University has landed at #14 this year, climbing up two ranks from 2018.
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Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and director of advertising firm S4 Capital, joins Professor Karl Moore on Les Affaires to advocate for lifelong learning, suggesting that one’s education should not end after graduation.
Each week as part of his blog on Les Affaires, Karl Moore, Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management, speaks with world-class business leaders about their journey, the latest trends in business, and notably, work-life balance.
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Professor Henry Mintzberg shares three common factors that he sees in high functioning companies—change, continuity, and community—and how each of these rely on the delicate balancing of traditional business dichotomies.
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Students from all levels – elementary, high school, CEGEP and university – take part in annual Remembrance Day ceremony at Macdonald Campus
At today’s Remembrance Day ceremony at Macdonald Campus, the crowd – mostly schoolchildren from Macdonald High School and three West Island elementary schools – huddled together against a cold, wet snow.
“Imagine the conditions faced by Canadian soldiers,” one observer commented.
Published on: 8 Nov 2019
Le 27 septembre, Greta Thunberg était à Montréal pour parler de l’urgence climatique. Les questions environnementales sont en ce moment à l’avant-scène des enjeux sociaux. « Malheureusement, on parle peu des répercussions du gaspillage alimentaire sur l’état de la planète », rappelle Pascal Thériault, agronome et directeur des relations communautaires pour la Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’environnement de l’Université McGill.
Published on: 8 Nov 2019
“There are a lot of complications of obesity in kids, and we need some investment from the government to treat more people, because our waiting lists are now up to one year,” Dr. Julie St-Pierre said at a news conference at her Clinique 180 on Mont-Royal Ave. E. “I’ve seen children as young as four years old develop Type 2 diabetes. It’s awful.”
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Insight into way enzymes work could shape future therapeutic production
Researchers at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine have made important strides in understanding the functioning of enzymes that play an integral role in the production of antibiotics and other therapeutics. Their findings are published in Science.
Published on: 8 Nov 2019
Congratulations to McGill Mining for winning the 2019 World Mining Competition held in Saskatoon. The winner team (from right to left) Simon Lacoste-Bouchet, Abdelrahman Elzoka, Matthew Renaud and Michael Chan competed against 13 other teams from Canada, UK and Germany. We are proud of our future mining engineers!
Published on: 7 Nov 2019
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