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McGill names winners of the 2025 President’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media

Congratulations to Jérôme Waldispühl and Attila Szantner (Computer Science), The Eclipse Task Force (Physics), and Andrew Gonzalez (Biology), who are among this year's winners of the President’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media!

In announcing the winners and runners-up, President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini noted that they were among a strong field of applicants spanning all 12 Faculties.

“This is further evidence that the sharing of knowledge and a love of learning are core McGill values,” he said.

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Published on: 2 Apr 2025

McGill’s Computer Science Camp inspires next generation of coders

After a hiatus of about a decade, the McGill Computer Science Summer Camp once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer. The camp was a group effort organized by students, staff and faculty across the computer science community. Students participated in four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions, to learn about computer science.

Classified as: STEM Outreach
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Published on: 9 Sep 2024

McGill’s Computer Science Camp inspires next generation of coders

After a hiatus of about a decade, the McGill Computer Science Summer Camp once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer.

The four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions were all intended to strengthen students’ interests in coding and coding competitions, and to contribute to the development of computer science talent in Quebec.

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Published on: 12 Aug 2024

AI and Sustainability: Balancing Innovation with Planetary and Social Well-being

The 11th trottier symposium on sustainable engineering, energy and design

Date: October 10th, 2024 | Time: 6:00 PM | Location: The McGill Faculty Club | Free Event Letters AI with greenery coming out of it

Classified as: office of sustainability, Sustainability, computer science, TISED, Sponsored by Tised, engineering institute energie Trottier, Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering
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Published on: 17 Jul 2024

Gregory Dudek receives the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor Gregory Dudek of the School of Computer Science has received the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Awarded annually by Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-Can/Info-Can), this award recognizes current or former faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the field of computer science in Canada. 

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Published on: 29 May 2024

Sustainable Data Science Training Program awarded $1.65 M from NSERC CREATE

Today, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced more than $26 million in funding for 16 new training initiatives through its Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program.

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Published on: 16 May 2024

A push for more women in computer science

When Jade Raymond, BSc’98, studied at McGill’s School of Computer Science, she was one of few women in the program and “I think the only woman I knew in my year who went and got a job as a programmer in computer science after graduating.”

Raymond became a trailblazer in the video game industry, helping create the huge hit Assassin’s Creed, and building studios from the ground up for Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. 

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Published on: 18 Mar 2024

Fighting disinformation in Quebec

Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves Francophone internet users in Quebec and beyond more vulnerable to disinformation as the phenomenon becomes increasingly pervasive in online spaces. 

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Published on: 15 Dec 2023

Seeing inside the heart at an unprecedented scale

A team of researchers in Canada and India has developed a novel method to image the whole mouse heart wall at a spatial resolution that is three orders of magnitude finer than that seen till now, revealing entirely new, previously unknown cardiac fiber systems within it.

Classified as: Kaleem Siddiqi, computer vision, cardiac imaging
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Published on: 4 Oct 2023

Matt Dobbs, Galen Halverson, Joelle Pineau, and Simon Caron-Huot honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to McGill Science's new Royal Society of Canada inductees, the Fellows Matt Dobbs, Galen Halverson, Joelle Pineau, and College Member Simon Caron-Huot! The four professors join 15 other scholars in McGill's 2023 cohort. 

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Published on: 6 Sep 2023

Claude Crépeau awarded 2023 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize

Claude Crépeau, Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill, has been named a co-recipient of the 2023 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. This award recognizes papers in the area of distributed computing that have made a significant and lasting impact in the field.

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Published on: 20 Jun 2023

Connecting Students with Researchers through Soup

Although approaching professors to discuss research opportunities might seem daunting for undergraduate students, there’s an ingredient for success: soup!

Classified as: Faculty of Science
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Published on: 17 Mar 2023

RI-MUHC and McGill researchers make a breakthrough in understanding brain nanoarchitecture, using computer vision

A new study published in Current Biology reveals the nanostructure of brain cells at an unprecedented level of resolution.

Classified as: Faculty of Science, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), School of Computer Science
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Published on: 7 Mar 2023

Achievements of McGill Professors celebrated in latest round of NSERC prizes

McGill University announced that six of its Professors (two individually, four as part of a multi-institutional team) have been declared winners of this year’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) prizes. These prestigious awards range from individual awards for innovative discoveries by young researchers to recognitions of lifetime achievement and influence. The McGill-based recipients are as follows:

Classified as: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Published on: 25 Oct 2022

Meeting the climate crisis with resilience and collaborative action

McGill undergraduates have a unique opportunity to expand their climate science literacy and acquire tools for taking action to reduce the impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.

Registration is now open to students in every program for FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, a new undergraduate course featuring a team of multi-disciplinary instructors who will present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.

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Published on: 14 Jul 2022

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