In August 2024, the Redpath Museum was certified as an accredited museum institution by the ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec. The accreditation is a seal of quality confirming that the museum meets internationally recognized requirements and standards for governance, museological practices, and heritage presentation. With this recognition, the Redpath joined a network of 180 other accredited museums across the province.

Classified as: Faculty of Science
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Published on: 6 Nov 2024

Professors Natalya Gomez (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and Daryl Haggard (Physics) have been awarded 2024 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

These awards recognize early-career academic researchers, providing them with a $250,000 research grant over two years.

Published on: 6 Nov 2024

Professor Henri Darmon has been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

"Forty-one mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2025, the program's 13th year. Recognized by their peers, AMS members designated as Fellows of the AMS have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics".

Published on: 4 Nov 2024

Congratulations to the Chemistry Outreach group, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary during McGill’s Open House on October 27th! Over 250 people joined the festivities and enjoyed hands-on activities, magnificent demos, and chemistry-themed refreshments throughout the day.

Classified as: Chemistry Department, STEM Outreach, McGill Open House
Published on: 31 Oct 2024

Professor Christian Genest has been awarded the 2024 prestigious Parzen Prize.

Published on: 30 Oct 2024

Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux is the 2024 recipient of the President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Faculty Lecturer.

The President's Prize for Excellence in Teaching was established to recognize educators who have distinguished themselves both in their teaching abilities and in their ability to motivate their students.

Published on: 21 Oct 2024

Small, feathered dinosaurs appear to have used their wings to run at speeds previously thought impossible without flight, according to a new study by an international team of scientists, including McGill Biology Professor Hans Larsson. The study, published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), sheds new light on the origins of bird flight.

Published on: 21 Oct 2024

by Phuong Hoang, Faculty of Science Communications Associate

Classified as: STEM Outreach
Published on: 18 Oct 2024

Title: Can we geometrically sense the shape of a molecule?

Abstract: Can we hear the shape of a drum? This question was negatively answered decades ago by many authors including Gordon, Webb, Wolpert, who constructed non-isometric planar shapes that have the identical eigenvalues of the Laplace operator (Bull. AMS, v.27 (1992), p.134-138). The more general question: can we sense the shape of a rigid object such as a cloud of atomic centers representing a molecule?

Classified as: #DepartmentofMathematicsandStatistics
Published on: 16 Oct 2024

Twenty-two speakers from the faculties of Arts, Science and Engineering presented their research in “lightning talks” to more than 480 undergraduate students at Soup & Science, a biannual event.

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Published on: 15 Oct 2024

A new report by some of the world’s top climate scientists examines key indicators and finds that the world is “on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster.” The authors found that 25 out of 35 indicators used to track the planet's climate risk, from ocean temperatures to tree-cover loss, are at record levels.

Classified as: McGill Ubniversity, state of the climate report, Faculty of Science, Gault Nature Reserve
Published on: 8 Oct 2024

A groundbreaking database developed by the Global Dam Watch  (GDW) consortium is set to transform the global understanding of dams and reservoirs. 

Co-ordinated and led by members of a research lab at McGill University, with funding from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Bank, the database integrates existing global datasets to provide the most comprehensive resource for large-scale analyses to date.

Classified as: McGill University, dams, reservoirs, Bernhard Lehner, Department of Geography
Published on: 8 Oct 2024

A McGill University study has shown that hearing plays a crucial role in how people coordinate and control speech movements in real-time.

Published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), the research shows that when people cannot hear their own speech, even briefly, their ability to move their jaw and tongue in a coordinated manner is impaired.

Classified as: conducitve hearing loss
Published on: 4 Oct 2024

A recent study at McGill University provides new insights into how winter storms develop in the St. Lawrence River Valley, findings that could potentially improve the accuracy of winter weather forecasts in the region.

“These findings are essential because even small temperature shifts, as little as one degree, can drastically change the type of precipitation, turning rain into freezing rain or snow,” said Juliann Wray, lead author and PhD student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. 

Published on: 1 Oct 2024

Funding to support research on atmospheric aerosol particles and the emergence of life on Earth

 

Professor Thomas C. Preston -- jointly appointed to the departments of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Chemistry -- has been awarded a grant of USD$800,000 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant will support Professor Preston’s research on atmospheric aerosol particles, with the goal of advancing understanding of the origin of life's building blocks on early Earth.

Published on: 27 Sep 2024

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