Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée received a major SSHRC – Partnership grant for her multi-year project CAnD3. The Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3) will collaboratively develop, implement and deliver an innovative training program, Population Analytics in an Aging Society, to complement formal training in population research with skills to support evidence-informed decision-making.
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Published on: 1 Jun 2020
Rebecca Daviddi and Daniel Sailofsky won a PhD scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC).
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Published on: 25 May 2020
Associate Professor of Sociology Zoua Vang was awarded a William Dawson Chair in recognition of her valuable work on immigration, ethnicity, and Indigenous health.
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Published on: 22 Apr 2020
PhD candidate Alicia Poole, currently working with Professor Jennifer Elrick, received the Outstanding Conference Paper Award at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
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Published on: 17 Feb 2020
With the retirement of Connie DiGiuseppe in late 2019 as Area Manager for Student Affairs, the administrative centre of History and Classical Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Jewish Studies says a farewell to a superb and beloved administrator. In her 31 years at McGill, Connie DiGiuseppe worked for the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Student Affairs Area, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Anthropology, and eventually for the administrative centre of four departments.
Published on: 22 Jan 2020
Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in Climatic Change, researchers from McGill, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).
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Published on: 7 Jan 2020
Professor Morton Weinfeld has been appointed Chair of Statistics Canada’s new “Expert Advisory Committee on Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics”.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
Professor Morton Weinfeld gave a talk at the 5th SD Clark Symposium, Racism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and the future of Canadian Society, at the University of Toronto.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
On September 27, 2019, Axel van den Berg received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Stockholm for his work on economic sociology, the sociology of the welfare state and labour markets, and sociological theory and for his contributions to sociological research and teaching at the University of Stockholm.
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Published on: 19 Nov 2019
Professor Eran Shor was awarded the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The Principal'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. Detailed article and photo (right hand side) available here.
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