Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world in powerful ways, from improving medical care and changing the retail landscape to enabling convenient features on our smartphones. But as AI increasingly underpins our daily lives, important questions about its application – and potential misuse – will continue to arise.

Classified as: McGill News, Made by McGill, bmo, artificial intelligence (AI), Derek Ruths, School of Computer Science, max bell school of public policy, Nicholas King, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, department of social studies of medicine
Published on: 16 Jun 2021

Today, at l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry announced investments of more than $635 million for science, research, and engineering in Canada.

Classified as: McGill News, mcgill research, Canada Research Chairs, Research and Innovation, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Desautels Faculty of Management
Published on: 15 Jun 2021

Giving birth can be a joyous, yet stressful experience in the best of times – but what happens when a global public health crisis is thrown into the mix? McGill University and the University of Toronto researchers examined the effects certain pandemic policies have had on the mental health of Canadian women who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Classified as: McGill News, mcgill research, Kathleen Rice, Department of Family Medicine,  pregnancy and mental health, mental health, prenatal, postpartum, breast feeding, covid-19, COVID-19 pandemic policies
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Published on: 10 Jun 2021

Scientists’ ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth’s crust. But what happens if the magma can’t be spotted?

Classified as: McGill News, mcgill research, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, magma, eruption, Volcanic eruptions, Shane Rooyakkers, John Stix
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Published on: 31 May 2021

Dr. Joanne Liu, a Canadian pediatric emergency room physician and former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is joining McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) as a professor focusing on pandemic and health emergencies.

Classified as: McGill News, joanne liu, doctors without borders, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Population and Global Health, SPGH, Global Health
Published on: 4 May 2021

Genome Canada launched the Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal today to track the evolving COVID-19 pandemic across Canada. McGill University researcher Guillaume Bourque, a professor in the Department of Human Genetics, along with his research team, led the development of the portal. They worked in collaboration with CanCOGeN VirusSeq and world-leading genomics scientists, including Drs.

Classified as: McGill News, Genome Canada, genome research, McGill Genome Centre, Guillaume Bourque, Department of Human Genetics, covid-19
Published on: 27 Apr 2021

Infected and inflamed gums may result in higher rates of complications and more fatal outcomes for individuals diagnosed with the SARS-COV-2 virus, according to a new international study led by McGill researchers recently published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology. The study suggests that gum disease may be associated with higher risks of complications from COVID-19, including ICU admission and death.

Classified as: McGill News, Faculty of Dentistry, dentistry, oral health, gum disease, periodontitis, covid-19, Wenji Cai, belinda nicolau
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Published on: 7 Apr 2021

McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management will receive $5 million in funding to drive retail innovation and research, and support the province’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Classified as: McGill News, Desautels Faculty of Management, Bensadoun School of Retail Management, Master of Management in Retailing (MMR), Saibal Ray, Charles de Brabant, Retail innovation lab
Published on: 1 Apr 2021
 
by Brenda Branswell
 
 
Imagine getting a phone call asking if you’d like to take part in a study … for the next 20 years.
 
It’s a pitch that makes telemarketing look like child’s play.
 
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Published on: 20 Feb 2018

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Flying robots could someday help artists create outdoor murals

You may have heard of plans to use drones for delivering packages, monitoring wildlife, or tracking storms. But painting murals?

That’s the idea behind a project in Paul Kry’s laboratory at McGill University’s School of Computer Science. Prof. Kry and a few of his students have teamed up to program tiny drones to create dot drawings – an artistic technique known as stippling.

Classified as: Research, computer science, painting, McGill News, science and technology, drones, stippling, murals, robots, quadcopters, Kry, Galea
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Published on: 4 Aug 2016

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Ranks first in Canada for increase in high-quality research publications from 2012 to 2015

McGill University ranks first in Canada and 37th globally in the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars supplement, which identifies institutions showing the most significant growth in high-quality scientific research publications over the past four years.

Classified as: Research, nature, McGill News, rising stars, Nature Index
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Published on: 27 Jul 2016

By Tod Hoffman, Lady Davis Institute 

Research reveals that even a tiny mutation can allow the HIV virus to become resistant to therapies using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing platform

Classified as: Research, DNA, faculty of medicine, HIV, McGill News, CRISPR, gene-editing, Cell Reports, résistance, antiviral, Chen Liang
Published on: 8 Apr 2016

Researchers from McGill University and its hospital-affiliated research institutes have been awarded $91.5 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Classified as: Research, CIHR, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, McGill News, Foundation, Open Operating, early-career
Published on: 28 Jul 2015

As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research from McGill University and Université de Montréal adds to evidence that black phosphorus could emerge as a strong candidate.

Classified as: Nanotechnology, Research, science, nanoelectronics, NSERC, transistor, Guillaume Gervais, McGill News, black phosphorus, semiconductor, electronics, Szkopek, CIFAR, FRQ
Published on: 7 Jul 2015

New research released today in Nature Neuroscience reveals for the first time that pain is processed in male and female mice using different cells. These findings have far-reaching implications for our basic understanding of pain, how we develop the next generation of medications for chronic pain—which is by far the most prevalent human health condition—and the way we execute basic biomedical research using mice.

Classified as: neuroscience, Research, health, chronic, pain, mice, Mogil, McGill News, medications, sex differences, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
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Published on: 29 Jun 2015

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