December 22, 2025 | Pearl Eliadis spoke to Le Monde on the recently introduced Bill 9, which proposes a ban on prayer in public spaces, including at universities. Eliadis argues that the government misunderstands the nature of state neutrality regarding religious freedom: instead of safeguarding individual freedom to practice any faith, the government is moving toward eliminating religious expression from public life.
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
December 22, 2025 | Pearl Eliadis contributed to the newly released two-volume publication Unpacking Participatory Democracy (2025 Orient Blackswan) in an article entitled “Democracy Upended: Lessons from Afghanistan”, co-authored with Lucille Martin. The article examines international and community-based efforts to introduce dovelopment based on fundamental rights before and during COVID and in the aftermath of the Taliban regime.
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
Synthetic Biology is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field focused on creating new biological molecules, devices, and systems, as well as repurposing existing ones for beneficial applications in gene therapies, sustainable materials, and food production. Grounded in principles of standardization, abstraction, and modularity, it applies the Design-Build-Test-Learn engineering cycle to address long-standing biological challenges.
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
The Department is sad to announce the passing of Dr. Robert G. H. Lee, proud alumnus of our metallurgical engineering program (class 1947), great innovator of air-injection technology in molten metal furnaces, and generous McGill supporter (created the Robert Lee scholarship).
Published on: 22 Dec 2025
Researchers in McGill’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and at Drexel University have developed an innovative manufacturing technique that makes female mosquito proboscides, or feeding tubes, into high-resolution 3D-printing nozzles. With its unique geometry, structure and mechanics, the proboscis enables printed line widths as fine as 20 microns, or a little smaller than a white blood cell. This is roughly twice as fine as what commercially available print
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
New evidence challenges understanding of Parkinson's disease. Read more
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
Pourquoi certains agissent-ils en héros et d’autres non? Lire ici
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
In a recent Nature publication, Profs. Natalie Reznikov and Marc McKee, along with graduate students Eran Ittah and Daniel Buss, worked with Prof.
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
The Department of English is delighted to announce Professor Ricardo Wilson as the 2025-2026 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence.
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
Microsoft is currently retiring SharePoint's “alert me”, which will disappear from McGill’s SharePoint sometime between January and July 2026. McGill has no control over the exact moment when the feature will be removed within that timeframe.
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Published on: 18 Dec 2025
Brain discovery opens door to earlier detection of metabolic syndrome in women. Lire ici
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Published on: 18 Dec 2025
Le Canada devrait-il interdire les réseaux sociaux aux jeunes comme le fait l’Australie? Lire ici
Australie : interdire les réseaux sociaux aux moins de 16 ans, une solution? Écoutez ici
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Published on: 18 Dec 2025
Lina Sifi, special to the HBHL Trainee Commitee — After a year of dedicated planning, the HBHL Trainee Committee welcomed over 100 participants to the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) on November 22, 2025, for a full day focused on patient-oriented neuroscience research. The symposium brought together individuals from diverse backgrounds—including people with lived experience, patient partners, caregivers, students, researchers and clinicians—to foster meaningful dialogue and collaboration.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2025
The Canadian federal government has announced new measures to reduce methane pollution.
The greenhouse gas, which is primarily emitted through fossil fuel extraction and by landfills, has 80 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.
McGill experts are available to comment on this topic:
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Published on: 17 Dec 2025
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