Environmental, social impacts: Google's AI Gemini rollout |
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Professor Renee Sieber spoke with CBC on Google's Gemini AI roll out for kids. She talked about what it means to have this technology easily accessible to children and the environmental impact of it all. |
Our Spring 2025 Newsletter Updates on what our BURA students are up to, a closer look at an alumna's Antarctic research experience, a new global society for SES research and more. |
Lola Milder Co-Authors Academic Paper
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Can money buy you happiness?
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PFAS: Forever Chemicals |
Cities are using AI to be more efficient.
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Chris Barrington-Leigh co-authored a study that challenges long-held beliefs about wealth and happiness. Garvia Bailey from the Globe and Mail spoke with Professor Barrington-Leigh about the implications of this study and what it suggests about our society's pursuit of wealth. |
Professor and Dean Viviane Yargeau, who is also an associate member of the BSE, commented on the danger of PFAS in an Global News story regarding the federal government's decisions to move ahead with a plan to label these forever chemicals as toxic. |
Professor Renee Sieber talked with Debra Arbec on being a Top 100 Brilliant Woman in AI Ethics, and more. |
Pipeline Politics |
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2024 Hottest Year Ever |
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Amy Janzwood was featured in a Globe and Mail article about pipeline management and the politics that surround the future of pipelines in Canada, saying their revival is a bad idea. |
The Bieler School of Environment is thrilled to announce Professor Anthony Ricciardi as its new director, effective immediately. An expert in invasion ecology and aquatic ecosystems, Ricciardi has been a key figure at the school since 2001 and now steps up to lead. |
Professor Frédéric Fabry advises media on what it means that 2024 was reported as the hottest ever year on record. |
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Hurricane Milton: Expert Analysis |
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Our Fall 2024 Newsletter is out! |
Talking to Radio stations in Montreal, Professor Barrington-Leigh provides insights from new research in regards to urban city sprawl and how construction of roads play crucial roles in public safety. |
Professor Frédéric Fabry talked to national media as Hurricane Milton approached Florida. He explained how climate change effected the rapid intensification of the storm. |
Making the World Happier |
Flying Cars? Not So Fast |
Small green spaces to cool the city |
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Professor Christopher Barrington-Leigh spoke to the McGill Reporter on United Nations International Day of Happiness about learning how to make the world happier. |
Bieler Professor Kevin Manaugh was interviewed by The McGill Tribune about seeing transport as more than a technical problem to be solved with technical solutions, but rather as a social and equity issue. |
Bieler Professor Raja Sengupta was interviewed by CBC News about his research on how small green spaces can lower high temperatures exacerbated by the urban heat island effect. |
Enabling climate action among teens |
Freshwater biodiversity loss out of sight, out of mind |
Elena Bennett elected to the National Academy of Sciences |
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Bieler School of Environment student Zoë Deskin participates in Climate Action Lab initiative, mentoring high school students across Canada, for positive climate action. |
Prof. Anthony Ricciardi argues that COP15 can serve as a catalyst for changing how society regards the rich, precarious diversity of life in our lakes, rivers and wetlands. |
“It is honestly thrilling and a little stunning to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. It is an amazing honour,” says Professor Bennett. |
McGill professors launch interactive sustainability dashboard for Montreal |
Measuring the social impact of disruptive weather using A.I. |
Our Alumni: Isabel Heard |
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Sus is an interactive and fully bilingual sustainability dashboard for the Montreal urban area, created by three McGill researchers and their team. |
Bieler Professors Frédéric Fabry and Renee Sieber are awarded Audace Grant by the Government of Quebec to study the social impact of disruptive weather events using artificial intelligence |
Bieler alumna Isabel Heard is hired as Sustainability Specialist by New York City's Javits Convention Center. |
