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Fall 2025
Keep up to date with this Fall 2025 issue.
BSE Events updates such as the Solvathon and Global Change Symposium
Undergraduate research featuring goats
Read about alumna Catherine Hallmich, a federal policy climate adaption policy analyst
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Summer 2025
Inaugural Bieler Chair of Nothern Climate and Sustainability annouced
Interview with Jean-Philippe Martin of Hydro Quebec
MUSE Program Immerses Students in Montreal’s Urban Sustainability Challenges and Triumphs
Events at the BSE
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Spring 2025
Meet our new Director and his goals for the future of the BSE
Interview with Noémie Sheppard: A closer look at Antarctica
BURA: Keeping invasive species alive for science
Students join leaders together to protect the Gault Nature Reserve
Join us in congratulating Renee Sieber for her work in AI Ethics
A new society brings on a new era for SES global research
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Fall 2024
Outgoing Message from the Director: Passing on the baton
Interview with Joël Thibert: Vice President, Hydro-Québec
Tracking Puffins in Alaska with Cassandra Ciafro
Keeping American Chestnut Trees Alive: Prof. Soper and Dr. Lovat
New Staff Join the BSE Team
and more...
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Fall 2023
25th Anniversary Messages from the Principal, Provost, Director and Alumni
Students Find Community at Experiential Learning Retreats
Fieldwork at Gault Reserve for Global Carbon Modelling Project
Montreal 2140: Hopeful Futures in Science and Storytelling Conference
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Spring 2023
Message from the Director: Looking Ahead with Hope
Teaching Hope in ENVR 400
Students Winter Honours Symposium Posters
Alumni publish book on Climate Justice
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Fall 2022
Message from Jean Lemire: Education Our Best Investment
Professor Amy Janzwood Joins BSE
Students Visit Ironwood Organics Farm
BELF Award for Biodiversity in Caribbean
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Spring 2022
Telling the Stories that will Enable Transformative Change
Flying Cars? Not So Fast.
Bieler Student Attends COP26
Undergraduate Award for Project on Childhood in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Fall 2020
We are now the Bieler School of Environment!
Meet Mr. Bieler
What our Undergraduates are Doing
What our Environment Alumni are Doing
What our Professors are Doing
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Fall 2019
Meet our Grads
Tea-making and Blending
Saving our Bees
Meet our Undergrads
What Will World Happiness Look Like in 2050?
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Fall 2018 - 20 Years at the MSE
Homecoming Updates: MSE Public Lecture
Alumni making environmental changes
Catalyst Award for Sustainability
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Fall 2017
Congratulations to our MSE professors
Welcome new professor, Hamish van der Ven
Top 30 under 30 in Sustainability
Guest speakers: Jodi Hilty - Conservation, and Barbara Cosens - Law
Austin Rikley-Krindle, U1 and youngest elected regional town council official
Climate change and endangered species
Amazing awards
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Fall 2016
MSE Faculty in Action
MSE Students in Action
MSE Alumni in action
Melting Away by Eva Wu
Kudos to Students
Kudos to MSE Faculty
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Spring 2016
Dr. Frances Westley, Social Transformation through Innovation
MSE in Action
Young Agrarians - MSEG (Macdonald Students Ecological Gardens)
Real Food Challenge
Think Upstream - Expanding our Criteria for Healthy Living
Environmental Research
MSE Honours Students
Kudos to Staff and Students
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Fall 2015
Focus on Students
Roots & Research with Dr. Jean-Francois Losier, Canadian Museum of History
Urban Sprawl
Social Equity in Urban Transportation Planning
Anthropocene - The Age of Humans
Geothink.ca
MDIIM wins Sustainability Award
MYKO App
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Fall 2014
Focus on Alumni
Bioblitz!
McGill Net Positive
Economics for the Anthropocene
Branches - McGill Undergraduate Environmental Journal
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Fall 2013
Thank you from the MSE
New MSE Staff
MSE Expertise in Demand
New Liber Ero Fellowship
MUSE: Montreal’s Urban Sustainability Experience
Science vs. Ideology: Mark Lynas on What the Environmental Movement Got Wrong
Philanthropy Making a Difference
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Spring 2013 - 15 Years at the MSE
The Right to be Cold - Sheila Watt-Cloutier
The MSE is 15 years old!
Research in Action
Catalyst Awards in Sustainability
Haida Gwaii Semester
Experiential Learning
Common Ground Relief
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Fall 2012
Do you believe in science?
Les Jardins de la Grelinette
Classroom without Walls
Silent Springs, Politics, and Ecology - Linda Lear
Protecting our Domain - Jeff Rubin and David Suzuki
Sustainability Made Real
The Iwastology Project
The Fruit Hunters
Tall Ships - Learning about Systems
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Spring 2012
L.O.O.P. (Life Out of Plastic)
Green Careers
Internship Awards Recipients
Soaring to Great Heights with Nalini Nadkarni
Lost Bird Project
UN General Assembly - Harmony with Nature
National Student Fellows 2011
Kibale Health & Conservation Project
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Fall 2011
Green Fire
Moving Planet
Welcome to the MSE
Our Land, Our Stories
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Spring 2011
Climate Change Denial Campaign - Naomi Oreskes
Montreal-Based Internship Semester
COP16 Climate Change Negotiations
Students on Ice
Alumni Corner
Leopold Fellowship Recipient 2011
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Fall 2010
MSE Research Symposium
New Faculty
Reflective Learning
MSE Success Excess
Public Lecturers Interviews
In the Media
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Spring 2010
The Oldest Environmental Problem Must and Can be Solved - Wes Jackson
A Religious Response to the Climate Crisis - Rev. Canon Sally Bingham
Climate Wars - Gwynne Dyer
The Missing Ingredient: When Fields Collide
Running Towards Sustainability
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Fall 2009
Mini-Enviro Series
Alanna Mitchell Brings You the Ocean
Important Monkey Business
The Good that Comes from Saying 'No'
The Power of One
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Spring 2009
Kibale Health Center & Conservation Project
Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island
A Precious Natural Resource: MSE Alumni
Net Zero Energy Housing
Transportation Debate on rue Notre Dame
Hope Springs Sustainable - Chris Turner
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Fall 2008 - 10 Years at the MSE
The Face of Food Security
Look Where ENVR401 can take you!
The MSE is 10 years old!
Building the Bridge: James Gustave Speth
Click on the Environment
Communicating Climate Change
U21 Undergraduate Research
Environmental Change in Monteregie - Water & Agriculture
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Spring 2008
Nigel Roulet shares 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
George McCourt wins Principal's Teaching Award
Green Campus: Green Minds - David Orr
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Spring 2007
Senate approved Graduate Environment Option
Launch of the MSE internship program
Think a Drop! Initiative
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Spring 2006
Macdonald Campus Library & Sustainability
Mac Sustainable Project
Macdonald Campus is 100 years old!
When You Teach, You Learn
Massive Change Exhibition - Bruce Mau
Beyond Kyoto - It's Us!
Fishy Tales - ENVR401 Research
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Spring 2005
Towards a World Water Ethic - Sandra Postel
Alumni: Where Possibilities Become Real
Beautiful Oceans - A Dream that Began at the MSE
Working on a Global Scale
Aquatic Ecology in the North American Desert
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Spring 2004
Aa-wiichaautuwiihkw (Coming Together to Walk Together): ENVR401 in James Bay
Synergy: The Environmental Research Community at McGill
Host Locally, Think Globally: 2003 Open Meeting
of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Butterflies, Migration, and Site Protection - Lincoln Brower
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Spring 2003
A Real M.E.S.S. of Activity
Meet our Faculty
Life After Graduation
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Fall 2002
Establish Common Ground
Climate Change in the Classroom
Bagbusters
Ecological Footprint
Touring the Earth from Above
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Spring 2002
Professors Win National Award
MSE Membership in the World Conservation Union
Green Belt Movement in Kenya
Students as Environmental Ambassadors
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Fall 2001
CANSEE Conference
Ideas: Lectures at the MSE
Bay of Fundy Field Semester
Environmental Research Course
Community Outreach
Earth Summit 2002
Greening of the MSE
Evidence of Climate Change in the Canadian Arctic
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Spring 2001
Robert Watson on Climate Change
The Land and Health of the James Bay Cree
O Panama!
Environmental Action Ltd.
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Fall 2000
Eulogy for the Tisza River
Thoughts on the MSE
Summer Internships
Les Amis de la Montagne
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Spring 2000
The M.E.S.S. Takes McGill by Storm!
Panama Field Study Semester
Move to Rowles House at Macdonald Campus
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