SSHRC Insight Development Grant awarded to Prof. Wang
Prof. Skyler Wang has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research on the growing integration of AI into dating apps.
Congratulations to Christopher Dietzel (Concordia), Stefanie Duguay (Concordia), David Myles (INRS) and Prof. Wang on receiving funding for this project.
Published: 7 July 2025Money lessons from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens still ring true today
Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens is a riches to rags story. Its wealthy title character squanders his money on opportunistic ‘friends’ and grows jaded with the world.
Published: 7 July 2025Nine McGillians appointed to the Order of Canada
Neuroscientist Alan Evans and music performance scholar Michael McMahon among McGill community members recognized for exceptional accomplishments and service
Nine members of the McGill University community have been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honours.
Among the honorees are two McGill faculty members, Professors Alan Evans (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) and Michael McMahon (Schulich School of Music).
Published: 7 July 2025Nine McGillians appointed to the Order of Canada
Neuroscientist Alan Evans and music performance scholar Michael McMahon among McGill community members recognized for exceptional accomplishments and service
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Workday Expenses: Progress update & what’s ahead / Progrès réalisés et prochaines étapes
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Published: 7 July 2025CLIC competition helps McGill-backed health tech start-ups bring ideas to life
Winning innovations aim to help children regain motor function; reduce pain in women’s health care
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Announcing the Winners of the third edition of the Graham Sommer Competition!
The Graham Sommer Competition is proud to announce that Kai Kubota-Enright is the grand prize winner of the third edition of the Graham Sommer Competition for Young Composers. The $18,000 first prize for Kai’s new work for chamber ensemble, spatial communication of dripstone, was among $54,000 in total prize earnings awarded at the Concert and Prize Gala on Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Tanna Schulich Hall. This national competition for Canadian composers under the age of 35 was founded by Dr.
Published: 4 July 2025Benoit Gentil Receives Commercialization Priming Award for RNA Research
The DNA to RNA Initiative (D2R) at McGill University has awarded $400,000 to four projects that aim to bring RNA-based innovations closer to clinical and commercial reality, including vaccines and therapies for rare and infectious diseases.
Published: 4 July 2025The Info-Neuro cart schedule for July is now available!
Desautels to launch new Master of Management of Finance program in Luxembourg
McGill Desautels is partnering with the Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg on a new Master of Management in Finance. The program will launch in 2026, and will have a blended format that combines online learning and in-person sessions on weekends or evenings. The new degree will be delivered over 20 or 24 months in Luxembourg, a major European financial centre.
Learn more Published: 2 July 2025Concrete policy steps could address issues with Canada’s pension system
A well-designed pension system brings enormous social and economic values to its members and to society as a whole. Unfortunately, Canada’s doesn’t stand out. A 2024 report from Mercer ranks it just 18 out of 48 countries. In thefutureeconomy.ca, Prof. Sebastien Betermier proposes three measures that could help improve it by:
· Ensuring there are stronger guardrails to keep pension funds operationally independent
Published: 2 July 2025Complicated crypto products recall derivatives at the centre of the global financial crisis
Cryptocurrencies are volatile, risky and lack transparency. For banks and investors alike, that’s risky. “Some like to think ‘this time it’s different’,” Prof Patrick Augustin told PaperJam.lu. But for Augustin, crypto today recalls Lehman Brothers, the financial services firm whose collapse set the global financial crisis in motion in 2008. The similarities are striking. Like today’s crypto markets, Lehman Brothers complicated investment products that many buyers and sellers didn’t fully understand.
Published: 2 July 2025Global public relations firm delivers McGill course content to staff in 12-week boot camp
Being happy doesn’t just make life more enjoyable, it can help you get things done. In 2024, McGill Desautels Adjunct Lecturer Anita Nowak co-designed a course on the power of positive psychology called Happiness means business, and it is gaining traction beyond the university’s walls. The global public relations and marketing consultancy Edelman brought in Prof. Anita Nowak to teach staff course materials. The intensive 12-week ‘boot camp’ teaches concepts like altruism and forgiveness to give employees new tools to use in client relationships.
Published: 2 July 2025ENSSIB and McGill sign a partnership agreement
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Published: 2 July 2025Perceived social status tied to cardiovascular risks in women but not in men
Women who see themselves as having lower social status are more likely than other people to show early signs of heart stress linked to future disease risk, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill and Concordia universities.
Published: 2 July 2025Update: Travel & Other Expenses Policy and Procedures for Travel and Other Expenses / Modifications : Politique et Procédures relatives aux frais de déplacement et autres dépenses
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Dear McGill Finance Community Member,
The Travel and Other Expenses Policy has been updated:
- P3.10 has been added and refers to extended days before and after University-related travel. Please consult it for more information.
The Procedures for Travel and Other Expenses have been updated:
Published: 2 July 2025McGill Plant Science students win big for conference presentations
Congratulations to two plant science students in Professor Mehran Dastmalchi's lab, who received awards for their presentations at two recent conferences!
Published: 30 June 2025For this B.C. beekeeper and Mac Campus alumna, gathering groceries is sweet and sustainable
In a recent article for their What's In My Cart? series, the Globe and Mail profiles 72-year-old Julia Common, a beekeeper based in Delta, B.C. She says she was hooked on bees the first time her hands entered a hive, when she was only 21 and enrolled in agricultural studies at McGill University’s Macdonald Campus, near her hometown of Montreal.
Published: 30 June 2025AES researchers dive into fresh ideas for a sustainable water future
From lab benches to local watersheds, McGill researchers are investigating some of today's most pressing water challenges.
Several exciting projects involving researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (AES) were selected for seed funding through two initiatives: the Brace Water Innovation Seed Grants and the Brace Water Centre and CentrEau Project Seed Fund Program.
Published: 30 June 2025Alan Evans receives Order of Canada
A career that took an uncharted trajectory has been recognized with the Order of Canada, one of the country’s top honours.
Published: 30 June 2025