Join D2R and the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute (GCI) for an event in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Women's History Month, in collaboration with Fondation du cancer du sein du Québec and the association Audace au féminin.

Maria Ahmed, CAnD3 Alumna, has published a chapter with SAGE Research Methods titled Telling a Data Story: How to Develop a Compelling Data-Driven Narrative. In an era defined by data saturation, her work underscores the growing importance of clarity, accessibility, and impact in communicating research findings. The chapter provides both conceptual grounding and practical guidance, reviewing the three essential components of effective data storytelling, data, story, and visualization, and demonstrating how they can be brought together to inform, engage, and inspire.

The McGill University Research Centre for Complex Traits, the Wainberg Centre for Viral Diseases and the McGill Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program are joined to host a Symposium on Advances in Viral Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapies.

Researchers at McGill’s Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have launched a first-of-its-kind guide to help Canadian health-care providers offer more inclusive, respectful and affirming care to intersex adults.

Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new McGill-led study published in npj Urban Sustainability.

Morgan Sleeth, Mylène Riva, Kevin Manaugh and Sébastien Breau recently published their article "‘Left Behind Places’: Examining the Evolution of a Concept With an Application to the Canadian Regional Development Context" in Growth and Change. This paper employs Statistics Canada's 2021 Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (CIMD) dataset as a proxy for identifying LBPs across the country and examines their spatial dynamics at the census subdivision (CSD) level.

The Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie du Québec today announced an investment of $2 million to fund a technical plan for the functioning of the Centre de collaboration et d’innovation en aérospatiale et mobilité (CCIAM). Led by the Aéro Montréal cluster within the Espace Aéro innovation zone – created by the Government of Quebec in 2024 – the CCIAM is a flagship research and innovation infrastructure project.

Congratulations to Terry Hébert, who is a winner of 2025 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching. The David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching acknowledges outstanding contributions to promoting graduate student excellence through supervision and teaching by a faculty member who has been supervising for 10 years or more.

Winner: Terry Hébert, Pharmacology & Therapeutics

This month, Professor Rebekah Willson is the featured member on iSchools News.

Read the interview article here .

The Bay Building on Saint Catherine Street is one of Montreal’s most iconic retail locations. But after the Hudson’s Bay Company dissolved in 2025, is future is unclear. One of the bidders for it is the Cree Nation Trust Fund. Called James Bay Eeyou Corporation, they’re partnering with JHD Real Estate on a $400 million bid that would transform the 134-year-old building into a mixed use development that includes commercial space, housing, a hotel development, and a heritage hub with an Indigenous cultural centre and a museum.

Each year, Stanford University and the academic publishing company Elsevier celebrate the world’s most influential researchers with its top 2% list, which identifies the researchers who are most widely cited in their field. For the third year in a row, Maxime Cohen was among them. The Professor of Retail and Operations Management was recognized for being one of the most cited authors two fields: Business & Management and Operations Research subfields.

Researchers in McGill’s Department of Physics have developed a new device that can trap and study DNA molecules without touching or damaging them. The device, which uses carefully tuned electric fields, offers scientists unprecedented control over how DNA behaves in real time, creating the opportunity for faster, more precise molecular analysis that could improve diagnostics, genome mapping and the study of disease-related molecules.

A message from the McGill Institute for Advanced Materials (MIAM):

Attend our next "FUTURE OF MATERIALS" roundtable with Matt Kinsella and May Griffith on bioprinting, with demonstrations: Thu. October 9 at 6:00 pm, Arts W-120 (McGill Campus). Please register at https://lnkd.in/evAZq9uK.

The 2025 Ocean State Report from the Copernicus Marine Service, a European Union ocean monitoring organization, has found that sea floor temperatures off the coast of Nova Scotia have risen at twice the rate of surface temperatures over 30 years. Researchers say the rapid warming rate is a result of changes to the climate, including more acute marine heat waves and fewer periods of colder weather.

Dean Salwa Karboune is please to announce the following appointments in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:

Professor Jessica Head has been appointed as Director of the Morgan Arboretum and Molson Nature Reserve for a three-year term starting September 2025. Professor Head is an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences.

Professor Courtney Paquette from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is featured in SIAM News—the journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The publication showcases the state of the art in applied mathematics, computational science, and data science, while highlighting real-world applications of mathematical research. In doing so, it helps lay the groundwork for scientific advances and new discoveries, supports efforts to address pressing global challenges, and enables leaders and policymakers to make informed decisions.

Pearl Eliadis has been appointed as President of the Court Challenges Program (CCP) Official Languages Expert Panel. In this capacity, she will oversee the work of the Panel, which is responsible for deciding on funding requests from individuals and not-for-profit organizations engaged in test cases of national importance that have the potential to clarify and advance constitutional and quasi-constitutional official language rights. Members of the Official Languages Expert Panel are appointed by the Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and Francophonie.

Prof. le Polain was interviewed about his research on the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America for this short article in The Economist: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/10/01/a-german-newspaper-for...

McGill University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can detect previously invisible disease markers inside single cells.

In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers demonstrate how the tool, called DOLPHIN, could one day be used by doctors to catch diseases earlier and guide treatment options.