May 12, 2025 | Vincent Rigby, Slater Family Professor of Practice, alongside Stephanie Carvin and Thomas Juneau, wrote an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail urging the creation of a Canadian foreign human intelligence service. They argue that while Canada already collects intelligence through agencies like CSIS and the Canadian Armed Forces, the country needs a dedicated service to enhance its strategic autonomy and strengthen national security.

We are proud to celebrate MPP '25 Husein Pumaya Yakubu, whose social enterprise SheaMe placed second in both the Mastercard Foundation Dobson Start-up Awards and the Dobson Bootcamp and Cup Competition, 2025 — two of the most competitive entrepreneurship programs hosted by the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship and supported by the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at McGill University.

The fourth edition of the Spring Finance Workshop took place from April 27 to 29, 2025, bringing together top scholars in the field of finance to explore emerging themes across banking, investor expectations, climate finance, asset pricing, and corporate decision-making. Co-organized by Professors Laurent Barras (University of Luxembourg), Mark Podolskij (University of Luxembourg), and Patrick Augustin (McGill University), the workshop continues to grow as a vibrant forum for academic exchange and collaboration.

Authors: Rishad Habib, Ekin Ok, Karl Aquino, Siddhanth Mookerjee and Yann Cornil

Publication: Journal of Consumer Research
Forthcoming
Published online 04 April 2025

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Former doctoral student and current postdoc Heloisa Ehalt Macedo, along with her supervisor Prof. Bernhard Lehner, has co-authored a major new study revealing how antibiotics from human use are polluting rivers across the globe. Published with an international team, their work maps contamination hotspots and highlights urgent risks to ecosystems and public health. Read more in the McGill Newsroom article.

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While health status is an important factor in whether a person is able to grow old in their home and community (age in place), researchers at McGill University have shed new light on the social factors that can also have an impact, both directly and through their impact on health over a lifetime. 

Explore the insights from the second Sustainable Transportation Roundtable hosted by McGill University's Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI). This year's event, sponsored by Alstom, focused on road safety and reimagining urban streets. Keynote speaker Tom Flood highlighted the impact of media on street design and the need to shift narratives towards safer, more inclusive transportation. Panels discussed reclaiming streets for diverse users and overcoming barriers to public transportation.

Two researchers at Desautels were among the academics recognized by McGill with prestigious internal awards for their outstanding scholarship and research excellence. Associate Professor Anna Kim was among the eleven associate and assistant professors honoured with a William Dawson Scholar award, which recognized the demonstrated potential to become a global leader in their field.

In Canada, we often imitate the US political system without giving it serious thought, says Jean Charest, a former Member of the Parliament of Canada and Premier of Quebec. But growing political polarization and pressures on the Supreme Court shouldn’t be emulated, Charest told Prof. Karl Moore for an article in Les Affaires. “Maybe it’s the right time to ask ourselves who we are, what are values are, and what we hope to accomplish in the world,” Charest added.

The McGill Dobson Bootcamp & Cup, powered by the National Bank of Canada, is a program designed for early-stage startups, with selected startups competing for over $200,000 in funding across 4 tracks: Technology-Driven, Health Sciences, Social Impact and Environmental.

Congratulations to the 2025 Dobson Bootcamp & Cup winners and runners-up, and a big thank you to everyone who made this program possible.

The Institute for the Study of International Development congratulates Sophia Weiqi Li, winner of this year’s Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize. Sophia is a Honours International Development Studies Graduate with minors in French Language, Russian Language, and Urban Studies, and is recognized for her paper entitled When Feminists and Imperialists Link Arms: An Intersectional Case Study of the Russian Invasion in Ukraine.

Beginning May 12, construction will take place at the Macdonald Campus Library to address persistent condensation and leaking caused by inadequate insulation in parts of the building’s ventilation system. To carry out this work safely, special precautions are necessary due to the presence of asbestos in the Barton Building. A Sealed Access System (SAS), which allows construction work to be enclosed and contained, will be positioned throughout various library spaces over the course of the project.

Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns.

Published in PNAS Nexus, the study is the first to estimate the scale of global river contamination from human antibiotics use. Researchers calculated that about 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics – nearly one-third of what people consume annually – end up in river systems around the world each year even after in many cases passing through wastewater systems.

A foundational goal of D2R is to help cultivate the next generation of researchers. Being a D2R Scholar is the highest recognition available to D2R trainees and the awards recognize outstanding and active trainees performing research across all of D2R’s Foundational Axes.

University of Manitoba Bachelor of Arts in Psychology graduate Rachel Cluett (BA’24) is one of 20 Canadians selected to join the fifth cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars at McGill University. Recipients were chosen based on exceptional character, community engagement, leadership potential, entrepreneurial spirit, academic strength, and intellectual curiosity.

Rachel will pursue a Master of Arts in School/Applied Child Psychology at McGill.

Dr. Mindy R. Carter, Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), was recently awarded the 2025 AERA Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Learning Award for her dedication to research, teaching and service in arts education. 

The Hudson’s Bay recently received permission to auction off its collection of over 4,000 artifacts and pieces of art to help pay its creditors. However, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is now joining with the Assembly of First Nations, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak in calling on Hudson’s Bay to halt the sale of Indigenous artifacts, which may include sacred items.  

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We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Cecilia Flores has been named a James McGill Professor by Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Christopher Manfredi. This prestigious internal award recognizes Dr. Flores's exceptional research achievements and significant contributions to her field. Congratulations Dr. Flores! Read more

The Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé announced the recipients of salary awards on April 30, 2025. Congratulations to Drs. Kyle Greenway, Rachel Kronick, Katie Lavigne, Maxime Montembeault, Lena Palaniyappan, Rachel Rabin, Delphine Raucher-Chéné and Nicolas Tritsch, recipients of the FRQS Chercheurs-Boursiers awards. Additionally, Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy was approved for funding under the Dialogue project funding scheme. Congratulations to all!