McGill study provides further evidence that aspen patches can mitigate wildfires

Published: 7 July 2026

Researchers at McGill University have confirmed that aspen play a key role in forest fire prevention and mitigation across Canada. Planting these trees near communities can reduce both the...

Study finds treating peanuts with cold plasma could make them less allergenic

Published: 22 April 2026

Researchers at McGill University have found that briefly treating peanuts with cold plasma, an ionically charged gas that triggers chemical changes, reduces their potential to cause allergic...

122 McGill research projects awarded $30 million in NSERC Discovery Grants funding

Published: 7 July 2026

Funding supports bold ideas across natural sciences and engineering disciplines at McGill, in fields ranging from ophthalmology and physics to music research and electrical engineering....

Moderate UV light is best when it comes to boosting the vitamin D content of edible mushrooms, McGill study finds

Published: 4 May 2026

Researchers at McGill University have discovered that moderate ultraviolet (UV) light exposure is best when the technique is used to enhance vitamin D₂ in edible mushrooms. Excessive exposure leads...

Food Science Students Selected as Finalists in IFTSA Student Competitions

Published: 31 March 2026

McGill’s Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry is celebrating an outstanding achievement by its students: all three McGill teams entered into this year’s Institute of Food...

$1.25 million for McGill research from the New Frontiers in Research Fund

Published: 13 May 2026

Federal fund will support transformative high risk, high reward research across engineering, science, and medicine at McGill.

McGill inaugurates new facilities at Macdonald Campus to advance teaching and research on climate‑resilient agriculture

Published: 9 April 2026

McGill University today inaugurated state‑of‑the‑art teaching greenhouse and plant phenotyping research facilities at its Macdonald Campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. These represent major investments...

McGill-led project strengthens Indigenous leadership in global action on plastic pollution

Published: 16 July 2026

Supported by SSHRC and ECCC, Professors Niladri Basu, Treena Delormier, and PhD student Lynn K. Jacobs will partner with Indigenous organizations in Canada and internationally to address the...

McGill awarded 16 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs

Published: 13 May 2026

From fundamental physics to child well-being, McGill researchers advance discovery across disciplines ...

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