Department of Bioresource Engineering welcomes astronaut David Saint-Jacques

Published: 3 February 2025

The Department of Bioresource Engineering (BREE) enjoyed a visit last month from David Saint-Jacques, astronaut and Deputy Director, Lunar Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, and BREE...

Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges—comments from Prof. David Bird

Published: 18 March 2025

After DDT use nearly wiped out peregrine falcons in the 20th century, numbers are collapsing again in many countries, the Guardian reports....

McGill has become a leader in cannabis science

Published: 22 April 2025

The 4th Cannabis Scientific Symposium: From Plants to People, to be held May 5–6 at the RI-MUHC, brings together top researchers as well as investigators, policymakers and industrial stakeholders...

How to make sure your feeders aren't making hummingbirds sick

Published: 17 June 2025

A surprising number of hummingbirds are falling ill, and experts say your birdfeeder may be to blame. ...

Natural Resource Sciences postdoc wins prestigious Banting Fellowship

Published: 21 July 2025

Anaïs Médieu, a McGill University postdoctoral researcher working in Natural Resource Sciences Professor Kyle Elliott's lab, has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on...

Pascal Thériault: For American farmers, it is impossible to do without Canadian potash

Published: 11 March 2025

As the threat of impending tariffs and counter-tariffs loom, U.S. agricultural producers have very few options to substitute Canadian potash, an essential ingredient in fertilizer, McGill...

The fight against parasitic worms

Published: 9 April 2025

For Assistant Professor Lucienne Tritten at McGill University, parasitic worms represent an urgent challenge and an opportunity to push the boundaries of modern science, DNA to RNA (D2R) McGill...

Professor Jaswinder Singh selected for Mary E. Spencer award by the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists

Published: 27 May 2025

The Canadian Society of Plant Biologists has selected Jaswinder Singh, Professor at McGill University's Department of Plant Science, to receive the 2025 Mary E. Spencer award, which recognizes...

What are those fluffy seeds floating in the air? David Wees explains

Published: 17 July 2025

If you've been noticing white fluff floating around Montreal lately, you're not the only one. Those are seeds from the Eastern Cottonwood tree and it's the season that they're spreading through the...

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