Education Graduate Student Awards & Fellowships
McGill's Faculty of Education is proud to offer annual awards and fellowships to graduate students within its three departments, thanks to generous donors who support the Faculty's research and teaching priorities.
QAIS Speed Networking 2026
***PRIORITY GIVEN TO GRADUATING U4 & MATL STUDENTS***
PhD Oral Defence; Miguel Guadarrama Ayala
DATE: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 1:30 p.m. / BURN 1010C
Defence 1:45 p.m. / BURN 1025
TITLE: Computer-assisted proofs of existence for carbon nanotubes and gap solitons
CHAIR: Prof. Jérôme Vétois
CO-SUPERVISOR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #3 - Introduction to Industry Analysis
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Juan Margalef (UdeM)
Title: Degrees of freedom, topology and mechanical systems: it takes three to tango.
Embroidering Words that Matter: Virtual Political Embroidery Workshop
Embroidery has long been dismissed as mere "domestic work," but for generations of women and gender-diverse people, it has served as a powerful tool for defiance and resistance. Join Teresa Olmedo, Brenda Ojinaga, and Graciela Mtz-Zalce for an exploration into the art of reclaiming craft. This session will demonstrate how to transform needlework into a catalyst for change, using stitched words as vital tools against discrimination and gender-based violence.
AI, Health, & Public Policy: Researcher Roundtables
Presented by the Computational and Data Systems Institute, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and the McGill Collaborative for AI and Society.
How is AI (re)shaping research, decision-making, and societal outcomes across disciplines?
Skills for Assertiveness and Effective Communication (Graduate Students)
Do you find yourself saying yes to requests that are inconvenient for you? Is it challenging to offer or accept feedback? Identifying your own needs, setting clear boundaries and communicating your needs are important skills that can be challenging to implement in the graduate school context. In this workshop, you will learn about assertiveness as well as common patterns that arise in difficult conversations and learn tips to navigate them.
Junnan He (SciencePo Paris)
Title: Testing Sparsity in Asset Returns.
Location: Concordia University - Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. H1145
2026 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize lecture – Robert McCann
Title: The monopolist's free boundary problem in the plane: an excursion into the economic value of private information
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #4 - Foundations of IP and Patent Searching
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
2026 Undergraduate Science Showcase
Rules of Opportunity: Governance, Contention, and Inequality in China’s School Admissions
Talk - "Rules of Opportunity: Governance, Contention, and Inequality in China’s School Admissions" Professor Fangsheng Zhu, Duke Kunshan University Thursday March 26th, 15:15 to 16:45 EST, Learning Commons (RM 120), Education Building 3700 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC H3A 1X1 Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the Centre for Global Chinese Studies
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Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 - Market Research and Analysis of Competition
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
