Three DISE Graduate Students Win Prestigious Fellowship and Awards for International Research

Three graduate students from McGill University's Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) have been honoured with prestigious fellowships and awards for their international research endeavours.

Lighting up the circuits of the cerebellum

In a new article published today in Nature Communications, a team of McGill researchers led by Professor Alanna Watt of the Department of Biology examines the spatial organization of neurons in the cerebellar cortex.

DISE Graduate Students Alexa Ahooja and Hannah Keim Win Prestigious Applied Linguistics Awards

DISE Graduate Students Alexa Ahooja, PhD Candidate in Educational Studies, and Hannah Keim, MA student in Second Language Education, have won the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA) Graduate Student Awards.

McGill scholars receive $190,000 to expand impact of research in the social sciences and humanities

Seven McGill University researchers have been awarded over $190,000 in Connection Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The awards are part of $1.7 million in federal funding invested in 54 projects nationwide. 

McGill honours its accomplished researchers in Education

Two members of the Faculty of Education were bestowed with prestigious internal recognition awards from McGill University, for outstanding scholarship and research excellence.

Provost awards 28 McGill professors with distinguished awards

McGill honours its accomplished researchers with Distinguished James McGill Professor, James McGill Professor, and William Dawson Scholars awards.

How climate change is affecting where species live

As the climate warms, many species are on the move, raising new challenges for policy-makers around the world. Shifts in the ranges of mosquitoes and disease-bearing ticks and bats are introducing illnesses such as malaria and Lyme disease into regions where health-care systems are unprepared. Movements of commercially important fish from one jurisdiction to another are shifting job opportunities and causing trade disputes.

Generative AI in the classroom

With generative AI tools readily available to students, student assessment was a recurrent topic of discussion at a bilingual, two-day symposium hosted by McGill last month in partnership with Google and the Pôle interordres de Montréal.

Dr. Shane Sweet Is One of McGill's 10 Renewed Canada Research Chairs (2023)

Dr. Shane Sweet, Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education was just renewed as a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Participation, Well-Being, and Physical Disability. Shane's research involves studying well-being and participation in daily and social activities among people living with physical disabilities.

17 McGill researchers honoured with prestigious Canada Research Chairs

McGill awarded $10.9 million in federal funding through Canada Research Chairs Program

Astrophysics award honours student research with nod to pioneer

Allie Vibert Douglas made history when she earned her PhD at McGill.

It was 1926 – a time when higher education wasn’t an option for most women.

By then, Douglas already had a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science from McGill – and had been named a member of the Order of the British Empire for her wartime service. With her PhD, she became the first Canadian woman to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics.

DISE Professor Philip Howard Receives the 2024 CATR Award for Best Book

The new book by DISE Professor Philip Howard – Performing Postracialism: Reflections on Antiblackness, Nation, and Education through Contemporary Blackface in Canada, has won the Canadian Association for Theatre Research’s (CATR) Ann Saddlemyer Award.

Nigel Roulet awarded David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching

Congratulations to Professor Nigel Roulet, Department of Geography, for being awarded the 2024 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching!    

Axel Hundemer awarded Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to Professor Axel Hundemer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, for being awarded the 2024 Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching!  This award is given each year to recognize a faculty member for superior teaching at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Science.  

Read below the citation for the announcement of the award. 

CBC News Covers 34 Cree Teacher Graduates from Community-Based Programs

On May 30th, 34 students from across Eeyou Istchee graduated from McGill, in the first program that allows northern Quebec Cree to learn from home to become teachers in their own community.

CBC News featured an article covering the first time the Cree School Board and McGill University offered programs that help students get their teaching licence from home.