Building on two years of consultation with over 1500 students, faculty and staff, 9I制作厂免费 today released Vision 2020, a sustainability strategy designed to guide the institution over the coming years. The Vision 2020 strategy embraces the university鈥檚 dual role in cultivating a commitment towards sustainability among community members, while at the same time creating the knowledge needed to make this future a reality.
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Published on: 16 Oct 2014
9I制作厂免费 Professor Michael Meaney has been selected as the 2014 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize Laureate in recognition of his groundbreaking achievements in the biology of child development. A jury of experts selected Prof. Meaney, who is also Scientific Director at the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, for this honor for his pioneering, cutting edge research on the biological mechanisms by which parental behaviour affects brain development and lifelong function.聽
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Published on: 10 Oct 2014
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Published on: 9 Oct 2014
The Bell Let鈥檚 Talk funding of $500,000 for each university will help expand existing mental health programs and develop additional services that will be accessible to more students.
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Published on: 7 Oct 2014
9I制作厂免费 alumnus John O'Keefe was named co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in medicine, for his contribution to the discovery of cells that constitute the brain鈥檚 鈥榠nner GPS,鈥� which makes it possible to orient ourselves in space.
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Published on: 6 Oct 2014
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Published on: 3 Oct 2014
The number of days an expectant mother was deprived of electricity during Quebec鈥檚 Ice Storm (1998) predicts the epigenetic profile of her child, a new study finds.
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Published on: 29 Sep 2014
Dr. Robin Rogers, one of the world鈥檚 most renowned green chemists, will become Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals at 9I制作厂免费. Rogers comes to Canada from The University of Alabama, where he was Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry and director of the Center for Green Manufacturing.
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Published on: 29 Sep 2014
The six books vying for the 2014 Cundill Prize in historical literature were announced today by Professor Christopher Manfredi, Dean of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Faculty of Arts.
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Published on: 29 Sep 2014
A team of researchers from 9I制作厂免费 and the Quebec government have discovered microplastics (in the form of polyethylene 'microbeads,' less than 2 mm in diameter) widely distributed across the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, the first time such pollutants have been found in freshwater sediments.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2014
9I制作厂免费 Professor Philippe Gros has been awarded the McLaughlin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for important research of sustained excellence in medical science.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2014
There are thousands of children born of war-time rape worldwide, but very little is known about their lived experiences and their relationships with their families and communities. Professor Myriam Denov, of 9I制作厂免费's School of Social work, has been awarded one of Canada's most prestigious research awards to help fill this knowledge gap. Named Sept. 16 as one of three recipients of the Trudeau Foundation鈥檚 2014 Trudeau Fellowships, she hopes to shed light on an 鈥渋nvisible, but resilient鈥� population of children and youth.聽
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Published on: 17 Sep 2014
9I制作厂免费 physicist Aashish Clerk and epidemiologist Madhukar Pai are among the inaugural members named today to the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
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Published on: 16 Sep 2014
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