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Cindy Blackstock Awarded SSHRC鈥檚 highest honour

Today, the Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the five winners of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council鈥檚 (SSHRC) 2022 Impact Awards.

黑料不打烊鈥檚 Cindy Blackstock, one of Canada鈥檚 most important social work scholars and an indefatigable advocate for Indigenous children鈥檚 rights and welfare, has won the SSHRC Gold Medal, the federal agency鈥檚 highest honour. The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual whose sustained leadership, dedication, and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike.

Classified as: Cindy Blackstock, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Impact Awards, School of Social Work, Faculty of Arts
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Published on: 1 Dec 2022

Congratulations to Kelsey Huson, ECP, 2022 Vanier Scholar

2022 Vanier Scholar, Kelsey Huson, from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, was the recipient of Canada鈥檚 most prestigious graduate awards, for traditional healing and culture-related substance use disorder treatment transformations due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on Indigenous patients and communities.

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Published on: 1 Dec 2022

CFE Honour Roll for GCPA Participant

Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) participant Megan Robertson (BCom'21, GCPA'22) has been named to the Honour Roll of the

Classified as: Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA), BCom Alumni
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Published on: 30 Nov 2022

Hugues Plourde named Fellow of the Ordre des di茅t茅tistes-nutritionnistes du Qu茅bec

Hugues Plourde, Ph.D., FDt.P., a Senior Faculty Lecturer in the School of Human Nutrition and Clinical Coordinator, Professional Practice (Stage) in Dietetics, has been named a Fellow of the ODNQ - the most prestigious award given by the Order - for his exceptional contributions to the profession.

Congrats Hugues!

Classified as: Hugues Plourd, School of Human Nutrition
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Published on: 30 Nov 2022

Whalen speaks at ILO session on emerging green economy in Africa

Prof. Joann Whalen (NRS) was an invited speaker at a recent session hosted by the AgriEdge program at Morocco鈥檚 Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and the ProAgro Program at the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Classified as: Joann Whalen
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Published on: 30 Nov 2022

Mac Food Science teams advance in Maple Innovation Challenge

Golden Bar (Wayne Sawka, Sky Castaing and Anas AlHouran), Cold Noodle (Jinyu Zhou, Zijing Yu, Xinyi Liu, Xiyuan Shang and Simin Tan) and Taco Belles (Veronica, Jaramillo and Priscilla Leftakis) are three Macdonald Campus teams advancing to round two of the competition.

Classified as: Maple Innovation Challenge
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Published on: 30 Nov 2022

KPE End of Semester Update

The KPE graduate committee (KPEG) is excited to announce that they are currently organizing a food drive, where all items will be donated to a women鈥檚 shelter in Montr茅al at the end of the Fall 2022 semester. Students, staff, and faculty of the department of KPE are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to hallway 101-A in the Currie Gymnasium building. We would like to remind everyone that any donation helps, and we are thankful to those who have donated thus far.

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Published on: 30 Nov 2022

The Connections Lab Study Recruitment

The Connections lab at 黑料不打烊 University has developed a survey to gain the perspective of school teachers and educators on the barriers teachers face when implementing Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in their classrooms, in addition to assessing their knowledge of and level of access to Evidence Based Practices (EBPs) and social justice practices in the classroom. 听

Who can participate? Canadian elementary and high school teachers.

Eligible participants may participate by completing the following 20 minute online survey.听

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Published on: 30 Nov 2022

Fetherstonhaugh Family Foundation Recognizes Teaching Excellence at Desautels

In 2018, when the Fetherstonhaugh family envisioned an award to recognize and reward teaching excellence, they hoped for great teachers and at the Desautels Faculty of Management extraordinary teachers emerged. As the recipient of the 2022 Fetherstonhaugh Family Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Programs, Prof. of Practice Sujata Madan engages with students in a way that promotes and accelerates their classroom and lifelong learning.

Classified as: alumni, Sujata Madan, Support Desautels, Brian Fetherstonhaugh, Robert Fetherstonhaugh, Desautels International Advisory and Advancement Board, Amanda Abrams, Jiro Kondo
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Published on: 29 Nov 2022

Fr茅d茅ric M茅gret receives honorary doctorate

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that, on 25 November, Professor Fr茅d茅ric M茅gret received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen at a ceremony followed by a reception with Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II as special guest. Professor M茅gret had delivered his lecture associated with the award, entitled 鈥淩oaming Rights and Global Mobility,鈥� at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen the day prior.听听

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Published on: 29 Nov 2022

Decision holding Bill 21 under microscope | CTV News

November 12, 2022 |听Quebec government and the groups opposing Bill 21 are challenging a court decision that largely upheld the controversial religious symbols law. Professor Pearl Eliadis commented on the hearing into the appeal that started this week. She states that the situation is complex with ten separate ongoing appeals, which each group asking for slightly different outcomes like the focus on english language minority rights.

Classified as: Pearl Eliadis, Law
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Published on: 29 Nov 2022

Expert: World's largest active volcano erupts in Hawaii

Early Tuesday, lava is shooting 100 feet to 200 feet (30 to 60 metres) into the air as Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, erupts for the first time in nearly 40 years. ()听

Fiona D鈥橝rcy, PhD candidate, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences听

Classified as: Mauna Loa, Fiona D'Arcy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Published on: 29 Nov 2022

黑料不打烊 receives $4.8 million to advance climate change science and technology

The Government of Canada鈥檚 Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), is investing more than $4 million in three 黑料不打烊-led projects through the Climate Awareness and Action Fund (CAAF).The projects will fill knowledge gaps about the environmental and economic impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen Canada's capacity to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Classified as: Bieler School of Environment, Grant Clark, climate change
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Published on: 29 Nov 2022

An ecological rule breaker shows the effects of climate change on body size evolution

Does evolution follow certain rules? Can these rules be predicted? Southeast Asia鈥檚 tree shrews break multiple rules when it comes to body size variation 鈥� with an unexpected twist 鈥� according to researchers from 黑料不打烊 University, University of Cambridge, and Yale University. The shed new light on the effects of climate change on the evolution of body size in animals.

Classified as: evolution, body, size, Northern Tree Shrews, climate change, global warming, evolutionary ecology
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Published on: 29 Nov 2022

Researchers classify Alzheimer鈥檚 progression and subtypes for a personalized approach to the disease

Alzheimer鈥檚 disease is a disorder characterized by abnormalities in several different biological areas.

A study carried out by HBHL-funded researcher Yasser Iturria-Medina and his research group, in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at The Neuro, represents the first and largest multimodal data collection effort to date for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.

This work represents the most significant effort so far to classify Alzheimer's disease from a multi-level molecular perspective.

Classified as: faculty, staff, students
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Published on: 29 Nov 2022

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