Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is among the experts quoted by CBC.
On December 29th, for the first time in her role as Governor General of Canada, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon announced Order of Canada appointments and promotions. Among the 135 honorees is Professor (叠.厂肠.(础驳谤)鈥87), the Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Aging at the University of Guelph.
Scientists affiliated with 黑料不打烊 were once again well-represented in Qu茅bec Science magazine鈥檚 annual list of the top 10 scientific discoveries.
January 12, 2022 | Joe Biden isn't the first president to push for expanded voting rights, David Shribman comments in his article for聽The Globe and Mail. "If the working definition聽of聽news is聽a聽departure from the normal, then Joe聽Biden's speech Tuesday pressing Congress聽to聽preserve and expand聽voting聽rights聽for minorities barely qualifies," Shribman writes. "American presidents have been making聽that聽speech for more than聽a聽half-century."
In addition to old age and certain underlying diseases, genetics can influence whether we become severely affected or only suffer mild illness from COVID-19. Previous studies on mainly people of European ancestry have found that individuals carrying a particular segment of DNA have a 20 percent lower risk of developing a critical COVID-19 infection. This DNA segment encodes genes in the immune system and is inherited from Neanderthals in about half of all people outside Africa.
Congratulations聽to Dr Susan Kahn on聽the successful renewal of her Tier 1 Canada Research Chair聽(7-year term)聽that聽was just officially announced by the Federal government:
Congratulations聽to Dr Michelle Elizov for being a recipient of the CAME Certificate of Merit Award 2022!聽
See the following CAME announcement that celebrates the recipients!
With heavy hearts, we announce that Professor Emeritus Adi Eisenberg (1935-2022) has passed away on January 12, 2022. A , Dr. Eisenberg has earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1960, worked as a NATO post-doctoral fellow at the University of Basel with Werner Kuhn (1961-1962), and joined UCLA in 1962 as an Assistant Professor. He moved to 黑料不打烊 as an Associate Professor in 1967, where he was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 1975 and was named Otto Maass Chair in 1992.
will be retiring their classic OverDrive app at the end of 2022 and moving users over to their . Existing users of the classic app will be able to continue using it until the end of the year, however the app will be removed from Apple App Store, Google Play and Microsoft Store on February 23, 2022. Access to the will continue without change.聽
Wikipedia has revolutionized the way that knowledge is produced and dramatically increased access to information. A closer look at the 300,000 active editors who contribute to Wikipedia鈥檚 millions of articles shows that they play a powerful role in shaping the world-wide information ecosystem, generating positive feedback loops that leave other topics in the dust, under-researched and unread. Their impact on the most visited educational resource on the planet affects us all.
January 12, 2022聽| Joining the CBC's聽Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel, Professor Pearl Eliadis cautions that it's premature to discuss the legality of the "no-vax tax" or health contribution the Quebec government is proposing on unvaccinated Quebecers, as the legislation has not been made publicly available yet.
"We don't know enough yet to know if it's legal, but I do think it's bad public policy," she comments.
January 12, 2022 | After the Quebec government announced unvaccinated Quebecers would have to pay a "health contribution," Professor Pearl Eliadis weighs in on the legality and enforcement of such a proposition.
鈥淎re we really going to go and find 800,000 people, (some of whom) are low-income earners or have disabilities?鈥 she asked. 鈥淲hat are we going to do, seize their couch (if they can鈥檛 afford to pay)?鈥
XO-3b, a hot Jupiter on an eccentric orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
NeuroSphere is pleased to continue to support Neurasic Therapeutics and Dr. Philippe S茅gu茅la since our involvement in the launch of Neurasic therapeutics in 2020聽and announce a聽new聽$965,000 collaboration between聽Neurasic Therapeutics, CQDM, the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation, and Neurosphere.
Professor Diana Allan, Associate Professor in the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of Anthropology, is one of 黑料不打烊's most recent recipients of a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair for her project, "The Anthropology of Living Archives".聽 Professor Allan, an anthropologist and filmmaker, focuses on the histories of the 1948 displacement of Palestinian refugees to Lebanon.