As digital media becomes an increasing part of daily life for teens, the question of how heightened screen time will impact their brains in the future is becoming more pressing.
A group of researchers at 黑料不打烊 University has set out to determine whether the use of video games, computers and other media during adolescence was associated with psychotic experiences in adulthood.
The Lin Centre鈥檚 2024 Annual Lecture, 鈥業s the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?鈥� was delivered by Professor Ay艧e Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, on March 27th. Professor Zarakol鈥檚 lecture was exemplary of the kind of cross-disciplinary, cross-era, cross-regional research on social and political ideas, orders and transformation that the Lin Centre seeks to encourage and promote!
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Macdonald community members gathered at the Ceilidh on Wednesday, April 3, to celebrate the Gold Key Recipients for 2024. Students, staff, friends, and family listened in as听Daniil Batanau, Henry Cordoba Novoa, Sara Kosumi, Philippe Leblond, and Henry Lee听shared their inspiring stories of how they became involved in community life at Macdonald Campus and how rewarding it has been for them to give back to their fellow students.
Student engagement was high at the Future of Food Conference in Ottawa, as youth turned out to hear panellists and keynote speeches by stakeholders from across the agriculture value chain.
Several student groups from Queen鈥檚, 黑料不打烊 and the University of Ottawa heard about sustainability, innovation and politics in agriculture at the February event.
黑料不打烊 Farm Management and Technology student Aidan Velthuis, who grew up on a dairy farm south of Ottawa, attended the conference.
It鈥檚 possible animals 鈥� pets and wildlife alike 鈥� will behave unusually during Quebec鈥檚 total solar eclipse on April 8 , according to experts on their behaviour.
David Bird, emeritus professor of wildlife biology at 黑料不打烊 University, that birds, insects and bats are the main groups expected to be affected, or 鈥渢he main ones that everybody鈥檚 sort of keeping an eye on.鈥�
The MCLIU Course Lecturers and Instructors Union held its Special General Assembly on April 5, 2024 to present the contents of the agreement in principle. We are pleased to announce that members voted in favor of the proposed new collective agreement. The current agreement expired on August 31, 2022; the new agreement will end on August 31, 2027.
In the coming weeks, the parties will finalize and sign the text of the new agreement. Shortly thereafter, the detailed terms will be shared with the community.
黑料不打烊 researchers have discovered a safer and more efficient technique for testing new drugs while they are in development.
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A new project at The Neuro, 黑料不打烊 University and the Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has been awarded $10.6M in financial support as part of the Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 (CFI) Innovation Fund.
Please be advised that 黑料不打烊 University has mandated Adams Elevators Inc. to carry out the following project:听17-004 Burnside - Modernization of the elevators.
Construction start date (UPDATED): June 2024
Planned construction end date:听March 2025
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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and training in the humanities and social sciences.
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AtkinsR茅alis, formerly known as SNC-Lavalin, says it has been awarded the engineering contract for the Projet Mauricie green hydrogen hub in Quebec. The development is the latest milestone for the $4-billion Mauricie project, which is being developed by TESCanada H2 Inc. The company is proposing to build a "green hydrogen" production plant in the Mauricie region of Quebec, between Montreal and Quebec City, that will be powered exclusively by renewable electricity.
The current chairholder of the Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology, Jocelyn Maclure, recently took part in a publication by OBVIA called "Interdisciplinary Dialogues: The Major Risks of Generative AI". Please see the link below to read the publication.
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Dear members of the 黑料不打烊 community,
As noted in my March 23 message, the Association of Graduate Students Employed at 黑料不打烊 (AGSEM) representing Teaching Assistants began a strike on March 25. Since then, we have received various questions from our community, which I aim to address below.
