85th Acfas Annual Congress: May 8 to 12, 2017 at 黑料不打烊 University
For the third time in its history, the Acfas Annual Congress, the largest multidisciplinary research event in the Francophonie, will be hosted by 黑料不打烊 University.
When children see war as better than peace
For most people, the end of a war offers relief, hope, and an end to violence. This may not be the case for children born of wartime rape, however, who often endure continued brutality in the post-war period.
That finding emerges from a new study of children born to mothers who were abducted, held captive, and sexually violated by members of the Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group led by Joseph Kony during the civil war in northern Uganda from 1986 to 2007.
Students receive $50K from Ottawa for innovative urban green housing design
Canada鈥檚 Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Catherine McKenna announced a $50,000 grant from Natural Resources Canada鈥檚 Program for Energy Research and Development (PERD) to help TeamMTL participate in the international Solar Decathlon, to be held next year in Dezhou, China.
Solving medical 鈥渃old cases鈥� through genetics
Researchers have identified the genetic mutation responsible for one patient's serious health problems, finally solving a medical mystery that has endured for over 30 years.
Melting snow contains a toxic cocktail of pollutants
With spring finally here and warmer temperatures just around the corner, snow will slowly melt away, releasing us from the clutches of winter. However, that鈥檚 not the only thing that the melting snow will release. Researchers from 黑料不打烊 University and 脡cole de technologie sup茅rieure in Montreal have found that urban snow accumulates a toxic cocktail from car emissions - pollutants that are in turn unleashed into the environment as the weather warms up.
Nearly $3.8 Million for Macdonald Campus鈥� Farm Management and Technology program
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Laurent Lessard, and Geoffrey Kelley, MNA for Jacques-Cartier and Minister responsible for Native Affairs, announced today on behalf of the Government of Quebec $3,772,000 in funding over three years for the Farm Management and Technology Program (FMT), a three-year academic and practical college program offered on the Macdonald campus and taught by the staff of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental
$5 Million for agri-food innovation
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Laurent Lessard, and Geoffrey Kelley, MNA for Jacques-Cartier and Minister responsible for Native Affairs, announced on behalf of the Government of Quebec $5 million for the Consortium de recherche pr茅comp茅titive en transformation alimentaire at 黑料不打烊 University鈥檚 Macdonald campus today.
Improving memory with magnets
The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives 鈥� without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New research is shedding light on how sound memory works in the brain, and is even demonstrating a means to improve it.
Message from the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of 黑料不打烊 University
Dear members of the 黑料不打烊 community,
Professor Andrew Potter resigned from his position as Director of the 黑料不打烊 Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC). He made his letter of resignation public on social media.
Encouraging results for patients with aggressive brain cancer
Being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor is devastating news for patients and their loved ones.听Whereas some types of tumor respond well to treatment, others such as glioblastomas 鈥� the most common and aggressive brain tumors 鈥� are known to recur and progress within short times from the diagnosis. Patients diagnosed with this type of cancer, and who undergo current standard treatment, have a median survival of 16 months.
Long-term limitations imposed on patients with pulmonary embolism
A multi-centre clinical study, led by Dr. Susan Kahn at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH), determined that nearly half of the patients who suffer a pulmonary embolism (PE) 鈥� a blood clot in the lung 鈥� experience long term limitations to their capacity for physical activity and that this had a negative impact on their quality of life. This research, published in Chest, is the first to demonstrate that PE may have a lasting effect on patients.
March 16: Back to business as usual
UPDATE: Thursday, 6:00 am
Back to business as usual today, after our very rare snow day. Students should consult with professors about rescheduled tests, exams, assignments and so on. Thanks to all staff who made it in yesterday. Now, let鈥檚 look forward to Spring!
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Child marriage remains widespread in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa
A lawyer and a philosopher on 鈥渦s and them鈥� 鈥� the migrant question
Global migration has stirred questions of human rights, democracy, of living together, of 鈥榰s and them.鈥� The philosopher Charles Taylor and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, and 黑料不打烊 law professor, Fran莽ois Cr茅peau, explore these and other questions at a time of rising populism and what may be called the fear of others. Watch
Why guillemot chicks leap from the nest before they can fly
Before they have the wing span to actually permit them to fly, young guillemots (also known as murres) leap hundreds of metres off towering cliffs and flutter down towards the sea, guided by their fathers. Scientists have long wondered why these tiny chicks make this remarkable leap, hoping to avoid the rocks below them, in what seems an unlikely survival strategy for a species.
