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Congratulations to Pin-Hsun Lee and Prof. Harry Leib who were honored with the Best of Session Awards at IEEE/AIAA 44th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Montreal, QC, CA, Sept. 14-18, 2025 for the session CN4-GNSS in Urban Areas for the paper entitled “Machine Learning based Multi-constellation Satellite Selection Algorithm in Urban Area

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Published on: 17 Oct 2025

As trade tensions with China and the United States continue to affect Canadian canola exports, producers are seeking new markets abroad. 

Pascal Thériault, Director of Թ’s Farm Management and Technology Program, can comment on agricultural economics, farm management, and market diversification in the agri-food sector. 

pascal.theriault [at] mcgill.ca (English, French) 

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Published on: 17 Oct 2025

Every year, billions of dollars are invested by funding agencies in basic and translational research, yet the path from academic discovery to private investment necessary for the creation of new companies is rarely straightforward. In this seminar, you’ll get an inside look at how investors work, what makes a research idea stand out to venture capitalists, and how they evaluate translational value of scientific opportunities. By the end of the session, you’ll have a clearer grasp of the framework needed to transition an idea or mechanism discovered in the lab to an investment phase.

Classified as: #investorseries #venturecapital #biotech #Medicxi #D2R #DNAtoRNA
Published on: 17 Oct 2025

As part of the first graduating cohort of Թ’s Master of Management in Analytics (Online) program, Hari Gopalan (MMA’25) is using data to improve healthcare systems at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Applying insights gained from the program, he’s developed models to optimize exam scheduling and forecast waitlists, driving measurable improvements in patient care. Hari credits the MMA for expanding his technical and problem-solving skills, and for connecting him to a network of analytics professionals across industries.

Classified as: MMA Alumni, Master of Management in Analytics (MMA)
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

Թ Desautels Professor Anthony C. Masi was honoured with the Morty Yalovsky Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Academic Leadership at Fall 2025 Convocation. Over his 46-year career, Masi has shaped the University through his leadership as Provost and contributions to digital transformation, faculty development, and teaching innovation. He founded Teaching and Learning Services, modernized Թ’s IT infrastructure, and advanced the University’s research and academic mission.

Classified as: Anthony Masi
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

Թ has mandated Construction Bralteck to carry out Project 21-081 Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry – CFI Ortega, which involves the fit-up of rooms B/31, B/32B, B/27, and B/2F within the Facility for Electron Microscopy Research (FEMR), to accommodate two new microscopes.

Classified as: Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, Downtown campus, Facility for Electron Microscopy Research, Laboratory upgrades
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

Celebrating excellence in the classroom 

President’s Prize honours educators who ‘inspire curiosity, nurture talent and prepare our students to thrive in a complex world'

At the afternoon Fall Convocation ceremony on October 14, Թ awarded the President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching to four outstanding educators, half of whom were Faculty of Education instructors.

Published on: 16 Oct 2025

Montreal’s methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city’s east end, Թ researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city’s largest snow dump, which emits methane at levels comparable to the city's current and former landfills, and natural gas leaks.  

Classified as: peter douglas, Faculty of Science, éٳ󲹲Ա, Montreal, greenhouse gas emissions, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, landfills, snow removal
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

Join D2R and  for this hybrid Lunch and Learn about biomanufacturing and RNA therapeutics

In this presentation, D2R and CASTL will connect the world of research with industrial applications! This Lunch and Learn will provide a practical way introduce participants to how mRNA-LNP based biotherapeutics are manufactured, and showcase opportunities and career pathways in the biomanufacturing sector. 

Classified as: #Biomanufacturing #RNAtherapeutics #CASTL #D2R #DNAtoRNA
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

Join D2R for a learning opportunity to gain foundational knowledge and practical tools to embed Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) into your genomic-based RNA therapeutics research. Through engaging discussions and activities, participants will explore key EDI definitions, examine both opportunities and challenges in the field, and learn best practices for inclusive research design.

Classified as: #EDI #RNAtherapeutics #workshop #equity #diversity #inclusion #D2R #DNAtoRNA
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

ISID welcomes the publication of a new policy brief by Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez.  In this brief, Saghir and Ijjasz-Vasquez examine how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are increasingly affected by the growing impacts of climate hazards, including tropical cyclones, storm surges, increases in temperature, heatwaves, droughts, coastal and riverine flooding, changing precipitation patterns, and sea level rise, among others.  

Classified as: small island states, climate change, cliimate resilience
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

While experts call for stronger oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) technology development, including clearer legal frameworks, the legal system itself is grappling with AI-related challenges. In recent days, Quebec and several other jurisdictions have issued substantial fines to individuals who submitted court documents containing “hallucinations,” the term for false or invented information generated by AI tools. 

Classified as: Simon Blanchette, Desautels Faculty of Management, Artificial intelligence, Law, courts, legal system, AI governance
Published on: 15 Oct 2025

Doctoral
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Camilo Mireles Salcedo
Canada Graduate Scholarship: Anna Horton, Lynn Jacobs, and Sabine Plummer
FRQSC Doctoral Scholarship: Sara Hosseini, Lynn Jacobs, Wenrui Li, Camilo Mireles, Enke Tuyaa Montgomery
SECIHTI (Mexico): Alondra Pérez Rojas
Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship: Alondra Pérez Rojas

Published on: 15 Oct 2025

October 10, 2025 | Professor Vincent Rigby was featured in The Globe and Mail on Canada’s decision to collaborate with the United States on the Golden Dome missile defence initiative. Drawing on his previous experience as Director-General of Policy Planning at the Department of National Defence during the 2005 ballistic missile defence discussions, Rigby recalled that American proposals at the time lacked clarity and detail.

Classified as: Vincent Rigby, national security, United States
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Published on: 15 Oct 2025

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