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The winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize is Camilla Townsend, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, for Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press USA). The announcement was made during the virtual Winner Ceremony of the leading international history prize, administered by Թ. Prof. Townsend receives US$75,000 – the largest reward for a work of non-fiction in English.

Classified as: Cundill History Prize, Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
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Published on: 3 Dec 2020

To meet the most ambitious 1.5º C climate goal requires a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels and mass use of renewables. However, new international research by Թ and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) warns that green energy projects can be as socially and environmentally conflictive as fossil fuel projects.

Classified as: green energy, risks, energy, Transition, social, environment, environmental, conflict, social equity, Sustainability, Leah Temper, Nicolas Kosoy
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Published on: 3 Dec 2020

What makes the elderly and people with underlying conditions more vulnerable to COVID-19? According to a new led by Թ researchers, clues can be found in the proteins involved in initiating infection, as the virus binds to host cells of different animals. Greater cellular oxidation with aging and sickness may explain why seniors and people with chronic illness get infected more often and more severely.

Classified as: covid-19, infection, vulnerability, animals, proteins, cellular oxidation, Jaswinder Singh
Published on: 3 Dec 2020

Large multi-site study accurately predicts damage to grey matter by disease

An international study has found a link between the brain’s network connections and grey matter atrophy caused by certain types of epilepsy, a major step forward in our understanding of the disease.

Classified as: epilepsy, Research, Boris Bernhardt, Neuroimaging and Neuroinformatics, open science, Sara Larivière, functional connectivity, Neuro
Published on: 2 Dec 2020

New parents often expect their baby to start sleeping through the night around the time they reach six months of age. But according to a new led by Professor Marie-Hélène Pennestri, parents should view sleep consolidation as a process, instead of a milestone to be achieved at a specific age. Tracking 44 infants over a period of two weeks, she found that sleeping patterns vary greatly – not only for different babies, but also night to night for the same baby.

Classified as: infant, Baby, sleep, parents, sleeping through the night, sleep consolidation, Marie‑Hélène Pennestri
Published on: 2 Dec 2020

Over the past 40,000 years, ice sheets thousands of kilometres apart have influenced one another through sea level changes, according to research published today in . New modelling of ice sheet changes during the most recent glacial cycle by a Թ-led team offers a clearer idea of the mechanisms that drive change than had previously existed and explains newly available geological records.

Classified as: Research, Faculty of Science, climate change, environment
Published on: 25 Nov 2020

Vertebrate populations - from birds and fish to antelope - are not, in general, declining. Despite what has previously been thought and said.

Classified as: Sustainability, climate change, Research, Faculty of Science, vertebrates
Published on: 18 Nov 2020

By Meaghan Thurston (Office of Research and Innovation)

Classified as: Highly cited
Published on: 18 Nov 2020

Թ has chosen a new name that will take its ’s varsity teams into the University’s third century. The name — chosen with the aim of paying homage to Athletics and Recreation’s tradition and history while simultaneously uniting our community — is the Թ Redbirds.

Classified as: ’s, varsity, teams, naming, committee, athletes, Թ Redbirds, Athletics, recreation
Published on: 17 Nov 2020

By Shawn Hayward

Six Թ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences researchers — Boris Bernhardt, Mark Brandon, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, Jo Anne Stratton and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky — have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.

Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-changing research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.

Classified as: funding, Brain Canada
Published on: 12 Nov 2020

Brain Canada program supports paradigm-shifting neuroscience that improves the lives of Canadians

Four researchers at The Neuro — Boris Bernhardt, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, and Jo Anne Stratton — have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.

Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-changing research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.

Classified as: Brain Canada, Neuro, Montreal Neurological Institute, Boris Bernhardt, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, Jo Anne Stratton
Published on: 9 Nov 2020

Five projects led by Թ researchers are included among the 79 receiving a total of $28 million in research infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Exceptional Opportunities Fund. The announcement was made today by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry during a news conference this morning.

Classified as: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, COVID 19, CFI
Published on: 6 Nov 2020

Earlier today, a Quebec based consortium of research institutes (Génome Québec, Oncopole and IVADO) announced the winners of their first-ever “Omics Data Against Cancer” competition, and Թ research teams were dominant. In fact, of the five selected teams no less than four of them included professors from Թ.

Classified as: omics, genomics, AI, Cancer, Awards
Published on: 5 Nov 2020

Earlier today, the Quebec government announced the winners of its annual Prix du Quebec competition, a series of 15 awards in science and culture. Among them was Professor William Foulkes, Head of the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute, a member of the Cancer Research Program of the Research Institute of the Թ Health Centre, and Director of the Program in Cancer Genetics at Թ. Dr.

Published on: 4 Nov 2020

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