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24 Թ researchers identified in Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List

Twenty-four Թ researchers have been named to the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers™ list, a ranking prepared each year by Clarivate, an analytics company based in the US. The list assesses researchers in a wide range of disciplines, from neuroscience to environmental science. The number of Թ scholars on the list grew from 14 in 2024 to 24 in 2025.

Published: 28 Nov 2025

Թ’s Bachelor of Arts and Science program celebrates 20 years of interdisciplinary scholarship

Happy 20th birthday, B.A. & Sc.!

On Thursday, November 13, over 150 students, alumni, staff and faculty members gathered in the SSMU ballroom to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Թ’s Bachelor of Arts and Science (B.A.

Published: 25 Nov 2025

Redpath Museum and Physics Outreach bring science to life at Թ's Bellairs Research Institute

This past September, St. James Parish in Barbados celebrated We Gatherin’, a year-long festival of Barbadian heritage, culture and community. As part of the festivities, Թ’s Bellairs Research Institute hosted a day-long Science Adventure for local schoolchildren featuring a visit from Թ’s Redpath Museum and the Physics Outreach Committee. 

Published: 24 Nov 2025

Professor Christian Genest recipient of the Acfas Urgel-Archambault prize (2025)

Professor Christian Genest is the winner of the 2025 Acfas Urgel-Archambault prize.

Le Prix Acfas Urgel-Archambault 2025 pour les sciences physiques, mathématiques, informatique et génie, est remis à Christian Genest, professeur titulaire au Département de mathématiques et de statistique de l'Université Թ.

Published: 21 Nov 2025

Bringing environmental policymakers together to focus on the future sparks empathy for nature and later generations, Թ study finds

When environmental policymakers are invited to imagine the future together, they don’t just think differently, they feel differently, too.

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Published: 21 Nov 2025

Meghan Lai Winner of the 2025 Magna Charta Observatory Essay Competition

B.A.(Education); Major in Education in Global Contexts student, Meghan Lai, submitted her essay to Magna Charta Observatory (MCO) conducted their annual Essay Competition, responding to the question: "Drawing on your experience, how might your university engage more effectively with stakeholders both to improve both access to higher education for all and enhance the learning experience of students?

Published: 20 Nov 2025

Adam Dubé on Decoder podcast, "How ChatGPT is fuelling an existential crisis in education"

Dr. Adam Dubé was a guest on The Verge podcast, Decoder. He spoke with the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge, Nilay Patel, about how GenAI is impacting education, how worried we should be about students cheating with GenAI, how students think GenAI "thinks", and how this impacts how they learn with GenAI.

Published: 20 Nov 2025

How a Թ undergrad’s summer research project became a paper in a prestigious journal

When then-Թ undergraduate Maya Willard-Stepan cold-emailed a professor asking to help with their research, she didn’t expect the project to end up in the Nature-partner journal npj Urban Sustainability.

“I really wanted to get involved in research early,” said Willard-Stepan, who had come to Թ from a small town on Vancouver Island.

Published: 17 Nov 2025

Youth Digital Compass Keeps Kids Cybersafe

Built upon years of research led by Professor Victoria Talwar from Թ’s Faculty of Education, Youth Digital Compass is an initiative dedicated to helping young people navigate online life safely, kindly, and confidently.

Published: 13 Nov 2025

Թ researchers track boulders’ influence on snow melt, watersheds using unique combination of methods

Thanks to their use of a unique methodology, a Թ-led research team has obtained new insights into how boulders affect snow melt in mountainous northern environments, with implications for local water resources.  

The team found that snow near boulders melts faster, not only because rocks radiate heat, but also due to subtle processes that reshape the snow’s surface. This information will help researchers understand how small-scale processes affect downstream water resources. 

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Published: 11 Nov 2025

Climate change could result in contaminant spread in the High Arctic, Թ study finds

Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are mobilizing new pathways for subsurface contaminants to spread from more than 2,500 contaminated sites associated with industrial and military sites across the region.

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Published: 6 Nov 2025

Ancient mammoth tooth offers clues about Ice Age life in northeastern Canada

A worn-down mammoth tooth discovered nearly 150 years ago on an island in Nunavut offers new insights into where and how the Ice Age giants lived and died.

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Published: 5 Nov 2025

Experts: Social prescribing

As part of a new partnership with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO), member doctors of Médecins francophones du Canada can now prescribe tickets to live performances.  

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Published: 3 Nov 2025

Experts: Food insecurity in Quebec

Food bank use in Quebec in 2025 has hit record numbers, surpassing 3 million assistance requests, according to Food Banks Canada's HungerCount 2025 recent report. Employed people and students are among the fastest growing user groups, with food banks struggling to keep up with demand.  

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Published: 30 Oct 2025

Homecoming 2025: Water, Climate Change, and the Future

As part of last weekend’s Homecoming festivities, Interim Dean of Science Alanna Watt hosted an engaging and timely event on Friday morning entitled “Water, Climate Change, and the Future,” which highlighted the importance of freshwater science research in the face of a changing climate. 

Published: 29 Oct 2025

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