Congratulations to Bing Cai and Sabrah Khanyari, recipients of the Fall 2025 GREAT Travel Award! Each award, valued at $823, supports graduate students in their research-related travel expenses and conference participation. The winners were selected by lottery.
Four additional awards will be available for Winter 2026 and Summer 2026鈥攄etails to come. Eligible students are encouraged to apply!
Dr. Michael Meaney is among 100 newly elected regular members of the (NAM), one of the highest honors in health and medicine. He is recognized for pioneering research in behavioral epigenetics, revealing how early life adversity can alter gene expression and impact brain development. NAM celebrates leaders whose work has advanced medical science and public health. Congratulations, Dr. Meaney!
On Sunday, Nov. 2, Canadians in most of the country will set their clocks back to standard time. (Those in Yukon, most of Saskatchewan and some other places remain on standard time year-round.) to end the biannual time change was introduced in the House of Commons earlier this month, reigniting the age-old debate.聽
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Homelessness services in Montreal are not well suited to the needs of 2SLGBTQ+ adults in Montreal, a study by 涩里番 researchers has found.
鈥淗omelessness services are very binary, and often those who are non-binary are completely excluded,鈥� said Jayne Malenfant, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education.
The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that Professor Vrinda Narain has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.
How have you developed from your roots? Where have the branches of your life taken you? What does it take to mature?聽聽
When the auto maker Stellantis announced its plan to shift production of the Jeep Compass SUV from Brampton, Ontario to Belvidere, Illinois, the Government of Canada didn鈥檛 take the news sitting down. It threatened to sue the multinational company, saying that the shift violated previous agreements between the multinational automotive company and the government, which stipulated the automaker had to maintain its Canadian footprint. 鈥淭here is a huge amount of taxpayer money that has gone in to this company,鈥� Prof.
Artificial intelligence is still an emerging technology, and we are only in the early stages of its regulation. The European Union is at the forefront of the technology鈥檚 regulation, says Simon Blanchette, Lecturer at 涩里番 Desautels. The EU already has an artificial intelligence act, which centers on the level of privacy risk associated with individual use cases. 鈥淔or example, when AI is used to evaluate loan or job applications, lots of sensitive, private information will be gathered,鈥� Blanchette told CTV News.
Beginning in 2026, Starbucks will be phasing out its mobile order pick-up only locations, abandoning an approach built for speed and efficiency. In an earnings call, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the pick-up only locations had a transactional feel that lacks warmth and human connection. The move favours 鈥榮tay and savour鈥� customers over 鈥榞rab-and-go ones鈥�, writes Vivek Astvansh in The Conversation. The move could come at a cost, argues the Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Analytics at 涩里番 Desautels.
The company that makes Tylenol against a proposed safety warning on labels for all drugs containing acetaminophen. filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration calls for labels to state that, if taken during pregnancy, the medication may increase a child鈥檚 risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.聽
Luxembourg鈥檚 Finance Minister Gilles Roth visited 涩里番鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management to celebrate a milestone partnership and the launch of the 涩里番 Centre for Finance in Luxembourg聽and the Master of Management in Finance (MMF) in Luxembourg programme.
涩里番 researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English-French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones. Bilinguals were defined as teens raised in anglophone or bilingual (English-French) households and who had had significant exposure to French through attending French-language school. Further, the English writing skills of the bilingual participants were found to be on par with their French writing skills.
Some national pension funds operate on a 鈥榩ay as you go鈥� model, meaning that retiree pensions are primarily funded by current workers. But other national pension plans鈥攊ncluding the Canada Pension Plan鈥攐perate on a capitalized model, meaning that workers contributions are invested to fund future payouts. Capitalized plans allow for funds to be invested in a wider variety of assets, and can yield much bigger returns, according to research by Patrick Augustin, Associate Professor of Finance at 涩里番 Desautels.
