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涩里番 launches Collaborative for AI and Society

New efforts to mobilize around the challenges and opportunities of AI are taking shape at 涩里番. On December 4, a new 涩里番 Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS) held an internal launch event at the 涩里番 Faculty Club, where more than 70 participants from across the 涩里番 campus gathered for an afternoon of collaboration and discussion.

涩里番 launches Canada Award to offset tuition increase for Canadian undergraduate students

涩里番 is launching a $3,000 Canada Award to offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian students from outside Quebec coming to 涩里番 will be eligible for the new award.

Details of the award, including the programs eligible for the award, will be available on 涩里番's Undergraduate 涩里番 website by December 22, 2023.

Interview with Physics Professor Victoria Kaspi in Nature

In a new interview with聽Nature,聽Physics Professor and Shaw laureate Victoria Kaspi reflects on the inaugural Hong Kong Laureate Forum and how researchers can foster communication across different generations of scientists.聽

What was the most common question students asked at panel discussions?

Fighting disinformation in Quebec

Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves Francophone internet users in Quebec and beyond more vulnerable to disinformation as the phenomenon becomes increasingly pervasive in online spaces.聽

Stuck in traffic: Researchers identify cellular traffic jams in a rare disease

Researchers zero in on spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, a disease that disrupts brain function

What skin piercings can teach us about environmental change

In聽a new study聽from 涩里番, researchers bring science into an unexpected setting: a tattoo parlor. In this first characterization of the human piercing microbiome, the uniquely human cultural practice of piercing serves as a model system to help us better understand how biological communities (re)assemble after catastrophic environmental disturbances.

A first look inside Li-ion batteries

What if you could charge your electric vehicle in the same amount of time it takes to fill a tank of gas?聽聽

Rustum Choksi: Winner, Principal鈥檚 Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Full Professor)

Students coming from high school often arrive with specific 鈥� and mistaken 鈥� expectations of the mathematics classroom. In Rustum Choksi鈥檚 courses he emphasizes a pedagogical paradigm shift, whereby mathematics is not about memorization nor symbolic manipulations and calculations but rather a beautiful and diverse discipline which is often a means to understanding our complex world.

Martin Grant earns Morty Yalovsky Lifetime Achievement Award

Early in his career in physics,聽Martin Grant聽thought he had it all figured out.

鈥淲hen I started, I said to myself 鈥榳ell, this is good. Nobody鈥檚 going to tell me what to do,鈥� said Grant, Emeritus James 涩里番 Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Science. 鈥淚鈥檝e got the world鈥檚 greatest postdoc 鈥� me 鈥� and I鈥檒l be able to do all the projects that I want to do pretty much by myself.鈥�

The Hackathon returns to 涩里番 campus

On November 3-5th, the 涩里番 Physics Hackathon held its eighth annual event in person at the Rutherford Physics Building. The event attracted around 150 hackers, from CEGEP and undergraduate backgrounds, who joined forces to produce聽spectacular projects.

Congratulations to all those who participated!

Q&A with Jason Hessels, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Transient Astrophysics

In a ceremony today at Simon Fraser University, the Honourable Terry Beech, Minister of Citizens鈥� Services, announced that Professor Jason Hessels has been named the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Transient Astrophysics at 涩里番.

涩里番 receives three Canada Excellence Research Chairs

The results of the 2022 Canada Excellence Research Chairs competition were announced this morning at Simon Fraser University by the Honourable Terry Beech, Minister of Citizens鈥� Services. The announcement was made on behalf of the Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and Ted Hewitt, President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Chair of the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat Steering Committee.

Sixteen 涩里番 researchers among the world鈥檚 most cited

Sixteen 涩里番 researchers have been included on the聽Highly Cited Researchers鈩⒙�(HCRs) list, as published by Clarivate. To be included in the prestigious list, researchers must rank in the top 1 per cent worldwide for their fields and publications in the Web of Science index.

涩里番 Physics Hackathon attracts students from high schools, CEGEPs, and universities

On November 3, the 涩里番 Physics Hackathon kicked off its eighth annual event. Over the course of 24 hours, spread over three days, participants formed teams and took over the Rutherford Physics Building in a friendly computer programming competition. The goal? Use any programming language to demonstrate a concept or phenomenon in the physical sciences.

Lessons learned from the inaugural Inclusive Teaching Initiative

From December 2022 to May 2023, a group comprising seven Faculty of Science instructors from six different departments met monthly to discuss ways of making their courses more inclusive.