/arts/taxonomy/term/4/all en /arts/channels/event/crcf-research-seminars-373592 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:42:08 +0000 admin 11738 at /arts /arts/channels/event/crcf-research-seminars-373594 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:45:31 +0000 admin 11739 at /arts /arts/channels/news/mcgill-researchers-receive-14-million-sshrc-funding-62-projects-focusing-societal-challenges-373582 <p><strong>Topics include youth agency through video games and entrepreneurship education in India.</strong></p> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:08:07 +0000 admin 11733 at /arts /arts/channels/event/engine-internship-showcase-366947 Interested in knowing what's it like interning for an Engine-supported startup or stimulating entrepreneurial mindset while interning for a Design Team?  Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:32:36 +0000 admin 11707 at /arts /arts/channels/event/techaccel-showcase-366948 Come and meet our TechAccel teams! Student startup teams funded and supported by <strong><a href="/engine/" title="">The 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Engine</a> </strong>will be present to demo their projects and businesses! Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:36:08 +0000 admin 11708 at /arts /arts/channels/news/new-research-prof-rose-bagots-lab-uncovers-how-gabaergic-neurons-encode-experienced-rewards-373521 <p>New work from Dr. Rosemary Bagot's lab: inhibitory "GABAergic" neurons — long treated as supporting players in the brain — turn out to help track the recent history of rewards in two key decision-making regions (shown in mice). The work reshapes which neurons we think are keeping score of our past outcomes.<br />  </p> <p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124726006959">Read the paper in Cell Reports</a></p> <p> </p> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:26:58 +0000 admin 11704 at /arts /arts/channels/news/122-mcgill-research-projects-awarded-30-million-nserc-discovery-grants-funding-373467 <p><strong>Funding supports bold ideas across natural sciences and engineering disciplines at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, in fields ranging from ophthalmology and physics to music research and electrical engineering.</strong><br /> <br /> The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded 122 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ research projects funding from its Discovery Grants competition for a total investment of $30 million.  </p> Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:43:39 +0000 admin 11702 at /arts /arts/channels/event/fifth-edition-llc-graduate-conference-censored-bodies-gender-power-and-politics-humanities-373455 <p>About the conference </p> Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:17:57 +0000 admin 11700 at /arts /arts/channels/event/fifth-edition-llc-graduate-conference-censored-bodies-gender-power-and-politics-humanities-373457 <p><b>About the conference</b></p> Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:26:40 +0000 admin 11701 at /arts /arts/channels/news/professor-sonia-laszlo-awarded-2026-aus-teaching-award-most-outstanding-professor-373314 <p>As announced by the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) at the March 2026 Arts Faculty Council Meeting, Professor Sonia Laszlo has been awarded the 2026 AUS Teaching Award for Most Outstanding Professor. We warmly congratulate Professor Laszlo on this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional dedication to teaching and student engagement.</p> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:04:55 +0000 admin 11690 at /arts /arts/channels/event/stevenson-chair-religion-and-literature-inaugural-lecture-373293 <p>Talk by Dr. Antje Chan, Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature, <em>Religion, Literature and the Shaping of Neighbourliness in Late Medieval England</em>.</p> Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:00:08 +0000 admin 11688 at /arts /arts/channels/news/professor-robert-engle-co-recipient-2003-nobel-prize-economics-was-awarded-honorary-doctorate-373235 <p>Robert F. Engle, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a leading expert in time series analysis and the creator of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH), a method for the statistical modelling of time-varying volatility. His work revolutionized financial econometrics and is widely used in asset pricing and risk management. He is Co-Director of the NYU Stern Volatility Institute and co-founded the Society for Financial Econometrics.</p> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:28:55 +0000 admin 11682 at /arts /arts/channels/news/department-welcomes-assistant-professor-kensuke-sakamoto-373232 <p>The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Kensuke Sakamoto will be joining our faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 2026. Dr. Sakamoto earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026. He is an expert in network econometrics and its applications.</p> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:25:28 +0000 admin 11685 at /arts /arts/channels/news/professor-fabian-lange-delivers-innis-lecture-2026-canadian-economic-association-meeting-373233 <p>The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Fabian Lange delivered the Harold Innis Lecture at the 60th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, held at Simon Fraser University in May 2026. The Innis Lecture, established in 1974 in honour of the great Canadian economist Harold Adams Innis, is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to economics in the broad sense in which Innis construed the subject.</p> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:26:40 +0000 admin 11684 at /arts /arts/channels/news/professor-fernando-saltiel-receives-tenure-373234 <p>The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Fernando Saltiel has been granted tenure. Professor Saltiel joined 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ in 2020 and has established himself as a leading researcher in labour and education economics. His work examines how cognitive and non-cognitive skills affect labour market outcomes, the role of firms in shaping skill development, and the impact of business cycles on labor market outcomes. We congratulate Professor Saltiel on this well-deserved recognition of his contributions to research, teaching, and service.</p> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:27:52 +0000 admin 11683 at /arts