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Students: Participate in the How to Change the World bootcamp

This reading week the Faculty of Science is partnering with How to Change the World to offer 10 undergraduate students a unique experiential learning and professional development opportunity.

Published: 8 Feb 2023

Karine Auclair receives 2023 Clara Benson Award

Karine Auclair, professor in the Department of Chemistry, is the 2023 recipient for the Clara Benson Award from the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC). 

Sponsored by the Canadian Council of University Chemistry Chairs (CCUCC), the Clara Benson Award is presented to recognize a woman who has made a distinguished contribution to chemistry while working in Canada.

Published: 20 Jan 2023

Christian Genest awarded the 2023 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize

Congratulations to Professor Christian Genest on being awarded the 2023 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize! The CRM-Fields-PIMS prize is the premier Canadian award for research achievements in the mathematical sciences.

Published: 19 Jan 2023

91˿Ƶ scholars respond to COP15 Biodiversity Conference

The 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP15) was held in Montreal on December 7-19, 2022. The conference’s outcome agreement, known as “30×30” means the protection of 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030.

Published: 13 Jan 2023

Setting Targets for Wetland Restoration to Mitigate Climate Change Effects on Watershed Hydrology

How much wetland we should protect or restore is not a simple question, such that conservation targets are often set according to political agendas, then standardized globally. However, given their key regulating hydrological functions, wetlands represent nature-based solutions to the anticipated, exacerbating effect of climate change on drought and flood events, which will vary at the regional scale. 

Published: 10 Jan 2023

Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist

According to new research co-authored by 91˿Ƶ's Associate Professor Signy Sheldon (Psychology), older adults’ ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized in cognitive aging.

Published: 10 Jan 2023

SciLearn: Helping first-year science students learn better

Each year, around 1,000 new students begin an undergraduate science degree at 91˿Ƶ. For many of them, their first year at university represents a dramatic change from the world of high school or CEGEP.

“The workload, the amount of new content you get, and a different style of testing” are three of the challenges Marie Walker recalls from her first semester as a science undergrad.

Published: 13 Dec 2022

The three dimensions of a flower

To better understand the evolution of flowers, a research team in biology from Université de Montréal , the Montréal Botanical Garden, and 91˿Ƶ (Daniel Schoen, Biology) have succeeded in using photogrammetry to quickly and precisely build, in three dimensions, a model of a flower from two-dimensional images.

Published: 13 Dec 2022

‘Cities are becoming the fulcrum for how we manage biodiversity’

As Montreal prepares to host UN Biodiversity Conference, 91˿Ƶ professor Andrew Gonzalez discusses how cities can help protect nature and human health.

Published: 6 Dec 2022

Freshwater biodiversity loss has been out of sight, out of mind

A silent mass extinction is occurring in lakes, rivers and wetlands. Freshwater species are rapidly disappearing in North America and throughout the world. Conservation-minded people might be unaware of this, because of the media’s longstanding focus on land-based ecosystems and charismatic animals.

Published: 6 Dec 2022

Pursuing an Arctic research dream

Lizz Webb, a PhD student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences here at 91˿Ƶ, spent a week in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago barely 1,000 kilometres from the North Pole, as part of her studies.

Published: 6 Dec 2022

Join visiting Artist in Residence Jan van Esch for two talks on sustainability

TUESDAY November 22. GHABH - The poison in the gift, Part I: Giving and receiving - considering commercial determinants of health.

Published: 17 Nov 2022

Combining Art with Science

Using real geochemical data from the archaeological site of Itzan, Guatemala, and computer-generated artwork, PhD candidate Benjamin Keenan (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) has produced a video that brings the ancient Mayan civilization to life. Funded by a FRQ DIALOGUE grant (the first for the Faculty of Science), his video has been shown at over 10 exhibitions and conferences, both locally and internationally.

Published: 15 Nov 2022

What's it like to be a Biology student at 91˿Ƶ?

Join five current Biology students as they share their stories of finding their place and pursuing diverse paths within the discipline in this new video: A Glimpse Into Biology at 91˿Ƶ. To learn more about the inspiration for this video, read Video marks launch of Department of Biology outreach campaign.

Published: 14 Oct 2022

Science Outreach is hiring!

We're looking for a Science Outreach Educator to join our team. They will assist the Faculty’s Science Outreach unit in promoting and enhancing the visibility of outreach, provide training opportunities to 91˿Ƶ students and staff using evidence-based best practices and assist with the communications and evaluation components of the Outreach program.

Published: 6 Oct 2022

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