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KPE PhD Candidate Cyrille Mvomo Honored with IEEE-EMBS BHI 2025 Best Paper Award and NSF-EMBS-Google NextGen Scholar Recognition

Cyrille Mvomo achieved an outstanding double recognition at the IEEE-EMBS Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) Conference held October 26-29 in Atlanta, GA, USA.  BHI is one of the world’s leading venues in digital health research.

Best Paper Award (Third Place) — for his paper “Monitoring Parkinson’s Disease In-the-Wild”.

Published: 6 Jan 2026

Toddler Screen Time is on the Rise

Nearly 43 per cent of two-and-a-half-year-olds are getting at least one hour of screen time a day, according to a recent report linked to the Growing Up in Quebec study. That number increases to 65 per cent on weekends.

Published: 11 Dec 2025

91˿Ƶ researchers develop a cheaper, safer material for use in solar panels, sensors and optical devices

Using proteins from a common tobacco plant virus, 91˿Ƶ chemistry researchers have developed a simple, eco-friendly way to arrange gold nanoparticles into ultrathin sheets, strengthening the particles’ optical properties. The result: cheaper, safer materials for solar panels, sensors and advanced optical devices. 

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Published: 8 Dec 2025

Congratulations to Siobhan Henderson for Successfully Defending Her Dissertation

Siobhan Henderson successfully defended her PhD Oral Defence in Currie 304 on December 4th, 2025.

The title of her thesis: "Understanding and Exploring Coaches’ Perspectives of Mental Health in Competitive Sport in Canada"

Oral Defence Comittee: Dr. Gordon Bloom (Supervisor), Dr. Shane Sweet, Dr. Bruno da Costa, Dr. Lindsay Duncan, Dr. Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, Dr. Krista Chandler

Published: 5 Dec 2025

Professor Audrey Moores (Chemistry) awarded the Canadian Pacific Chair in Biotechnology

Congratulations to Professor Audrey Moores (Chemistry), who has been awarded the Canadian Pacific Chair in Biotechnology!

The Canadian Pacific Chair in Biotechnology is an endowed chair created in 1984 to promote research in the field of biotechnology. The chair is awarded for a five-year term and rotates among 91˿Ƶ's Faculties of Medicine, Science and Agriculture.

Published: 4 Dec 2025

Exoplanet is observed shedding its atmosphere in real time

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team led by 91˿Ƶ researcher Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy has observed a giant cloud of helium gas evaporating from a distant giant exoplanet called WASP-107b.

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Published: 1 Dec 2025

Career Opportunity: Assistant or Associate Professor & Director of Teacher Education

The Department of Integrated Studies in Education invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor & Director of Teacher Education (JR0000071849). The successful candidate will demonstrate research and teaching experience directly related to K-Higher Education in the Québec educational context and will work to build a renewed vision for teacher education at 91˿Ƶ.

Published: 28 Nov 2025

24 91˿Ƶ researchers identified in Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List

Twenty-four 91˿Ƶ 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 91˿Ƶ scholars on the list grew from 14 in 2024 to 24 in 2025.

Published: 28 Nov 2025

91˿Ƶ’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 91˿Ƶ’s Bachelor of Arts and Science (B.A.

Published: 25 Nov 2025

Redpath Museum and Physics Outreach bring science to life at 91˿Ƶ'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, 91˿Ƶ’s Bellairs Research Institute hosted a day-long Science Adventure for local schoolchildren featuring a visit from 91˿Ƶ’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 91˿Ƶ.

Published: 21 Nov 2025

Bringing environmental policymakers together to focus on the future sparks empathy for nature and later generations, 91˿Ƶ 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 91˿Ƶ undergrad’s summer research project became a paper in a prestigious journal

When then-91˿Ƶ 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 91˿Ƶ from a small town on Vancouver Island.

Published: 17 Nov 2025

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