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Research | Viral DNA sequences in the human genome may help control gene activity, new study shows

admin — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:40:53 +0000

Long dismissed as “junk,” viral fragments buried in human DNA may help regulate our genes, according to a new international study co-led by Guillaume Bourque, professor in ��ϲ��’s Department of Human Genetics, D2R-funded researcher and member of the D2R Research Steering Committee and Executive (RSC). The findings offer new insights into what makes us human, 25 years after the human genome was first mapped.

Congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning the ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award!

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:37:49 +0000

We want to extend our congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning this year's ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award! This is a major achievement!

Some statistics about this year's ICRA submissions: 4153 papers reviewed; 1606 papers accepted; acceptance rate of 38.7%.

��ϲ��’s Max Bell School and the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies Join the Global Alliance for Peace Operations (GAPO)

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:49:23 +0000

We are excited to announce that the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and the Max Bell School of Public Policy (��ϲ�� University) have joined the Global Alliance for Peace Operations – a collective endeavour of more than 50 leading think tanks, research institutes and civil society organizations working on UN and regional approaches to peace operations (www.peaceoperations.net).

MPP '25 Husein Pumaya Yakubu Wins Two Prestigious Awards for Social Enterprise SheaMe

admin — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:18:59 +0000

We are proud to celebrate MPP '25 Husein Pumaya Yakubu, whose social enterprise SheaMe placed second in both the Mastercard Foundation Dobson Start-up Awards and the Dobson Bootcamp and Cup Competition, 2025 — two of the most competitive entrepreneurship programs hosted by the ��ϲ�� Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship and supported by the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at ��ϲ�� University.

FRQSC grant awarded to Prof. Isabel Pike

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:21:14 +0000

The FRQSC has awarded Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor in ��ϲ��’s Department of Sociology , a research grant through their Research Support for New Academics competition.

The grant spans three years and will go towards Pike’s project “The Demographic Dividend and the Re-Economization of Population.”

SSHRC Insight Development Grant awarded to Prof. Wang

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:09:06 +0000

Prof. Skyler Wang has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research on the growing integration of AI into dating apps.

Congratulations to Christopher Dietzel (Concordia), Stefanie Duguay (Concordia), David Myles (INRS) and Prof. Wang on receiving funding for this project.

Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang receives Arts Insight Dissertation Award

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:10:20 +0000

Former Sociology graduate student Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang, who defended in 2024, has been awarded the Arts Insight Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Family among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Post-Marriage Equality Canada.” The award was officially conferred at the Arts Faculty Council Meeting on May 20.

In a large faculty like Arts this is a major accomplishment and speaks to the rigorous and high-quality work of our students.

Congratulations to Winnie!

Visiting Justice in Sociology of Law

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:30:30 +0000

SOCI 395: Sociology of Law was honoured to welcome Supreme Court Justice Andromache Karakatsanis as a guest lecturer this past Winter 2025 semester.

Justice Karakatsanis shared reflections on her career trajectory and spoke to the relationship between law and society.

New date! Winter speaker series - Ellen Berrey (University of Toronto) and Alex Hanna (Distributed AI Research Institute)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:03:23 +0000

Ellen Berrey (University of Toronto), with Alex Hanna

"In rural America, more women are saying ‘I don’t’" - Prof. Shelley Clark in the Washington Post

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:30:04 +0000

Prof. Shelley Clark has co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post on the sharp decline in traditional married families in rural America.

Read the article here: In rural America, more women are saying ‘I don’t’

Prof. Barry Eidlin authors opinion piece on the Amazon Quebec closures

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:29:46 +0000

Prof. Barry Eidlin has written an opinion piece for The Globe and Mail in response to Amazon's decision to close its Quebec operations.

Read the article here: Why the union hate, Amazon? What's really behind the closing of Quebec Operations.

Winter speaker series - Galen Watts (University of Waterloo)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:04:55 +0000

Galen Watts (University of Waterloo)

“From Outer to Inner: Moral Selfhood, Therapy Culture, and Conspicuous Reflexivity”.

Winter speaker series - Manuel Vallee (University of Auckland)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:01:40 +0000

Manuel Vallee (University of Auckland)

Congratulations to Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée who was awarded the 2021 Fieldhouse Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts.

ximena.ramirezvillanueva@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée was awarded the 2021 Fieldhouse Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts that recognizes excellence in teaching and mentoring students. Over the nearly sixteen years of her career at ��ϲ��, Professor Quesnel-Vallée has demonstrated all the hallmarks of distinguished teaching; she is a superb communicator, striving to adopt new methods to encourage active learning and inspiring students to both trust in and challenge themselves and to cherish and cultivate curiosity.

Professor Barry Eidlin writes in the Washington Post about the undemocratic nature of union representation elections in the United States.

ximena.ramirezvillanueva@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:17:45 +0000

Labour unions in the United States have suffered a series of high-profile defeats in union representation elections in recent years, most recently at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama. While some might think this indicates that workers are not interested in unionizing, available polling data suggests that far more workers want unions than currently have them. The problem, as Assistant Professor Barry Eidlin argues in the Washington Post, is the profoundly broken and undemocratic union election system that currently exists.