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Congratulations to Rachelle Aucoin for Successfully Defending Her Dissertation

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:14:19 +0000

Rachelle Aucoin successfully defended her PhD Oral Defence in Currie Room 304 - Tassone on July 14, 2025.

The title of her thesis:
"Cool Air, Clear Relief: Exploring the Mechanisms and Utility of Fan-to-Face Therapy for Management of Exertional Breathlessness in Chronic Lung Disease "

Oral Defence Comittee:
Dr. Dennis Jensen (Supervisor), Dr. Jenna Gibbs, Dr. Dina Brooks, Dr. Celena Scheede-Bergdahl and Dr. Daniel Fortin-Guichard.

Common hereditary cancer mutation in Quebec traced to single ancestor

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:17:28 +0000

Researchers have shed new light on the most common genetic variant linked to hereditary cancer in Quebec’s French-Canadian population. Their findings could result in cheaper and more effective screening methods.

The variant is associated with Lynch syndrome, a condition that greatly increases the risk of colorectal and other cancers.

Bridging worlds as the ice recedes

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:55:31 +0000

�鶹ɫ��Ƭ PhD candidate Alexandra Langwieder works with James Bay Indigenous communities to better understand polar bears

Local goods shop is filling the grocery gap in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue—comments from Prof. Daiva Nielsen

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:35:43 +0000

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., residents have a new spot to do their groceries. After the suburb's only grocery store closed for the second time, B Factory, a locally owned beeswax products shop that had been on the verge of bankruptcy, expanded its space to include a small grocery section called Mon Marché Local.

�鶹ɫ��Ƭ Joins Ghanaian Partners to Empower Youth and Transform Agrifood Systems

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:18:38 +0000

As part of the Nkabom Collaborative supported by the Mastercard Foundation, �鶹ɫ��Ƭ has joined forces with Ghanaian institutions in a bold initiative to foster youth leadership and transform the agrifood ecosystem in Ghana and beyond.

What are those fluffy seeds floating in the air? David Wees explains

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:12:25 +0000

If you've been noticing white fluff floating around Montreal lately, you're not the only one. Those are seeds from the Eastern Cottonwood tree and it's the season that they're spreading through the air.

CBC News spoke to David Wees, Faculty Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program at �鶹ɫ��Ƭ, to find out more.

Recent �鶹ɫ��Ƭ Graduate Victoria Anson Appointed to Two Prestigious Boards

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:41:36 +0000

Only a few weeks after graduation, Victoria Anson (Materials Engineering, Class of 2025) has been appointed to two international boards: the Copper Club Board of Directors and the ASM International Board of Trustees. Her dual appointments highlight her involvement in the mining and metals, metallurgical, and materials industries.

Information Session: Postdoctoral Scholar Awards

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:09:13 +0000

Are you a Postdoctoral student interested in applying for a D2R Postdoctoral Award?

Call for proposals: Postoctoral Scholar Awards

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:08:57 +0000

D2R launches a call for applications for the Postdoctoral Scholar Awards funding program.

A foundational goal of D2R is to help cultivate the next generation of researchers. Being a D2R Scholar is the highest recognition available to D2R trainees and the awards recognize outstanding and active trainees performing research across all of D2R’s Foundational Axes.

The Postdoctoral Scholar Awards both financially support and leading-edge interdisciplinary and intersectoral training through the D2R Training Program.

Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli/PhD3 and Tara Shomali/PhD4 in Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe's lab, who have been awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:23:03 +0000

Sabrina Romanelli (PhD3) and Tara Shomali (PhD 4) were awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship ("Bourses de doctorat en recherche - volet régulier”). Both are supplemented by a contribution from Parkinson Quebec in partnership with the FRQ.

Congratulations to Danielle Simons-PhD2 in Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe's lab, who has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from CRBS

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:22:01 +0000

Danielle Simons (PhD2) has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale (CRBS). This fellowship was established in 2021 in remembrance of former CRBS student Max Eivaskhani and is awarded to the top ranked application among the submissions for the CRBS Scholarship competition.

Jennifer Raso wins CALT Scholarly Paper award

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:26:45 +0000

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Jennifer Raso has received the Scholarly Paper Award of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT). She was honoured for her article “Data Entry and Decision Chains: Distributed Responsibility and Bureaucratic Disempowerment in the UK’s Universal Credit Programme”, co-authored with Victoria Adelmant.

Simple texting platform helps farmers adopt greener methods, �鶹ɫ��Ƭ-led study finds

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:58:27 +0000

Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new study co-authored by �鶹ɫ��Ƭ Professor Aurélie Harou found.

Polygenic Risk Scores

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:27:22 +0000

Proteogenomics

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:27:21 +0000