Montreal named world鈥檚 best student city
Montreal has ended Paris鈥檚 five-year stint as the world鈥檚 best student destination, according to global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds.听The fifth edition听of the听QS Best Student Cities听rankin
Big Plans for Big Classes
UU直播 was one of 12 recipients of a mini-grant awarded today by the American Association of Universities (AAU) to support reform in undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education.听
UU直播 steadfast in support for respectful discourse
UU直播 recently became aware of a disturbing communication on social media by a student. The University strongly condemns expressions of hatred or incitement to violence against any individual or group.
Sex, drugs, and rock & roll chemistry in the brain
The same brain-chemical system that mediates feelings of pleasure from sex, recreational drugs, and food is also critical to experiencing musical pleasure, according to a study by UU直播 researchers published today in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
Response to U.S. Executive Order restricting travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven countries
UU直播 is responding to U.S. President Donald Trump鈥檚 Executive Order restricting travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Christopher Manfredi said Tuesday, Feb. 7.
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Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰 awarded NSERC鈥檚 Steacie Memorial Fellowship
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada has awarded an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship to Prof. Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰, to support his work in an innovative branch of chemistry that aims to develop environmentally friendly alternatives to solvent-based chemical processes. 听
The making of Antarctica
One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.
There are 2 competing theories:
Why the bar needs to be raised for human clinical trials
Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are lax, and should be strengthened in several ways, UU直播 researchers argue in a paper published today in Nature.
Protective wear inspired by fish scales
They started with striped bass. Over a two-year period the researchers went through about 50 bass, puncturing or fracturing hundreds of fish scales under the microscope, to try to understand their properties and mechanics better. 鈥淭he people at the fish market must have wondered what we were up to,鈥� says听Fran莽ois Barthelat听smiling ruefully.鈥� He teaches in the Dept.
Bell Let鈥檚 Talk support for the Neuro will enhance mental health access for multicultural communities
Bell Let鈥檚 Talk today announced a donation of $250,000 to UU直播鈥檚 Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital 鈥� known as The Neuro 鈥� to fund the development of online mental health resources focused on the needs of multicultural communities.
A boost for artificial-intelligence research in Montreal
To help spur artificial-intelligence research in Montreal, Microsoft will provide a gift of $1 million to UU直播.
A surprise advance in the treatment of adult cancers
A team of researchers at the Research Institute of the UU直播 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has found an epigenetic modification that might be the cause of 15% of adult cancers of the throat linked to alcohol and tobacco use. This is a first in the field of epigenetics and the researchers are hopeful that the discovery can blaze a path in the development of new, targeted, more effective treatments that could arise over the next few years.
Breakthrough in MS treatment
In separate clinical trials, a drug called ocrelizumab has been shown to reduce new attacks in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), and new symptom progression in primary progressive MS.
