/newsroom/taxonomy/term/9457/all en /newsroom/faculty-and-staff/share-your-news <p>Effective communication can inform and inspire action. Sharing the stories and research coming out of UUֱ�� is a critical part of the university’s success. If you have an upcoming media opportunity, research publication, op-ed idea, or event you would like to promote, the <a href="/newsroom/contacts">Institutional Communications</a> team has resources available to guide you along the way. We make decisions about which channels are best suited to share your news based on <a href="/newsroom/faculty-and-staff/mcgill-community">several factors</a>.</p> Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:08:05 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 269866 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/being-musician-can-help-you-decipher-language-loud-environments-283335 <p>A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that musical training helps people hear speech syllables in loud environments, and has shown how this happens. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers Yi Du and Robert Zatorre monitored brain function as musicians and non-musicians listened to speech fragments and varying background noise levels.</p> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:57:48 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32766 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/climate-warms-mice-morph-283052 <p>New research by UUֱ�� biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years – providing a textbook example of the consequences of climate change for small mammals.</p> <p>The findings also reveal a stark reversal in the proportions of the two mice populations present in the area, adding to evidence that warming temperatures are driving wildlife north.  </p> Fri, 24 Nov 2017 19:20:29 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32700 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/imagining-cities-future-through-better-understanding-montreal-today-282750 <p>Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city’s four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city’s nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?</p> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:45:15 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32678 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mindfulness-training-shows-promise-maintaining-weight-loss-283028 <p>Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?  UUֱ�� researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.</p> <p>Kimberly Carrière, Bärbel Knäuper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.</p> <p>The researchers found that:</p> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:29:28 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32695 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/pregnancy-related-conditions-taken-together-leave-moms-and-dads-risk-282694 <p>Research has already shown that women who develop either diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease years later. Now, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the UUֱ�� Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and UUֱ�� shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women had both diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy. The study, published today in the <em>American Journal of Epidemiology</em>, doesn’t end with the mother’s risks.</p> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:51:30 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32666 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/statistical-tool-reveals-climate-change-impacts-plants-282453 <p>Early flowering, early fruiting: Anecdotal evidence of climate change is popping up as quickly as spring crocuses, but is it coincidence or confirmation that plants’ timing is shifting in response to warming temperatures?</p> Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:08:05 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32639 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-mechanism-detected-alzheimers-disease-276135 <p><em>By Chris Chipello</em></p> <p>UUֱ�� researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that may contribute to the breakdown of communication between neurons in Alzheimer’s disease.</p> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:02:42 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32382 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/predicting-when-sound-will-occur-relies-brains-motor-system-272966 <p><em>By Shawn Hayward</em></p> <p>Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually sharpen sound perception, and this effect is increased when we move in rhythm with the sound.</p> Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:02:36 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32365 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ri-muhc-scientist-takes-hiv-self-testing-global-hivsmarttm-270627 <p><em>By Julie Robert</em></p> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:50:59 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32342 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/child-abuse-affects-brain-wiring-270024 <p><em>By Katherine Gombay</em></p> Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:11:42 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32232 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mitochondria-drive-cell-survival-times-need-270509 <p><em>By Cynthia Lee</em></p> <p>UUֱ�� researchers have discovered a mechanism through which mitochondria, the energy factory of our body’s cells, play a role in preventing cells from dying when the cells are deprived of nutrients – a finding that points to a potential target for next-generation cancer drugs.</p> <p>The research, published in <em>Molecular Cell</em>, builds on previous work by UUֱ�� professor Nahum Sonenberg, one of the senior authors of the new study.</p> Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:09:24 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32316 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-understanding-how-muscles-work-269759 <p>Muscle malfunctions may be as simple as a slight strain after exercise or as serious as heart failure and muscular dystrophy. A new technique developed at UUֱ�� now makes it possible to look much more closely at how sarcomeres, the basic building blocks within all skeletal and cardiac muscles, work together. It’s a discovery that should advance research into a wide range of muscle malfunctions.</p> <p><strong>Talk about finicky work</strong></p> Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:24:05 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32196 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/searching-signature-causes-brcaness-breast-cancer-269723 <p><em>By Tom Ulrich from the <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/news/searching-signature-causes-brcaness-breast-cancer">Broad Institute</a></em></p> Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:18:47 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32190 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/cfi-invests-42-million-boost-23-mcgill-research-projects-cutting-edge-labs-and-equipment-269503 <p>At Laurentian University today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced a total investment of $52 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) <a href="http://www.innovation.ca/en/OurFunds/CFIFunds/JohnREvansLeadersFund">John R. Evans Leaders Fund</a> for 220 new infrastructure projects nationally. Among the 51 universities across the country with funded projects, UUֱ�� leads the pack with an impressive number—23 projects totaling $4.2 million—in this latest round of the funding competition.</p> Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:18:11 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32168 at /newsroom