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Part of Canada’s innovation solution
A recent national report raised concerns about Canada’s wobbly performance in innovation, while praising the higher education sector as a “rare bright spot.” Vice-President (Research and Innovation) Dominique Bérubé shares her thoughts on the report – and on what McGill is doing to nurture innovation.
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A journey into the past – through menus
Food historian Nathalie Cooke sees menus as more than simply guides for ordering burgers or burritos. They offer invaluable clues about the dining cultures of past eras. She explores a wide range of menus from different time periods in her new book Tastes and Traditions: A Journey through Menu History.
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AI for good: Using the power of machine learning for climate action
David Rolnick is quick to point out that AI isn’t a panacea for solving the climate crisis. But the research he leads at McGill’s School of Computer Science provides a fascinating window into efforts to use AI to help mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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An ecosystem for AI collaboration
Artificial intelligence is transforming the world in ways that are both exciting and troubling. The McGill Collaborative for AI and Society wants to ensure that AI is used in a positive way – and the best way to do that is to bring together experts with different sets of skills.
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A Nobel laureate on the possibility of life on other planets
In his recent book Is Earth Exceptional?, Jack Szostak, BSc’72, DSc’11, the director of the University of Chicago’s Center for the Origins of Life, examines the latest research on how life started – and whether it could exist anywhere else in the universe.
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Searching for the ‘explosive stuff of the universe’
McGill astrophysicist Daryl Haggard was part of the international team of scientists who produced the first-ever image of a black hole. Now she is a key player in a $1 billion NASA competition to explore the origins of supermassive black holes.
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Exploring queer and feminist food culture
In her research on feminist restaurants and queer cuisine, Alex Ketchum, MA’13, PhD’18, an assistant professor at McGill’s Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, examines underexplored areas of culinary history and food culture.
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McGill’s living laboratories
McGill professors and students have access to a unique network of field research stations. These stations, which include the Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados and the Gault Nature Reserve at Mont-Sainte-Hilaire, offer researchers the opportunity to explore the natural world up close.
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Exploring the roots of the war in Ukraine
After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Maria Popova became one of the media’s most popular go-to experts for providing context for the conflict. The McGill associate professor of political science has a new book out that examines the factors that led to the war.
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Sharing the stories of those left behind
In his new book Gone Gone, McGill professor Todd Meyers goes beyond the headlines about the opioid crisis to movingly convey the grief felt by those who have lost loved ones to overdose deaths.
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Taking stock of the state of English in Canada
Do English-speaking Canadians still say “chesterfield”? Are we more likely to opt for “Zee” or Zed”? These are some of the questions that McGill associate professor of linguistics Charles Boberg hopes to answer with a national survey that is looking at how English is being spoken in different parts of the country.
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Exploring racism, oppression – and grit
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey is an associate professor of history at McGill and a two-time teaching award winner. His career path has seen him go from working in youth gang prevention to exploring post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history as an academic.