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A person's posture appears to affect their emotions and decision-making ability more than they realize, according to new research from McGill University. Learn more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/52Z
Wetland restoration is often promoted as a definitive way to support wildlife, improve water quality and help store carbon. However, new research from McGill University suggests the overall climate picture is more complicated. Learn more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5Bp
Researchers from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)/Fast Radio Bursts Collaboration, including McGill University and MIT, have developed a new method to seek out “missing” matter by combining galaxy locations with fast radio burst detections. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5Xi
A Medicine Wheel garden inspired by Indigenous teachings is now growing on McGill’s downtown campus, south of Burnside Hall. The idea for the garden came from Robin Boulet, a Bachelor of Arts and Science student. Full story on the McGill Reporter ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5X3
A rock featuring a white calcite vein in a rare ‘petal’ formation has been extracted from the construction site of the future McGill Sustainability Park. McGill’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is now studying it as part of research about the Island of Montreal. More ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/58z
A new McGill-led study shows how a single marine monitoring network can capture underwater earthquakes, whale calls, ship noise, and tidal activity in the Lower St. Lawrence. The system could help improve environmental protections and inform future shipping regulations. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/587
🎉 Congratulations to Andrew Gonzalez (@biomcgill.bsky.social), who is one of three recipients of the NOMIS Foundation’s 2026 Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award! Discover the project ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/574
A biocontainment facility designed to protect Earth from potentially hazardous biotic contaminants from space should be part of a planned NASA base on the moon, a policy paper maintains. Read the full article ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5hX 📷by Getty Images/NASA
People who have a weaker sense of self are also more likely to have less bodily awareness, McGill researchers have found. The study supports the idea that people’s perceptions of themselves and how they experience their own bodies are deeply connected. Learn more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5nh
Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating the tracking of genetic change and extinction risk in plants, a McGill University-led study indicates. Learn more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5eB
We are pleased to announce the appointment of four department chairs, who began their terms on June 1. Find out who they are ➡️ www.mcgill.ca/science/chan...
Congratulations to Adrian Liu (Physics), who received the 2026 Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision! Learn more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5eo
🎉 Congratulations to Jasmin Chahal (Microbiology and Immunology) for winning the 2026 Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching! Presented annually, the award celebrates a faculty member for superior teaching at the undergraduate level within the Faculty of Science. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5sy
🎉 Congratulations to Mette Bendixen (Geography) and Kai Wang (Physics) who were awarded the 2026 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at convocation ceremonies held on May 28 and May 29! Read more: mcgill.ca/x/5su
Learning to speak a new language, or regaining speech, depends more on areas of the brain that process sound and physical sensation than on the parts of the brain that govern motor control, according to a new study by researchers at McGill University and the Yale School of Medicine. mcgill.ca/x/5sX
Congratulations to six professors from the Faculty of Science who have been recognized by Angela Campbell, Provost and Vice-President (Academic), for their exceptional research achievements! 🎉
Congratulations to Brigitte Vachon, James McGill Professor in the Department of Physics, newly appointed Canada Research Chair in Experimental Subatomic Physics, who is tackling two of the biggest unanswered questions in modern physics: the nature of the Higgs boson and the identity of dark matter.
Congratulations to Amanda Cook, a Banting postdoctoral fellow and member of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration, for winning the President’s Prize for Public Engagement Through Media, under the Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows category. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5Pb
Researchers at McGill University have developed a novel device that generates sound-like particles known as phonons at extremely cold temperatures. The technology could be used to create phonon lasers, with possible applications in communications and medical diagnostics. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5do
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Professor Alanna Watt, of the Department of Biology, as Dean of the Faculty of Science at McGill University. Her five-year renewable term will begin on May 1. Read the full announcement ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5AH
Researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils discovered about 50 km northeast of Quebec City have identified a new species of basal medusozoan: Paleocanna tentaculum, a soft-bodied, tube-shaped polyp with a ring of tentacles. Closely related to modern jellyfish. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5Ac
🎉 Congratulations to this year’s Fessenden Professorship Award recipients, Matthew Harrington (Chemistry) and Muthucumaru Maheswaran (Computer Science), and to the Tomlinson Science Award winners, Lucas Caire da Silva (Chemistry) and Brigitte Pientka (Computer Science). Learn more: mcgill.ca/x/5Qh
"By mimicking nature, we can develop new greener and more sustainable avenues for making materials with excellent properties," says Prof. Matthew Harrington (Chemistry), lead author on a new study. Continue reading ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5ME
A new international study, co-authored by Audrey Moores (Chemistry), offers insights into the health risks posed by crops’ absorption of “contaminants of emerging concern” (CECs) and flags knowledge gaps that the authors say must be addressed. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5gQ
Congratulations to Victoria Kaspi, Jason Hessels (Physics) and Vincent van Hinsberg (Earth and Planetary Sciences) who are leading projects funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Innovation Fund! Discover all the McGill affiliated research projects receiving funding ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5xX
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A new McGill study has found a direct link between age‑related declines in neuron activity in the cerebellum and worsening motor skills, including gait, balance and agility. Read more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5cx
Congratulations to Professors Siva Reddy (Computer Science and Linguistics) and Katelin Schutz (Physics), who have been named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows! Read the full story ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5q4