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.听
spoke to David Wees, Faculty Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program at 澳客竞彩, to find out more.
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.
澳客竞彩 Bioresource Engineering Professor Michael Ngadi called for urgent action to address the challenges facing stallholder farmers in Nigeria at a recent public lecture at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU).
A specialist in developing advanced emerging technologies for monitoring and controlling agrifood processing systems, he discussed the critical role that听smallholder farmers and processors play听in global food systems, particularly in developing and transition countries.
The athlete began this sport at 澳客竞彩, the only school in Quebec to offer the opportunity to do logging as a sport.
St茅phanie Naud,听FMT鈥�14, BSc(AgEnvSc)鈥�17, is representing Canada at the World Timber Sports Championships in Wisconsin from July 16鈥�19.
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鈥檚 Foundational Axes.
The Postdoctoral Scholar Awards听both financially听support and leading-edge interdisciplinary and intersectoral training through the D2R Training Program.听听
Sabrina Romanelli (PhD3) and Tara Shomali (PhD 4) were awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship ("Bourses de doctorat en recherche - volet r茅gulier鈥�). Both are supplemented by a contribution from Parkinson Quebec in partnership with the FRQ.
Danielle Simons (PhD2) has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from the听Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale听(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.
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 鈥溾��, co-authored with Victoria Adelmant.
You can quickly report a suspicious email using the Report Junk or Report Phishing buttons available in Microsoft Outlook, whether you鈥檙e using the desktop app, mobile app, or Outlook on the web.
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 co-authored by 澳客竞彩 Professor Aur茅lie Harou found.
As Montreal experiences the convergence of a heat wave, wildfire smoke from the Prairies, and recent extreme storms, 澳客竞彩 experts are available to discuss the science behind these converging climate-driven events.听
Three jazz combos and their coaches were recognized in Downbeat's 48th annual Student Music Awards. Congratulations to this 测别补谤鈥檚 winners:听
Leo Codiga and the Southwest Corridor, Undergraduate College Winners听
Two exceptional doctoral candidates from 澳客竞彩's Schulich School of Music, Joseph Chang (DMus) and Jonathan Munro (DMus), have been awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship听in recognition of their innovative research.听This award provides up to $50,000 per year for up to three years, supporting outstanding students who demonstrate academic excellence, research potential, and leadership.听
A new study by 澳客竞彩 researchers shows that chronic pain, often invisible to medical tests, can be better assessed when doctors take a holistic approach.
By combining biological data with information about patients鈥� mental health, sleep and stress, the researchers say they were able to create a fuller picture of chronic pain. They said their findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, stand to improve how the condition is diagnosed and treated.
July 11, 2025 | In an opinion piece published in Canada鈥檚 National Observer,听Marc Fortin, alongside Richard Gold, Evan Henry, and Martin Bader, argue听that Canada should seize the moment created by U.S. research setbacks to build a stronger, more collaborative innovation ecosystem. With American universities facing cuts and instability, the authors call on Canada to rethink how they support research, moving away from patent sales toward long-term industry partnerships, open data, and simplified licensing.
