Alumni

Sonja Solomun Named a 2025 Bishop’s University Top 10 After 10 Award Recipient

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:04:42 +0000

The Max Bell School of Public Policy is proud to celebrate Sonja Solomun, Faculty Associate at the Max Bell School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at ��Ǿ�Ʒ��, has been selected as one of Bishop’s University’s 2025 Top 10 After 10 Award recipients, one of the university’s highest honours recognizing outstanding alumni achievement.

NRS Graduate Seminars - 4

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:43:00 +0000

Learn about the exciting research our graduate students are working on in this seminar series.

Session 1

Location: R3-048 (Raymond Building)

NRS Graduate Seminars - 5

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:45:20 +0000

Get to know the exciting research our graduate students are working on in this seminar series. Talks will be divided into 3 sections (see below). Everyone is welcome to attend.

NRS Graduate Seminars - 6

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:47:43 +0000

Get to know the exciting research our graduate students are working on in this seminar series. Talks will be divided into sections (see below). Everyone is welcome to attend.

NRS Graduate Seminars - 3

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:40:14 +0000

Learn about the exciting research our graduate students are working on in this seminar series. Talks are dividing into 2 sections (see below). Everyone is welcome.

Event | Seminar: Computer-based Predictions of RNA Structures: Where do we stand?

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:11:03 +0000

Join D2R for this hybrid seminar with Professor Eric Westhof from University of Strasbourg

Congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning the ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award!

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:37:49 +0000

We want to extend our congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning this year's ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award! This is a major achievement!

Some statistics about this year's ICRA submissions: 4153 papers reviewed; 1606 papers accepted; acceptance rate of 38.7%.

Claire Brown: appointed inaugural Chair for Inclusion in Science and Engineering

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:52:54 +0000

more info here:

https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-DetailNouvelles_eng.asp?ID=1546

/research/article/special-features/professor-claire-brown-appointed-innaugural-chair-CISE

Congratulations to Dr. Claire M. Brown named to Ordre de l’excellence en éducation

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:16:13 +0000

Professors J. Donald Boudreau and Claire M. Brown named to Ordre de l’excellence en éducation. The prize, awarded to 24 new honourees at the National Assembly, is Quebec’s highest distinction for educators. more info here

Research | Viral DNA sequences in the human genome may help control gene activity, new study shows

admin — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:40:53 +0000

Long dismissed as “junk,” viral fragments buried in human DNA may help regulate our genes, according to a new international study co-led by Guillaume Bourque, professor in ��Ǿ�Ʒ��’s Department of Human Genetics, D2R-funded researcher and member of the D2R Research Steering Committee and Executive (RSC). The findings offer new insights into what makes us human, 25 years after the human genome was first mapped.

Don’t Panic: Population Projection is not a Crystal Ball

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:47:03 +0000

In response to the growing alarmism around the so-called "demographic cliff," Clark and colleagues explain population projections and why most demographers are not panicking.

Read the article here: Don’t Panic: Population Projection is not a Crystal Ball

Orsola Torrisi awarded Anne Shepherd Prize from British Society for Population Studies

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:59:33 +0000

Congratulations to Orsola Torrisi, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and member of ��Ǿ�Ʒ��’s Centre for Population Dynamics (CPD), on receiving the Anne Shepherd New Investigator Award from the British Society for Population Studies.

FRQSC grant awarded to Prof. Isabel Pike

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:21:14 +0000

The FRQSC has awarded Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor in ��Ǿ�Ʒ��’s Department of Sociology , a research grant through their Research Support for New Academics competition.

The grant spans three years and will go towards Pike’s project “The Demographic Dividend and the Re-Economization of Population.”

SSHRC Insight Development Grant awarded to Prof. Wang

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:09:06 +0000

Prof. Skyler Wang has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research on the growing integration of AI into dating apps.

Congratulations to Christopher Dietzel (Concordia), Stefanie Duguay (Concordia), David Myles (INRS) and Prof. Wang on receiving funding for this project.

Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang receives Arts Insight Dissertation Award

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:10:20 +0000

Former Sociology graduate student Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang, who defended in 2024, has been awarded the Arts Insight Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Family among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Post-Marriage Equality Canada.” The award was officially conferred at the Arts Faculty Council Meeting on May 20.

In a large faculty like Arts this is a major accomplishment and speaks to the rigorous and high-quality work of our students.

Congratulations to Winnie!