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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 ��, 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.

Homecoming: From Harm to Home - Housing as Healing for Women Survivors of Violence

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:33:56 +0000

The �� Women's Alumnae Association kindly invites you to join us for a compelling session with

BBME seminar: “Single Molecule and Single Particle Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis”, Prof. David R. Walt, Harvard University

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:44:57 +0000

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BBME seminar: “Machine Learning models for automated voice disorder assessment using high-speed video endoscopy and acoustic data”, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Döllinger, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:10:40 +0000

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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

��’s Max Bell School and the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies Join the Global Alliance for Peace Operations (GAPO)

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:49:23 +0000

We are excited to announce that the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and the Max Bell School of Public Policy (��) have joined the Global Alliance for Peace Operations – a collective endeavour of more than 50 leading think tanks, research institutes and civil society organizations working on UN and regional approaches to peace operations (www.peaceoperations.net).

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 ��’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.

MPP '25 Husein Pumaya Yakubu Wins Two Prestigious Awards for Social Enterprise SheaMe

admin — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:18:59 +0000

We are proud to celebrate MPP '25 Husein Pumaya Yakubu, whose social enterprise SheaMe placed second in both the Mastercard Foundation Dobson Start-up Awards and the Dobson Bootcamp and Cup Competition, 2025 — two of the most competitive entrepreneurship programs hosted by the �� Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship and supported by the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at ��.

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%.

Hashtags and Homemaking: Exploring Tradwife Identities on TikTok

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:08:21 +0000

Talk by Professor Kaitlynn Mendes of Western University on Tradwife representations on TikTok.

A Right-Wing Populist Turn in the Conservative Party of Canada? Continuities and Ruptures under the Leadership of Pierre Poilievre (2022-2025)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:49:40 +0000

Departmental Speakers Series Talk by Efe Peker, Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa.

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 ��’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 ��’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.