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37 results: 2023

Developing a cross-platform app was another major challenge. Guo and Foul wanted to create one that could run on iOS, Android, PC or Mac.

Science

Where's the best place to see the eclipse? There’s an app for that.

27 March 2024

Article

Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette

Community

UdeM astrophysicist named one of Canada's young tech stars

19 March 2024

Brief

This study shows that during the pollen season, trees increase a child’s risk of actually developing asthma, possibly due to prolonged pollen exposure.

Health

Living near leafy trees doesn’t always protect kids from asthma

5 March 2024

Article

While mathematics is a fundamental science, it is similar to sports and the arts in some ways.

Science

70-year-old math problem solved

29 February 2024

Article

Guided by an external magnetic field, miniature biocompatible robots, made of magnetizable iron oxide nanoparticles, can theoretically provide medical treatment in a very targeted manner.

Health

Treating liver cancer with microrobots

14 February 2024

Press release

Professors Isabelle Ribot and Carlos Jacome Hernandez, Mexico's consul-general in Montreal, Alejandro Estivill Castro and Étienne Houle, master's student in anthropology.

Science

The long journey of a child who died over 2,000 years ago

7 February 2024

Article

In their work published earlier this month in Hormones and Behavior, the researchers were able to demonstrate a link between higher exposure to gender-related stigma and a pattern of cortisol variation that was blunted, sluggish and flattened.

Health

How stigma hurts trans health

2 February 2024

Article

The researchers performed lensectomies on 11 fish belonging to three endangered or threatened populations: striped bass (Morone saxatilis) from the St. Lawrence River, spotted wolffish (Anarhichas minor) and Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus).

Science

Endangered fish can live longer after cataract surgery

26 January 2024

Article

The results indicate that de-icing salt does not impair the resilience of the three native plant species or reduce their ability to absorb contaminants.

Science

Bioretention plants not impaired by road salt

22 January 2024

Article

Last September, Ahmed Hamila organized Tunisia’s first international conference on LGBTQI+ issues.

Society

LGBTQI+ rights in Tunisia: repressive laws and free speech

18 January 2024

Article

Frédérique Le Roux, Evelyne de Leeuw et Carlos Silva

Community

Attracting top talent to Montreal

16 November 2023

Press release

While there are risks in working too much while studying, work itself also creates opportunities for development and learning that facilitate the transition to adult life.

Society

Working towards a healthy adult life

9 November 2023

Article

Psychological distress at work affects nearly 4 out of 10 people in Quebec, while burnout affects more than one in five.

Society

Mental health in the workplace: an ongoing challenge

3 November 2023

Article

Marie-Josée Hébert and Nathalie Ouellette

Community

Two of Canada’s top women are at Université de Montréal

30 October 2023

Article

The AI Safety Summit sets out its aims for the two-day conference: to consider the risks of AI and to discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action.

Community

What can make AI safer?

30 October 2023

Article

Hélène Carabin

Community

Hélène Carabin elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine

20 October 2023

Article

Canada has 100,000 fewer entrepreneurs than it did 20 years ago.

Society

Nearly half as many people are launching businesses as 20 years ago

16 October 2023

Press release

Daniel Jutras, rector of Université de Montréal, awards an honorary doctorate to Rafael Payare, music director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Community

Université de Montréal awards honorary doctorate to Rafael Payare

14 September 2023

Press release

Ugo Gilbert Tremblay, assistant professor at the Faculty of Law

Community

How free are we?

7 September 2023

Article

Aerial view taken by drone in June 2019 of the upland tundra site at Trail Valley Creek in Canada's Northwest Territories where automated and manual chamber gas flux measurements are taken. The boardwalk provides access to each chamber site without disturbing the vegetation and affecting gas fluxes within the chambers, the white tent houses the gas analyzer and control system for the automated chamber system, and a micrometeorological station and eddy covariance tower can be seen at the bottom of the photo.

Science

Reevaluating the Arctic's greenhouse gases

31 August 2023

Article

Science

Lake water quality at risk

30 August 2023

Article

People living with rare diseases face colossal challenges, both in terms of care and in the personal and professional spheres.

Health

The obstacle course of people living with a rare disease

7 August 2023

Press release

Participants of the very first Summer School in Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Rights

Society

AI goes to summer school

10 July 2023

Brief

Community

A new UNESCO Chair in Open Science at Université de Montréal

16 May 2023

Article

Christelle Chalono, Director of the Bureau de l'enseignement régional, Daniel Jutras, Rector of the Université de Montréal, Pascale Déry, Minister of Higher Education, Doreen Assaad, Mayor of Brossard, Pascale Lefrançois, Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Studies, and Éric Filteau, Vice-Rector for Finance and Infrastructure

Community

UdeM officially opens Brossard campus

24 March 2023

Press release

Science

Maple syrup season: chemists and mathematicians come to the sugar shack

23 March 2023

Article

Society

India’s skewed sex ratio

7 March 2023

Article

Irina Rish

Community

An UdeM computer-science professor wins a big U.S. prize

21 December 2022

Article

Health

Found: a protective probiotic for ALS

20 December 2022

Press release

Community

UdeM adopts a policy on academic freedom

16 December 2022

Press release

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