Public health
Once active, always active
A sweeping study spanning a decade shows that playing actively with your toddler, limiting screen time and ensuring adequate sleep from age 2 leave a lasting imprint on how children move through life.
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Excavations of Ucanal Structure K-1, a possible Terminal Classic council house
A building fit for a council, not a king
Archaeology • Apr 9th
An independent sex worker manages her own clientele and retains control over her practices. No third party takes a cut of her earnings.
Marginalized and at risk: independent sex workers speak out
Criminology • Apr 7th
Local Iban partners receiving introductory drone operation training at the Mendaram peat swamp forest in western Brunei, in November 2025.
'The older I get, the more restless I am'
Environment • Mar 31st
A new study shows that bacteria actually strengthen the septum during the final moments of cleavage by a previously undetected mechanism.
Targeting the tiniest divide
Bacteria • Mar 30th
The NaijaVoices project is improving speech recognition in Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba.
AI learns Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba
Artificial intelligence • Mar 27th

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The screening of Chloé Leriche’s docudrama ''Soleils Atikamekw'' was followed by a discussion with Joséphine Bacon.

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The screening of Chloé Leriche’s docudrama ''Soleils Atikamekw'' was followed by a discussion with Joséphine Bacon.

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Scholarships
An UdeM graduate named a Schmidt Science Fellow
As a specialist in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alicia Dubinski has focused her research on the role of stress granules and TDP-43 pathology in the progressive death of motor neurons.
Public health
Tuberculosis is on the rise in Canada
Dr. Simon Grandjean Lapierre’s team is working on the development and validation of new diagnostic tools for tuberculosis. From left to right: public health doctoral student Emmanuelle Ametepe; Simon Grandjean Lapierre; microbiology and infectious diseases residents Lucila Baldassarre and Sophie Lefrançois; Floriane Point, research assistant at the CHUM Research Centre; Hugo Leprohon, resident in microbiology and infectious diseases; and Florence Durocher, physician specializing in microbiology and infectious diseases. Residents Nayla Léveillé (clinical-research program) and Karima Zerrouki (internal medicine) are also part of the laboratory.
Awards and honours
Gilles Brassard, co-founder of quantum cryptography, receives the A.M. Turing Award
Gilles Brassard, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal
Funding
UdeM receives major CFI funding for its research infrastructure
La tour du pavillon Roger-Gaudry de l'Université de Montréal
Appointments
Yoshua Bengio elected co-chair of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
Yoshua Bengio, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal
Honoris causa
UdeM honours Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, co-discoverer of HIV
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, accompanied by Daniel Jutras and Patrick Cossette
Law
'We can't evolve in a world without rules'
Hervé Prince, UdeM international trade law expert
Appointments
Stéphane Dion is UdeM's new 'diplomat in residence'
Stéphane Dion
Computer science
Renowned U.S. cryptographer coming to UdeM