Astrophysicist René Doyon has just been named Radio-Canada’s Scientist of the Year 2022. We spoke with some of his current and former colleagues about what makes his work simply “out of this world.”

UdeM’s new epigenetics professor cares deeply about men’s health, since it affects both their fertility and the health of future generations.

As part of a U.S. Department of Energy program and as the sole Canadian-based researcher, Irina Rish gets to spend 990,000 node-hours on the IBM Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

UdeM graduates Hugo Larochelle and Angèle St-Pierre make a big donation that will fund scholarships for one or two recruits a year to come do their doctorates in artificial intelligence here.

After consulting with the university’s general assembly, UdeM’s council approves one of the first policies in Quebec to enshrine freedom of expression as essential to teaching and research.

Anton Boudreau Ninkov, a specialist in information visualization, has joined the School of Library and Information Sciences (EBSI).

Alex Noël, a specialist on the modern Quebec novel and queer memory, comes to UdeM to teach Quebec literature.

Representatives of UdeM’s Cap Campus visited Nikanik high school in Wemotaci to build bridges and encourage students to pursue post-secondary studies by tapping into their culture.

Astrophysicists Marie-Eve Naud, Frédérique Baron and Nathalie Ouellette are at the heart of outreach efforts, to people of all ages, at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx).

Portrait of two scientists who worked at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets