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Architecture professor Georgia Cardosi and Zy St-Pierre Bourdelais, one of her students, witnessed the devastation caused by the June 11 fire in the Kibera slum, Kenya, including the Toi Market, a source of livelihood for the majority of families, which was reduced to ashes.

Society

Bringing hope to a Kenyan community devastated by fire

12 September 2023

Article

Laurence Deschamps Laporte

Community

UdeM professor among Canada's top foreign-policy influencers

24 March 2023

Brief

Society

India’s skewed sex ratio

7 March 2023

Article

Gabrielle Joni Verreault sur un site de combat récemment abandonné dans l'oblast de Kherson.

Society

Civilian warfare: a bioethicist's view from Ukraine

20 February 2023

Article

Society

Earthquakes in Turkey: a predictable and deplorable tragedy

16 February 2023

Article

Community

UdeM International: helping students and staff get around, here and abroad

26 January 2023

Article

Participants in a 2009 training session in Congo supported by the Montreal-based Hygeia Observatory.

Health

Supporting the fight against sexual violence in Africa

9 December 2022

Press release

(L-to-R): Charles Giraud, Islene Lazo, Karina Dubois-Nguyen, Valérie Amiraux, Dr Denis Mukwege, Marie Hatem, Philippe Tremblay, Julia Tétrault-Provencher.

Health

The TUMAINI project is launched

9 December 2022

Press release

New observations of WASP-39b with the JWST have provided a clearer picture of the exoplanet, showing the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. This artist's illustration also displays newly detected patches of clouds scattered across the planet.

Science

An exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

22 November 2022

Press release

A dozen certified student divers took part in a scientific diving expedition to the island of Bonaire.

Science

Diving for the environment

17 November 2022

Article

Society

Where does the public stand on geopolitical issues?

2 November 2022

Article

UdeM rector Daniel Jutras, U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken, Canada's minister of foreign affairs Mélanie Joly, and CÉRIUM scientific director Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, are flanked by more than a dozen students outside Montreal's Biodome, where the two politicians gave a talk today.

Society

A front-row seat to a high-level talk on foreign affairs

28 October 2022

Press release

Valérie Amiraux

Community

Community partnerships: UdeM is open to the community and part of the community

24 October 2022

Article

Science

COP 15 on biodiversity: meet our experts

21 October 2022

Press release

Arno Krug (Maple Bear), Pascale Lefrançois (Vice-rector of student and academic affairs), Chantal Pharand (Assistant Vice-rector, student and academic affairs) and Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens (Vice-rector of Strategic planning and communications).

Community

Teaching in French, the Canadian way

12 September 2022

Press release

Duncan Haldane

Science

A Nobel in physics visits UdeM

25 August 2022

Press release

Science

SDGs: a new tool to support evidence-based decision-making

15 March 2022

Article

Society

War in Ukraine: our experts

24 February 2022

Press release

Health

Preparing for pandemics: the “One Health” approach

29 November 2021

Article

The James Webb Space Telescope will become the most important observatory for thousands of astronomers around the world.

Science

James Webb Space Telescope: our experts speak out

24 November 2021

Article

Health

Unvaccinated: the kids aren’t alright

16 November 2021

Press release

Binning and Shaw out in the field together.

Science

Migrating between two UMs

6 October 2021

Article

Christine Trudel

Health

From Montreal to Madagascar: Helping to change lives with the World Food Programme

20 September 2021

Article

Willows are naturally tolerant of contamination and their roots filter out nitrogen from wastewater, tripling the biomass produced, which can then be harvested to make renewable biofuels.

Science

A ‘bio-refinery’: using the chemistry of willow trees to treat Canada’s city wastewater

21 June 2021

Press release

Science

Roger David Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry, to speak May 20

12 May 2021

Article

Community

UdeM named 39th in the world in the Times Higher Education 'Impact' ranking

23 April 2021

Article

Funded by Canada’s National Sciences and Engineering Coucil, the survey was completed using open-source software in January and February 2020 by 140 Canadian faculty members.

Science

Sharing open data: sometimes costly but mostly good

20 April 2021

Article

Community

Mark Carney at UdeM: “Hope is not a strategy”

26 February 2021

Article

Artistic rendition of the exoplanet WASP-107b and its star, WASP-107. Some of the star's light streams through the exoplanet's extended gas layer.

Science

A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other

18 January 2021

Press release

Dr Fred Saad discusses the most recent data from that study and some others recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Health

Prostate cancer: treating it early for a better, longer life

9 November 2020

Article

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