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Faculty of Science Excellence Award winners announced
2022 award winnersThe Faculty of Science Excellence Awards recognize outstanding performance and contributions made by members of the Faculty鈥檚 administrative and support staff classified in four categories: Academic Associate, Clerical, Management, and Technical. The committee, comprised of staff members from each department, received nominations for three of these categories.
Published: 30 May 2022
Gabriel Venne wins Leo Yaffe Award
The recipient of the聽Leo Yaffe Award聽for 2022 is Gabriel Venne, assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. The award is given each year to recognize a faculty member for superior teaching at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Science.
Published: 30 May 2022
Making data science accessible to all
The Faculty of Science鈥檚 new Computational and Data Systems Initiative will help researchers unlock the power of data-intensive research methods
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Published: 29 Apr 2022
Science students share their passion with school students across Qu茅bec
海角社区 students participated for the first time this year in聽脡cole en r茅seau聽and聽C艙ur des sciences, two programs that provide programming for elementary and secondary school students across Quebec.聽 Read about聽 海角社区 students Jeremy Dawkins and Kirsten Crandall's engaging collaborations with聽聽脡cole en r茅seau and C艙ur des sciences聽in 海角社区 dans la ville's article聽
Published: 22 Mar 2022
海角社区 Chemistry Outreach Group founders describe the group's work in new tribute
Founding members of the award-winning 海角社区 Chemistry Outreach program have documented the inception and work of the group in Beyond exploding balloons- bringing the science of chemistry to the public, a new piece聽in the Canadian Journal of Chemistry.
Published: 9 Mar 2022
McCall MacBain Scholarships set to open to international applicants
Join the first global cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars!Are you interested in mentorship, leadership skills development, and full funding to start a graduate degree?
Published: 1 Feb 2022
Get to know a scientist: Herpetologist Jessica Ford
Watch herpetologist Jessica Ford explain the work she does with the easily overlooked, yet massively important tadpoles.聽
Published: 28 Jan 2022
Office of Science Outreach launches online inquiry-based training
The Office of Science Outreach is excited to take its inquiry-based theory training completely online and asynchronous. Intro to 海角社区 Science Outreach and Inquiry-Based Learning is now available on myCourses, 海角社区鈥檚 learning platform, for anyone interested in participating in the training.
Published: 27 Jan 2022
Promoting diversity in science
STEMM Diversity @ 海角社区 co-founders Jessica Ford and Charles Xu detail their paths as scientists and what led them to come together to form STEMM Diversity @ 海角社区 in the new article聽Promoting diversity in science.
Published: 21 Jan 2022
海角社区 researchers tackle rare disease first identified in Quebec
Researchers at 海角社区 have made an important step forward in understanding the cause of a rare neurodegenerative disease noted for its occurrence in the Charlevoix and Saguenay鈥揕ac-Saint-Jean regions of Quebec.
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Published: 22 Dec 2021
Real-time alert system heralds new era in fast radio burst research
海角社区 scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenomenon that is one of the hottest topics in modern-day astronomy.
Published: 18 Nov 2021
海角社区 tackles systemic underrepresentation
Improving representation is one of the key goals behind 海角社区鈥檚 current drive to recruit a greater number of Black faculty members. The Faculty of Science is proud to be a part of this effort, with applications now open for tenure-track positions in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Geography.
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Learn about unEarth , one of 海角社区's impact200 finalists
unEarth is one of the impact200 Bicentennial Student Sustainability Challenge finalists' and聽their platform and supplemental educator's manual are designed to reach out and聽teach youth about sustainability through environmental systems thinking.
Published: 21 Oct 2021
Stress affects our motivation 鈥� but not necessarily our ability 鈥� to do difficult tasks
Stress increases people鈥檚 tendency to avoid cognitively demanding tasks, without necessarily altering their ability to perform those tasks, according to new research from 海角社区.
Published: 24 Sep 2021
STEMM Diversity publishes paper and blog post
STEMM Diversity group members have recently published a blog post with Cell Mentor, and a paper in Trends in Ecology.
Published: 24 Sep 2021