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The IIHF announced its 2018 Olympic media all-star team, as well as its Most Valuable Player (MVP) and tournament directorate awards.

Canada's Melodie Daoust [BEd'17] was voted tournament MVP. The 26-year-old forward led Canada with three goals and four assists.

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Classified as: melodie daoust, hockey, Martlets
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Published on: 22 Feb 2018

Conducting a bird census by foot can also be disruptive, David Bird, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology at 鶹ýվ, told Popular Science. “While you’re doing that, you’re disturbing the hell out of the birds,” Bird said.

Classified as: drones, David Bird
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Published on: 21 Feb 2018

Outside the U.S., 鶹ýվ in Montreal, Canada, will host its Rare Disease Day 2018 event, at which half a dozen speakers from the rare disease community will give talks on research, treatment, and political advocacy. The five-hour conference is sponsored by the university’s Rare Disease Interest Group (rareDIG).

Classified as: rare disease day, rareDIG
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Published on: 21 Feb 2018

At this early stage, the potential for harm is real while the benefits are only surrogate measures, said Kimmelman, an associate professor of biomedical ethics at 鶹ýվ. One such measure at Phase 1 might be tumor shrinkage, which does not necessarily translate into what people really care about: survival.

Classified as: Cancer
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Published on: 21 Feb 2018

Republicans—and some liberals—downplay the significance of the president’s outbursts. But his words are quietly radicalizing both the left and right, with untold consequences for the future of policy. [...] But Trump’s words are his substance. “Politics is persuasion as well as coercion,” the political scientist Jacob Levy wrote last week, rightly arguing that Trump has “changed what being a Republican means.”

Classified as: Trump, American politics, jacob levy
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Published on: 20 Feb 2018

L’entrepreneuriat sur les campus est en effervescence aux États-Unis comme au Canada. Montréal n’échappe pas à la frénésie. Notre journaliste André Dubuc a fait la tournée des universités. Voici ce qu’il a vu et entendu.

Classified as: André Dubuc
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Published on: 20 Feb 2018

Ottawa has announced a new fund to connect all Canadian brain scientists. Fifteen universities across the country doing research into the hundreds of different types of brain diseases and disorders will join the $10 million platform. The Brain Canada Foundation said the federal funding will allow the creation of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, which will be based at Montreal's Neurological Hospital. [...] Dr.

Classified as: Alan Evans, neuroscience, Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital
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Published on: 20 Feb 2018

Allan Downey, an assistant professor of history at 鶹ýվ, says lacrosse touches all aspects of life in many Indigenous cultures and helps explain everything from how the world came to be to self-identity.

Classified as: Indigenous, lacrosse, Allan Downey
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Published on: 19 Feb 2018

The public conversation overlooks how the entirety of Colten’s life, as an Indigenous person, was lived without justice.
By Veldon Coburn, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University’s political science department, studying Indigenous identity, policy and politics, and teaches Indigenous issues at 鶹ýվ. 

Classified as: veldon coburn, Indigenous Studies
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Published on: 19 Feb 2018

Two Montreal professors —Damon Matthews from Concordia and Lawrence Mysak from 鶹ýվ — have studied the impact of climate change on outdoor hockey in Canada. Their 2012 research, which looked at weather data from 1951 to 2006, concluded that if the skating season continues to shrink, outdoor shinny in southern Canada may disappear within a few decades.


Classified as: hockey, lawrence mysak, Damon Matthews
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Published on: 19 Feb 2018

At the AAAI meeting, Peter Henderson, a computer scientist at 鶹ýվ in Montreal, showed that the performance of AIs designed to learn by trial and error is highly sensitive not only to the exact code used, but also to the random numbers generated to kick off training, and to “hyperparameters”—settings that are not core to the algorithm but that affect how quickly it learns.

Classified as: Artificial intelligence, Peter Henderson
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Published on: 19 Feb 2018

Vijaya Raghavan, Professor, 鶹ýվ, which is one of the collaborators of the project, said that promoting the consumption of small millets was not only key for addressing malnutrition related issues, but also to address climate change.

Classified as: Vijaya Raghavan, climate change, malnutrition
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Published on: 16 Feb 2018

Avec le déploiement du réseau 5G, qui sera nettement plus rapide que le 4G, l’implantation de l'Internet des objets se fera « très rapidement », soutient Tho Le-Ngoc, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en communication à large bande. Le professeur au Département de génie électrique et informatique de l'Université 鶹ýվ donne aussi l’exemple d’une entreprise qui ferait voler des drones et qui offrirait de prendre des photos sur demande.

Classified as: internet, 5g
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Published on: 16 Feb 2018

In 1989, 鶹ýվ graduate student and systems administrator Alan Emtage needed an efficient way to find files spread across multiple servers. He created a program to hunt through the servers for specific content he requested. Emtage’s personal timesaver got a big promotion when his boss recognized its potential. The 鶹ýվ team expanded the program — known as Archie, a shortened form of “archive” — into the world’s first search engine.

Classified as: Alan Emtage, archie
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Published on: 14 Feb 2018

At Montreal’s 鶹ýվ, neuropsychologist Robert Zatorre has a test that suggests a noticeable difference in musical cognition between musicians and non-musicians. “We play a tune in one key,” he explains, “and then repeat it at a different key, and ask if it’s the same or if a note has been changed. What we find is that people with musical training are inclined to do better. If you study people who don’t have training, you’ll find some people who are just as good as the musicians, but others who are just awful at it.”

Classified as: Robert Zatorre, Neuropsychology
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Published on: 14 Feb 2018

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