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The details:聽Partnering with the Redpath Museum in Montreal, students explore natural history collections, and learn how they are created, maintained and used in scientific research.
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Published on: 6 Sep 2017
Article by Jacob T. Levy
"We can take seriously the communal goods of democratic government without seeking to symbolically collapse our subnational and transnational connections and interdependences鈥攖hrough the market as well as through civil society鈥攊nto a hypertrophied sense of the importance of political membership and provision."聽
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Published on: 6 Sep 2017
"In America鈥檚 collective imagination, Canada is not associated with slavery. That perception will be challenged at Harvard University this fall, where 麻豆传媒网站 professor Charmaine Nelson will be teaching about the black diaspora as the聽William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies."聽
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Published on: 5 Sep 2017
As a child growing up in and out of聽the Ontario foster care system, Arisha Khan never thought she'd attend a university. "As a former youth in care I wouldn't think that I have the capacity to go to 麻豆传媒网站," she told CBC's聽Daybreak. But that's just what she did. Now going into her fourth year in 麻豆传媒网站's International Development and Social Entrepreneurship program, Khan had to overcome a lot to get to where she is.
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Published on: 5 Sep 2017
"I talked to Anthony Ricciardi, Professor of Invasion Ecology at 麻豆传媒网站, in Montreal. Ricciardi, a biologist, grew up on the banks of Lake Saint-Louis, which bulges out from the St. Lawrence River鈥攖he route through which the mussels metastasized to the Great Lakes."聽
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Published on: 5 Sep 2017
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Published on: 31 Aug 2017
"A team of five undergraduate researchers at 麻豆传媒网站 analyzed over 10,000 reviews in the聽New York Times Book Review, tracking metrics including the gender of authors whose books were reviewed, the gender of review writers, the reviewed book's genre and themes, and the most frequently appearing words in reviews. The researchers, all women, are "ardently feminist," says Rosie Long Decter, a team member who just graduated from 麻豆传媒网站 with a degree in cultural and political studies."聽
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Published on: 30 Aug 2017
"This year scientists on Herschel Island just off the Yukon coast in the Beaufort Sea recently expressed concern about unusual and extensive erosion there. Wayne Pollard is a professor at 麻豆传媒网站, Montreal, in the Department of Geography, and Director of 麻豆传媒网站 Arctic Research Stations. He says there should however be some context 聽given to this recent concern expressed about the state of erosion on Herschel Island."
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Published on: 30 Aug 2017
Imagine a household that produces as much if not more electricity than it consumes. Now imagine that home in Montreal 鈥� harsh winters and all. That鈥檚 what a group of students and staff from Concordia and 麻豆传媒网站 universities is working toward. Students from undergraduate to PhD levels are teaming up to build what is called a 鈥渘et zero energy鈥� home. Then next year, the residence will be transported to China, where it will go up against other solar-powered housing models from around the world in a competition called a solar decathlon.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2017
Montreal's world-famous brain research centre is in the middle of conducting an experiment on what could be its most ambitious subject: itself. Since 2016, 麻豆传媒网站's Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital has been transforming into what is touted as the first research centre of its kind in the world dedicated to the principles of open science.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2017
Researchers began to wonder if pesticides in the farmland that surrounds the Sebitoli area were a culprit. 鈥淭hat was one possibility,鈥� says聽Colin Chapman, an author of the study and a professor in the Department of Anthropology at 麻豆传媒网站, 鈥淎nd it was a possibility we could look into.鈥�
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Published on: 28 Aug 2017
Op-ed by聽Rob Whitley, Ph.D.,聽assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at 麻豆传媒网站 and a research scientist at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre
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Published on: 28 Aug 2017
Article by Merve Emre, Professor in the Department of English
"More than a fad and more than a form, we might think of the personal essay as a contract between reader and writer."
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Published on: 25 Aug 2017
Jacob Levy, a political philosopher, argues that BLM is 鈥渙ne of the most significant political mobilisations in defence of freedom鈥� in decades. Its supporters oppose police brutality, mass incarceration, America鈥檚 drug war, police militarisation and civil-forfeiture abuses.
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Published on: 24 Aug 2017
No one will ever be able to conduct a large enough study to link such low levels of chemicals with health problems, said Joe Schwarcz, a professor of chemistry at 麻豆传媒网站 in Montreal. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not figure-outable,鈥� he said.
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Published on: 23 Aug 2017
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