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Over $609,000 to UdeM to study carbon in wetlands

As part of a $12-million inter-university program, geography professor Oliver Sonnentag will help document the...
12 Nov 2024

Daily exposure to intense cold can improve sleep quality

A new study by UdeM’s Olivier Dupuy shows that daily cryostimulation sessions in a chamber cooled to -90°C ...
12 Nov 2024

UdeM is a leader in the global One Health movement

With its large scientific community and engaged leadership, UdeM plays a unique role in advancing and applying...
12 Nov 2024

Innovative Sutton project supports socially and environmentally responsible densification

An architectural project in Sutton aims to tackle the housing crisis while promoting sustainable development a...
11 Nov 2024

“Emotional contagion” a factor in senior’s mental health

A new study finds that seniors who tend to mirror other people’s feelings are more likely to show signs of b...
08 Nov 2024

Respecting children's philosophical wisdom

Professor Natalie M. Fletcher sees philosophy as a form of youth activism and a way for children to address is...
07 Nov 2024

Restoring Mexico’s archaeological heritage to its rightful place

A Mexican delegation is coming to retrieve 84 Mesoamerican axes currently in transit at UdeM, underscoring the...
07 Nov 2024

Children with intellectual disabilities at greater risk of sexual abuse

A new study shows higher rates of sexual abuse in children with intellectual disabilities and greater vulnerab...
06 Nov 2024

Recommendations for better pandemic preparedness

Health Canada has released a report from a panel of experts, including Éric A. Cohen, on how to improve Canad...
05 Nov 2024

A symphony of terror

Some sounds have the power to conjure premonitions of death, ghostly apparitions or creatures lurking in the d...
30 Oct 2024

Animals that can cheat death

Some animal species seem to possess extraordinary regenerative abilities. How do they do it? And could we lear...
30 Oct 2024

Australian courts use “body language” to judge witness credibility

Professor Vincent Denault shows that legal decisions by Australian judges have used myths about “body langua...
29 Oct 2024

Inflammatory bowel disease: the crucial period of early childhood

Breastfeeding, child nutrition and exposure secondhand tobacco smoke at an early age may play a role in the on...
29 Oct 2024

Cannabis use in adolescence: visible effects on brain structure

A collaborative study sheds light on how cannabis use affects brain development in young people, the main one ...
23 Oct 2024

Is parents’ cellphone use harming their kids?

Parents’ cellphone use can have a direct impact on their preteens’ mental health, according to a study. Th...
22 Oct 2024

Benjamin Gwinneth: Uncovering the effects of past climate change

Newly appointed geography professor Benjamin Gwinneth uses innovative geochemical methods, such as measuring f...
21 Oct 2024

Insect invasions: Why we must act responsibly and act now

Ecologist and academic Jacques Brodeur makes a compelling case for using biological pest control as a main lin...
18 Oct 2024

‘A different way of perceiving the world’

A new study reveals children with autism have a keen interest in letters and numbers – something their paren...
17 Oct 2024

A first cohort of graduates from Haiti's School of Optometry

Through an initiative led by UdeM, a first cohort of students is graduating from the State University of Haiti...
17 Oct 2024

Tweeting during the pandemic

What can Twitter tell us about how people complied – or not – with public-health measures during the COVID...
16 Oct 2024

Morgane Schambourg: A veterinarian dedicated to advancing equine medicine

UdeM’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine welcomes Morgane Schambourg, a specialist in equine surgery and sports...
16 Oct 2024

Student debt: An individual and collective burden at English-language universities

Professor Jean François Bissonnette analyzes student debt from a moral economy perspective and explains how i...
15 Oct 2024

Sorel Friedman’s students scrutinize swing states in U.S. election

In a course she’s taught for over 20 years, the sessional lecturer in literature uses U.S. presidential elec...
15 Oct 2024

Marc-André Legault: Optimizing drug therapy with bioinformatics

A new professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy, Legault is using innovative techniques in genetics and AI to predi...
11 Oct 2024

A new target for anxiety disorders

By generating mice with genetic mutations that disrupt the brain’s TrkC-PTPσ protein complex, researchers a...
10 Oct 2024

Sexual minorities are more politically engaged

Canadians who identify as members of sexual minorities are more involved than others in non-electoral politics...
10 Oct 2024

When drinking affects the embryo

The effects of rapid exposure to alcohol in early pregnancy – when a woman consumes as many as six drinks in...
09 Oct 2024

International recognition for the School of Public Health

Université de Montréal’s School of Public Health has been accredited by the European-based Agency for Publ...
08 Oct 2024

Michaël Boissonneault: Predicting social dynamics

An expert on aging, disappearing languages and migration – and a self-taught polyglot, too – the academic ...
07 Oct 2024

Astronomers probe a “steam world”

Led by a team at UdeM’s IREx, scientists explore the exoplanet GJ 9827 d and find a significant amount of wa...
04 Oct 2024

Ben Brisbois: Working together for social and environmental justice

Recently appointed to UdeM’s School of Public Health, the assistant professor works to understand and reduce...
03 Oct 2024

Epileptic encephalopathies: the key role of a gene revealed

A new study by researchers in Canada and France provides insight into how a particularly severe form of epilep...
02 Oct 2024

Looking deeper into the mirror

A discovery by scientists at the IRCM and the University of Pennsylvania leads to a better understanding of th...
02 Oct 2024

It takes two to tango: an interpersonal perspective on autism

A new study by UdeM neuroscientist Guillaume Dumas sheds new light on the behaviour and brain activity of peop...
30 Sep 2024

Michelle Carr: Manipulating dreams to improve mental health

An expert in dream engineering and its application to psychiatric disorders, the American researcher has joine...
26 Sep 2024

Recording the cats in the hats

Scientists at UdeM knit little wool caps to contain electrodes that cats normally shake off when being tested ...
25 Sep 2024

Getting the body to function properly

Researchers led by Jacques Drouin and his team at the IRCM discover an inter-cellular communication mechanism ...
25 Sep 2024

Valérie Courchesne: Promoting the mental health of people with autism

Newly appointed to UdeM’s Department of Psychology, the assistant professor studies ways to enhance the well...
24 Sep 2024

Taking biodiversity in 'One Health' to the next level

Timothée Poisot is named to a new global working group and 'knowledge-to-action' hub aiming to help the world...
20 Sep 2024

Coming to a library near you: chatbots!

In a new article, two UdeM librarians consider the possibilities and potential benefits of using ChatGPT and s...
20 Sep 2024

E itaskweak: Learning about the land in the digital age

An Atikamekw First Nation community is collaborating with UdeM researchers to create a digital platform to pas...
20 Sep 2024

No concussion? A blow to the head is still dangerous

A new Canadian study highlights the neurochemical consequences of head impacts that don’t lead to a concussi...
19 Sep 2024

Taking a star’s temperature

UdeM astronomers find a way to measure temperature changes in a star with greater-than-ever precision, a break...
19 Sep 2024

Caterina Mamprin: A career driven by a passion for education

The Faculty of Education’s newest assistant professor of psychopedagogy specializes in the well-being of stu...
18 Sep 2024

Université de Montréal decides to keep the name of Pavillon Lionel-Groulx

Preserving the name of the nine-story building on its main campus, the university unveils a public art project...
18 Sep 2024

Development of a tool to study new treatments for liver cancer

Sylvain Meloche's team has created a preclinical model to study hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common subt...
18 Sep 2024

Learning from a Caribbean experience

What does psychoeducation look like in another country? A group of UdeM master’s students found out during a...
17 Sep 2024

Are algorithms and LLMs changing our conception of literature?

UdeM literature professor Marcello Vitali-Rosati looks at how, for better or worse, computerized large langua...
16 Sep 2024

An antidiabetic helps the immune system recognize reservoirs of HIV

Researchers at Université de Montréal’s teaching hospital say the discovery could help lessen and even eli...
11 Sep 2024

Alain Philippe Fortin: Helping economics students develop their analytical skills

A specialist in financial econometrics, Fortin has joined UdeM’s Department of Economics as a lecturer....
10 Sep 2024

Making it easier to work

New assistant professor Valérie Hervieux brings her expertise in workplace health and safety to UdeM’s Scho...
09 Sep 2024

A pandemic of despair

The global outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 and resulting job losses led to a surge in suicidal ideation among Can...
06 Sep 2024

Helping your brain ward off Alzheimer's symptoms

Participating in a series of cognitive training sessions has helped Quebec seniors cope with memory loss - eve...
06 Sep 2024

New spiritual care internship now offered in Lausanne

Over the summer, UdeM students learned about new practices and approaches in spiritual care during an intensiv...
04 Sep 2024

Do genetic "parasites" help the immune system develop and function?

A study by UdeM professor Claude Perreault's team at IRIC proposes three potential functions for so-called par...
04 Sep 2024

Uncovering the story behind the Mongol invasions of Japan

When Japanese samurai repelled the Mongols, their victories were attributed to typhoons whipped up by divine f...
30 Aug 2024

Has Quebec entered a new era of drug-related deaths?

For the last decade, people who use drugs in Quebec have been partially sheltered from Canada’s drug overdos...
30 Aug 2024

UdeM’s veterinary training program welcomes its first students in Rimouski

David Francoz, dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, discusses how the new doctoral program of 24 stude...
26 Aug 2024

Hélène Lardé: New veterinary prof comes to the Lower St. Lawrence

The first 24 students in UdeM’s new veterinary program in Rimouski are about to meet Hélène Lard, a French...
26 Aug 2024

Type 2 diabetes: new light on cellular mechanisms causing insulin resistance

Mathieu Ferron's work sheds light on the cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes, which a...
23 Aug 2024

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