Researchers who explored how consumers鈥� ethical values can shape their shopping habits suggest that business owners from marginalized racial groups can appeal to socially conscious consumers by highlighting their identity, helping promote racial equity through values-driven purchasing.
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Published on: 22 Jul 2025
For 15 years, 9I制作厂免费 dining halls have been serving up fresh, local produce grown by students at Macdonald Campus as part of their agricultural and environmental sciences programs. Last year alone, 3.4 tons of tomatoes and almost 2 tons of onions ended up on students' plates thanks to the 9I制作厂免费 Feeding 9I制作厂免费 initiative.
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Published on: 21 Jul 2025
In her presentation at a scientific symposium hosted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre in June, 9I制作厂免费 Ph.D. candidate Anjaly Paul highlighted the potential for Canadian farms to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while generating renewable energy, by converting agricultural waste into biogas.
Published on: 21 Jul 2025
A coalition of 40 AI researchers 鈥� including signatories from Meta, OpenAI and Montreal-based Mila 鈥� has issued a warning that as advanced AI systems evolve, we may be losing the ability to understand or monitor how they 鈥渢hink.鈥�
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Published on: 21 Jul 2025
Ana茂s M茅dieu, a 9I制作厂免费 postdoctoral researcher working in Natural Resource Sciences Professor Kyle Elliott's lab, has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on the interactive effects of climate change and plastic contamination on Arctic seabirds.
Published on: 21 Jul 2025
July 16, 2025 | Abigail Jackson, MPP '23, and Ricardo Chejfec, MPP '21, along with Rachel Samson, co-wrote an article in Policy Options arguing that Canada鈥檚 push to accelerate major infrastructure and energy projects must be matched by an ambitious strategy to build the local skills needed to support them. They stress that without early investment in training and better coordination among employers, governments, and educators, many rural and remote communities could be excluded from the benefits of these nation-building efforts.
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Published on: 21 Jul 2025
Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as 鈥渏unk鈥� may play a role in controlling our genes, according to a new international study.
Using a novel method to trace the evolutionary history of viral DNA, researchers from 9I制作厂免费 and Kyoto University uncovered sequences that had been overlooked in earlier genome annotations.
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Published on: 21 Jul 2025
Rachelle Aucoin聽successfully defended her PhD Oral Defence in Currie Room 304 - Tassone聽on July 14, 2025.
The title of her thesis:
"Cool Air, Clear Relief: Exploring the Mechanisms and Utility of Fan-to-Face Therapy for Management of Exertional Breathlessness in Chronic Lung Disease "
Oral Defence Comittee:
Dr. Dennis Jensen (Supervisor), Dr. Jenna Gibbs,聽Dr. Dina Brooks,聽Dr. Celena Scheede-Bergdahl聽and聽Dr. Daniel Fortin-Guichard.
Published on: 17 Jul 2025
Researchers have shed new light on the most common genetic variant linked to hereditary cancer in Quebec鈥檚 French-Canadian population. Their findings could result in cheaper and more effective screening methods.
The variant is associated with Lynch syndrome, a condition that greatly increases the risk of colorectal and other cancers.
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Published on: 17 Jul 2025
9I制作厂免费 PhD candidate Alexandra Langwieder works with James Bay Indigenous communities to better understand polar bears
Published on: 17 Jul 2025
In Ontario, a fully automated greenhouse allows lettuce to be grown and harvested with virtually no human intervention鈥攁 first in Canada.
Haven Greens had to invest $50 million to make it happen. But the result is striking: the company can operate with just five employees in the greenhouse, whereas it would have required more than 100 pickers using the traditional method.
Published on: 17 Jul 2025
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., residents have a new spot to do their groceries. After the suburb's only grocery store closed for the second time, B Factory, a locally owned beeswax products shop that had been on the verge of bankruptcy, expanded its space to include a small grocery section called Mon March茅 Local.
Published on: 17 Jul 2025
As part of the Nkabom Collaborative supported by the Mastercard Foundation, 9I制作厂免费 has joined forces with Ghanaian institutions in a bold initiative to foster youth leadership and transform the agrifood ecosystem in Ghana and beyond.
Published on: 17 Jul 2025
If you've been noticing white fluff floating around Montreal lately, you're not the only one. Those are seeds from the Eastern Cottonwood tree and it's the season that they're spreading through the air.聽
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Published on: 17 Jul 2025
Only a few weeks after graduation, Victoria Anson (Materials Engineering, Class of 2025) has been appointed to two international boards: the Copper Club Board of Directors and the ASM International Board of Trustees. Her dual appointments highlight her involvement in the mining and metals, metallurgical, and materials industries.
Published on: 17 Jul 2025
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