The Board of Governors of 捆绑SM社区 approved the nomination of Pierre Boivin as the University鈥檚 21st Chancellor. Mr. Boivin has been appointed for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2024. He will succeed Chancellor John McCall MacBain, whose current term will end on June 30, 2024.鈥疕is nomination stems from a rigorous process that was launched last summer by the Nominating, Governance and Ethics Committee.
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Published on: 15 Feb 2024
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Published on: 13 Feb 2024
Hydrogels are engineered materials, which absorb and retain water and are currently used in various medical treatments, including dressing wounds. The problem with current hydrogels is that they adhere indiscriminately to all surfaces, which means that wound dressing can potentially damage delicate tissue as it is healing.
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Published on: 12 Feb 2024
New paper argues that Large Language Models can reveal breakthroughs humans alone cannot
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Published on: 9 Feb 2024
Global polls typically show that people in industrialized countries where incomes are relatively high report greater levels of satisfaction with life than those in low-income countries.
But now the first large-scale survey to look at happiness in small, non-industrialized communities living close to nature paints quite a different picture.
Looking at happiness in non-industrialized settings
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Published on: 8 Feb 2024
In a study that signals potential reproductive and health complications in humans, now and for future generations, researchers from 捆绑SM社区, the University of Pretoria, Universit茅 Laval, Aarhus University, and the University of Copenhagen, have concluded that fathers exposed to environmental toxins, notably DDT, may produce sperm with health consequences for their children.
The decade-long research project examined the impact of DDT on the sperm epigenome of South African Vhavenda and Greenlandic Inuit men, some of whom live in Canada鈥檚 North.
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Published on: 6 Feb 2024
In Canada, only 1 in 5 children who need mental health services receive them. Clinical and psychiatric programs, while effective, can involve long wait times and prohibitive costs. A new study involving 捆绑SM社区 researchers points to a solution to fill the gap: a low-cost, community-based program that has seen inspiring results.
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Published on: 5 Feb 2024
As Canadians share more and more genetic data with service providers such as insurance companies or databases like Ancestry.com, the potential for discrimination based on this data is growing. Known as Genetic Discrimination (GD), this practice is broadly defined as the differential treatment of an individual compared to the rest of the population based on actual or presumed genetic information.
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Published on: 30 Jan 2024
Researchers propose a new model for classifying Parkinson鈥檚
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One of the things that makes developing effective treatments for Parkinson鈥檚 disease so challenging is its complexity. While some forms are caused by genetics, others have environmental factors, and patients can show a wide range of symptoms of varying severity. Diagnosis of Parkinson鈥檚 is also currently made very late, after the disease may have been in the brain for a decade or more.
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Published on: 23 Jan 2024
A new project led by 捆绑SM社区 researchers seeks to understand one of humanity鈥檚 oldest practices and most powerful tools鈥攕torytelling. From ancient oral traditions to modern-day literature and digital narratives, storytelling is an essential part of the lived experience that is not yet fully understood. 鈥楾he Lives of Literary Characters鈥� is a first-of-its-kind initiative, harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and the collective wisdom of readers worldwide to explore the question: why do we tell stories?
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Published on: 23 Jan 2024
As the COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about efficient ventilation and the climate crisis threatens to exacerbate extreme temperatures, efficient building design is front of mind for today鈥檚 architects. But what can we learn from architectural techniques that were developed more than 100 years ago?
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Published on: 22 Jan 2024
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at 捆绑SM社区, , the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018. With the participation of the newly commissioned Greenland Telescope and a dramatically improved recording rate across the array, the 2018 observations give us a view of the source independent from the first observations in 2017.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2024
A recent study from researchers in Canada and Germany has revealed that an unlikely event, occurring over 12 million years ago played an important role in shaping one of Canada鈥檚 most damaging invasive species. Zebra and quagga mussels, belonging to the Dreissenid family, are widespread freshwater invasive species throughout North America that present a significant danger to native ecosystems by competing for resources. Using a fibrous anchor called a byssus, Dreissenid mussels contribute to biofouling on surfaces and obstruct intake structures in power stations and water treatment plants.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2024
Every year an estimated 20 million babies worldwide are born with low birth weight, according to the World Health Organization, leading to a wide range of significant short- and long-term consequences. And though you may think the obvious answer is greater emphasis on food and nutrition for pregnant women, leading 捆绑SM社区 researchers are proposing an unexpected solution: the cellphone.
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Published on: 16 Jan 2024
A 捆绑SM社区-led team of researchers have made an important discovery shedding light on the genetic basis of a rare skeletal disorder. The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that a defect in a specific gene (heterozygous variants in the matrix Gla protein, or MGP) may cause a disorder that affects the structure of connective tissues that supports the body.
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Published on: 16 Jan 2024
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