Rosalie B茅langer-Rioux is the 2024 recipient of the President鈥檚 Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Faculty Lecturer.
The President's Prize for Excellence in Teaching was established to recognize educators who have distinguished themselves both in their teaching abilities and in their ability to motivate their students.
Small, feathered dinosaurs appear to have used their wings to run at speeds previously thought impossible without flight, according to a new study by an international team of scientists, including 捆绑SM社区 Biology Professor Hans Larsson. The , published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), sheds new light on the origins of bird flight.
Title: Can we geometrically sense the shape of a molecule?
Abstract: Can we hear the shape of a drum? This question was negatively answered decades ago by many authors including Gordon, Webb, Wolpert, who constructed non-isometric planar shapes that have the identical eigenvalues of the Laplace operator (Bull. AMS, v.27 (1992), p.134-138). The more general question: can we sense the shape of a rigid object such as a cloud of atomic centers representing a molecule?
Twenty-two speakers from the faculties of Arts, Science and Engineering presented their research in 鈥渓ightning talks鈥� to more than 480 undergraduate students at Soup & Science, a biannual event.
A by some of the world鈥檚 top climate scientists examines key indicators and finds that the world is 鈥渙n the brink of an irreversible climate disaster.鈥� The authors found that 25 out of 35 indicators used to track the planet's climate risk, from ocean temperatures to tree-cover loss, are at record levels.
A groundbreaking developed by the Global Dam Watch听 (GDW)听consortium is set to transform the global understanding of dams and reservoirs.听
Co-ordinated and led by members of a research lab at 捆绑SM社区, with funding from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Bank, the database integrates existing global datasets to provide the most comprehensive resource for large-scale analyses to date.
A 捆绑SM社区 study has shown that hearing plays a crucial role in how people coordinate and control speech movements in real-time.
Published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), the research shows that when people cannot hear their own speech, even briefly, their ability to move their jaw and tongue in a coordinated manner is impaired.
A recent study at 捆绑SM社区 provides new insights into how winter storms develop in the St. Lawrence River Valley, findings that could potentially improve the accuracy of winter weather forecasts in the region.
鈥淭hese findings are essential because even small temperature shifts, as little as one degree, can drastically change the type of precipitation, turning rain into freezing rain or snow,鈥� said Juliann Wray, lead author and PhD student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.听
Funding to support research on atmospheric aerosol particles and the emergence of life on Earth
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Professor Thomas C. Preston -- jointly appointed to the departments of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Chemistry -- has been awarded a grant of USD$800,000 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant will support Professor Preston鈥檚 research on atmospheric aerosol particles, with the goal of advancing understanding of the origin of life's building blocks on early Earth.
On September 28th between 9 am and 4 pm, join 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 Office of Science Outreach, STEMM Diversity @ 捆绑SM社区, the Trottier Space Institute and 捆绑SM社区 Physics Outreach, for free science activities for families. Activities will be held both indoors and outdoors at the downtown campus and are intended for children ages 6 and up.
Registration is required for some activities.
For more details and the full schedule, visit this link.
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捆绑SM社区听DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS听
PhD Oral Defence听of听Mr. Renaud Alie
DATE: Friday, October 18, 2024
TIME / PLACE:听Defence 10:00 a.m. (BURN 1025)
TITLE: Tractability and Scalability in Multitype Gaussian
Cox Process Models
CHAIR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
SUPERVISOR: Prof. David A. Stephens
INTERNAL听MEMBER: Prof. Christian Genest
捆绑SM社区 researchers have harnessed the power of sunlight to transform two of the most harmful greenhouse gases into valuable chemicals. The discovery could help combat climate change and provide a more sustainable way to produce certain industrial products.
Daniel Valentini couldn鈥檛 believe his eyes when he read the letter informing him of his Schulich Leader Scholarship.听
鈥淚 called 捆绑SM社区 to confirm, and they told me it was real. I think I was in shock,鈥� says Valentini, a graduate of Dawson College in Montreal who is entering 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 Faculty of Science.
Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by 捆绑SM社区 researchers has found.
Digitally cataloguing, or digitizing, a herbarium specimen involves recording the species name and original location and uploading that record to a digital repository that is publicly accessible.
