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2024 Beatty Lecture bridged the worlds of arts and science

29 Oct 2024

This year鈥檚 Beatty Lecture bridged the worlds of arts and science, bringing together an Irish writer and a Danish evolutionary geneticist to discuss shared concerns, including balancing creativity...

Alanis Obomsawin offers message of optimism at Beatty Lecture

8 Nov 2023

On October 16, 2023, Alanis Obomsawin delivered the 69th annual Beatty Lecture at Pollack Hall on 91社区鈥檚 downtown campus. As the room fell dark her soft voice recalled her childhood, leaving...

Future Ready: Is This Spinal Tap?

12 May 2020

Have you ever wondered what the future really looks like? Or wondered what it would be like to be able to touch it? Faculty of Engineering Professor Mark Driscoll does so on a regular basis. In...

Future Ready: The Authentic Educator

7 Apr 2020

In the summer of 2012, in Queens, New York, a 12-year-old boy dove for a basketball at school and cut his arm. He awoke the next morning with a high fever, vomiting, mottled skin and low blood...

Future Ready: The Translation Trailblazer

20 Jan 2020

As a boy in Jaffa, Israel, Nahum Sonenberg walked regularly with his father to the Old Protestant cemetery on a hill overlooking the harbour. His father showed him the gravestone of Thomas Hodgkin,...

Future Ready: "That which we have always known to be true"

21 Jun 2021

Future Ready聽is a long-read research series published by Research and Innovation. In this article,聽W谩hiakatste Diome-Deer, co-author of The Globe and Mail鈥檚 bi-weekly Indigenous Leaders column,...

Made in Quebec: The Sky is the Limit for Nanocrystals

18 Jun 2021

鈥淚t鈥檚 like a Saturn V rocket, except it鈥檚 upside down.鈥 Howard Fields is excited, and with good reason: things at Anomera are poised to takeoff, and in a big way....

Made in Quebec: Moneyball in Montreal

30 Apr 2021

In 1999, at the tender age of 18, Craig Buntin boarded an airplane in Kelowna, BC. His destination: Montreal. His purpose: to find the necessary coaching that would help him reach his dream of...

Future Ready: A Giant on a Nano Scale

10 Sep 2020

Marta Cerruti talks glowingly of the colourized photos her students recently made. Most researchers would reserve what鈥檚 under their microscope for purely scientific inquiry. But while the...

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