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Tag: student research
From research paper to academic journal article
Often, the life of an undergraduate research paper ends after it has been graded and relegated to a forgotten Word document. At McGill, however, undergraduate students can have their best papers published by one of dozens of scholarly journals that are completely authored, edited, and published by undergraduate students. Of[Read More…]
January 26, 2021 by Maya Mau
Methods of quantitative modeling revolutionize drug development
Mathematics and computer science are revolutionizing the way new drugs and treatments are tested and implemented. A new paper published in Chaos and written by U4 McGill Physiology and Math major Sofia Alfonso, postdoctoral researcher Adrianne L. Jenner, and Dr. Morgan Craig from the University of Montreal's department of Math and[Read More…]
January 19, 2021 by Ana Vitorino
The cognitive mechanisms behind depression
One in five Canadians will experience some form of mental illness in a given year. By the age of 40, 50 per cent of the population will have had a mental illness as the result of a complex interaction between personality, biological, and environmental factors. Bipolar disorder has a clear,[Read More…]
November 19, 2019 by Evan Kashton
This month in student research: Yarden Arane
Most engineering students take on a year-long project during their final year at McGill, where students must work with a professor or in an industry position. When Yarden Arane, U3 Software Engineering, had to pick his, he chose Professor Jeremy Cooperstock, the director of the Shared Reality Lab at McGill. [Read More…]
November 3, 2015 by Chloe Nevitt
McGill 101: How to get career experience in the sciences
Deciding what to do after graduation is hard for all undergraduates. While some are blessed with the secure knowledge of what their future holds, for most, that's not the case. For Science students, the most common choices are graduate or medical school. While undergraduate studies, for the most part, provide[Read More…]
September 9, 2015 by Chloe Nevitt
This month in student research: Alex Coutin, U2 Pharmacology
Alex Coutin, who worked at UBC this summer, studied recombinant H3, a protein histone involved in maintaining the structure of DNA in a single haploid yeast cell. He looked at the diverse associations of the ASF1 histone chaperone, another protein responsible for the coiling and folding of these DNA strands[Read More…]
October 15, 2014 by Chloe Nevitt
Stand with Wet'suwet'en – McGill University's Need to Divest
The course of true love never did run smooth
Closing the curtain on political theatre
An axe to grind: It's time for Atlanta's 'chop' to go
Faculties rally to strike as McGill resumes in-person classes
The mandatory meal plan should be taken off the table
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