Université de Montréal

Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Minister of Tourism and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec visited the Polytechnique Montréal campus at Université de Montréal (UdeM) today, on behalf of…

Each year, the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) and the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) present awards of excellence to career researchers who are helping to improve the lives of people living with HIV or who…

TIME magazine today named artificial-intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal, and founder and scientific director of Mila – Quebec AI institute,…

In Quebec's 2016-17 health survey of high-school students, 33 per cent in grades 9, 10 and 11 reported experiencing high levels of psychological distress. And in 2021, a significant 6.1 per cent said they had been diagnosed with an…

Done in the laboratory of Jacques Drouin, director of the IRCM’s Molecular Genetics Research Unit, the find marks an important step towards understanding the mechanisms underlying the genome. It was achieved by so-called ‘pioneer…

Companies need to stop designing new artificial-intelligence technology just because they can, and people need to stop adapting their practices, habits and laws to fit the new technology. Instead, AI should be designed to fit exactly…

Sleep takes up almost one third of our life, yet many of its secrets remain unexplained. To penetrate the mystery, neuroscientists are trying to decipher some of the mechanisms of this basic biological function, so key to good health.…

In the courtroom, Quebec provincial police officers seem to be broadly in favour of having images captured by body-worn cameras used as evidence, but are also concerned about some of the potential consequences for the pursuit of…

Éric Lécuyer and Pascal Chartrand, professors in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at UdeM's Faculty of Medicine and researchers at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), are among the winners of the…

Université de Montreal astrophysicist Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette has been named an emerging leader in technology by The Peak, an online business news site owned by Toronto-based ZoomerMedia. Deputy Director of UdeM's Trottier…