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A Cleaner Look at Our Galactic Center's Hot Mess

Sep 30, 2026, Chandra Press Release

The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a chaotic place. In addition to the 4-million-solar mass black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the region is full of gas, dust, strong magnetic fields, and stars in various stages of life — from birth to death. Now, astronomers have released the clearest view yet of the remains of an exploded star that sits amid this cluttered galactic environment. The supernova remnant is named Sagittarius A East, or Sgr A East, and it is the closest remnant to Sgr A* that astronomers know about. A paper describing these results with these authors appeared in The Astrophysical Journal, and was led by Mayura Balakrishnan from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Two Faculty of Science professors honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Sep 9, 2026, McGill Faculty of Science

Congratulations to TSI Faculty Natalya Gomez, who is one of the two Faculty of Science professors to be named Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Launched in 2014, The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada’s first national, multidisciplinary recognition for emerging intellectual leaders.

Daryl Haggard appointed Associate Dean, Research

Sep 1, 2026, McGill Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science announced the appointment of Professor Daryl Haggard as Associate Dean, Research this week. Prof. Haggard began her five-year term on September 1, succeeding Computer Science Professor Kaleem Siddiqi in this role. A Professor in the Department of Physics and a member of the Trottier Space Institute, Haggard first joined McGill in 2015. She and her research group, the McGill Extreme Gravity & Accretion Group (MEGA), explore the densest known objects in the universe: black holes and neutron stars.

A brightness like no other

Sep 1, 2026, SPIE

When radio astronomer Lauren Rhodes received the alert about GRB 221009A, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University. She did not need anyone else’s permission to redirect the ground-based Arc Minute MicroKelvin Imager Telescope, located about five miles outside of Cambridge, UK. “We were among the first groups to observe the event with a radio telescope.” It didn’t take a lot of data collecting before “we were like, ‘wow, in the radio, this thing is, like a factor of 10 brighter than anything we’ve ever discovered before,’” Rhodes, now at McGill University, recalls. “It was kind of mind-blowing.”

Adrian Liu appointed Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Equity

Jul 28, 2026, McGill Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science announced the appointment of Professor Adrian Liu as Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Equity this week. He began his five-year term on July 15, succeeding Biology Professor Laura Nilson in this role following her recent appointment as Chair of the Department of Biology. Since joining McGill in 2018, Liu has received numerous accolades for his teaching and research.

CHIME collaboration helps identify location of "missing" matter in the universe

Jul 21, 2026, McGill Newsroom

Researchers from McGill, MIT and partner institutions combined fast radio bursts and incoming light from galaxies to locate a vast source of previously unaccounted-for matter.

Training Canada’s next generation of radio astronomers

Jun 25, 2026, McGill Reporter

Inaugural session of CRASIES gives students hands-on experience and a broader view of a rapidly growing field.

CASCA 2026 Student Award Winners

Jun 13, 2026, CASCA e-News

TSI graduate student Sarah Silverman won the Student Award for Best Oral Presentation at the 2026 CASCA Science Meeting for her talk titled "The Fate of Ice Sheets on Chaotically Rotating Exoplanets". This award was given by the CASCA Board and recognizes Sarah for her exceptional research contributions during the 2026 CASCA Science Meeting at Université de Montréal.

Faculty of Science announces appointment of four department chairs

Jun 3, 2026, McGill Faculty of Science

Prof. Huang joined McGill’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 2011 and became a Full Professor in 2025. A member of the Trottier Space Institute, Huang and his Atmospheric Radiation Group use satellite remote sensing and numerical modeling to better understand how atmospheric radiation affects climate and weather variations. He succeeds Prof. Andreas Zeund as Chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

Adrian Liu receives the 2026 Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision

Jun 2, 2026, McGill Faculty of Science

Congratulations to Adrian Liu (Physics), who received the 2026 Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision! The Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching, awarded by the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, acknowledges outstanding contributions to promoting graduate student excellence through supervision and teaching by a faculty member who has been supervising for 10 years or less.