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Provost awards 32 professors with McGill and Dawson Chairs

Jul 9, 2020, McGill Reporter

Prof. Vicky Kaspi was awarded a Distinguished James McGill Professors (DJMP) award for late-career researchers – McGill’s highest honour.

Canada Research Chairs Program announces new and renewed chairs for McGill Profs

Jul 9, 2020, McGill Newsroom

Prof. Daryl Haggard & Prof. Nicolas Cowan received Canada Research Chairs. Prof. Haggard is the Canada Research Chair in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (NSERC, Tier 2) and Prof. Cowan is the Canada Research Chair in Planetary Climate (NSERC, Tier 2). The CRCs aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Emerging researchers lauded at 2020 Virtual Convocation

Jun 25, 2020, McGill Reporter

Prof. Daryl Haggard among this year's three recipients of the 2020 Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers

Three McGill researchers among 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows

Feb 12, 2020, McGill Newsroom

Prof. Adrian Liu received a 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship for extraordinary early career researchers from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Nature’s 10: Ten people who mattered in science in 2019

Dec 17, 2019, Nature

Prof. Vicky Kaspi named as one of Nature's 10 ‘people who mattered’ in science in 2019.

Daryl Haggard, Simon Caron-Huot win 2020 Breakthrough Prizes for Physics

Nov 1, 2019, McGill Newsroom

Prof. Daryl Haggard is joint-recipient of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as a part of the 347-member Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration Team that received this award for capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes. The prize recognizes individuals or teams who have made profound contributions to human knowledge

Canadian astronomers determine Earth’s fingerprint in hopes of finding habitable planets beyond the Solar System

Aug 28, 2019, McGill Newsroom

Two McGill University astronomers have assembled a “fingerprint” for Earth, which could be used to identify a planet beyond our Solar System capable of supporting life.

The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

Aug 26, 2019, McGill Newsroom

A new study by McGill University astronomers (including PhD student Dylan Keating and Prof. Nicolas Cowan) has found that the temperature on the nightsides of different hot Jupiters is surprisingly uniform, suggesting the dark side of these massive gaseous planets have clouds made of minerals and rocks.

Glitch in neutron star reveals its hidden secrets

Aug 21, 2019, McGill Newsroom

Neutron stars are not only the densest objects in the Universe, they also rotate very fast and regularly. Until they suddenly don’t.

Canadian astronomers find 8 more mysterious repeating fast radio bursts from space

Aug 17, 2019, CBC News

They're called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and these odd, fleeting signals from space are shrouded in mystery. But thanks to Canada's largest radio telescope, astrophysicists are discovering more of them in their search to learn what makes these objects tick.