While trying to find engaging stories about modern women in STEM, accomplished researcher and global healthcare leader Dawn Heimer was frustrated by the lack of available options. In response, she documented the stories of 27 women scientists from around the world in her June 2024 book, Determined to be Extraordinary. [Read More…]
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Solving the bacterial genome: Visualizing chromosome segregation
Farewell to The Tribune: Messages from our graduating editors
Suzanna Graham, Arts and Entertainment Editor: Three years ago, I felt disconnected from McGill, Montreal, and my fellow students. In the last week of my first year, a friend of a friend suggested I write for a school paper. The second week of second year, I ran from class to[Read More…]
Digitizing African studies: The technical and ethical considerations
Computers have become essential to how we work and live. Digital humanities, a new and expanding field, takes on the challenge of rethinking the traditionally paper-based operation of storing, processing, and accessing research materials. Kartikay Chadha, a McGill doctoral student in Information Studies and CEO of Walk With Web Inc.,[Read More…]
Type 2 diabetes: A cellular miscommunication issue?
On Feb. 22, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) presented a lecture from members of the RI-MUHC community, as part of their ongoing Distinguished Professors Lecture Series. This month’s distinguished professor was Guy Rutter, a professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal and researcher specializing[Read More…]
Go Club, Go
Taking pride in silly things is one of life’s little pleasures. Developing a minor god-complex over these same silly things is cautionable. Yet, as founder, captain, and president of my high school Go Club, I held a minor tyranny over a room full of my own classmates weekly—and I turned[Read More…]
Immunotherapy and artificial intelligence for melanoma treatment
Malignant melanoma, a cancer that originates in melanin-producing cells, is the deadliest variety of skin cancer. In the past 11 years, immunotherapy has increased the median survival rate of advanced melanoma from nine months to six years. However, it is still a developing treatment. Farida Zakariya, a masters student in[Read More…]
Endometriosis and mental health: A novel study on the silent battle
Commonly underdiagnosed, endometriosis affects one in 10 people assigned female at birth. Sufferers can experience difficult periods, excessive bleeding, painful sex, and infertility. Regulation of physical symptoms and surgical intervention may help, but a group of McGill researchers want clinicians to advocate for mental health support as an additional part[Read More…]