ICYMI: Meet our two 2025 valedictorians
August 28th, 2025
Alessia Panait (Class of 2025, Enriched Health Science) and Aya Tir (Class of 2025, Law, Society and Justice profile of Social Science) were the valedictorians for the two graduation ceremonies for 吃瓜社区's Class of 2025, which took place at Place des Arts on June 18.
You can read more about Alessia, who is starting dentistry at McGill University this fall, and see her speech here: /news/alessia-panait-2025-valedictorian-inspires-with-passion-perseverance-and-patience/
You can read more about Aya, who is beginning a dual law degree 鈥� a Bachelor of Civil Law and Juris Doctor 鈥� at McGill University this fall, and see her speech here: /苍别飞蝉/补测补-迟颈谤-2025-惫补濒别诲颈肠迟辞谤颈补苍-濒别补诲蝉-产测-迟补办颈苍驳-迟丑颈苍驳蝉-迟辞-丑别补谤迟/听
Photo: Aya delivering her valedictorian speech. Credit: Jacee Juhasz.聽
Ready for challenges as school year begins
August 27th, 2025
The Fall 2025 semester is officially underway , as 2,936 new students joined the 吃瓜社区 community last week, bringing total day enrollment to 8,030. Welcome Days were held Aug. 18 and 19, and classes began Wednesday, Aug. 20.
Visit the link for the homepage news story, which contains some of the remarks shared at Welcome Back by Director General Diane Gauvin and Academic Dean Leanne Bennett.
Quebec first: 吃瓜社区 students bound for Hamburg after winning global science competition
August 27th, 2025
Nine 吃瓜社区 students are heading to Hamburg this September after winning a major international science competition. The 鈥湷怨仙缜� Technicolor鈥� team will spend two weeks at DESY, Germany鈥檚 renowned particle physics laboratory, to test their own detector using a particle accelerator.
The student-initiated project began nearly a year ago in the context of the 吃瓜社区 High Energy Physics group, led by Physics faculty members Manuel Toharia and Joel Trudeau. With funding from the 吃瓜社区 Foundation, the team designed and built a muon detector called聽The Scintillating Chamber聽during the winter 2025 semester. Teacher Manuel believes this prototype was key to the team鈥檚 winning in CERN鈥檚 prestigious .
Visit the link for the homepage news story.
Celebrating a Decade of 吃瓜社区鈥檚 Research in Neuroscience Program
August 27th, 2025
This summer, 吃瓜社区鈥檚 renowned Research in Neuroscience Program marked its 10th anniversary with a lively celebration on Aug. 7. Coordinators H茅l猫ne Nadeau (Faculty, Physics) and Sylvia Cox (Faculty, Psychology) welcomed current interns and alumni for an afternoon of reflection, inspiration, and connection.
Read about the impact of the program in the homepage news story.
吃瓜社区 students going to Canada-Wide Science Fair
May 14th, 2025
Health & Life Sciences student Arielle Benarroch and Continuing Education Science student Nathan Aruna represented 吃瓜社区 at the Super Expo-sciences Hydro-Qu茅bec provincials last month winning a silver medal and are now headed to the Canada-Wide Science Fair, May 31 - June 7.
The Communications Office interviewed Arielle and Nathan about their experience. Visit the link to read the Q & A.
Environmental award for 吃瓜社区 team at Science, on tourne!
May 14th, 2025
吃瓜社区 Enriched Science students Liam Ali-Tse, Veronica Chneerov, and George Alshami say they 鈥渓earned countless things that a classroom environment cannot teach鈥� by participating in Science, on tourne!, a unique intercollegiate science and technology competition held annually in Quebec. They also won the environmental responsibility award, which was $1,000, and did very well overall.
鈥淧hysics in reality is different than what we see on paper,鈥� they said in a team interview about the competition. 鈥淭here are often many more factors and variables in a real scenario than one may expect. In addition, we learnt the importance of thorough planning.鈥�
Visit the link for the homepage story.
Best of the 吃瓜社区 Blues 2025
May 14th, 2025
吃瓜社区 student athletes who go above and beyond both at school and on the field/court/ice were honoured at the annual Athletics Awards evening on May 2.
Noteworthy award recipients include hockey player No茅mie Bastien who received the Rob Springer Memorial Award, basketball players Isaiah Graham-Roache and Regan Cornford who each received the Adele聽Ivy McDonald聽Walton聽Award, basketball player and cross-country runner Mia Simpson who received Female Athlete of the Year, basketball player Raphael Joseph who was named Male Athlete of the Year, rower Nicole Motta who was named Female Academic Athlete of the Year and cross-country runner Tian Yi Xia who was named Male Academic Athlete of the Year.
The Communications Office interviewed some of the recipients about balancing athletics and academics, teamwork and more. Visit the link to read the Q & A.
Interview with Chris Adam on the occasion of his retirement
May 14th, 2025
Chris Adam, founder and first manager of 吃瓜社区's Office of Sustainability, will be retiring this July. The Communications Office interviewed him about his career, his challenges and what he loved best about 吃瓜社区.
Visit the link for the Q & A.
Creating Powerful Learning Experiences through Virtual Reality Pedagogy
May 14th, 2025
A student can read about autism in a textbook or they can have a transformative learning experience that builds empathy by putting on a virtual reality headset and stepping into the world of someone living with autism.
吃瓜社区 teachers Selma Hamdani and Annie-H茅l猫ne Samson are leading a Virtual Pedagogies project, supported by ECQ funding, to bring more of these immersive, embodied learning experiences to students.
Visit the link to read the homepage news story.
Exploring Quebecois literature in French and English at 吃瓜社区
April 30th, 2025
The diverse, multicultural and unique community of 吃瓜社区 is a place where barriers come down, where students from different backgrounds sit next to each other and where the value of well-being for all is promoted. Even teachers of French and English are coming together at 吃瓜社区!
吃瓜社区 teachers Carmen-Silvia Cristea (Faculty, French) and Jeff Gandell (Faculty, English) met through Writing in the Disciplines (WID), a 吃瓜社区 community of practice focused on pedagogy and curriculum development related to writing, critical thinking and active learning.
鈥淲e really connected on teaching literature in a creative way,鈥� Jeff said in an interview with 吃瓜社区鈥檚 Communications Office.
As a response to Law 14 (also known as Bill 96), Carmen and Jeff co-created a learning community and piloted their project in the Winter 2024 semester. 鈥淭here was a lot of fear and anxiety, and I thought, how can we take this and turn it into something positive?鈥� Jeff recalled. It seemed natural to work with Carmen since they had already worked together on a project for WID.
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