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Professor Benjamin Fung and Professor Steven Ding, are part of a team that has recently been awarded a $5.6 million grant, funded under the NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE! The project, the only one to receive funding from NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE, will provide a multimodal, comprehensive solution for exploratory analysis of unstructured data, with a strong focus on cybersecurity applications.
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Professor Benjamin Fung, Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, and Professor Steven Ding, both of the School of Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts, are part of a team that has recently been awarded a $5.6 million grant, funded under the NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE. The project, the only one to receive funding from NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE, will provide a multimodal, comprehensive solution for exploratory analysis of unstructured data, with a strong focus on cybersecurity applications.聽
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A career that took an uncharted trajectory has been recognized with the Order of Canada, one of the country鈥檚 top honours.
Shakespeare鈥檚 Timon of Athens is a riches to rags story. Its wealthy title character squanders his money on opportunistic 鈥榝riends鈥� and grows jaded with the world.
Neuroscientist Alan Evans and music performance scholar Michael McMahon among 91直播 community members recognized for exceptional accomplishments and service聽
Nine members of the 91直播 community have been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country鈥檚 highest civilian honours.
Among the honorees are two 91直播 faculty members, Professors Alan Evans (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) and Michael McMahon (Schulich School of Music).
Prof. Skyler Wang has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research on the growing integration of AI into dating apps.
Congratulations to Christopher Dietzel (Concordia), Stefanie Duguay (Concordia), David Myles (INRS) and Prof. Wang on receiving funding for this project.聽
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The DNA to RNA Initiative (D2R) at 91直播 has awarded $400,000 to four projects that aim to bring RNA-based innovations closer to clinical and commercial reality, including vaccines and therapies for rare and infectious diseases.
Our staff will curate the Info-Neuro cart to offer free resources for the following clinics this month:
July 4 鈹� Movement Disorders Clinic
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July 9 鈹� Brain Tumour Clinic
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91直播 Desautels is partnering with the Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg on a new Master of Management in Finance. The program will launch in 2026, and will have a blended format that combines online learning and in-person sessions on weekends or evenings. The new degree will be delivered over 20 or 24 months in Luxembourg, a major European financial centre.
A well-designed pension system brings enormous social and economic values to its members and to society as a whole. Unfortunately, Canada鈥檚 doesn鈥檛 stand out. A 2024 report from Mercer ranks it just 18 out of 48 countries. In thefutureeconomy.ca, Prof. Sebastien Betermier proposes three measures that could help improve it by:
路 Ensuring there are stronger guardrails to keep pension funds operationally independent
Cryptocurrencies are volatile, risky and lack transparency. For banks and investors alike, that鈥檚 risky. 鈥淪ome like to think 鈥榯his time it鈥檚 different鈥�,鈥� Prof Patrick Augustin told PaperJam.lu. But for Augustin, crypto today recalls Lehman Brothers, the financial services firm whose collapse set the global financial crisis in motion in 2008. The similarities are striking. Like today鈥檚 crypto markets, Lehman Brothers complicated investment products that many buyers and sellers didn鈥檛 fully understand.
