By Graduate Neuroscience Students At McGill
By Kim Gruver and Zahraa Chorghay (Twitter @fieryzarzar) Loneliness is a common feature of the human condition. While discussions about feeling lonely are largely stigmatized in society, fostering a sense of shame and unworthiness, we have all experienced loneliness at some point or another in our lives and it does not mean that there is […]
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By: Malosree Maitra and Zahraa Chorghay (Twitter @fieryzarzar) It’s mid-March, marking the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine in Montreal. Within a week, the gradual unrest surrounding this viral disease has solidified itself into the certainty of a pandemic, and life has shifted from a series of hypotheticals to a strange reality. Among the clamour to
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by: Sophie Fiola I study a type of brain tumour called low grade glioma. These are tumours that arise in young, otherwise healthy people. Right now, the best possible treatments we have for low-grade gliomas are surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. The problem with these treatments is that they’re not very specific and have a lot
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By: Jasmine Lee As one of the GSAN wellbeing Officers, I recently organized an information night with McGill’s Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) to help provide information for graduate students about what support is available at the graduate level, how to seek disability-related accommodations and what those accommodations may look like. I felt this
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Child Abuse (CA) is defined as physical, emotional, or sexual maltreatment / neglect of a child. It has long-lasting effects on the brain and devastating consequences on psychological development. 1 in 3 Canadians experience maltreatment before the age of 15. It is one of the strongest predictors of depression and suicide. Currently, 300 million people
By: Zahraa Chorghay If you are a parent or thinking of being a parent or are just curious about what life is like at the intersection of parenting and graduate school, this article is for you! When I was in the beginning of my PhD, I was part of a group of trainees who were
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By: Sabine Rannio Being the first person in your family to attend graduate school, or even university in general can be a very proud feeling. As a ‘first-generation’ (FirstGen) student, you chose to attend university and through hard work and determination, you succeeded. You achieved many things on your own, from getting good grades and finding the university and program that
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To quote the Green Labs Initiative, “the benefits of scientific research should not be outweighed by its heavy environmental cost” – and many of us couldn’t agree more.
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-Mael Mauchand Grad students. For the past 6 months I’ve been talking with McGill graduate research students in my podcast, Grad Scientists and Where to Find Them. The concept is simple: a casual discussion where students can freely talk about their research and their life. You can check it out here: https://gswft.podbean.com/. Listening to them
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