/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3943/all en /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-engineering-youth-outreach-program-awarded-nserc-promoscience-grant-331419 <p>Education that changes outcomes for whole communities—that’s the aim of the project, Engineering Engagement in School Curricula: Multi-year Design-thinking Projects for Indigenous and Marginalized Youth, led by Professor and Chair of the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Richard Chromik, Faye Siluk, and Robert Pozeg of the Faculty of Engineering’s E-IDEA initiative (Engineering Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity Advancement), which today received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) PromoScience grants program.</p> Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:17:17 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 269429 at /newsroom /newsroom/cindy-blackstock Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:21:04 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 271899 at /newsroom /newsroom/bronwen-low Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:32:45 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 262264 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-quebecs-youth-and-child-protection-services-302466 <p>Quebec’s commission into youth rights and protection continues its public consultations across the province in an effort to identify challenges facing its youth protection services. Created in response to the death of a seven-year-old girl in Granby in April, the commission will hear from youth, families, experts and caseworkers. (<a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/look-past-behaviour-to-treat-original-trauma-youth-protection-commission-told">Montreal Gazette</a>)</p> <p>Here is an expert from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:51:53 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 188155 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/youth-violence-lower-countries-complete-ban-corporal-punishment-290645 <p>A study published today in the BMJ Open shows that in countries where there is a complete ban on all corporal punishment of children there is less fighting among young people. There was 31% less physical fighting in young men and 42% less physical fighting in young women in countries where corporal punishment was banned in all settings, compared with those where corporal punishment was permitted both at school and at home.</p> Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:58:08 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 89689 at /newsroom