The Université du Québec is a system of ten provincially-run public universities in Quebec, Canada. Its headquarters are in Quebec City. The university coordinates 1400 programs for over 100,000 students. The government of Quebec founded the Université du Québec, a network of universities in several Quebec cities. In a similar fashion to other Canadian provinces, all universities in Quebec have since become public.
Jerry Alan Fodor was an American philosopher and the author of works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, and he is recognized as having had "an enormous influence on virtually every portion of the philosophy of mind literature since 1960." At the time of his death in 2017, he held the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Rutgers University, and had taught previously at the City University of New York Graduate Center and MIT.
The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, also known as "l'université du peuple", established in 1969 and mainly located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, is a public university within the Université du Québec network. As of April 2016, the university had 14,500 students in 9 different campuses, including the main one in Trois-Rivières. About 788 of them come from overseas, from 50 countries. The university has given more than 88,000 diplomas since its founding. The Trois-Rivières campus also holds a large library with about 400,000 documents.
The Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), is a branch of the Université du Québec network founded in 1969 and based in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. UQAC has secondary study centres in La Malbaie, Saint-Félicien, Alma, and Sept-Îles. In 2017, 7500 students were registered and 209 professors worked for the university, making it the fourth largest of the ten Université du Québec branches, after Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), and École de technologie supérieure (ETS).
The UQTR Patriotes are the athletic teams that represent the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. The university features teams in swimming, golf, hockey, soccer, cross-country, volleyball and cheerleading. Notably, the men's ice hockey team has won four University Cup national championships since the program was first established in 1969. The men's soccer team has won one national championship, coming in 2019.
André Gabias is a lawyer, governance expert and politician in Quebec, Canada. He holds a degree in law from the Université de Sherbrooke, and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1981. Since 1984, he has taught law at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He represented the electoral district of Trois-Rivières and is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP).
Magoua is a particular dialect of basilectal Quebec French spoken in the Trois-Rivières area, between Trois-Rivières and Maskinongé. Long before a military fort was constructed there, Trois-Rivières became in 1615 the first stronghold of the coureurs des bois outside the city of Québec. Magoua is the ethnonym applied to their descendants in the area. Magoua is the most conservative of all Quebec French varieties, including Joual. It preserves the sontaient ("étaient") characteristic of Métis French and Louisiana French, has a creole-like past tense particle tà and has old present-tense contraction of a former verb "to be" that behave in the same manner as subject clitics.
Adam Waldemar Skorek is a Canadian University professor and a Polish engineer. He was born in Krzczonów, Lublin, Poland.
Stade de l'UQTR is a multi-purpose stadium located on the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières campus. Stade de l'UQTR is mainly used for track and field events and soccer. In addition to hosting university sports, a major tenant was the Trois-Rivières Attak of the Canadian Soccer League, then the reserve team of the Montreal Impact of the United Soccer Leagues. The stadium features a single grandstand which also has press room.
What Darwin Got Wrong is a 2010 book by philosopher Jerry Fodor and cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in which the authors criticize Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. It is an extension of an argument first presented as "Why Pigs Don't Have Wings" in the London Review of Books.
Jean-Louis Bessé is an Ivorian retired footballer who played as a forward. He played at the international level with the Quebec national soccer team.
Nadia Ghazzali is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science. As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set.
Professor Shari L. Forbes is an Australian and Canadian forensic scientist and researcher. She is a thanatology expert on the decomposition of human bodies. She created a body farm in Australia and between 2019 and 2022 established a similar facility in Canada, connected to the Forensic Science department at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). As of January 2023, she is a full professor in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Windsor, and is hoping to start the first body farm in Ontario in the coming years.
Rollande Deslandes is a Canadian university professor of Education Sciences at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières. Deslandes is known for her expertise on parenting, parental involvement and relations between schools, families and communities.
Bruno Georges Pollet BSc(Hons) MSc PhD FIAHE FRSC, is an electrochemist and electrochemical engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, a full professor of chemistry, director of the Green Hydrogen Lab and member of the Hydrogen Research Institute at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Canada. He has worked on Hydrogen Energy in the UK, Japan, South Africa, Norway and Canada, and has both industrial and academic experience. He is a prolific scholar, collaborator, and mentor. He is also regarded as one of the most prominent Hydrogen experts and one of the Hydrogen "influencers" in the world.
René Villemure is an ethicist, philosopher, international lecturer and Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Trois-Rivières in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election.
Luc Tardif is a Canadian-born French ice hockey executive, and former professional ice hockey player. A native of Trois-Rivières, he played junior ice hockey in Quebec, then was an all-star player for the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. During his professional career, he became a naturalized citizen of France, won two Nationale A League titles, and won the Charles Ramsay Trophy four times with Chamonix HC as the league's top scorer. Later in his career, he was a player-coach for the Dragons de Rouen, then served as the team's vice-president and oversaw the youth hockey program.
The UQTR Patriotes men's ice hockey team is an active ice hockey team representing the UQTR Patriotes athletics program of Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. The team is a member of the Ontario University Athletics conference and competes in U Sports. The Patriotes play their home games at the Colisée de Trois-Rivières in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
The 2027 U Sports University Cup, the 63rd edition, is scheduled to be held March 25–29, 2027, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, to determine a national champion for the 2026–27 U Sports men's ice hockey season. The tournament will be hosted by the UNB Reds.
On 2 October 2024, Alexandra Martine Diengo Lumbayi, a 21-year-old Congolese student at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières (UQTR), was reported missing in the afternoon around Saint-Quentin Island in Trois-Rivières. Search efforts were organized promptly on 4–5 October to track her down. On Sunday, 6 October, divers from the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) collaborated with investigators from the Trois-Rivières Police Department to draft a strategic approach for underwater search missions. An SQ helicopter carried out reconnaissance flights over Saint-Quentin Island. On the same day, Diengo's mother, Rosemine Ndjondo, posted a TikTok video raising awareness about her daughter's disappearance. The video went viral, receiving over 5 million views and evoking a massive show of support on social media in Canada and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
