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Between 2007 and 2010, the number of people around the world without regular access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food increased 20 per cent to over one billion. That’s one person for every seven on this planet.
To understand climate change, we must understand the Arctic. McGill University’s polar researchers are focused on building a sustainable, healthy future for the people, land and resources of Canada’s North—and the rest of the planet.
McGill is an international research leader in an area that has broad implications The photon is the fundamental physical particle of light, in the same way the electron is the fundamental particle of electricity. Just as electronics revolutionized our world during the past half-century, photonics – the application of light – is having a similar transformative impact on all aspects of our lives, from communications and health care to entertainment and sustainable energy.
Since the 1960s, McGill University and India have forged a relationship through countless research ventures, teaching activities and development projects.
By Valerie Henderson In the world of science, where carving out a specialty is often the key to success, Jack Szostak is a master of the nook and cranny. The soft-spoken Nobel laureate and McGill alumnus built his career on conducting research few others dare attempt, steering clear of popular and better-funded fields. As he [...]
“An integral part of the Canadian argument should involve engagement with the North,” says Martin Grant, dean of the Faculty of Science. Here, some of McGill’s polar researchers, from across several faculties, weigh in on this most Canadian — and increasingly topical — subject.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and his Canadian Arctic Expedition (CAE) crew were poised to venture onto the frozen Beaufort Sea in March 1914. Problems, however, abounded. With food running low, his men were on the verge of mutiny. Stefansson was suffering from debilitating hemorrhoids, an affliction he tried to hide lest he lose even more of his crew’s confidence. To top it all off, his navigation equipment was faulty. Then J.J. O’Neill came to the rescue, at least in part.
Interview with Dr. Rose Goldstein, McGill University’s new Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations)
Dateline: Haiti, January 2010. Robin Cardamore, a fourth-year resident in emergency medicine at McGill, does her rounds in a field hospital. She learns that the elderly woman in Tent 2, Row 8, has not heard from her family since the recent catastrophic earthquake. Cardamore circulates from tent to tent, piecing together fractured information about who might know whom. Hunches are played, calls are placed and — after a tense wait — good news is finally relayed back to Tent 2. A happy ending, yes, but Cardamore is struck by the disconnect between medical care and the inability to organize follow-up. She decides to develop a patient-tracking system that health care workers can use in hand-held devices. This is McGill’s brand new Humanitarian Studies Initiative in action.
