There’s more to getting the world to notice your innovative ideas than just building the proverbial better mousetrap. Fessenden Professorships and Prizes help McGill researchers translate ideas into products//
Volume 7, Number 1
The Ming Qing Women’s Writings (MQWW) project, an online digital archive of women’s writing in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, from 1368–1911, provides a trove of information about literature, history, politics and gender in premodern China.
Volume 7, Number 1
The past decade has seen graduates of McGill’s Faculties of Science, Engineering and Medicine parlay their education into several thriving medical imaging start-up companies. Now a $1.6-million NSERC grant is bringing together today’s students with an industry hungry for the next generation of engineers and computer scientists. //
Volume 7, Number 1
Based at McGill and drawing together universities from around the globe, the new Learning Environments Across Disciplines project explores how a new generation of technology-rich classrooms can keep students more focused and engaged — and keep would-be drop-outs in school. //
Volume 6, Number 2
As a vibrant site of traditional artistic practice, you might think the Schulich School of Music is the odd man out in McGill’s research-intensive environment. The school’s composers want to change your tune.
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Volume 6, Number 2
As the Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry celebrates 25 years of studying the good and the bad in food, one of its hallmark innovations — a specialized infrared technology that identifies food-borne pathogens — is getting ready to leave the nest.
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Volume 6, Number 1
Forget about gorging on antioxidant-rich “superfoods.” Mutant roundworms are boring a hole through one of aging’s most enduring concepts.
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Volume 6, Number 1
When older people talk about resting their weary bones, they’re not waxing metaphoric: Decades of movement and support takes a natural toll on our bones — a toll that becomes even more pronounced when pathologies come into play.
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Volume 5, Number 2
“So much happens by chance,” says Dr. Charles Scriver. It’s an odd declaration to hear from a man famous for putting in 15 hour days, seven days a week, for 40-something years — and, in doing so, helped shape the face of modern genetics. But there it is: Chance. The trick is being ready for it.
Volume 5, Number 2
McGill researchers are using remote sensing technology to unearth the secrets of war criminals.
