McGill researchers are using remote sensing technology to unearth the secrets of war criminals.
Volume 5, Number 2
By Julia Solomon Scholars from around the world are queuing up to study Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah, a rare medieval pharmacology manuscript housed in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine Deep within the collections of McGill University’s Osler Library, Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah — or “The Book of Simple Drugs”— is carefully stored [...]
Volume 5, Number 1
If micro-organisms can make it in the high Arctic, they can make it anywhere. Professor Lyle Whyte has spent years digging in seemingly inhospitable tundra, unearthing new insights into microbial life at sub -zero temperatures—on Earth and beyond.
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Volume 4, Number 2
We need food. We need fuel. The Green Crop Network is working on ways we can have both. (Hold the greenhouse gases.)
Volume 4, Number 2
Complex problems require complex solutions. That’s why the Green Crop Network brings together a variety of research expertise from McGill and 13 other Canadian universities.
Volume 2, Number 2
By Jonathan Monpetit Dispelling myths about the developing world’s economies When The Economist declared last year that no serious investor can afford to ignore emerging markets (EMs), Professor Vihang Errunza bit his tongue. For more than 30 years, Errunza has been preaching about the opportunities afforded by developing world economies. In fact, his 1974 doctoral [...]
Volume 2, Number 2
By James Martin, with files from Patrick McDonagh From lab work to fieldwork, McGill’s undergraduate students are taking learning beyond the classroom. In August 2006, an excavation led by André Costopoulos unearthed a large stone structure near Wemindji, a remote Cree community on the east coast of James Bay. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of [...]
Volume 2, Number 2
By Jeff Roberts Philip Oxhorn and the McGill Centre for Developing-Area Studies are helping strengthen emerging democracies For Philip Oxhorn, the recent death of Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet was more than just another headline. Oxhorn did graduate work in Chile during the 1980s, when Pinochet’s reign of terror gripped the nation. He saw troops [...]
Volume 1, Number 2
By Chris Atack Globalization puts new pressures on working families In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 19-year-old Gabriella works in a sweatshop at least 15 hours a day, seven days a week, earning the equivalent of $26 US a week. Her husband was recently robbed and killed by bandits, and her mother died of cancer. She is the [...]
Volume 2, Number 1
by Céline Poissant New hope for victims of domestic child abuse A young boy returns from school, report card in hand, and his parents ignore him. Out of the blue, a girl is pulled aside and beaten by her stepmother. A pre-teen dreads going to bed at night because her father sexually abuses her. A [...]
