• Spring/Summer 2011

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    • Yesterday’s News

    Yesterday’s News: March 1967

    Yesterday’s News: March 1967

    Montreal’s Expo’67 attracted tourists from around the world. The man in charge of overseeing some of the exhibition’s biggest challenges was Robert Shaw, BEng’33.

    Newsbites

    Bewitched by Quidditch

    Bewitched by Quidditch

    The McGill Quidditch team won the national championship, proving that they’re no run-of-the-mill Muggles. Harry Potter’s favourite sport has crossed over into our world and it’s taking college campuses by storm.

    Discovery

    A discovery with gigANTic implications

    A discovery with gigANTic implications

    A McGill research team led by evolutionary biologist Ehab Abouheif has learned how to transform humble little ants into hulking super soldiers with giant heads.

    Epilogue

    Epilogue: Malls, Marketing and Main Street

    All McGill graduates have memories of St. Catherine Street below the campus in downtown Montreal. It was here, as students, they found the large department stores, the grand movie houses, their bank branches and numerous shops, bars and restaurants. Regardless of the time of day or night, there were always plenty, often crowds, of pedestrians [...]

    Alumni Profiles

    The lawyer that comic companies fear

    The lawyer that comic companies fear

    Marc Toberoff, BA’77, is one of North America’s most influential intellectual property lawyers — and to DC Comics, he’s scarier than the Joker and Lex Luthor combined.

    Reviews

    Not such a violent world after all

    Not such a violent world after all

    Pick up a newspaper and you can be forgiven for thinking that acts of violence are on the rise. Celebrated psychologist Steven Pinker, BA’76, DSc’99, says it just isn’t so.