• Spring/Summer 2011

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  • Newsbites

    In a McGill State of Mind

    In a McGill State of Mind

    Trip Yang, BA&Sc’11, recruited a wide array of students and professors to appear in his YouTube video, which pays loving tribute to his alma mater.

    Listen Up

    Jazz vet earning raves

    Jazz vet earning raves

    Trumpet player Kevin Dean laid down the foundations for McGill’s thriving jazz program. Dean’s latest album offers further proof that he was the right man for the job.

    Epilogue

    Lessons in Learning in Leacock 132

    Lessons in Learning in Leacock 132

    One of McGill’s most fabled lecture halls, Leacock 132 has played host to some of the most remarkable minds of our times, including Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners and Oscar recipients.

    Alumni Profiles

    Diamonds aren’t her best friends

    Diamonds aren’t her best friends

    Human rights campaigner Annie Dunnebacke, BA’01, targets the illicit trade in blood diamonds and rare earths that cause havoc for the lives of too many Africans.

    Reviews

    Recounting a Royal Metamorphosis

    Recounting a Royal Metamorphosis

    Novelist Eva Stachniak, PhD’88, offers up her own best-selling take on how an unhappily married young foreign-born princess became Russia’s transformative Catherine the Great.

    Behind the Headlines

    After Afghanistan: McGill veterans of the war look back

    After Afghanistan: McGill veterans of the war look back

    Meet three McGill graduates who put their lives on the line to keep the Taliban at bay.