McGill tops Maclean’s rankings for 13th straight year
For the 13th year in a row, Maclean’s magazine has ranked McGill as the top university in Canada among institutions in the medical-doctoral category.
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Patch Adams pulls no punches in pre-Trottier Symposium Q&A
Patch Adams is one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Trottier Public Science Symposium “Mind Matters: The Body-Mind Connection” (Oct. 23 – 24). In advance of his Oct. 24 lecture, the outspoken Adams takes aim at a wide array of subjects, including medical schools, hospitals and capitalism, in an interview with the Reporter.
Read More →George Colpitts examines fur trader stories in upcoming Eakin Lecture
Dr. Steven Skates on ovarian cancer screening
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On shawarmas, soiled diapers and Inuktitut folk songs
With wit and eloquence, Harry Kim, an undergraduate student in Microbiology and Immunology, writes about his four-week research project to Iqaluit and Kuujjuaq where he was investigating enteric infections among young children in the Arctic.
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BrainReach North Visits Odanak Science Fair
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Desautels ranked among world’s top green MBA programs
Corporate Knights, which bills itself as “the magazine for clean capitalism,” has issued its 2017 Top 40 Better World MBA ranking that lists the business schools that most effectively integrate sustainability into the education of future business leaders. McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management was ranked ninth in the world. As well, the magazine named four McGillians to its list of Top 30 Under 30 leaders in sustainability.
Read More →McGill-Notman Partnership celebrates one-year anniversary, dozens of start-ups in the making
Snapshots from around the world and around the corner
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McGill grad Julie Payette installed as Canada’s GG
Former astronaut and McGill grad Julie Payette (BEng86) was installed on Oct. 2, as Canada’s 29th Governor General. Payette follows David Johnston, who was Principal of McGill from 1979 to 1994, and who served as Governor General since 2010.
Read More →Claudia Mitchell named Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow
McGill duo honoured by the Royal Society of Canada
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McGill law student gets to shadow Prime Minister Trudeau for a day
Job shadowing opportunities don’t get much more unique than Breanne Lavallée-Heckert’s day on Parliament Hill. The second-year McGill law student got to spend October 5 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he went about his duties.
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Forgotten hero of Dunkirk finally gets his due
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Organ competition founded by McGill professor celebrates 10th birthday
The Canadian International Organ Competition which began Friday, Oct. 6, and which wraps up Saturday, Oct. 21, with a gala at Maison Symphonique, brings 20 competitors from 14 countries to Montreal for three rounds of competition. Three organ students at McGill’s Schulich School of Music will perform in the competition founded by Professor Emeritus, John Grew.
Read More →Alumna and breast-cancer survivor Monica Ruffo takes aim at the supplements market
Desautels Faculty of Management signs onto UN’s PRME initiative
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McGill signs MOU with leading Japanese research institute
On Sept. 26, McGill entered into a formal partnership with Japan’s National Institutes of Physiological Sciences (NIPS) with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The signing, which took place at the Faculty Club, marked McGill’s first such agreement with an Asian partner and the first MOU signed by NIPS with a North American institute.
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