By McGill Reporter Staff McGill rocks, old school…like 4.3 billion years old. Testing conducted in April has shown that rock samples collected on the eastern shores of James Bay by a team that included two McGill researchers are approximately 4.28 billion years old, making them the oldest rocks on Earth. The results of the team’s [...]
Headline News
By McGill Reporter Staff McGill University’s International Conference on Global Food Security was hailed Friday as a resounding success by participants, as the three-day event came to a conclusion. Bringing together more than 360 participants from 17 countries, with representatives of 18 international organizations and a host of student participants, as well as academics and [...]
News
By McGill Reporter Staff It was an incredible, emotional moment. Morris Goodman, speaking at the opening of the McGill Life Sciences Complex (LSC) on Sept. 18, had one last thing to say. It was not easy. “And one other point,” he said, pausing. “I guess we all have to thank Canada for allowing an immigrant [...]
Other News
By Neale McDevitt Prior to this year, my previous experiences with gardening have always bordered on the torturous. Childhood memories of dad marching me and my two siblings out to the family tomato patch for some forced labour of the weeding variety are always rekindled whenever I watch the chain gang scenes in Cool Hand [...]
News
By Doug Sweet An impressive array of international experts got down to work at McGill yesterday to tackle the global food crisis.
News
By Chris Chipello McGill got another shade greener this past year, according to a widely recognized “report card” covering hundreds of colleges in the U.S. and Canada. In the College Sustainability Report Card 2009, published Wednesday by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, McGill earned a grade of B for its overall performance – up from B- [...]
News
By Pascal Zamprelli With new issues like climate change and private space flight to contend with, air and space legal experts say the aviation industry is going to need laws and regulations that reflect international consensus and not a state-based patchwork of rules if it is to remain manageable.
Athletics
By Jim Hynes The sun is unusually powerful on this Friday afternoon in early September and a hot wind is literally howling off a very choppy Lac St. Louis. No, we’re not on campus any more, Dorothy. We’re at the beautiful Beaconsfield Yacht Club for the McGill Sailing Team’s annual tryouts.
Point of View
By Pekka Maattanen When I hear politicians talk about translational research, I often wonder what they really mean. The generic, well-rounded and perhaps too well rehearsed answer goes something like this: “We are striving to make breakthroughs in science that can provide real benefits to the health of Canadians and people around the world.” The [...]
Entre Nous
Unafraid to embark upon “The Year of Thinking Dangerously” By Neale McDevitt These are good days to be the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, just ask Richard Levin. With the grand opening of the state-of-the-art Life Sciences Complex on Sept. 18, Levin finds himself at the helm of a faculty poised to make medical [...]