McGill mining and minerals engineer James Finch and his team honoured with Leo Derikx Award Canada’s leading mineral processing research group at McGill University, along with Vale Inco, Teck Cominco, COREM, Xstrata Process Support, and SGS Lakefield have won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) 2008 Leo Derikx Award, a special [...]
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By McGill Reporter staff Always a forward thinker, Les Vadasz told the New York Times in a 2001 interview that he doesn’t dwell much on his family’s escape from Communist Hungary following the Revolution of 1956 because he was a person who spends ”more time worrying about what could be, rather than what was.” A [...]
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By Jim Hynes Stuart B. Schwartz, the George Burton Adams professor of History at Yale University, was announced as the winner of the inaugural Cundill International Prize in History at a ceremony in Montreal yesterday.
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Hockey Martlets stay perfect, women volleyballers sweep AUS visitors By Jim Hynes The hockey and volleyball Martlets were perfect this weekend, a busy one for both squads. The No. 1-ranked hockey Martlets, playing three games in three days, extended their winning streak to 32 with victories over visitors from the Atlantic University Sports (AUS) conference.
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By Laurie Devine Broken Canadian English An article in the Toronto Star questions whether the increasing use of spell-checkers and online dictionaries could lead to the loss of Canadian English spelling. Interviewed for the story, McGill linguistics expert Charles Boberg said there’s a possibility but wondered whether it’s anything to worry about.
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Birds of a feather Recognized as a an official Migratory Bird Sanctuary by Environment Canada, the Gault Nature Reserve at Mont Saint-Hilaire is the breeding ground of some 80 bird species.
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Par Julie Fortier Trois chercheurs de McGill sont parmi les 10 lauréats 2008 des Prix du Québec, la plus haute distinction accordée par le gouvernement du Québec.
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By Laurel Baker “Needless to say, I am very humbled by this announcement. This is a very proud moment for me,” said McGill alumnus and celebrated lawyer L. Yves Fortier, reacting to news of an important dontation that will allow the Faculty of Law to expand its scholarship in the growing field of international arbitration.
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By Neale McDevitt Arielle Miles likes logic. That’s one of the reasons she was drawn toward chemistry at Seekonk High School, in Seekonk, Mass. “The periodic table makes so much sense,” she said with a laugh. “You go from left to right, there are certain trends and each element has one more proton.”
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Canadian comic actor spares no one during address By Neale McDevitt Give Mary Walsh an inch and she’ll take it – and more. And, as fans of the iconic Canadian political satirist know, let this woman near a microphone and she’ll take no prisoners.