By Neale McDevitt They are four different teachers who have taken four wildly different paths to get to McGill. One is a Polish-born faculty lecturer of chemistry; another is an MIT-trained linguist who specializes in Malagasy, one of the official languages of Madagascar; another is a professor from the English Department on sabbatical to write [...]
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By Jim Hynes The Principal’s Awards for Administrative and Support Staff acknowledge the exceptional efforts of McGill employees. Five individual awards of $5,000, one for each staff category, were presented at the Fall Convocation ceremonies.
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Schulich’s graduate program hitting all the right notes By Chris Chipello Jazz. It may not sound very academic, but the swinging, improvisational genre is a vibrant part of McGill’s Schulich School of Music. Of Schulich’s 850 students, 96 specialize in jazz –15 of them at the graduate level. The program mixes theory and practice, with [...]
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As Tanner Tillotson goes, so goes the nation By Pascal Zamprelli They were the first results to trickle in, very early on the morning of Nov. 4. They were a sign of things to come: Obama 15, McCain 6. Dixville Notchhad spoken.
Athletics
Muggle version of Harry Potter game takes off, sort of By Jim Hynes It’s the campus sports craze that’s sweeping the nation. Quidditch, or the Muggle version of the high-flying team sport born in the imagination of Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, has come to McGill.
Athletics
Season comes to a close for several teams By Jim Hynes The cold winds of November are here, which means the season is over for some McGill varsity sports teams. The last “fall” team standing was the Quebec University Rugby League (QURL) champion Redmen, who lost the “unofficial” eastern men’s university championship in heartbreaking fashion [...]
Research and Discovery
Building a hub for health and economic research By Chris Chipello McGill’s annual Health Challenge Think Tank conference has come a long way since marketing professor Laurette Dubé launched it five years ago. And the forum is poised to take another big step forward in the coming year – a step that promises to turn [...]
Point of View
By Doug Sweet We’re almost out of election season, and for many it can’t come soon enough. An economic meltdown might seem welcome by comparison. Agony aside, a prolonged period of political activity can prove instructive. One thing the autumn of 08 has revealed is that when it comes to politics and the media, a [...]
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Shuttle bus, travel guidelines also prompt questions to the Principal By Neale McDevitt In many ways, the Nov. 12 Town Hall at Macdonald Campus was for Principal Heather Munroe-Blum something like performing a high wire act without a net. For one of the first times since the advent of these open meetings, there were no [...]
Headline News
By Pascal Zamprelli Former McGill Law Dean Roderick Macdonald made history this week when he was elected President of the Royal Society of Canada Nov. 16, making him the first law professor to hold the post. And he would like to make more history by taking the venerable institution to places it has traditionally feared [...]