Ho ho ho! Merry… Christmaceratops?!?!?! Question: Who is some 65 million years old but still considered a juvenile? Why it’s Sara, of course, the newest addition to the Redpath’s dinosaur family. Sara is a triceratops skull made up of hundreds of small fossilized bones collected on digs led by Hans Larsson, professor of evolutionary biology, [...]
Kudos
Short story, big talent On Nov. 17, 2008, The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the winners of its eighth annual Writers’ Trust Awards. As part of this prestigious event, the $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize was presented to Saleema Nawaz, the Department Secretary in the Philosophy Department, for her story “My [...]
Headline News
By McGill Reporter Staff For the second time this year, McGill has been touched by international terrorism. Two members of the University community were shot to death in Mumbai, India late last month during a murderous rampage that shocked the world. Dr. Michael Moss, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and alumna [...]
Green corner
Mechanical Engineering lab a paper tiger no more Amar Sabih hates leaving a paper trail. Not that he’s doing something he wants to hide. On the contrary, the adjunct professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and research fellow hopes that the more people hear about how he’s greened his lab, the more compelled they will [...]
Research and Discovery
Sci-fi comes to life in Non-Thermal Plasma Processing Lab By Mark Shainblum Plasma, as those of you who were paying attention in high school physics may remember, is the fourth distinct state of matter in addition to solids, liquids and gases. Broadly speaking, plasma is somewhat like a gas where some atoms and molecules have [...]
Entre Nous
Keeper of the faith By Neale McDevitt In 1961, Manjit Singh came to Canada from his native India with a plan to earn a degree from the University of Western Ontario’s Business School and return home to begin his career. After graduating in 1963, however, Singh’s best laid plans went somewhat awry as he moved [...]
Other News
By Laurie Devine Few had heard the name Henry Molaison before news of his death broke on the front page of the New York Times late last week. He was known as H.M., or simply Henry, by students of cognitive psychology as a participant in hundreds of neurological studies.
Profile
McGill professor takes on the Russian giant By Pascal Zamprelli In telling a war story, it’s rare to focus on the lawyers. But McGill law professor Payam Akhavan is playing a critical role in the conflict over a pair of breakaway regions few people had heard of before August. That’s when he found himself in [...]
Athletics
Much-travelled Redmen guard hopes to cap career with trip to Nationals By Jim Hynes Fans and teammates, for obvious reasons, call him “Moose.” But for all the places basketball has taken him, Moustafa El Zanaty’s nickname might just as well be “Suitcase.” Since he left Montreal to attend a Boston-area prep school in 2001, the [...]
News
By Julie Fortier When Vincent Larochelle read the selection criteria for the Rhodes Scholarships earlier this year, he knew they matched his approach to life. Enrolled in an Honours BSc program in Mathematics with a Minor in Classics at McGill, the 21-year-old from Quebec City is strongly motivated by truth, courage and devotion – values [...]