La CAF souhaite mettre de l’avant la « richesse » du bilinguisme Par Pascal Zamprelli Ce n’est pas tous les jours qu’en sortant de la bibliothèque Redpath, on se retrouve devant une cabane à sucre permettant de profiter de ce délice préféré des Canadiens français, la tire sur la neige. Pourtant, ce fut le cas [...]
Headline News
By Neale McDevitt The Feb. 16 Town Hall on the challenges faced by McGill as a result of the global economic downturn was marked by an overriding spirit of co-operation, collaboration and level-headed give-and-take in which Principal Heather Munroe-Blum and Provost Anthony Masi asked as many questions of participants as they fielded themselves.
Athletics
UPDATE: The weekend following the publication of this feature story about him (below), Steven Bielby won three individual gold medals at the CIS swim championships at the University of British Columbia, making him the first ever male McGill swimmer to accomplish that feat. The 19-year-old electrical engineering freshman won the 400 individual medley (4:11.42) on [...]
Point of View
By Alanna Thain In Denis Villeneuve’s new film Polytechnique, based on the Montreal massacre of 14 women on Dec. 6, 1989, three images describe a possible relation to life. The killer huddles in his car outside École Polytechnique, isolated from his surroundings in a self-imposed bubble, repeatedly breathing on a frozen pen to write a [...]
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By Neale McDevitt Given worldwide concern about the perilous state of the global economy, it was no surprise that Principal Heather Munroe-Blum fielded some tough questions about McGill’s finances during a packed Town Hall on Feb. 10. Recent reports in local media about salaries and severance payments paid to some senior McGill administrators sparked a [...]
Other News
By Chris Chipello Chloé Dominguez started playing a scaled-down cello as a fourth-grader at l’école Le Plateau in Montreal. Now, as a fourth-year doctoral student at McGill, she has won the largest privately funded music scholarship in Canada: the Schulich School of Music’s Golden Violin Award.
News
By McGill Reporter Staff In a special event at the Montreal Science Centre yesterday, McGill honoured its most celebrated researchers of the past year amidst some shining examples of its brilliant research future.
Research and Discovery
Researchers at the RVH Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab spearhead new therapies to help stroke survivors move again By Mark Shainblum Dr. Lisa Koski is so blasé about being her own guinea pig that she doesn’t even stop talking as lab assistant Aisha Bassett places a plastic-covered magnetic coil against the left side of her head. [...]
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Awards, inspiring speaker mark Founder’s Day By Jim Hynes Macdonald Campus students, faculty, alumni, staff and guests gathered last week to celebrate the birthday of Sir William C. Macdonald, the visionary who founded Macdonald College in 1907.
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By McGill Reporter Staff McGill has lost one of its giants. On Feb. 6, Dr. George Karpati passed away suddenly in Montreal, leaving behind Shira, his wife of 42 years, his sons Adam and Joshua, and a host of loving friends and admiring colleagues. Born in Debrecen, Hungary, Karpati was a Professor of Neurology and [...]