The biennial Crossroad for BioTransfer will provide a unique opportunity for health-sector businesses to forge partnerships with three research-intensive institutions and leading researchers and innovators. The event will showcase 40 high-impact technologies, from the National Research Council Canada, through its Biotechnology Research Institute (NRC-BRI) and Institute for Biological Sciences (NRC-IBS); Montreal Excellerator, representing McGill University [...]
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Undergraduate course reaches out to those with a disability By Neale McDevitt If, as Goethe once wrote, “our earthly ball [is] a peopled garden,” then McGill’s Adapted Physical Activity course offers a blueprint for successful cultivation. Take a class of Kinesiology and Physical Education undergrads, pair them with a person who is intellectually challenged; plant [...]
Athletics
Fast physics freshman wins provincial fencing title By Neale McDevitt Erin Olson doesn’t act much like a swashbuckler. When we meet, the physics freshman seems a bit shy, even embarrassed, that I’m there to interview her. No hint of Errol Flynn swagger in her. (And forget the “Aaarrrrgggh” jokes. Fencers have all been there, done [...]
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By McGill Reporter Staff Staff at McGill’s Gault Nature Reserve, on Mont St-Hilaire, are assessing how much of the Reserve’s fragile ecosystems were affected by a fire that broke out on April 17th. The fire spread to over 25 hectares of the Reserve’s extreme preservation sector, on the eastern flank of the mountain, a section [...]
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Labonté, Bielby: McGill’s top athletes Charline Labonté, the All-Canadian goaltender who led the Martlets to a second consecutive undefeated season, and swimmer Steven Bielby were named female and male athletes of the year, respectively, at the 32nd annual McGill intercollegiate sports awards gala recently.
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Glenn F. Cartwright, Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and former Dean (interim) of the Centre for Continuing Education, will become Renison University College’s 10th Principal and Vice Chancellor. Cartwright, who succeeds Principal, Dr. John Crossley, and Interim Principal Dr. Bob Rosehart, will assume office August 1, 2009.
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By Jim Hynes For eight weeks every July and August, between 8 and 8:30 a.m., they come from all directions, toting bulging backpacks, baseball caps askew on their heads and the crucial first coat of sunscreen already applied. They are the kids of the McGill Sports Camp, and their morning meeting place alone is enough [...]
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Habs physician cut his teeth stitching up Redmen By Jim Hynes Sports medicine has come a long way since Dr. David Mulder started treating the wounded warriors of the McGill Redmen hockey and football squads back in 1963. And Mulder has come a long way, too. The young medical resident and sports fan who signed [...]
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Strength coach Claude Hébert gives uplifting lessons on courage By Neale McDevitt Few people have a better understanding of the body’s incredible potential for power – and its inherent fragility – than Claude Hébert. Renowned for producing some of Canada’s top strongmen and women as one of the nation’s top weightlifting coaches in the 1980s [...]
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Sports shrine honours McGill’s finest athletes By Jim Hynes Its members include James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, hockey legend Frank Patrick, football pioneer Frank Shaughnessy, three-time Olympian Dr. Phil Edwards, stadium namesake Percival Molson, and modern-day greats like CFLer Michael Soles. Within its ranks you’ll find 21 Olympians and 23 doctors. It is the [...]