Of physics and photons On May 5, Mark Sutton, Rutherford Professor of Physics, was one of the recipients of the 2009 Arthur H. Compton Award along with Simon Mochrie (Yale University) and Gerhard Grübel (HASYLAB). The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory feted the trio “for their pioneering efforts in x-ray photon correlation [...]
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By James Martin Immunity battle of the sexes When it comes to fighting infection, Annie Oakley was right: anything men can do, women can do better. The body’s first reaction to a viral intruder is to ramp up inflammation – but an enzyme called Caspase-12 has the bad habit of blocking this helpful process.
Notes from the field
By Andrea Evans “Morochos! Morochos! Morochos?” Yes, yes, I nod, I am going to the Morochos. He must be no more than 14, this boy recruiting passengers for a bus. Unlike the Greyhound in Canada, the buses in Ecuador are full-service, with freshly made treats delivered to your seat priced by the centavo, reggaeton music [...]
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Richard W. Pound has made remarkable contribution to McGill By Doug Sweet “He shoots from the hip, but he’s got good hips to shoot from. Smart hips.” In seeking perspective on the contribution Richard W. Pound has made to McGill, there is perhaps no better place to turn than the University’s irrepressible imp, Architecture professor [...]
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By David Covo Arthur Erickson, who died May 20, shortly before his 85th birthday, was Canada’s most celebrated architect, our unofficial Architect Laureate and, with two degrees from McGill (BArch’50 and an Honorary Doctorate in 1975), surely one of the University’s most distinguished graduates.
Research and Discovery
The new agriculture starts by taking the “junk” out of “junk DNA” By Mark Shainblum To say that Dr . Thomas Bureau has “a lab” would give you the wrong impression. Yes, there’s a classic, rather small lab in the Stewart Biology Building, full of test tubes and hi-tech microscopes and brightly coloured chemicals. There’s [...]
Entre Nous
“This is a moment when, as an entire University community, we must pull together” by Neale McDevitt Heather Munroe-Blum makes no bones about it, she loves Convocation. “It is the most exciting time on campus,” said the Principal and Vice-Chancellor. “One of my favorite times in Convocation is the private moment with every single student [...]
Point of View
By Neil Cameron Universities can be thought of as being synthetic extended families, with distinguished ancestors , indulgent grandparents, hopeful and fearful parents, quarreling siblings, joyful christenings, tearful funerals; some skeletons in the closet.
Profile
By Jim Hynes Joëlle Guillet has just earned a BSc in Environment, but the 24-year-old native of St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu is pretty much all business. From the frayed bottoms of the jeans that poke out beneath her black graduation gown and her no-nonsense demeanour, you get the impression she’d rather be out in the field working than [...]
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By McGill Reporter Staff Despite the challenges raised by the global economic downturn, McGill has produced a budget for 2009-2010 that keeps the University on track to reduce its deficit to no more than $5 million, with the aim of operating on a balanced budget by May 2011.