By McGill Reporter staff Vicky Kaspi will have to divert her gaze from the heavens long enough to shake some hands and collect some more hardware. McGill’s Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics has been awarded a 2009 Prix du Québec, the highest honour conferred by the [...]
Green corner
Fate of proposed Sustainable Projects Fund hinges on student referendum By Neale McDevitt You’ll have to excuse Jonathan Glencross if he feels like the soundtrack to his life these days sounds a lot like the Mission Impossible theme song – complete with the ominous burning fuse urging him to action before time runs and something [...]
Other News
By Doug Sweet Elsewhere on this site is a story about some very important philanthropy – the $500 million McGill has attracted from generous donors since the inception of Campaign McGill. It’s tangible evidence that there’s good to be done in giving. And McGill and its community are clearly the recipients of some very good [...]
Research and Discovery
Researcher passionate about the crystals and proteins that make up our bones By Mark Shainblum Dr. Marc McKee has a unique, almost biblical view of the human body. Like Lot’s Wife, he says, we’re already – in our bones and teeth – partially made of stone. Moreover, under the right circumstances, even soft tissue like [...]
Kudos
Professor Emeritus Musa Kamal, Department of Chemical Engineering, received the Life Achievement Award at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Advanced Molding Technology (SAMT). He received the award “in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the polymer processing community” at the Annual Meeting of SAMT in Changzhou, China, Sept. 26-28, 2009.
Athletics
Interim head coaches look forward to strong seasons from Martlets, Redmen By Jim Hynes One never left, the other is back after a 36-year absence, and they’ve taken the helm of their respective squads under entirely different circumstances. But Amey Doyle and Jim Webster, the interim head coaches of the McGill Martlets and Redmen, respectively, [...]
Other News
Book Fair volunteers brave bad backs, paper cuts for annual sale By Neale McDevitt They’ve been lifting since February, in preparation for the big day just one week away, repetition after repetition. The team physio ministers to sore backs and aching shoulders that have hoisted thousands of pounds. Regardless, all keep lifting. The McGill Redmen [...]
Research and Discovery
Beatty lecturer Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne explains neuroscience By Neale McDevitt Let’s get something straight: I am not a Science Guy, I am a Lit Guy. Rather than Gray’s Anatomy – the book – I cut my teeth on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, the poetry of the British Romantics and the barbed but beautiful prose [...]
Other News
Former Polish diplomat taught French at McGill for 30 years By Chris Chipello If you’re visiting the McLennan-Redpath library buildings in the next couple of weeks, allow a few minutes to tarry in the main-floor corridor linking them. The modest exhibit of posters hanging there until Nov. 5 recounts the remarkable life of Tadeusz Romer.
Around Campus
England’s debts to Dutch culture and politics; Champlain’s founding of a new civilization on the St. Lawrence and power struggles among Natives and Europeans in the American West are the broad themes beautifully explored in each of this year’s Cundill Prize shortlisted books.