By Neale McDevitt It has been 75 years since Dr. Wilder Penfield saw his dream come to fruition with the opening of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), integrating cutting-edge neuroscience research with the most advanced and compassionate care for patients with neurological diseases.
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New book offers revealing glimpse into 1960s seminary life By Pascal Zamprelli The year is 1968. It’s Game Four of the Stanley Cup Finals and the Canadiens are nearly certain to win it all that night. But Spencer Boudreau, a young Canadian, Habs fan, and member of a Roman Catholic teaching order known as the [...]
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By Jim Hynes When Enrico Recine told his colleagues that he was interested in the vacant Porter’s job at McConnell Engineering, arguably one of the busiest buildings at McGill, they told him he was crazy.
Athletics
By Earl Zukerman, McGill Athletics & Recreation McGill’s men’s crew stunned the rowing world with a gold medal performance in the elite men’s coxed four at the 45th annual Head of the Charles regatta last weekend.
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Former president calls for “communitarian consciousness” to solve world’s ills. By Neale McDevitt In a globe-trotting speech that touched upon everything from climate change in Afghanistan to linguistic demographics in Papua New Guinea, former U.S. President Bill Clinton accepted his honorary Doctor of Laws degree from McGill by urging his audience to tackle world issues [...]
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The second installment of the Astrophysics Lecture Series in honour of the International Year of Astronomy features Sean Carroll, a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at Caltech, discussing the Origins of the Universe and the Arrow of Time. Carroll will speak on the nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how [...]
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By McGill Reporter Staff Thanks to the generous support of more than 70,000 donors worldwide, Campaign McGill has raised more than $500 million in only the second year of its public phase.
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By McGill Reporter Staff McGill’s subsidized on-site daycare, holiday shutdown, and phased-in retirement program are among the reasons the University has, for a second year running, been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, a list unveiled in the Oct. 14 issue of Maclean’s magazine.
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The Biomedical Ethics Unit of the Faculty of Medicine is proud to present Dr. Irving Kirsch who will deliver a lecture titled “The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth,” on Oct. 14.
Athletics
McGill “ruggernaut” rolling toward eighth-straight league championship By Neale McDevitt When asked about the other men’s university rugby teams in Quebec, Sean McCaffrey, the co-head coach of the McGill Redmen, measures his words carefully. “Sometimes it’s hard to gauge how strong our opponents are based on regular season games because in the past we’ve seen [...]