Outpouring of generosity raises $20,000 for Haitian relief effort By Neale McDevitt McGill students have proven they are more than equal to the task – no matter how daunting. Yesterday, Karina Gould, President of the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS), presented a cheque for $19,673.29 to Oxfam Québec to go toward relief efforts in Haiti. The [...]
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By McGill Reporter Staff At the most recent gathering of McGill’s Senate on Jan. 20, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum informed those in attendance that she and two other McGill representatives would be joining Premier Jean Charest as part of a delegation of 130 representatives of the worlds of business, education and research who are interested in [...]
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By William Raillant-Clark “Almost all the profs who were there were smiling, because we love teaching,” grinned Guillaume Gervais of McGill’s Physics Department as he recalled the 2009 edition of the Excellence in Research exhibition – an event that offers the public an opportunity to discover McGill’s excellence in a vast range of research fields [...]
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Early-rising woodsmen aren’t fazed by hard work, or 6 a.m. practices By Jim Hynes The members of the McGill lumberjacks team are sharpening their skills this week, not to mention their axes and saws, in anticipation of a milestone event this coming weekend. The Jacks and Jills of the McGill woodsmen team hope to add [...]
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By Jim Hynes and Earl Zukerman The Montreal Canadiens and their fans will be happy to forget about the team’s 4-3 overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues last night, but for the newest member of the Habs, it was surely a night to remember.
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Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he’s successful, he’s rich, and he has no problems…until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient’s perspective, he realizes that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions. Join McGill’s Faculty of Medicine [...]
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By McGill Reporter Staff Haitian relief efforts are in full swing at McGill, with new initiatives cropping up each day. For example, the Education Undergraduate Society has combined forces with the Education Graduate Student Society to spearhead a winter clothing drive for Haitian refugees expected to arrive in Montreal in the coming days, weeks and [...]
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Nicell outlines construction plans By Neale McDevitt Planning, as Associate Vice-Principal (University Services) Jim Nicell would be the first to say, is not an exact science.
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McGill’s Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Center will be holding the second of its four-part series on cancer on Jan. 20: “Fueling Cancer Growth.” The session will focus on research demonstrating how nutrition, metabolism, and other factors are related to understanding why and how cancer grows while providing an interactive forum which will allow [...]
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Kick off Freaky Fridays for Winter 2010 with McGill Emeritus professor Don Donderi’s first of a four-part lecture series on UFO phenomenon. This lecture explains how and why a psychology professor who studies human perception and memory came to investigate the UFO phenomenon. It will review the chronology of the phenomenon since the first widely [...]