By Neale McDevitt Although his is a little hazy on some of the specifics, Michael Mitchell remembers when – and why – he first wanted to become a playwright.
Point of View
By Doug Sweet Talk about a broad brush. A recent series of three “academic Town Halls” featuring Principal Heather Munroe-Blum and Provost Tony Masi covered great swaths of big-issue territory and generated sometimes fervent discussion about what the University is and what it should be doing as it steps into the next decade of a [...]
Profile
By Pascal Zamprelli “Exhausting” is the concise analysis Zach Newburgh, honours major in Middle East Studies, offers to describe the recent campaign that saw him elected President of the Students Society of McGill University (SSMU). Indeed, it figured among the society’s most hotly contested elections in recent history, with many candidates engaged in close races.
Entre Nous
By Neale McDevitt Michel Tremblay is running on fumes. Just three weeks into being a new father again (“my three daughters are all grown up so this diaper-changing thing feels completely new to me,” he said with a laugh), the Jeanne and Jean-Louis Lévesque Chair in Cancer Research is dealing with sleep deprivation while having [...]
News
Social Work PhD student lands coveted Trudeau Award By McGill Reporter Staff Émilie Raymond, a McGill doctoral student in Social Work, has earned a prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholarship, while another 18 PhD candidates have landed Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. Raymond was awarded the Trudeau scholarship – one of Canada’s largest and most prestigious [...]
News
By William Raillant-Clark If someone told you that McGill researchers received grants from the Grammy and Guggenheim Foundations, you might be forgiven for thinking: “Schulich” and “Arts.” But you would be wrong. The organizations are funding cutting-edge research in the Faculty of Dentistry and at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI).
Research and Discovery
By McGill Reporter Staff The Crossroad for BioTransfer is back, with a new twist. The third edition of this made-in-Montreal event – which brings together business people and leading scientific researchers – will be held May 18 in Boston.
Kudos
Dr. Charles Robert Scriver, Alva professor Emeritus of Human Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill and Dr. Roscoe O. Brady, scientist emeritus and senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Md., have been awarded the 2010 Pollin Prize in recognition of their discovery of the molecular and [...]
Other News
By Jim Hynes One of the main purposes of a place of higher learning – the preparing of young people for the working world – can sometimes get lost in the all-encompassing swirl of academia. Everywhere except for McGill’s Career Planning Service (CaPS), that is, where the eyes never drift from the prize of finding [...]
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Emeriti selection process revamped By McGill Reporter Staff With the closing of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 28, it has been more than two months since medal counts actually mattered. Until now – with the imminent announcement of the first recipients of the inaugural “McGill Medal for Exceptional Academic Achievement.”