By Jim Hynes Members of the Making Publics (MaPs) project team gathered at Montreal’s Musée des Beaux-Arts last Monday to celebrate their five-year project as well as the launch of Spheres (with Festival Montreal Baroque), the second of two arts festivals they have taken part in.
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By William Raillant-Clark TORONTO – The world’s media is in Toronto this week, and so are Dr. Gregory Dudek and PhD candidates Junaed Sattar and Anqi Xu of McGill’s School of Computer Science. They’re there to showcase their AQUA2 robot, the only one of its kind in the world.
Athletics
By Earl Zukerman Former Olympic swimmer Richard Pound, who went on to a lengthy administrative career with the International Olympic Committee and served as McGill Chancellor from 1999 to 2009, headlines a cast of six new inductees to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame, bringing the list of the pantheon’s honoured members to 101.
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Balancing mind, body and spirit at Health and Well-Being Program event By Health and Well-Being Program Staff On June 8, approximately 75 McGill staff members joined Principal Heather Munroe-Blum for an open air yoga class under the trees of lower campus in the vicinity of the Three Bares fountain. No prerequisites were necessary, just an [...]
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McGill researchers explore how to better integrate bicycles with transit By McGill Reporter Staff What might Montreal’s public transit system look like if bicycles were regularly used to access it welcomed on board a greater number of transit vehicles? That is the question that McGill transportation researchers are asking this summer in an online survey [...]
Around Campus
Celebrate Father’s Day (Sunday, June 20) at the Redpath Museum along to the Latino-inspired sounds of and the Trilobites (Martina Govednik, vocals; Sylvain Bertrand, piano; Alex Bellegarde, doublebass; Eric Breton, percussion). This musical fundraiser presents Latin tunes such as Gracias a la vida, Volare, and Calling you (from the film Baghdad Café ). It gets [...]
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McGill students, faculty and staff have a special opportunity this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (June 16-18) to tune into ideaCity 2010, Canada’s premier “meeting of the minds” conference in Toronto. The annual event of eclectic thinkers will be delivered as a high-definition live video webcast over a next-generation platform of Internet connectivity between participating Canadian [...]
Headline News
By Jim Hynes Evoking the “Quiet Revolution” that transformed Quebec society in the early 1960s, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum made a passionate appeal for greater funding for universities and a renewed emphasis on the importance of education, one that would allow Quebec to keep pace with the rest of the world in the “new revolution of [...]
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By McGill Reporter Staff The replacement of a major water main at the corner of McGill College Ave. and Sherbrooke St. W. will result in some partial and temporary street and sidewalk closings in the area adjacent to the Roddick Gates until early August. The work began Monday, June 14.
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By McGill Reporter Staff The inaugural Goodman Cancer Research Gala, in support of the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), took place under a giant tent on McGill University’s lower campus on Saturday, June 5, 2010. The event brought together more than 700 guests and raised over $2.5 million in support of the [...]