By McGill Reporter Staff Denis Brière, Rector of Université Laval, has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of CREPUQ, the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities, succeeding McGill Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum in the role as leader of the province’s most important forum for university leadership.
Athletics
By Jim Hynes McGill grad and former Redmen captain Guy Boucher has been named the head coach of the National Hockey League’s Tampa Bay Lightning. Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman announced the appointment, making Boucher the seventh head coach in team history, yesterday.
Other News
TVMcGill cooking-show duo wins second annual contest for budding McGill entrepreneurs By Chris Chipello Amanda Garbutt and April Engelberg have already made a splash on campus with their student-friendly cooking show, The Hot Plate, on TV McGill.
Research and Discovery
MIAM Director Andrew Kirk awarded grant from CREATE Program By Cynthia Lee Prof. Andrew Kirk, Director of the McGill Institute for Advanced Materials (MIAM) and Associate Dean of Engineering (Research and Graduate Education), has garnered a $1,620,500 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s CREATE Training Program for his proposal [...]
Around Campus
The Redpath Museum is proud to be taking part in the International Year of Biodiversity. As part of its events and activities in 2010, the Museum will be featuring a series of documentary films this summer that focus on the creatures of our earth and seas, the local and international issues that threaten their (and [...]
News
By Jim Hynes Where there were parking spots there are now benches and flowerpots. And best of all, most of the time, there are no trucks or cars, just people. In the words of Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay, McTavish St., between Sherbrooke and Dr. Penfield, is now officially a pedestrian zone “12 months a year.”
Around Campus
The Redpath Museum is proud to be taking part in the International Year of Biodiversity. As part of its events and activities in 2010, the Museum will be featuring a series of films this summer that focus on the creatures of our earth and seas, the local and international issues that threaten their (and our) [...]
Headline News
McGill is renowned for its work – the quality of its work, the breadth of its work and the impact of its work that is felt around the world. This is a place where an old-fashioned work ethic has never gone out of style, be it among faculty, researchers, staff and, of course, students. But [...]
News
By Jim Hynes “Go now in peace to share the gift of knowledge that has been entrusted to you.” With these words, Secretary-General Stephen Strople brought the first McGill spring Convocation ceremony of 2010 to a close last Friday, May 28, and sent approximately 350 new graduates from the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences [...]
Research and Discovery
Aboriginal field course offers cultural immersion, enhanced understanding By Pascal Zamprelli At first, it seemed to the students that the hospital and long-term care facilities on the Kahnawake reserve did not look all that different from the Western institutions they knew. But as their tour ended, their host let them know that, now, they would [...]