By McGill Reporter Staff Have you thought about attending medical school but think your educational background disqualifies you? Maybe you’ve been working on a different career path. Or maybe you took time off from your studies to raise a family, but your desire to study medicine still burns bright.
Around Campus
On Sunday, August 1, as part of its Spotlight on Biodiversity summer film series to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity, the Redpath Museum presents One More Dead Fish, the heartwrenching story of environmentally-friendly handline fishermen in Nova Scotia fighting to survive in a rapidly globalizing industry.
Athletics
By Earl Zukerman Doug Heron, a legendary football and hockey player at McGill University in the 1940s, died in London, Ont., on July 26. He was 85. An inductee to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, the native of Montreal was a star fullback and kicker with the football Redmen and was an [...]
Profile
By McGill Reporter Staff On July 25, Mary MacKinnon, a professor of Economics and the former Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, passed away at age 51 after a battle with cancer. Born on July 4, 1959 in Ottawa, Ontario, MacKinnon earned a B.A. (Econ) from Queen’s University, and D.Phil, Nuffield College, Oxford, England. [...]
Notes from the field
By Crystal Ernst June 16 – The small twin-propeller plane bursts through the clouds and begins its final descent. As we approach the gravel landing strip in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, the northern community that will be my summer home, I catch my first-ever glimpse of the arctic tundra. From the air, the land below seems barren: [...]
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On Sunday, July 25, as part of its Spotlight on Biodiversity summer film series to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity, the Redpath Museum presents the 2003 BBC production Deep Blue: The Natural History of the Oceans.
Headline News
By McGill Reporter Staff The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, joined Principal Heather Munroe-Blum Thursday for a tour of the McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre. Prior to the tour, the Minister and the Principal met with officials from Genome Canada and Génome Québec to discuss, among other subjects, federal funding for Genome [...]
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On Sunday, July 18, as part of its Spotlight on Biodiversity summer film series to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity, the Redpath Museum presents Pas de pays sans paysans, a documentary in which crop and animal farmers in Quebec, the Canadian West, the US Northeast and France offer solutions to the social and environmental [...]
News
Internationally recognized African-Canadian scientist is celebrated By McGill Reporter Staff The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, last week recognized the national historic significance of Ernest Melville DuPorte, whose scientific research propelled Canada into the forefront of parasitology.
Headline News
Former McGill Principal to become 28th Visitor to McGill By McGill Reporter Staff Prime Minister Stephen Harper has ended weeks of speculation by naming McGill’s former Principal and Vice-Chancellor, David Johnston, as Canada’s 28th Governor-General. Johnston will assume office on Oct. 1, immediately at the end of current Governor-General Michaëlle Jean’s term. In his official [...]