Talkin’ ’bout Love
Extra! Extra!A funny thing happened on our way to the special Love issue of the McGill Reporter we had planned for February 9, just prior to Valentine’s Day. We got preoccupied – or occupied, if you will – by last week’s shutdown of the James Administration Building by student protesters (see the front page for the full story). Without access to our offices, the issue had to be postponed by a week and, as a result, some of the love stories we had prepared got bumped to make room for coverage of last week’s events. But love’s labour has not been totally lost. Instead of a whole issue dedicated to affairs of the heart, we decided to spread the love around.
The Robin Hoods of the textbook trade
Extra! Extra!The McGill Bookstore’s textbook rental program poses a dilemma for the people running it: by saving students money, into also cuts into the profits that historically have been used to fund student programs and bursaries. Read on to learn more about the expanding rental program.
Studying glacier retreat in Peru
Extra! Extra!Exhaustion, thin air and exotic food part of the challenging terrain for hydrology researcher By Michel Baraer When you’re hiking across a flooded plain with water halfway up to your knees, gasping for breath in the thin mountain air, it’s easy to forget how lucky you are to be doing field work in Peru. While [...]
P3G finds a new home at McGill and the MUHC
Extra! Extra!This fall, the Public Population Project in Genomics and Society, an international consortium whose mission is to bring together different sources of data and harmonize them so that they are usable and accessible to researchers, moved to McGill, and the Secretariat-Observatory is now part of the Research Institute for the McGill University Health Centre.
New chapter written for beloved Book Fair
Extra! Extra!When the door closed behind Victoria Lees as she left Redpath Hall around 10 p.m. on a rainy Thursday, Oct. 10, she felt sad because she knew it was also shutting on one of McGill’s most venerable events; the University’s annual Book Fair.
Moral Fibers: Dobson Cup winner aims for a larger market niche
Extra! Extra!By Chris Chipello It’s been a whirlwind five months for Matt Brightman since Moral Fibers, the start-up T-shirt business that he co-founded, won the top prize in the Dobson Cup competition for budding McGill entrepreneurs. He and co-founder Martin Weiss, both undergraduates in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, have been pressing ahead with efforts to ramp [...]
Public face of science at McGill gets a major boost
Extra! Extra!Does the idea of science make you think of complicated equations, test tubes and isolated laboratories? For entrepreneur and longtime McGill philanthropist Lorne Trottier, BEng’70, MEng’73, DSc’06, bringing science out of the ivory tower and into the public domain is a longtime passion. Now, thanks to a $5.5-million gift to McGill’s Faculty of Science, he is making sure that several successful public outreach programs have a secure long-term future.
Leclerc earns prestigious GG nomination
Extra! Extra!When did you last read a novel that was written in more than one language? The difficulty of reading this kind of book might be trumped only by the difficulty of finding one. Someone who can definitely help you with the latter is Catherine Leclerc, Professor of French Language and Literature. Her 2010 analysis of co-lingual works of fiction has earned her a nomination for the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award, one of Canada’s highest honours for writers.
The History Issue
Extra! Extra!As part of the celebrations of the University’s 190th anniversary, the McGill Reporter presents a special History Issue.
Senate rejects strike-related motion for Academic Amnesty for students
Extra! Extra!Senate’s meeting on Oct. 19 was dominated by debate over issues related to the continuing strike by MUNACA members, including a vote on a motion to “grant the right to Academic Amnesty” for students in the case of a strike or lock-out.