Mintzberg among world’s top business thinkers
KudosHenry Mintzberg, the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management, is one of four Canadians listed among the world’s Top 50 business thinkers, according to biennial rankings sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. Mintzberg, who ranked No. 30, is the author or co-author of 15 books, including the influential Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning.
McGill Postdoc honoured by Le Monde
KudosAurélie Cobat, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill’s Centre for the Study of Host Resistance in the Faculty of Medicine, is one of five health science researchers to receive a high-profile Le Monde Award for University Research. The annual prize, handed out by the French daily, is in recognition of Cobat’s doctoral thesis on the human genetics of tuberculosis (TB).
Kudos for the week of Oct 31., 2011
KudosA tip of the Kudos crown to the McGill Quidditch team, new Canadian Medical Hall of Fame inductees Dr. F. Clarke Fraser and Dr. Peter T. Macklem, Pfizer nursing prize winner Andréanne Saucier and Bruce Naylor Award recipient David Green.
Medals, awards and prizes for McNally, Zatorre, Milner
KudosThe Bibliographical Society of Canada, the Fondation Ipsen and Rockefeller University bestow their highest honours on a trio of McGillians
Varsity Athletes score big for food drive benefitting Sun Youth
KudosHats, and helmets, off to the McGill Varsity Sports Council, whose members and more than 150 varsity athletes pitched in to collect the goods during the Council’s third annual food drive through the McGill ghetto last weekend. The two-hour long initiative collected more than 50 large boxes of food, more than doubling last year’s haul.
Honours galore for McGill research leaders
KudosA tip of the Kudos crown this week goes out to: Professor Wagdi Habash, Prix du Québec winners Nancy Adler and Mark Wainberg, Professor Desmond Morten, new Canadian Medical Hall of Fame inductees Drs. Albert J. Aguayo and Jonathan C. Meakins, and Dr. Rémi Quirion. Read about how they’ve been honoured here:
Hon Doc to Macdonald, Matte honoured
KudosProfessor of Law Roderick Macdonald, one of the best legal minds in the country and a former Dean of the Faculty, will be presented with an honorary degree from l’Université de Montréal. Dr. Nicolas Mateesco Matte was conferred the 39th Edward Warner Award, the highest honour in the world of civil aviation.
Engineering quartet wins Harry Pearce Prize
KudosMcGill students garnered the Mechanical Engineering department’s annual Harry Pearce Prize when they created sustainable lighting using 48 neutral white LUXEON® Rebel LEDs to illuminate an underground train station platform. The project was the fruit of the labor of students from three McGill faculties – Engineering, Management and Law in an interdisciplinary design project in [...]
Canada Prize for Leckey
KudosThe International Academy of Comparative Law has named Professor Robert Leckey as the recipient of the 2010 Canada Prize for his book, Contextual Subjects: Family, State and Relational Theory (University of Toronto Press, 2008). The jury’s decision was unanimous. The Canada Prize is valued at $10,000.
Engineering Foundation awards two undergrads
KudosMelissa Bacon is one of three winners of this year’s Vale Inco $10,000 Undergraduate scholarships awarded by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF). Along with the scholarship, Bacon, a third-year bioresource engineering student, received a Vale Inco expense-paid trip to the CEMF Annual Awards Luncheon in Vancouver during the Annual General Meeting of Engineers Canada [...]