I think therefore I am (an agent of positive change in the world)
Notes from the fieldSometimes life gives you lemons, and sometimes life gives you a three-day, all-expenses-paid trip to the United Arab Emirates, where you get to rub shoulders with Nobel Laureates, astronauts, musicians and close to 200 students from the top universities in the world. Masters students Julie Anne Ames and Josée Méthot report back from Abu Dhabi’s Festival of Thinkers.
Around the world in 270 internships
Notes from the fieldMcGill’s Arts Internship Program had 270 student interns in 41 countries this past summer. Read about some of them here.
A lesson in humanity in Northern Ghana
Notes from the fieldBioresource Engineering student Pascal G. Richard reports on his summer internship with Engineers Without Borders McGill in Ghana, West Africa. As part of the agriculture team, Richard was partnered with an international NGO to work on an initiative aimed at fostering better relationships between actors along the grains value chain. The goals of the $3-million project are to increase the income of 50,000 farmers through a reduction of transaction costs and to increase the market linkages between businesses and farmers by 70 per cent.
Bon Jovi internship: They give logistics and PR a good name
Notes from the fieldWhen I got the call telling me that as a student of McGill’s School of Continuing Studies I was being given the opportunity to participate in a one-day internship with Bon Jovi on their Montreal tour stop, I was absolutely floored. In each city they visit, the group allows students from a local university to spend the day with their team, learning real life lessons to complement their classroom studies. On May 4, eight other students from the Public Relations program and I shadowed the tour’s event management and customer relations teams, and were given carte blanche to ask questions and participate in the day’s activities.
India has many things to teach us about business and sustainability
Notes from the field“One, two, three, RUN!” yelled someone, and 10 of us rushed across the street to catch our bus. The rest remained on the other side, too afraid to never make it alive. We were 30 BCom and MBA students from McGill on a trip to India with professor Karl Moore, for reasons both academic and charitable.
Student on ice reports from paradise on Earth
Notes from the fieldLaura Drudi, a third-year medical student was part of the Students on Ice expedition to Antarctica February 14-26. Read her first-person account of the experience here.
In search of Jaghmin
Notes from the fieldPhD candidate Sally P. Ragep’s research centers on a scholar named Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn `Umar al-Jaghmini, wrote one of the most important works of Islamic science, a ubiquitous elementary astronomical text called the Epitome of Astronomy. She went all the way to Turkmenistan to attend a conference and present a paper on him.
YAHAnet: A show of hands
Notes from the fieldBy John Murray
What can a pair of hands express?
A clenched fist. Two fingers interlocking. Thumbs and forefingers forming a heart.
Northern Biodiversity Program: Insects shed light on ecological change
Notes from the fieldBy 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: [...]
Politics and democracy in West Africa
Notes from the fieldBy Dan Lafrenière Hot and dusty is an apt description of the bustling metropolis of Lomé, the parched capital of Togo on West Africa’s Atlantic coast. In late February, I found myself stepping off the plane, onto the sizzling runway tarmac and into the hot tropical night, about to embark on a new African adventure [...]