For palliative care expert Michael Kearney
Four Burning QuestionsMichael Kearney is an Irish physician with over 30 years’ experience in end-of-life care in England, Ireland, at Our Lady’s Hospice, and in Canada, at McGill. Currently based in California, Dr. Kearney is the Medical Director of the Palliative Care Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Associate Medical Director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care. Dr. Kearney teaches internationally and has published two books on psycho-spiritual aspects of end-of-life care: Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing and A Place of Healing: Working with Nature and Soul at the End of Life.
McGill hockey stars score top CIS honours
AthleticsMartlets forward Ann-Sophie Bettez and Redmen defenceman Marc-André Dorion were named the 2012 BLG Award winners as Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) female and male athletes of the year at a ceremony in Calgary Monday. It marks the first time that the BLG Awards go to athletes from the same university, and the first time that two hockey players are honoured in the same year.
Celebrating our success: McGill Varsity Sports 2011-12
AthleticsMcGill’s varsity athletes celebrated the University’s 190th birthday and the 50th anniversary of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) in style in 2011-12. The Hockey Redmen won the first national title in the team’s 136-year history, and was one of eight McGill varsity squads to capture a conference championship this year. A school record 16 teams competed in national championships, including the hockey and volleyball Martlets, who both brought home bronze, and the basketball Martlets, who won their first Quebec league title since 1996.
For Michele Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University
Four Burning QuestionsMichele Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University and author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture and Philosophy and of numerous articles in political and moral philosophy will present a paper on Memory, Multiculturalism, and Democracy at the Charles Taylor at 80 conference, which will take place at the Musee des Beaux Arts March 29-31.
Redmen win OT thriller
AthleticsTeam captain Evan Vossen, playing in the final game of his five-year career, scored six minutes into overtime to lead the McGill Redmen to a dramatic 4-3 win against the Western Mustangs and the first CIS men’s hockey title in program history, Sunday night, at the University of New Brunswick’s Aitken Centre. The oldest hockey team in the world, playing in their 136th season, triumphed in the 50th anniversary edition of the University Cup championship.
With Wayne Dunn, corporate social responsibility advocate
Four Burning QuestionsWayne Dunn is an international businessman and project leader with 15 years of senior level global experience. Dunn is an advocate of corporate social responsibility (CSR), a business model that encourages companies to have a positive impact on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. One of the founding members of the Leadership Council of McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), he will be presenting at the International Conference, Toward New Public-Private Sector Partnerships for Sustainable Development in Resource Extraction Industries at McGill, on March 29-30.
Martlets win Nationals’ bronze in hockey, volleyball and track
AthleticsThe Volleyball Martlets captured their first ever CIS medal when they upset the Montreal Carabins to win bronze at the national championships in Hamilton, Ont. Sunday, March 4. The fifth-seeded Martlets came away with a 3-1 upset over Quebec champion and No. 3-seed UdeM at McMaster University’s Burridge Gymnasium.
For Jonathan Sterne, Chair, Art History and Communication Studies
Four Burning QuestionsProf Jonathan Sterne will be one of the panelists during Disabilities Awareness Week for Mind the Gap: Putting Disability Studies on the agenda at McGill on Thursday, March 15 from 2-4 p.m. in Leacock 232.
For Aparna Nadig, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Four Burning QuestionsAs part of the first McGill Disabilities Awareness Week (March 12 – 17, Professor Aparna Nadig will participate in a panel on Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. Nadig, the Director of the Pop Lab which conducts research in a variety of ASD-related areas, answered Four Burning Questions from the Reporter prior to the discussion.
Badminton teams hoping for Provincials success
AthleticsThey get by on the bare minimum of practice time and compete before only a handful of spectators, but the members of McGill’s badminton teams take their sport and their commitment to it every bit as seriously as their counterparts on the school’s higher-profile varsity squads.