April 14, 2005
April 14, 2005 McGill University
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Owen Egan
Now that classes are over and spring is here, people are gathering outside
on lower campus to take advantage of the good weather. Undergraduate
student Ben Scott from the Faculty of Education launches a Frisbee into the
air with the greatest of ease. Let's hope his exams go so effortlessly,
too.
Owen Egan
McGill's three Killam winners
McGill scored an unprecedented hat trick in this year's Killam Prizes.
Computer scientist Luc Devroye, medical anthropologist Margaret Lock and
biochemistry professor Nahum Sonenberg each won a $100,000 prize in their
respective fields.
Scholars chew the fat
Canada is growing, and it's not entirely in a good way. Obesity is on the
rise, and experts participating in a McGill conference say that diet alone
won't solve the problem.
Science and the entrepreneur
McGill graduate Julian Adams returned to McGill to share his experiences as a
groundbreaking research chemist leading the field in anti-cancer drug
development.
Anti-American obsession: Quebec vs. the
U.S.
Seagram Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies David Haglund examines the roots
of Quebec's developing, and historically recent, aversion to our southern
neighbours.
What's for dinner? Let instinct guide
you
The red colobus monkey of Uganda may not have access to Canada's food guide,
but anthropology professor Colin Chapman has discovered their nutritional
preferences. This may help park managers boost the numbers of the little tree
dwellers.
Class, experts discuss UN Congo
mission
A number of high-ranking military, judicial and political experts
participated in a recent panel discussion in a religious studies class on the
UN peacekeeping mission in the Congo.
Using computers to test survival
success
André Costopoulos studies ancient hominid species and the factors that
affected their different survival rates, and he does it in real time. No, he
doesn't own a time machine: the anthropologist uses computer models to
imagine how our antecedents might have coped with their world.
Listening to the great beyond
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI project, not only believes in
extraterrestrial life, he's sure we'll hear from them within the next few
decades.
Lighting Nicaragua
While in Nicaragua last year, engineering student Bahareh Seyedi was struck
by the lack of activity after the sun set at night. Together with fellow
students and some innovative technology, she has set up a program that will
bring light to rural areas.
McGill's daycare dilemma
There are hundreds of people on the waiting lists for McGill's two daycares,
run by the university and by the SSMU. The provincially subsidized system
keeps costs down for parents, but has led to administrative problems that
university users are addressing through informal discussion groups and
lobbying.
Nursing students go to Rwanda
Nursing students Annemarie Hoffmann and Maria MacDougall will be spending two
months with the Kigali Health Institute in Rwanda, helping students and
instructors there develop a new curriculum for the many challenges that are
facing the tiny central African republic.
Solving the myelin
mystery
Neuroscientist David Colman is part of an innovative effort to find
treatments for multiple sclerosis, funded and led by an American millionaire
who has the disease.
In Focus
David Krawitz is the keystone among builders as administrative officer in
the School of Architecture. Social worker Lolly Annahatak wins National
Aboriginal Achievement Award.
Entre Nous with acting Vice-Principal (Research) Jacques Hurtubise
The VP research on what his office can do for McGill researchers looking for support, service and funding.
Around campus
Dr Lawrence Altman has his ear to the pulse of the United States, both as a doctor and as a reporter for the New York Times, Dr Martin Dawes has some advice on how to become a better patient, the McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building screens the documentary An Unlikely Friendship, and the Law Faculty goes po-mo, semiotically.
