November 24, 2005
November 24, 2005 McGill University
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Does the early bird really want to wrangle with this worm? Dr. Momar Ndao, Director of the National Research Laboratory for Parasitology at the Montreal General Hospital, wields a whopper of a beef tapeworm (Taenia saginata) at McGill's inaugural Health Fair on November 17. Evelyne Kokoskin, from the same lab, smiles from a safe distance.
Owen Egan
Sleepless (but successful) in
Seattle
McGill team overcomes beyond-their-control technical glitches to steal the
show at the prestigious Supercomputing 2005 conference.
Kahnawake diabetes project wins
big
Ann C. Macaulay's hands-on work with the Kahnawake community, spanning some
30 years, earns her a nomination as a new member of the exclusive Institute
of Medicine.
Math models and ice melts
Early aversion to dissections puts climatologist Lawrence Mysak on
award-winning career path.
Operation challah
Neither a butcher nor candlestick maker, Jewish Studies student Elizabeth
Alpern is, however, a gifted baker who supplies denizens of the McGill ghetto
with delicious homemade breads.
Medical ethics beyond the soundbite
Leigh Turner takes exception to bioethicists who focus primarily on the sexy,
high-tech issues of the day. Instead, he says, we should be concentrating on
issues related to medicine and health care in impoverished, developing
nations.
SSMU club kerfuffle – joining UGE and
Queer McGill
The proposed merger of Queer McGill and the Union for Gender Empowerment
sparks a firestorm of controversy.
Communications keystone moves on
After five years of stellar service in the University Relations Office,
Sylvain-Jacques Desjardins moves on.
Smile! You're in dental outreach
The best oral hygiene show on wheels. McGill's award-winning Dental Outreach
program has been hitting the street since 1998, giving people who can't
normally afford regular dental care reason to smile.
Rae pushes for gold
Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae speaks on education funding at U de M event
co-hosted with McGill.
McGill Matters
The McGill University emergency phone system
In focus
Kimberley Stephenson: Book buyer by day, evil genius by night; Answering the call
Entre nous
Registrar Sylvia Franke: Tearing down the ivory tower
Kudo
French literature professor Marc Angenot is awarded a Prix du Québec, the most prestigious honour handed out by the provincial government.
Senate
It was a long session that touched on the fraught booking of rooms on campus, handicapped access, Standard & Poor's ratings and the politics of ancillary services committees.
Around campus
Silent Auction benefits Centraide; heroic diplomats save thousands; free movie on melting Arctic; McGill grad's book looks at gay bashing; Town Hall take two; and student researchers strut their stuff.
