October 5, 2006

McGill's Jamie Scholefield was named the Canadian Interuniversity Sports male athlete of the week on September 24 after this three-goal performance versus rival Concordia. In other fitness news, on October 6, McGill will host the Journée nationale du sport et de l'activité physique. Between 11:45 am and 1:30 pm, several hundred downtown workers will gather on campus for a fitness session and a walk around the campus.
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Professor Clark
Maeve Haldane
Former prime minister Joe Clark signs on as a Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships at the McGill Centre for Developing-Area Studies.

A force to be reckoned with
MJ Stone
McGill students walk away with a record five awards at the annual Forces AVENIR gala in Quebec City. But they're just doing it for the community.

Seymour Schulich does it again
Michael Bourguignon
Hockey has its Stanley Cup and now the Schulich School of Music has its own Golden Violin.

Headliners: From falling bridges to rising temperatures
Neale McDevitt
McGill's bullpen of experts weigh in on everything from crumbling infrastructures to unwanted mollusks.

P.O.V.: Discussions with the Dalai Lama
Michael Meaney
What's better than meeting the Dalai Lama once? Meeting him twice, of course.

Profile
Catherine Stace: Doing unto others
Neale McDevitt
She used to be one of McGill's unsung heroes, but we're singing her praises now. Read how this CAPS advisor goes above and beyond the call.

Ask an expert: Hitting the high notes
Stephen McAdams, CIRMMT director, fields the question as to whether it is possible for the human voice to shatter glass. He also tells us why marching soldiers get so out of synch as soon as they hit a bridge.

Kudos
Architecture prof Annmarie Adams will be enjoying her own homecoming of sorts in 2008, when she hopes to return to her alma mater, University of California Berkeley, after winning the $40,000 Arcus Endowment Scholar-in-Residence award.

Entre Nous with Chandra Madramootoo, Dean of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
These are busy days at Mac Campus, what with the centenary, the commemorative stamp and a boosted interest in new fields like nutrigenomics, bioprocessing, food safety and bioinformatics. Dean Madramootoo takes a few minutes out of his hectic schedule to fill us in on what's happening at McGill West.

Going on the ethical wallaby
Neale McDevitt
Margaret Somerville will be living the life of a rock star for the month of October as she embarks upon her cross-Canada Massey Lectures series. The sometimes controversial, always affable director of McGill's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law expounds upon everything from bio-terrorism to wallabies.

Iconic Hersh to help launch Media@McGill
Kathryn Haralambous
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh — the man who brought us My Lai and Abu Ghraib — will deliver a speech in conjunction with the opening of McGill's innovative media and communications studies program.

McGill devotes a week to R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Lisa Hunter
McGill's Social Equity and Diversity Education office will be hosting the first annual Harassment Prevention Week, geared towards exploding common myths and misconceptions and helping people recognize harassment in its many nuances.

Cancer prevention gets attention at McGill
Alison Palmer
Not content with just researching cancer, oncology and medicine prof Michael Pollak began an outreach program that educates the public on how to prevent the disease.

Fighting childhood obesity around the world
Big kids now. Big problems later in life. McGill is organizing its second annual Think Tank to gather experts in a variety of fields to come up with an action plan to wean our kids off the cheeseburgers.

Finding narwhals
Maeve Haldane
Natural Resource Sciences doctoral student Marianne Marcoux spent her summer perched on a cold rock shelf looking down on the frigid waters off Baffin Island. Sleep-away camp gone horribly awry? No, just part of her research studying the social structure of narwhals, those crazy whales with the unicorn horn.

People helping people
Neale McDevitt
Bet you didn't know that the very first Centraide march back in 1991 kicked off on McGill's downtown campus. Sure did.

Cyanide and sin
Maeve Haldane
How does a man turn a five-year eBay habit into a nifty book celebrating the classic covers of those cheesy true crime mags of the 1950s? Only art history and communications prof and pulp fiction aficionado Will Straw knows for sure.

Team training
Jennifer Westlake
While silos are great for storing livestock feed and nukes, they are lousy places from which to run health departments. So how is the McGill Educational Initiative on Interprofessional Collaboration promoting interdisciplinary teamwork? Read on...

Honouring Bruce Trigger
Rena Okada
Hollywood can keep Indiana Jones, we've got Bruce Trigger — the archaeologist's archaeologist.

Hooked on wireless
Eve Krakow
Remember when you were the talk of the block if your TV could get Gilligan's Island without manipulating the old rabbit ears for 20 minutes? Well, those days are long gone, as witnessed by the upgrading of McGill's wireless network. That explains the ear-to-ear grins on laptop users across the university.

More than talking heads at Future of Music Summit
Hana Askren
David Byrne's coming to McGill to discuss the direction of the music industry. Are musicians being taken to the river?

Can philosophy help the Middle East?
Mary Fowles
Professor Carlos Fraenkel takes a philosophical approach to solving the Middle East tensions by going to the Al-Quds' classrooms.

Around campus
Sea monsters, werewolves, the world's most prominent atheist and lots of free stuff! Can it really get any better than this?