Adam Fritz (U3 Arts) and Ben Scott (U3 Education) get a little football in on the main field, lower campus, this week. Now that the last of the white stuff has melted away, students are flexing their muscles and playing outside.
Owen Egan
Greatness realized
As part of its spring Convocation, McGill will recognize fourteen outstanding
individuals with honorary degrees and six Professors Emeriti.
Deconstructing hate: Scholar plumbs lure of
Jihad
Khalid Medani, an assistant professor of Political Science and Islamic
Studies, earns a $100,000 Carnegie Scholarship to further examine what leads
African youth to join Islamist fundamentalist organizations.
Levelling the PhD field
The Office of the Associate Provost (Graduate Education) has announced the
creation of the McGill International Doctoral Awards, which will eliminate
the tuition supplement for all full-time international doctoral students as
of September 2007.
P.O.V.: Reaching out to prevent school
shootings
On September 13, 2006, Joel Kornek was the first person shot during Kimveer
Gill's rampage at Dawson College. The McGill Education student tells his
story.
Headliners: Musical groundbreakers,
haberdashery hex-breakers
From the hardest working prof in show business to a tie that's as good as a
win.
Profile: Itzkowitz's sweet
victory
He's young, he's hip, he's newly elected. Justin Trudeau? Nope, Jake
Itzkowitz, the new president of the SSMU.
McGill web gems: Surfing for Safdie
Moshe Safdie 24/7 and a quartet of McGill-based songs.
McGill Matters: Tips for teaching,
policing
A workshop for profs helps them design and redesign their courses and
McGill's crime-busting tips line.
Entre Nous with David Lank, Director of the
Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies: Risky Business
He's a successful investment banker, an accomplished actor and an inductee of
the Atlantic Salmon Association Hall of Fame. Is there anything David Lank
can't do?
Research & Discovery: Pushing
PRAM
What does Participatory Research at McGill really mean? There's only one way
to find out.
Kudos: Ovations, donations
Clive Chang gets a prestigious nod for his volunteering and McGill's
Centraide efforts earn special mention.
Monumental research: political symbolism in
post-Soviet Russia
What really happened to all those statues of hammers and sickles when the
Soviet Union collapsed in 1991?
Honour Roll
McGill celebrates its Honorary Degree recipients and Professors Emeriti.
A walk and a talk for Palliative Care
Week
McGill hosts a special lecture and a fundraising walk in an effort to raise
the public's awareness of the need for improved palliative care.
Classroom technology à la McGill
What's the hottest ticket on campus? The Instructional Multimedia Services
Fair, of course.
Sowing the seeds of World Wide
Wisdom
Don Smith, Chair of the Department of Plant Science, spearheads a new
distance teaching initiative that links Canadian grad students from coast to
coast.
Around campus
Rock and stroll, the Yellow Door and running with the caribou.
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At Place des Arts on Friday, April 27, McGill's Engineers Without Borders took part in a national effort to remind the federal government of the goal to allocate .7 percent of Canada's GNP to development assistance. That figure is now at slightly above .3 percent.
Céline Dujarric
