October 11, 2007

Clockwise from left: Julia Turvey (Canada), Audrey Boctor (Canada), Anton Burkov (Russia), Denyse Umutoni (Rwanda), Cyprien Ntahomvukiye (Burundi), Sarah Meyer(Australia), and Dan Juma (Kenya), at McGill for the International Young Leaders Forum in conjunction with the Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide, enjoy a team-building exercise before getting down to business.
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Preventing genocide
By Pascal Zamprelli
World experts gather to confront mankind's worst crime.

Homing in on Homecoming
By Allison Flynn
Break out the red and white, Homecoming '07 is just around the corner.

Far from Normal
By Allison Flynn
The Faculty of Education celebrates its first 150 years by looking toward the future.

Headliners: From steel magnolias to the sweet sound of Crow
By Neale McDevitt
This issue, McGill experts talk about everything from sustainable communities to card shark kids.

P.O.V.: Merci, Monsieur Schulich
Par Geneviève Langelier
Geneviève Langelier, a second-year music history major, writes about how Seymour Schulich's generosity has been invaluable to her studies.

Profile: Homecoming 2007
By Michael Bourguignon
With Homecoming kicking off on Oct. 18, we thought it would be apropos to profile the team that makes it all possible.

McGill Web Gems
By Mark Shainblum
From anti-spam stuff to something called EVault—it's all here.

Entre Nous with Marc Weinstein, Assistant Vice-Principal Development, Alumni and University Relations and Director of University Campaigns
By Neale McDevitt
Just days away from the launch of McGill's capital campaign, the man with McGill's longest title discusses everything from the minutiae of the campaign's nuts and bolts to its sweeping big picture.

Bourguignon Beat: Ashes to ashes, dust to dung
By Michael Bourguignon
Everybody's favourite roving reporter, Michael Bourguignon really puts his foot into it this time as he helps a McGill team dig for elephant bones at Parc Safari.

Changing lives, one internship at a time
By Neale McDevitt
Up and running since 2004, the Arts Internships Program gives hundreds of students the chance to apply what they learn every year.

Conference looks to improve patient safety
By Neale McDevitt
The McGill Educational Initiative on Interprofessional Collaboration will host a one-day conference on patient safety in the clinical setting.

Notes from the Field: Rocks and ice
By T. Alexander Dececchi
T. Alexander Dececchi, a first-year PhD candidate, gives readers a glimpse of what it's like to hunt for fossils in the Canadian High Arctic.

Research and Discovery: Adding texture to Islamic texts
By Daniel Spitzberg
Professors Robert Wisnovsky and F. Jamil Ragep roll up their sleeves to build a unified database of Islamic teachings.

Around campus
Everything from the return of Moshe Safdie to the never-ending battle against discrimination. McGill has it all!