[ URO Central ] Jackie Dubé, marketing coordinator at the McGill Computer Store poses with some of the entrants in the store's contest to find a great pumpkin. Shown above are two winners of honourable mentions while the vegetable (or is it a fruit?) with vegetables earned third prize. PHOTO: OWEN EGAN

Mouvement Desjardins boosts Quebec Studies program ERIC SMITH A $300,000 gift means new initiatives for Alain Gagnon's interdisciplinary program and provides an outreach to the allophone community for the Mouvement. Ricard up for award DANIEL McCABE French language and literature professor François Ricard waits anxiously to hear whether he will be the winner of another Governor General's award, this time for his biography of Gabrielle Roy. Few sour notes in report on music programs ERIC SMITH The first report from the commission examining ways to rationalize academic programs in the province gives McGill good grades. MBA moving east DANIEL McCABE Management professor David Saunders says McGill was initially hesitant about offering an MBA in Japan. Since it was announced that the program will be established at Sophia University in Tokyo, 5,000 people have asked for more information. New light on language DANIEL McCABE A study by two McGill researchers on how the brain organizes language may have publishers scrambling to rewrite the textbooks. Scaling the heights of his profession SHAUN GOHO Professor Eric Mountjoy has been exploring the Rocky Mountains since his childhood. Two recent awards acknowledge the contribution he has made to the study of the range's rock. A career of compassion HÉLÈNA KATZ When Cicely Saunders saw that hospitals weren't meeting the needs of terminally ill patients, she decided to do something about it. Her resolve changed health care around the world.

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