Owen Egan
Nature, nurture and
neurophenotyping
Can't shake the doldrums? Is it genes or environment? The new Douglas
Hospital research centre will delve into this very question thanks to $6
million in new funding.
Founder's Day speaker breaking down
borders
Parker Mitchell, co-founder of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), to speak at
Macdonald Campus's Founder's Day.
Tapping into the information treasure
trove
Stats whiz Celine Le Bourdais heads up Statistics Canada's latest information
laboratory. McGill researchers will have full access to decades of survey
data.
Plus In for the long haul:
International conference looks at the boons and burdens of longitudinal
studies.
Star-studded day at the Ritz
Auditor General Sheila Fraser and Cirque du Soleil president Daniel Lamarre
are among the prizewinners at the 26th annual McGill Management Achievement
Awards.
A cut above the rest: McGill's Clansmen set to
repeat as Canadian champs
While you're still cocooning in your comforter at six in the morning, the Mac
Campus lumberjacks and lumberjills are burying the hatchet (and the crosscut
saw) in preparation for their last major competition.
Plus Life as a lumberjack
rookie: How will hardcore woodsmen accept a greenhorn who shows
up to camp in a limousine and wearing a purple parka that makes him look like
Barney the Dinosaur? Read on...
Massive Change: The blueprint for a design
revolution
Design guru Bruce Mau expounds upon the potential of sustainable design to
improve the world in which we live.
Fed visits class
Professor Norman Cornett organizes a "collective blind date" between his 110
Religious Studies students and five special guests, including Johanne
Gelinas, Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable
Development.
Ingrid Birker: New ideas for old
bones
Redpath's new outreach officer and choirgirl brings the museum's fossils
and foibles to public light.
Looking for a place to hide at
MForum
Intrepid editor hopes to evade comedian Joey Elias's comic barbs at the
annual comedy show for McGill's usually taciturn managers.
Entre Nous with Dean of Law Nicholas
Kasirer
The Faculty of Law is embracing a pluralistic take on teaching.
Obituary
Nikolai Nikolaiczuk, former professor of animal science, passes away at age
93. He worked at McGill from 1939 to 1971.
Images
McGill Investment Club goes crazy over simulated pork bellies; Open House
exhibits model molecules, dune buggies, and chemical snow; Justice John
Gomery talks of the commission for MISC.
Senate: Spouses, cheaters and empty
rooms
A spirited session of Senate touched upon plagiarism, nepotism, the new
boss in Ottawa and - hallelujah - the banning of cell phones and
BlackBerries in the Chambers.
Around campus
Bolivian bike odyssey; back from the brink of Buchenwald; justice for
Haiti; Nordic musical smorgasbord; battling the cyber-bully.