Faculty
Update to earlier email delivery problems
Virus infected machines affected our email servers yesterday, causing an overload and delay in email delivery. If you were expecting some important email, and you have not received it yet, please contact the person to have them send it to you again.
VPN subnet restricted on the anti-spam gateway
Because of multiple virus infected and/or compromised machines connecting on McGill's VPN, and sending viruses and spam through the anti-spam gateway, access to port 25 has been blocked from the following subnet to the mx.mcgill.ca gateway: 132.216.227.0/24. All machines on the McGill network should be sending mail through mailhost.mcgill.ca as their smtp server.
Graduate Diploma in Translation
Students completing the Graduate Diploma in Translation (GDIT) must sit a comprehensive examination at the conclusion of the GDIT Program.
ACADEMIC ADVISING - Summer 2005 Advising Week
Students who would like to meet with an academic advisor...
Banner/Minerva slower than usual
Due to the opening of Fall registration for returning students, Banner/Minerva is slower than usual. Service should return to normal later this morning.
English Language Part-time Program Placement test:
April 13, 2005...
French Language Part-time Program placement test:
April 20, 2005...
Mary H. Brown Fund — 2005 Call for Proposals
This endowment provides a total of about $20,000 annually for the creation and early support of innovative, on-campus projects that benefit McGill students' physical and psychological well-being, and related initiatives. Application deadline: noon, April 15, 2005.
Parking restrictions on downtown campus during Convocation week
Once again, McGill's Spring Convocation ceremonies for the downtown campus will be celebrated on the lower field, west of the Roddick Gates, from Monday, May 30 to Friday, June 3, 2005, inclusive. This may cause some inconvenience to monthly parking permit holders.
MIT Press launches study on the information society
The MIT Press has just published a double issue of Information Technologies and International Development (ITID).