Celebrating the Winter Olympics 1924-2006

To commemorate the Winter Olympic Games being held at Vancouver in February 2010, this exhibition presents a short history of Canadians’ participation at the Winter Olympics from 1924 to 2006.

CaPS Diversity Week Take 2 - Working in Communities

CaPS Diversity Week this semester focuses on individuals working with the aboriginal and disabilities communities. Come hear panelists' stories, experiences and tips on how to find work in these commnunities!

Broadcast -- McGill Principal's-Mini - Feeding the World: Waste Not, Want Not

In this episode of McGill Principal's-Mini, broadcast by the Canal Savoir TV station, Professor Donald Smith explores how as we begin to use crop plants as a source of energy, how are we affecting food costs, climate change and the earth's dwindling resources?

Broadcast -- Making Headway - Alzheimer's Research and Broadband Technology

These two episodes of Making Headway, broadcast by the Canal Savoir TV station, examine in depth first the leading research being undertaken at McGill related to Alzheimer's disease and then the cutting-edge work being done on high-speed and wireless communications technology.

McGill Library Exhibition: The Devil's Art

THE DEVIL'S ART Selections from the William G. Colgate History of Printing Collection Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Main floor, McLennan Library Building This exhibition will run until April 30, 2010

Médecins Sans Frontières and The Will to Intervene: A Dialogue on Dilemmas and Possible Solutions

Médecins sans frontières has worked in the wars and conflicts of the world for all of its history. This includes having medical teams in Rwanda during the genocide, in Srebrenica during the 1995 massacre, in the Darfur region of Sudan since 2003 and many others.

Scheduled downtime: Wireless Network unavailable for 10 minutes during 3-hour period

The McGill wireless network will be unavailable for 10 minutes during this 3-hour period.

Senate meeting

(Degrees)

Passing the Torch: Succession Planning

This workshop will help you with your leadership skills.

McGill Concerto Competition for Woodwinds and Brass

Tom Williams, coordinator. View poster under "Attachments" on right sidebar. Pollack Hall. Free

McGill Jazz Orchestra II

Ron DiLauro, director. Concert will be webcast at http://www.mcgill.ca/music/events/internet. View program under "Attachments" on right sidebar. Tanna Schulich Hall. $10

Philippe Séguéla gives book talk

Calling all colleagues – have you had it with winter? You are invited to take a visual and virtual holiday with Philippe Séguéla who will talk about his passion for planetary exploration and the inspiration for his new book, Histoire Visuelle des Sondes Spatiales (A Visual History of Space Probes).

Academic Policy Committee meeting

Will Straw: "Abject Archives and the Budget DVD Box"

Will Straw: "Abject Archives and the Budget DVD Box"

La Jurilingüistica y la traducción de leyes bilingües (Jurilinguistic and the translation of bilingual laws)

Speaker: Jimena Andino Dorato. The conference will be provided in Spanish but Q&A will be in English, French and Spanish.

Cutting Edge Lectures in Science

Materials Make Light Work – Or, “Image is Everything” Dr. Mark Andrews (Department of Chemistry, McGill University).

Ensemble Arion

Redpath Hall. Tel. 514-355-1825

Email unavailable

There will be two ten-minute windows during this period when email will be unavailable. In between 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm and 1:00 am - 2:00 am We apologize for the inconvenience.

SKILLSETS - Issues in Academic Integrity: An interactive workshop and panel discussion

Academic integrity issues, usually very complex, affect all members of the university community, but graduate students are particularly concerned by certain issues. The goal of the session is to engage graduate students and postdocs in questioning and discussing academic integrity issues in the context of a framework for ethical actions.

Broadcast -- McGill Principal's-Mini - Feeding the World: Waste Not, Want Not

In this episode of McGill Principal's-Mini, broadcast by the Canal Savoir TV station, Professor Donald Smith explores how as we begin to use crop plants as a source of energy, how are we affecting food costs, climate change and the earth's dwindling resources?

Legal Theory Workshop - The Zoo as a Legal Anomaly

Speaker: Irus Braverman, Associate Professor at University of Buffalo Law School, SUNY.

McGill Noon-Hour Organ Recital Series: Thomas Pousont, organ

Redpath Hall. Free

Freaky Friday presentation: UFOs - Close Encounters

UFOs - Close Encounters. By Don Donderi (Psychology). This lecture reviews the evidence about “Close Encounters,” the most controversial aspect of the UFO phenomenon, in which humans allegedly encounter and interact with extra-terrestrial beings. Followed by the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

Redmen Basketball at Laval (Away)

Doublebass Recital. Class of Brian Robinson

Tanna Schulich Hall. Free

The Darwin Letter

Handwritten letters by Charles Darwin, the 4th Edition of the landmark book "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection" and a photogravure on exhibit in the Dawson Gallery, Redpath Museum.

Lecture period for 3rd year students in the Faculty of Medicine.

Lecture period for 3rd year students in the Faculty of Medicine.

Lecture period for 4th year students in the Faculty of Dentistry.

Lecture period for 4th year students in the Faculty of Dentistry.

Lecture period for 1st year students in the Faculty of Medicine.

Lecture period for 1st year students in the Faculty of Medicine.

Lecture period for 2nd year Dentistry and Medicine students.

Lecture period for 2nd year Dentistry and Medicine students.

Sketching School 2009: Exhibition

An exhibition of student work from Sketching School 2009 in Baie St-Paul, Quebec. Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 5:00. Vernissage on Monday 15 February from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.