Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences news
Meet the Challenge!
Starting Monday, February 9th, staff members and students will get a 20 cent discount on warm beverages when they bring their own mug. Our goal is to reduce the current figure by 50% by the end of the semester. We’re counting on you to help us take that number down.
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards
These awards are meant to stimulate interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering and to encourage students to undertake graduate studies and pursue a research career in these fields. Value: $4,500 from NSERC and a minimum of $1,125 from the University. Please visit the Macdonald Campus Student Affairs Office website for more information.
Plants display "molecular amnesia"
Discovery an important step in genomics research and quest for better crops
Professor Chandra Madramootoo elected President of ICID
Professor Chandra Madramootoo, Dean of McGill’s Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been elected President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).
McGill researcher on a quest to cure disfiguring parasitic disease
New results may lead to targeted, less toxic treatment for dreaded Leishmania parasite
Africans to control own pharma research with boost from McGill, Gates Foundation
Dr. Timothy Geary awarded $100,000 grant to help establish programs in Botswana and South Africa
Thanksgiving Holiday: Course Schedule Change
The normal Tuesday schedule of course activities is cancelled for December 2, 2008. In its place, all lectures, labs, conferences and other course-related activities that are normally held on Mondays will be held on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 as well. This change in schedule is to make up for activities that are cancelled on Monday, October 13 due to Thanksgiving Day.
McGill Conference on food crisis lays groundwork for solutions
Global gathering of experts attacks vital problem
McGill conference on Global Food Crisis draws impressive list of international participants
Representatives from key organizations gather to find solutions for a hungry world
Schulich gift boosts agricultural research on eve of McGill conference on food crisis
$5-million funding also helps other sciences, architecture
"Food vs. fuel" debate to be featured at McGill science conference
Plants & Soils: Montreal ’08 to feature symposium on biofuels
McGill experts to anchor China earthquake conference on June 21
McGill medical student organizes June 21 gathering on causes and effects of massive seismic event
McGill welcomes Nobel laureate
Popular scientist Peter Doherty receives honorary doctorate, delivers lectures
Raw deal not so bad
Harriet Kuhnlein, professor of human nutrition at the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment comments in the Washington Post on the diet of indigenous people in the remote far north.
We can grow our way out of famine
In an OpEd piece in The National, a new English-language daily in Abu Dhabi, Chandra Madramootoo, Dean of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill writes that in the early 1960s, parts of the world, particularly Asia, were affected by back-to-back droughts that led to massive starvation, famine and deaths.
