The 2022 Scholastic Awards Reception on November 8th recognized more than 175 outstanding Macdonald undergraduate and graduate students. The Faculty awarded over $380,000 in named scholarships at the undergraduate level and more than $465,000 in fellowships and awards at the graduate level.
Published on: 17 Nov 2022
Congrats to FMT students Diego Occhicone and Rami Sader, FMT’22, who had a successful season in their new venture, the Ferme des Paniers market garden. The pair who met at Macdonald during their studies, sell their produce through subscription baskets and at local markets.
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Published on: 17 Nov 2022
The Board of Governors of McGill University is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. H. Deep Saini as the University's 18th Principal and Vice-Chancellor. Currently President and Vice-Chancellor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Prof. Saini will begin his five-year, renewable term at McGill on April 1, 2023. He will also hold the appointment of Full Professor in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2022
Exploring the complexity of ecosystems
by John Allemang
Elena Bennett delights in uncertainty.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2022
Standing at the podium surrounded by 1,500 people on the John Abbott football field, Joe Maxwell, gazed up into the sunny November sky and said “It’s good to be alive.”
A 97-year-old WWII vet, Maxwell was one of the special guests at the November 3 Remembrance Day ceremony featuring veterans and dignitaries who spoke, recited poetry or contributed with music. Anja Geitmann, Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, addressed the crowd, and Defne Helvacioglu, Macdonald Campus Student Society President, recited the poem Nameless.
Published on: 11 Nov 2022
Zacharie Cloutier from Fromagerie Nouvelle France in the Eastern Townships, has been crowned best cheese in Quebec in the
Published on: 11 Nov 2022
With the help of Agincourt community services, Registered Dietitian Ekta Amarnani, M.Sc.’17 has put together an interactive map that helps people locate food resources across Toronto with the intention of increasing access to food.
Published on: 11 Nov 2022
To better understand food-related decisions during the pandemic, our research team conducted an online survey among a sample of adults from the province of Québec. This survey spanned three different time points between the initial lockdown in the spring of 2020 and the curfew period in Québec in the winter of 2021.
Published on: 2 Nov 2022
With an investment of nearly $1 million from the Government of Canada, the Association of Veterinary Practitioners of Quebec will be able to develop a digital tool to anticipate and reduce the risks associated with metabolic diseases in dairy cows which are a major health problem, especially in the post-calving period. Prof. Xin Zhao (AnSci) and Maxime Leduc, BSc(AgEnvSc)’12 an Affiliate Member of the Department of Bioresource Engineering, are participating in the project.
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Published on: 2 Nov 2022
Every day for the past 18 years, Natasha Lapointe has been showing up for work at the Dairy Unit at Macdonald Campus Farm at 5 am. Luckily, she has a short commute.
“We live on campus (on the farm site) just a two-minute walk from the dairy barn,” says Lapointe, this year’s winner of the Principal’s Award for Administrative and Support Staff in the Technical, Library Assistants and Nurses Category.
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Published on: 2 Nov 2022
Macdonald Campus is beautiful year-round, but is truly spectacular in the fall. Neale McDevitt, the Editor of the McGill Reporter, took a stroll through Mac Campus this past weekend and took the following pictures.
View photos in the McGill Reporter.
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
L'Épicerie recently featured Rosemarie Allen (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’12) and Jacob Morin (FMT’11) of Ferme Le Paysan Gourmand in Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey who participate in an on-farm program to reduce food waste. The episode follows Meilleur Après volunteers who harvest produce that would have remained in the field. Produce harvested is then shared between the participants, the producer and Meilleur Après – who in turn redistribute the produce to organizations in the region or transform it into products that are then sold to finance operations.
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
Congratulations to Luce Daigneault BScAgr’82, MSc’85, Gibson (Gib) Patterson BScAgr’60, Isabelle Lam BSc(NutrSc)’19 and Jamie Lee BSc(NutrSc)’19 who will receive Macdonald Distinguished Alumni Awards at the Homecoming Lunch on Saturday.
Published on: 20 Oct 2022
Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertité, Ophelia Sarakinis (FMT’19) and Phillip Rosenbaum (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’19, MSc.’21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a “six-year, $33-million initiative from the Weston Family Foundation to future-proof food production in Canada.”
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Published on: 20 Oct 2022
On September 29th, James McGill Professor Joann Whalen, Natural Resource Sciences, testified as an expert before Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on the topic of “Review and report on the status of soil health in Canada”.
Watch her testimony on ParlVu (09:43:59)
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Published on: 6 Oct 2022
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