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Get your buns in the barn for the annual Mac Campus BBQ.
Professor James W. Fyles, George and Frances Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology at McGill, has been selected as the next Scientific Director of the Sustainable Forest Management Network. The network is a not-for-profit research organization under the federal Networks of Centres of Excellence Program. It involves 31 universities, 12 forestry companies, provincial and federal departments, Aboriginal groups and non-governmental organizations. The network administers an annual budget of $7.1 million.
Dr Alfons Lawen, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on "The plasma membrane NADH-oxidoreductase, VDAC1 and the regulation of apoptosis." Tuesday, April 20, 12:00-1:00 pm, Institute of Parasitology, Room A-101.
The annual Easter Plant Sale at Macdonald Campus provides a variety of potted plants, cut flowers and gardening plants at prices ranging from $2 to $10.
Macdonald Campus students will be selling their flowers at the Raymond Greenhouses on April 8, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Information: David Wees (david.wees@mcgill.ca).
Judy Campbell-Gordon runs the Macdonald Campus Southam food laboratory, better known as the test kitchen.
Pierre Dutilleul is a statistician who studies trees. Examining how branching patterns affect light-gathering efficiency in plants can improve our understanding of photosynthesis, and by extension, food production and the environment.
About 600 staff, faculty and students are gathering on February 12 to honour the birthday and memory of the man whose name graces McGill's West Island campus: Sir William Christopher Macdonald.
This year's convocation ceremonies for faculties on both the downtown campus and Macdonald campus will take place outdoors under a canopy.
At the Canadian Intercollegiate Lumberjack Championships, college students from across Eastern Canada and New England will forgo the cold to compete in an array of timbersports: the axe throw, the standing block chop, log decking and the cross-cut saw. Wood chips will fly, logs will roll and lumberjacks and lumberjills will most likely leave with some scrapes and bruises.
More than 250 students from across New England and Eastern Canada and will battle it out during the 50th annual Canadian Intercollegiate Lumberjack Championships at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. When: January 31, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, at Watson Field, at McGill's Macdonald Campus, 21,111 Lakeshore Rd., Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Admission and parking are free. Everyone is welcome. Information: 514-398-7789.
More than 250 students from across New England and Eastern Canada and will battle it out on January 31 during the 50th annual Canadian Intercollegiate Lumberjack Championships at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University.
Suzelle Barrington has developed a way to reduce the odour of farm waste, and she wants to bring her composting techniques to the city.
McGill University's unionized administrative and support staff employees represented by MUNACA have voted to reject the University's contract offer and to give their union a mandate to exercise pressure tactics up to and including strike action.
A new library is in the works for Macdonald Campus
