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Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

McGill researcher finds near-complete skull illuminating a virtually unknown period in Madagascar fossil history

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Published on : 14 Dec 2009

Campaign McGill surpasses $500 million only two years into its public phase

Thanks to 70,000 donors, McGill is well on the way toward landmark $750-million goal

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Published on : 15 Oct 2009

McGill University’s Brian Alters honored by Royal Society of Canada

World-famous work on the promotion of education about evolution garners McNeil Medal

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Published on : 09 Oct 2009

Three McGill researchers to be inducted as RSC Fellows

McGill University is proud to announce that three of its researchers have been elected as Fellows to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievements.

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Published on : 01 Oct 2009

A leafy legacy - The trees of McGill University

New publication about the more than fifty kinds of trees that grace McGill's downtown campus. Authored by Bronwyn Chester, the publication features two self-guided walking tours in booklet form. 7$, available at the Redpath Museum or the McGill Bookstore.

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Published on : 28 Jul 2009

Biodiversity, Climate and Evolution

McGill University hosts interactive public discussion

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Published on : 28 May 2009

What Darwin Didn't Know-- on the web

What Darwin Didn't Know, a presentation held at the Redpath Museum in honour of Darwin's bicentennary, was recorded live and archived on the World Wide Web. You can watch the presentation via the archive at: http://bcooltv.mcgill.ca/Viewer/?EventID=200902123549 Moderated by David Green, the Director of the Museum, the speakers included four evolutionary biologists from McGill.

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Published on : 28 Feb 2009

Welcome Sara -- McGill's oldest teenager

Sara is a Triceratopsian dinosaur that lived in Eastend, southern Saskatchewan, just over 65 million years ago. She was probably a teenager when she died but if she had lived to adulthood she would have weighed 10 tonnes. Excavated by the McGill vertebrate paleontology field course led by Dr. Hans Larsson, and then reconstructed in the Redpath Museum, Sara's skull measures close to 5 metres.

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Published on : 08 Jan 2009

Rampant consumerism must be checked, Speth says

Flu season may be just around the corner, but environmental activist James Gustave Speth says we have a new scourge to watch for: “afluenza,” a virulent strain of consumerism that, if left unchecked, may prove fatal to our planet.

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Published on : 24 Oct 2008

Gene therapy research in developing world raises ethical red flags: experts

Early-stage tests in low- and middle-income countries must address local needs, McGill and Carnegie Mellon ethicists argue

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Published on : 10 Jul 2008

McGill professor joins leadership of national synchrotron research facility

Mark Sutton, Ernest Rutherford Professor of Physics, named Vice-Chair of Canadian Light Source

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Published on : 10 Jul 2008

Einstein was right, McGill astrophysicists say

Observations of unique twin-pulsar star system show effects of general relativity

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Published on : 03 Jul 2008