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ICAO, McGill co-host global aviation conference

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and McGill University's Institute of Air and Space Law will co-host Aviation Safety, Security & the Environment: The Way Forward, a major worldwide conference and exhibition to take place September 14 to 16, 2007, at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel.

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Published on : 14 Aug 2007

McGill welcomes pulsar pioneer

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell looks back on discovery 40 years later

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Published on : 07 Aug 2007

How the brain responds as the beat goes on

McGill, Stanford researchers first to map neural responses to transitions in music

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Published on : 01 Aug 2007

Conference to celebrate pulsar’s 40th

Astrophysicists gather for five-day homage to neutron star

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Published on : 24 Jul 2007

McGill physicist and jurist awarded Royal Society of Canada medals

Macdonald and Kaspi recognized for outstanding contributions to Canadian research and scholarship

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Published on : 11 Jul 2007

Five McGill scholars elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

McGill University is pleased to announce that five of its faculty members are among the 80 new Fellows joining the ranks of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

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Published on : 10 Jul 2007

Toxicology Congress: Discovery Serving Society

International gathering to address how chemicals affect our lives

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Published on : 26 Jun 2007

P.O.V.: Becoming an instrument of (climate) change

Law grad Shelley Kath tells readers what it's like to be hand-picked and trained for environmental do-gooding by the guru of global warming himself, Al Gore.

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Published on : 31 May 2007

Colour pattern spurs speciation in tropical fish

McGill researchers discover that coral reef fish colour patterns are responsible for the emergence of new species

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Published on : 28 May 2007

More inequality means less biodiversity

McGill researchers show income inequality predicts the number of threatened species.

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Published on : 17 May 2007

The environment that shapes us

Leave the SUV at home and walk to the store: McGill researcher Nancy Ross links obesity to urban sprawl.

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Published on : 17 May 2007

Classroom technology à la McGill

What's the hottest ticket on campus? The Instructional Multimedia Services Fair, of course.

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Published on : 03 May 2007

Talking Heads

Seed Magazine carries the transcript and video of an extensive conversation between Daniel Levitin, James McGill Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience and Music and author of the New York Times bestseller "This Is Your Brain on Music," and singer, songwriter and artist David Byrne at STK in New York's meatpacking district, in which the two talk about everything from the soundtrack of Psycho to empathy and mirror neurons.

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Published on : 30 Apr 2007

McGill Web Gems

What's better than online biodiversity and dictionaries? Nothing.

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Published on : 19 Apr 2007