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Shop till you drop - McGill's Purchasing Services
Think of them as your own personal shopper for matters scholarly. Purchasing Services will get you obsolete tractor paper for your department's antique printer, or a crate of frogs for your next departmental party, or even your lab, if you're into that kind of thing.
Popular profs
Call them McGill's Fab four: Maclean's magazine recognized Canada's most popular professors, and Yuzo Ota, Ann Wechsler, Paul Wiseman and Thomas LaMarre were among them.
The importance of teaching assistants
Professors aren't the only people in the classroom who are key to the university classroom experience. Teaching assistants often put as much work into their job as a full-time professor.
Arts Renaissance roundtable
A panel discussion on different approaches to effective teaching in the Faculty of Arts.
Winning teachers
Award-winning McGill pedagogues reflect on the highlights, the lowlights and the look of the deer caught in the headlights.
Sigma Xi lecture on working in space
Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason spoke to the McGill chapter of Sigma Xi about conducting science in space.
Brave new world: Dean Buszard reflects
Macdonald campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue was created in 1907 to improve the lives of rural people in Quebec. That mission remains, but the cutting-edge technology has changed dramatically.
Peel street designs
Two McGill student proposals for redeveloping part of Montreal's Griffintown district won awards in a recent inter-university competition.
Centraide success!
McGill faculty, staff and students raised $292,570 for this year's Centraide campaign.
Gil Troy launches Reagan book
History professor Gil Troy illustrates Reagan's cultural and political influence.
Aboriginal instructor looks out for others
Social worker Lolly Annahatak wins National Aboriginal Achievement Award.
David Krawitz: Writing blocks
David Krawitz is the keystone among builders as administrative officer in the School of Architecture.
Lights, camera, legal action!
The Faculty of Law hosts an International Roundtable on the Semiotics of Law.
An unlikely friendship
The McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building screens the documentary "An Unlikely Friendship."
Doctors on drugs
Dr Martin Dawes has some advice on how to become a better patient.