Saskatoon synchrotron shines light on drug-resistant superbugs

Published: 9 May 2017

According to Albert Berghuis, the best way to design new treatments to combat drug-resistant bacteria is to think small. Chair of the department of biochemistry at McGill University's College of...

Floods in Quebec

Published: 9 May 2017

Suzanne King, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and Douglas Institute...

Protecting life’s tangled ecological webs

Published: 9 May 2017

Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat...

Faculty of Engineering Dean Nicell elected vice chair of NCDEAS

Published: 9 May 2017

The National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science | Conseil canadien des doyens d'ingénierie et des sciences appliquées (NCDEAS│CCDISA) met on April 29, 2017 for its biennial meeting...

McGill Honorary Doctorates 2017

Published: 25 April 2017

Each year McGill University is proud to confer honorary degrees to highly talented and engaged individuals who serve as an inspiration for our community of students, professors, researchers and...

The innovative university: Open, connected and purposeful

Published: 8 May 2017

(Op-ed by Professor Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-chancellor of McGill University) “One of the indelible elements of the Silicon Valley origin story is the role Stanford University played in...

Robot helpers poised to tackle land, air, sea and living rooms

Published: 5 May 2017

The demonstration, by a team of McGill researchers, is paving the way for future convoys of autonomous airborne and land-based machines that could some day be deployed in remote locations to...

‘Climate-change agnosticism’ is a cop-out

Published: 4 May 2017

“Abrupt and expensive” is a matter of perspective, says Catherine Potvin, a professor at McGill University and the Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Mitigation and Tropical Forests. She...

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