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Nearing the end of a stellar rookie season as dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Christophe Pierre fills readers in on what he plans as an encore.

As the UN special envoy on AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis has seen heartbreaking and inspiring episodes. Canada, and especially the students and researchers at Macdonald campus, can do a lot to help.

Don Smith, Chair of the Department of Plant Science, spearheads a new distance teaching initiative that links Canadian grad students from coast to coast.

McGill convocations take place further afield than even Ste. Anne de Bellevue. The Nunavut Teacher Education Program has been producing educators for the northern territories for years.

Principal Heather Munroe-Blum walks for a day in the shoes of a student -- what's changed since the last time she was an undergrad?

A new, user-friendly format of Town Hall fosters a constructive discussion between Principal Heather Munroe-Blum and members of the McGill community.

Brain Awareness Week, a public lecture series at Concordia University features a number of noted McGill brainiacs on such topics as imaging techniques in brain research, the function of the brain in fear and the challenges of Parkinson's.

She's the SSMU's new Prez and she's got lots of ideas for the year ahead.

Neither a butcher nor candlestick maker, Jewish Studies student Elizabeth Alpern is, however, a gifted baker who supplies denizens of the McGill ghetto with delicious homemade breads.

Cath Mortin has lived all over the world, and everywhere she's gone she has made herself at home. The biomedical engineering student is a compulsive volunteer, working in everything from homeless shelters in Virginia or coaching kids in China.