Water management and malnutrition crucial issues at McGill food conference
Water management and malnutrition are the two key threats to food security that will be discussed at the Third McGill Conference on Global Food Security, to be held Oct. 19-21, 2010, in Montreal.
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Your body recycling itself – captured on film
Proteins are made up of a chain of amino acids, and scientists have known since the 1980s that first one in the chain determines the lifetime of a protein. McGill researchers have finally discovered how the cell identifies this first amino acid – and caught it on camera.
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World’s first transcontinental anesthesia
Videoconferences may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill’s Department of Anesthesia achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patients undergoing thyroid gland surgery in Italy remotely from Montreal.
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McGill again listed among world's top universities
Rated first in Canada, 19th globally in QS World University Rankings
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Prestigious Sloan Fellowship awarded to McGill astrophysicist
McGill University Astrophysicist Matt Dobbs has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. Dobbs, a Canada Research Chair in Astro-particle Physics, investigates a big subject: the origins and evolution of the universe.
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Babcock wins gold with McGill tie
The McGill tie has worked its magic again.
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Babcock wins gold with McGill tie
Mike Babcock (BE’86) coached the Canadian Olympic men’s hockey team to a heart-stopping gold-medal victory Sunday night, wearing a McGill tie sent to him in the closing days of the hockey tournament.
What's to Eat?: Entrées in Canadian Food History
What do and did we eat? What do our food stories tell us about who we are or were? What's to Eat?: Entrées in Canadian Food History, a new volume edited by Professor Nathalie Cooke of McGill University, serves up twelve preliminary answers to initiate and nourish the discussion of food in Canada.
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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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New appointee to Order of Canada heads JGH Research
When Dr. Roderick McInnes takes up his duties this month, the Jewish General Hospital will be welcoming not only a new Director of Research, but a newly appointed Member of the Order of Canada and a recent appointee to a prestigious chair at McGill University.