Medical ethics beyond the soundbite
Leigh Turner takes exception to bioethicists who focus primarily on the sexy, high-tech issues of the day. Instead, he says, we should be concentrating on issues related to medicine and health care in impoverished, developing nations.
Haldane bids adieu
Maeve Haldane calls it quits after almost five years as editor of the McGill Reporter.
NSERC hits the quarter century
NSERC recently celebrated 25 years with a lecture on extreme weather from the most recent NSERC chair and a reception for NSERC grant holders.
McGill web gems: Save a tree, read a virtual newspaper (and a blog)
A pair of "sustainability" items from our bottomless treasure chest of McGill web gems.
Fourteen days of fun for Post-Graduate Students' Society
Grad students plot Thomson House festivities.
McGill devotes a week to R-E-S-P-E-C-T
McGill's Social Equity and Diversity Education office will be hosting the first annual Harassment Prevention Week, geared towards exploding common myths and misconceptions and helping people recognize harassment in its many nuances.
McGill science book goes to Africa
Microbiology professor emeritus Eddie Chan sells his textbook rights for a good cause.
Notes from the Field: Rocks and ice
T. Alexander Dececchi, a first-year PhD candidate, gives readers a glimpse of what it's like to hunt for fossils in the Canadian High Arctic.
The body's mind
Philosopher Daniel Dennett will be giving the Montreal Neurological Institute's Wilder Penfield Lecture, entitled "My Body Has a Mind of its Own."
Entre Nous with Principal Heather Munroe-Blum
With wind in its sails, McGill is on course for further excellence. In this, the semester-ending issue of the McGill Reporter, an expanded Entre Nous gives the Principal a chance to talk about the academic year that was and what to expect for the future.