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Jurassic wish comes true
McGill dinosaur expert helps make cancer patient paleontologist for a day
By Neale McDevitt
In many ways, Damien Buckley is a typical 12-year-old boy – starting with his love of dinosaurs. But in another way, the Barrie, Ont. native is not at all like most little boys. Damien has T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, an aggressive form of cancer.
Ecosystems services: serving everyone, all the time
New blog to be launched Sept. 25 at Thomson House
By Neale McDevitt
Ecosystems services. For the uninitiated, it sounds like yet another government agency, tucked away in a drab building and peopled by equally drab bureaucrats. Raccoons chew up your compost bin, you go see the folks in Ecosystems Services, fill out Form N-97b, and within a week to three months, they’ll deliver a new one.
Meals on bicycle wheels
Santropol Roulant partners with McGill to provide needy Montrealers with fresh produce
By Dan Moczula
“It’s hard to sum-up exactly” laughs Noemie Desbiuens-Riendeau when asked to summarize what Santropol Roulant, an urban agriculture group in Montreal, does. Since its establishment 18 years ago as a meals-on-wheels service, Santropol has grown into a new experiment in urban farming and community building.
Damn the death worms, full speed ahead
Intrepid father/son team drive around the globe to get to McGill
By Neale McDevitt
Riding into the sunset
McGill bike trio raises almost $9,000 for Lac-Mégantic relief
By Neale McDevitt
When you embark upon a long-distance bike trek that spans several weeks you have to plan carefully. Routes must be mapped out, equipment carefully selected (because you have to carry everything on your bike) and you have to anticipate the unscripted eventualities, such as mechanical breakdowns.
A revolutionary new 3D digital brain atlas
By Anita Kar,
Imagine being able to zoom into the brain to see various cells the way we zoom into Google maps of the world and to look at houses on a street. Although the brain is considered the most complex structure in the universe with 86 billion neurons, zooming in on it is now possible thanks to a new brain atlas with unprecedented resolution.
McGill Dobson Cup nurtures students’ big ideas
By McGill Reporter Staff
Move over, Lord Stanley. There’s another prestigious cup in town.
And while the winners of the McGill Dobson Cup weren’t sporting playoff beards, there were plenty of jubilant smiles as Grant Yim and his teammates hoisted the trophy at the recent awards ceremony capping the annual competition for budding entrepreneurs.
Collation des grades printemps 2013 Lauréats d’un doctorat honorifique / Meet the 2013 Spring Convocation Honorary Doctorates
Pour lire la biographie des récipiendaires d’un doctorat honorifique, et voir une vidéo de l’allocution qu’ils ont prononcée, cliquer sur leur photo apparaissant dans la galerie ci-dessous.
To read the bio of an Honorary Doctorate recipient, and to view a video of the Convocation Address they delivered, click on their photo in the gallery below.
Equity Award winners helping make McGill a better – and more diverse – place
By Neale McDevitt
The seeds of Woo Jin Edward Lee’s commitment to social equality were sewn back in his childhood. The fruits of his dedication to that end, however, came recently when he was named one of four winners of the inaugural McGill Award for Equity & Community Building.
Senate kicks off with tributes to departing Principal
By McGill Reporter Staff
Tributes to a departing Principal and a departing Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) dominated the early part of the last Senate meeting of the academic year Wednesday.
Both Dean of Science Martin Grant and Provost Anthony C. Masi lauded the outgoing Heather Munroe-Blum, who was chairing her last Senate meeting before her second term ends on June 30.