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Stars in Global Health program funds innovations that could transform the way disease is treated in the developing world 

By McGill Reporter Staff

Five McGill researchers have been awarded grants of $100,000 each by Grand Challenges Canada for new health projects to reduce debilitating disease and save lives in developing countries.

Salary envelope will have to shrink, Provost tells Senate

By Doug Sweet

McGill needs to move now to try to contain a growing deficit amid a turbulent funding context that is anything but assured, Provost Anthony C. Masi indicated to Senate Wednesday.

High School Outreach Program reaches more than  200 students from disadvantaged communities

By Neale McDevitt

On April 3, a group of high school students from some of Montreal’s socioeconomically disadvantaged communities filed into the Palais de Justice to stand before a judge. It was a scene that could have invited people to jump to erroneous conclusions.

By Julia Solomon

By Neale McDevitt

As the Manager of the Office of Sustainability, Martin Krayer von Krauss seems to be exactly where he belongs – even though he took a rather circuitous route to get here.

Graduating as an engineer from the Royal Military College in 1996, Krayer von Krauss worked for a year at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic before he became “disillusioned about life here as an environmental professional who wanted to do more than just deal with issues of compliance,” he says.

Measures have helped lower greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent since 2002-2003

By Julia Solomon

What better place to experiment than a world-class research university? Lately, McGill has been doing some tinkering in an unexpected place – its energy systems. Driven by a desire to reduce energy consumption and use its campuses as a “living lab” for finding innovative solutions to sustainability challenges, McGill has completed a wide variety of projects that have made a real difference to its energy bottom line.

By McGill Reporter Staff

In yesterday’s monthly Senate meeting, some McGill Senators expressed concern at what they perceived as a lack of consultation prior to McGill’s joining the edX consortium to begin offering “massive open online courses” (MOOCs) in 2014.

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based edX, founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivers learning designed specifically for interactive study via the Internet.

By McGill Reporter Staff

Nana Mouskouri, internationally-acclaimed singing star and humanitarian, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, will be awarded honorary degrees at this spring’s Convocation ceremonies as announced earlier today. The other recipients will be announced in the coming weeks.

By Neale McDevitt

Principal Heather Munroe-Blum used her last appearance at the Summit on Higher Education as a wake up call to the government.

“We can’t pretend that the $250-million in [budget] cuts that we’re expected to make won’t result in cuts in personnel and student services,” Munroe-Blum told delegates. “These are real cuts and the people who are going to lose their jobs are real people… While we leave here having made progress in some areas, we will also have to eliminate numerous programs that have taken us years to build.

By Jim Hynes

Depending on which recent study you look at, Quebec universities are underfunded by more than $850 million or as little as $300 million. And then there are those who will tell you they aren’t underfunded at all.