Montreal Gazette - McGill reveals honourees

McGill University will bestow honorary degrees this year at its annual convocation ceremonies between May 27 and 30. The list of recipients join a pantheon of past honourees that includes songstress Joni Mitchell, artist Jean-Paul Riopelle and filmmaker Atom Egoyan. Geneticist Jack Szostak, a McGill alumnus himself, shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for his work on questions surrounding the origins of life while a professor at Harvard...