Faculty of Science

McGill's stellar alumni: Jack Szostak, (BSc'72) has won a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Willard Boyle (BSc'47, MSc'48, PhD'50) has taken a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Prof. David Wolfson (Mathematics & Statistics) at Soup and Science. (Owen Egan)

Prof. Stefano Stifani (Montreal Neurological Institute) at Soup and Science. (Owen Egan)

Manfred Milinksi, Executive Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology, presents his view on the Origin of Ethics at the Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium. (Owen Egan)

Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics, University of Toulouse, presents his view on the Origin of Ethics at the Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium. (Owen Egan)

An international panel of economists and evolutionary biologists discuss the Origin of Ethics at the fourth annual Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium, November 6, 2008. (Owen Egan)

McGill confers a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, to John Blachford at Spring 2009 Convocation. Chancellor Richard Pound presides over the ceremony. (Owen Egan)

Dr. Frances E. Allen gave one of the commencement addresses at Spring 2009 Convocation, and received the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa. (Owen Egan)

Vincent Larochelle, McGill’s 129th Rhodes Scholar, winner of the Moyse Travelling Scholarship and Governor-General’s Silver Medal, with Martin Grant (Dean of Science) and parents at Spring 2009 Convocation. (Owen Egan)

2009 Undergraduate Research Conference prizewinners with keynote speaker Dr. Brenda Milner (Owen Egan)

Preeminent neuroscientist Brenda Milner (C.C., F.R.S., G.O.Q., Ph.D. ’52) gave the keynote address at the Faculty of Science's Undergraduate Research Conference on Friday, October 16, 2009. (Owen Egan)

The Life Sciences Complex, opened in September 2008, unites the best of McGill Science and Medicine under one roof, and brings pure research together with the quest for practical applications. (Claudio Calligaris)

Marine biology students in the wet lab of McGill's Bellairs Research Institute, located in St. James, Barbados. (Bruce Downey)

Barbados Field Study Semester students Amélie Turcotte and Edmund Paulus, together with Nicole Garafano and Handell Callender (Barbados Future Centre), present their research project on biogas production. (Bruce Downey)

Patrick Narbonne, a PhD student in the Developmental Biology Research Initiative laboratory of Dr. Richard Roy, screens for genetic mutations using a fluorescence dissecting stereomicroscope. (Guy L'Heureux)

Astronaut Dave Williams (BSc ’76, MSc ’83, MDCM ’83) gives a fascinating lecture on space exploration and his experiences at Mini-Science 2009. (Owen Egan)

Surrounded by urbanization and intense agriculture, the Gault Nature Reserve at Mont-Saint-Hilaire protects the largest old-growth forest in the Montreal region. (NASA, April 2007)