Geologist is a rock star!

While studying geology at McGill University in the late 1970s, Robert Wares "was a student who had 'star' written all over him," his former professor Anthony Williams-Jones recalled yesterday… Now Wares is giving back to his industry, his alma mater and, indirectly, to his academic mentor Williams-Jones, who is McGill's lone economic geology professor in the department of earth and planetary sciences. Wares, Osisko's chief operating officer, has donated 250,000 Osisko shares to McGill and Osisko has matched that for a total of 500,000 shares. That gift will be used to establish two tenure-track positions in economic geology, providing Williams-Jones, 64, with colleagues. The shares, coupled with a $1-billion gift from McGill's McConnell Challenge Fund, will also create a permanent program of fellowships, scholarships and field-trip funding for students enrolled in geological sciences.