Construction is well underway at the original site of the Royal Victoria Hospital, just north of McGill’s main campus, to transform a major portion of that historic space into the home of the new McGill Sustainability Park.
One of the most ambitious undertakings in McGill’s history, it will involve researchers from a wide variety of disciplines working together on a range of projects related to sustainability. The Park will also involve policy experts with a different type of expertise – people with the skills and knowledge required to help transform promising research discoveries into real-world applications.
“I think there is tremendous excitement about this [at McGill] – along with a lot of questions about what it is going to look like and who is going to be involved,” says Rees Kassen, PhD’01. As the Park’s newly appointed academic director, Kassen will be playing the lead role in answering a lot of those questions.
Read the full story on the McGill News website, Charting the way forward for the McGill Sustainability Park.