There are challenges aplenty for universities to contend with, but the consensus at a special one-day symposium on "The University in the 21st Century" was that higher education will adapt and prevail.
McGill's teaching assistants staged a one-day strike to express their displeasure over the University's first salary proposal in negotiations with the TA union.
Philosophy professor Charles Taylor and French language and literature professor Yvan Lamonde were among 14 scholars from across the country to be awarded prestigious Killam Research Fellowships by the Canada Council.
The Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering have joined forces to create a new degree aimed at aspiring executives for manufacturing companies.
McGill mathematics professor Peter Russell heads up the Institut des sciences mathématiques--a consortium involving mathematicians from McGill, Concordia, Université de Montréal and Université du Québec à Montréal. The idea is to offer graduate students access to all four schools and Russell suspects other disciplines will soon follow the institute's lead.
McGill has a new executive director of human resources in place. Robert Savoie's priorities include promoting the benefits of working at McGill and improving the University's approach to job training.
The University's undergraduates want their student government to avoid doing business with companies with questionable ethical practices. Pepsi was singled out for criticism for its dealings with the government of Myanmar.
Physics professors Tommy Mark and Jean Barrette are the only Canadian-based scientists involved in a massive international research project trying to replicate the sort of matter which existed in the universe immediately following the Big Bang.
An impressive panel of environmental scientists told a McGill audience that their warnings about the dangers of global warming aren't being heeded by policy-makers.
