Kudos

Dr. Brenda Milner, of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, last month received a $50,000 personal prize and a $200,000 research grant from the Metropolitan Life Foundation. She was honoured for her work on memory loss and its relation to Alzheimer's disease.

Students from the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at Macdonald Campus recently both hosted and won the annual Jeux Diététiques in competition against teams from Laval and Université de Montréal.

Dr. Rémi Quirion, of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, has won the 1997 prix Léo-Pariseau in health and biological sciences. The prize, given by Acfas (Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences), consists of a cash award of $2,500 and a medal.

Mr. David Crawford, of the Health Sciences Library, is one of 15 individuals invited to Long Island University's Palmer School of Library and Information to participate in the 1997 Senior Fellows Institute. Those invited are selected because they provide "leadership roles in the information professions, particularly in higher education." Crawford is the only Canadian asked to attend.

Ms. Vicky Tessier, a student in the Department of Chemistry, has been invited to the tryouts for the Canadian women's national basketball team. Tessier won the Nann Copp Trophy as the CIAU women's basketball player of the year and was named McGill's female athlete of the year. She led the nation in scoring, averaging 25.9 points a game, and became the first woman in CIAU basketball history to earn All-Canadian status five times and to be league MVP five times.

Mr. Pierre Gendron, a physical education student, was awarded the Bobby Bell Memorial Trophy as Most Valuable Player and the Molson Cup for Most Outstanding Player at the Friends of McGill Hockey awards banquet. Gendron was named McGill's male athlete of the year and recently played on the CIAU all-star team which beat an NCAA team in overtime in Detroit. In his Redmen career, Gendron recorded five hat tricks, including one six-goal game.

Mr. Jacob Eliosoff and Mr. Françcis Labelle, students in mathematics, received Honorable Mention in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Eliosoff placed 34th and Labelle 51st out of 2,407 contestants representing 408 colleges and universities across North America. McGill's team ranked 27th overall.