January 12, 2006
January 12, 2006 McGill University
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Professor of the Department of Biology Gregor Fussmann shows a chemostat with planktonic organisms to Christopher Chalcraft, U0 Science, as part of the first annual Soup and Science. The lunchtime series runs from January 9 to the 13, and is organized by the Office for Undergraduate Research in Science so that new professors can talk about their research to undergraduates. Extra bonus: students get fed, too. Just as long as it's not that green stuff in the tube...
Owen Egan
McGill scores hat trick
McGill rounds out senior administration team with the appointments of Tony
Masi, Johanne Pelletier, Ann Dowsett Johnston.
Johanne Pelletier: Impartial good
governance
Johanne Pelletier makes the jump from keeper of the archives to Secretary
General. Just what does the Sec Gen do, anyway?
Tony Masi: Facilitate or get out of the
way
New provost Tony Masi expounds upon all things McGill, including academic
priorities, interdisciplinary research and the ongoing search for new sources
of revenue.
Anatomy of a breakthrough
Groundbreaking research by a quartet of McGill researchers sheds new, and
controversial, light on that nasty C. difficile bacterial microbe.
Bones, tones and New York
Times groans
This new regular feature rounds up some of the McGill notables mentioned in
the media. This edition looks at HapMap, record-breaking pulsars and ancient
meat-eating amphibians.
Averting pedagogical disaster
Another new (and we hope) regular feature highlights op-ed pieces from the
McGill community. This week, Brian Alters gives us the lowdown on the
Intelligent Design vs Evolution debate.
Newsmakers 2005
Our annual roundup of the McGillians who garnered the most ink and sound
bites. Who topped the media charts? Read on to find out.
Layton's final stanza
Literary giant and outspoken social critic Irving Layton is remembered for
all his brilliance and bombast.
Bellini breaks ground
Philanthropist Francesco Bellini braves the cold and snow to turn the sod at
the official groundbreaking ceremony of the Francesco Bellini Life Sciences
Building and the new Cancer Research Pavilion.
Waneek Horn-Miller: Athlete and advocate
From Olympic athlete to director of First Peoples' House, Waneek Horn-Miller has crammed more into 29 years than many people do in a lifetime.
Best Buddies make fast friends
Since 1998, McGill's Best Buddies program has fostered hundreds of new friendships between students and cognitively impaired adults.
Promoting pedagogy between gigs
Roger Slee waxes poetic about the McGill Education Project, global and local research, and what it's like to be Martin Grant's bandmate.
Senate: Secret society
The first Senate of the new year saw updates on the complementarity issue
and the Task Force on Student Life and Learning. With one eye on recent
polls, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum discussed the repercussions of a new
government in Ottawa.
Chillin' at SnoAP
Principal Heather Munroe-Blum chats with Zack Storms, U2 Chemical Engineering, at her annual visit to SnoAP, a Students' Society winter ritual held every January on lower campus.
Owen Egan
Around campus
Take one Tony Award-winning play and a Leonard Bernstein opera, mix in a
pair of engineering events and sprinkle liberally with a MISC food
conference and what do you get? A busy January at McGill.
