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Busy summer ahead
DANIEL McCABE
Does your building have a leaky roof? Help is on the way. McGill will be spending $22.5 million over the summer to make urgently needed repairs to roofs, terraces, windows, mechanical systems and classrooms. The downside to all those renovations is dust, noise and parking problems. |
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Fine tuning for Engineering
SYLVAIN-JACQUES DESJARDINS
According to the Commission des universités sur les programmes, Quebec's engineering faculties are in good shape. Still, the CUP makes some suggestions -- tighter links between universities, a clampdown on new programs, more female students and faculty and a broader-based curriculum. |
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Lobby 101: How to make your case to Quebec City
SYLVAIN COMEAU
Want to know how to influence the government? Don't beg for money without offering concrete solutions to your woes. Make sure you've got solid data to back up your points. Be familiar with the government's own agenda. And lobby, lobby, lobby. |
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Stress linked to memory loss
BRONWYN CHESTER
Psychiatry professor Sonia Lupien has uncovered evidence that stress can cause the elderly to suffer from memory impairments. While doing her research, Lupien came to another conclusion as well -- society tends to ignore the toll that depression takes on older people. |
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Real world research
KIRSTIE MARTIN
The Quebec Public Interest Research Group has an offer it thinks students will find difficult to refuse. Instead of sweating to write term papers destined for oblivion as soon as they've been marked, why not do research for a non-profit community group instead? You can have a positive impact on people's lives and earn course credits at the same time. |
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Awake under the knife
HÉLÈNA KATZ
There are some things you just don't want to experience -- like regaining consciousness during surgery. It happens to between 40,000 and 250,000 Americans each year. There is currently no machine that gives anesthetists a clear sense of just how unconscious a patient is. McGill anesthesia professor Gilles Plourde is trying to change that. |
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Reforms at gunpoint
SHAUN LOVEJOY AND CLAUDE BRAUN
According to these professors, the Quebec government's discussion paper on higher education, L'Université devant l'avenir, is absurd, insulting and wrong-headed. Not to mention downright dangerous to the future of universities. |
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