The Principal looks back over her first full academic year at McGill: the accomplishments, challenges and aspirations.
Four years ago, epidemiology professor Jean-Paul Collet went to China, where he saw modern medicine mixed with alternative and traditional treatments. He brings this integrated approach to McGill in a summer course for graduate students.
Civil engineering professor Patrick Selvadurai uses mathematical modelling to improve any number of complex engineering projects - for instance, how soil around pipelines freezes or how the disposal of nuclear waste will have an effect on the earth thousands of years from now.
Plenty of students start graduate degrees, but not all of them finish. A colloquium organized by the office of the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies examined the problem of grad school attrition.
Macdonald campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue was created in 1907 to improve the lives of rural people in Quebec. That mission remains, but the cutting-edge technology has changed dramatically.
Professor Suha Jabaji-Hare is fond of fungus. The mycologist has developed a process to help farmers protect their crops from disease-causing growths, and teaches a course on how to identify different kinds of mushrooms, of which there are many.
Two new poultry research facilities at McGill and U de M will perform different but complementary research into our favourite feathered food source.
McGill convocations take place further afield than even Ste. Anne de Bellevue. The Nunavut Teacher Education Program has been producing educators for the northern territories for years.
Not everyone who starts their studies at McGill decides to finish them. Several prominent McGill students went on to fame and fortune after leaving here - without the benefit of a degree.
Honorary degree recipient Syukuro Manabe, the father of climate modelling, will deliver a lecture on June 4 on how global warming will affect water availability worldwide.