The Reporter

Principal Munroe-Blum: Quality of McGill's people is key. / Photo: Owen Egan

By Neale McDevitt

You’ve got to be quick on your feet for one of these things.

In Tuesday’s semi-annual Town Hall meeting, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum fielded questions ranging from H1N1 policies and infrastructure renewal to international student tuition fees and the revenue-generating potential of our sports teams. She even plugged her annual skating party. more

By Nigel Roulet

In February 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fourth assessment of the Science of Climate Change and concluded that human activity was changing Earth’s atmosphere and, as a result, its climate. It said there was a 95-per-cent chance our mean global temperature would be, by the end of the 21st Century, 1.4 to 4.8 oC above that of the mid-19th Century. more

Graham Fraser, Canada's Commissioner of Official Languages. / Photo: Jean Marc-Carisse

By Pascal Zamprelli

A renowned and respected journalist and author with close to 40 years of journalistic experience, Graham Fraser was appointed Canada’s Commissioner of Official Languages in 2006. more

Enjoy an evening of bold Big Band sounds and help raise funds for this year’s Centraide Campaign while you’re at it. On Monday, Nov. 23, the McGill University Jazz Orchestra and the Université de Montréal Big Band swing into Pollack Hall. Broadcast by CBC Radio 2, this promises to be a bold and brassy Big Band extravaganza! more

Canadian Space Agency astronauts and McGill alums Julie Payette (BEng’86) and Robert Thirsk (MD’82) pose for a photo in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station in July. / Photo courtesy of NASA

McGill grad Robert Thirsk (MD’82) is the first Canadian astronaut to take part in a long duration mission. By mission’s end, Thirsk will have lived on board the International Space Station for six months.

By Robert Thirsk

I haven’t driven a car in three months, and yet I’ve traveled 70 million kilometers. I’ve watched 16 sunrises and sunsets in a single day. I’ve sipped coffee out of a bag through a straw, and squeezed macaroni and cheese from a package into my mouth. more

Courtesy Design Continuum

By Mark Shainblum

McGill Overdrive
http://mcgill.lib.overdrive.com

This slick new online service is now available to anyone with McGill library privileges.  Overdrive allows you to check out a growing selection of digitial ebooks, audiobooks, songs and videos, which you can read or play on your own computer, ebook reader, iPod or MP3 player. more