McGill Reads: 2017 holiday edition

Our annual McGill Reads holiday reading list celebrates this, its fifth year, in real fashion, with a thought-provoking selection of great reads as suggested by University students, staff, faculty and administrators.

Beijing bound

Two McGillians have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars, a one-year Masters’ program in Global Affairs. Grad Jordan-Nicolas Matte and soon-to-be-alum Jonathan Lopez Naranjo will join an elite cohort of international scholars at Beijing’s Tsinghua University in August 2018.

2016 at McGill: Were you paying attention?

With 2016 drawing to a close, it is time for the Reporter’s annual Year-End Quiz. While other quizzes will, no doubt, focus on global events of a tumultuous year unlike any other in recent memory, ours will highlight the last 12 months at McGill.

John Bergeron: “Only young people make discoveries”

Recently, McGill’s John Bergeron, one of Canada’s preeminent cell biologists, was invited to be a judge at the Canada-Wide Science Festival (CWSF). Bergeron jump at the chance because it closed a circle over 50 years in the making. “The CWSF started my career at McGill,” says Bergeron. “In 1961, I won the Science Fair at the University of Montreal and that paid for my first year of McGill.”