November 11 is the traditional day when Canadians stop to reflect on the sacrifice of the men and women who gave their lives in the name of freedom. But our campus also has daily reminders of their valour and loss. A new photo exhibition, currently on display in the main floor lobby of the James Administration Building, tells the story of how the McGill community’s aching need to remember the...
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Over the past year McGill’s Social Equity and Diversity Education Office (SEDE) hired a trio of Education students who have since been leaving their mark on our community and the University. Teyesha Mullick, Carmen Villa and Rachel Zellars of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education each have different roles with SEDE and with the community, but, in an interview with the Reporter each of them had plenty to say...
Anne Applebaum is a foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Post and Slate and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She is also one of three finalists for the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. She recently spoke to the McGill Reporter about her work, literary prizes and how understanding history gives us added insight into the world today.
On Thursday, Nov. 29 (6 p.m), Peter Warren Singer, Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will deliver the 2012 Media@McGill Beaverbrook Annual Lecture entitled, “Wired for War: Everything You Wanted to Know about Robots and War but Were Afraid to Ask,” in Room 100 of the Faculty of Law's Moot Court (3660 Peel St.). He recently answered Four Burning Questions from the...
“So much happens by chance,” says Dr. Charles Scriver. It’s an odd declaration to hear from a man famous for putting in 15 hour days, seven days a week, for 40-something years — and, in doing so, helped shape the face of modern genetics. But there it is: Chance. The trick is being ready for it.
McGill’s first black law grad and Quebec’s first black lawyer In 1956, Frederick Phillips became the first black person to graduate from McGill’s Faculty of Law and, once he passed the bar, the first black lawyer in Quebec. On the occasion of a recent conference of the Black Law Students’…