McGill librarian Michael David Miller is the president of Wikimedia Canada, a non-profit committed to the growth and development of free knowledge, notably via Wikipedia. “Librarians and Wikipedia have similar goals democratizing access to information” reporter.mcgill.ca/why-is-my-mc...
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@schulichmusic.bsky.social grad Stephen Spencer’s music videos. His key collaborator? His three-year-old daughter www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Dr. Tom Hutchinson has been a champion of humanistic medicine at McGill. “When the system is overly focused on measurement and outcome, there is not enough space for the human interaction that needs to happen” montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
RIP Bill Leggett, PhD’69. Before he led Queen’s University as its principal, he was McGill’s chair of biology, dean of science and vice-principal (academic). Also a highly regarded expert on the dynamics of fish populations www.arbormemorial.ca/en/reid/obit...
If you want your university to be a special place, you need to have some David Harpps around. An award-winning teacher (many times), a driving force behind McGill’s Office for Science & Society, a longtime university marshal for convocation. RIP www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Artful Naturalism, a new exhibition at McGill’s Redpath Museum involving artists and McGill graduate students, offers “an opportunity to wrestle with the boundaries between religion and science” www.mcgill.ca/arts/article...
McGill neuroscientist Robert Zatorre plays a large role in this New Yorker story about musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
Ice dancer Lilah Fear will be one of the flagbearers for Great Britain at the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Games on Friday. In 2022, she spoke to us about balancing her skating career with her McGill studies mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/bound-for-be...
“We looked at EDI not as a box we had to check off, but as something that could help us become a better university. We never kept our eyes off excellence as the ultimate criterion.” Christopher Manfredi looks back on his time as McGill’s provost reporter.mcgill.ca/christopher-...
Juan Pablo Luna, the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies in McGill’s Department of Political Science, recently delved into the ouster of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and the wider ramifications it holds for the region mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/all-eyes-on-...
Pollack Hall is undergoing major renovations. That means that McGill music students have an opportunity to perform in out-of-the-ordinary venues and audiences have a chance to see them in places like the Maison symphonique and the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste reporter.mcgill.ca/operas-symph...
The Emmy Award-winning producer of The White Lotus. The two sets of twins studying medicine at McGill. The tiny bookstore that has been loved by generations of McGillians. Revisit the most popular McGill News stories of 2025 mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/the-most-pop...
Rees Kassen, PhD’01, the McGill Sustainability Park’s new academic director, has a strong grasp of the important roles that both researchers and policy experts play in developing and implementing ideas that have a real-world impact mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/charting-the...
A former Olympic gold medallist, Jennifer Heil, BCom’13, knows all about the pressures that Canadian athletes taking part in the Winter Games will have to deal with. She is drawing on that experience to serve as Canada’s chef de mission for Milano Cortina mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/olympian-ceo...
Friday evenings between 4 and 7 – not exactly the most coveted time slot for a class. The fact that 500+ students enrolled in John Gyakum’s Climate and Climate Change course this semester speaks volumes about its popularity mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/teaching-the...
McGill was recently mentioned on Heated Rivalry, maybe the hottest (no pun intended) show on TV right now. Shane’s dad played hockey at McGill www.tiktok.com/@heatedrival...
Portraits of Grace Flahive, Alex Hutchinson, Brendan Kelly and Susan Swan.
📚 Looking for a good book or two to enjoy over the holidays? McGill News has got you covered!
Discover some recent books by (or about) McGill grads for you to consider: mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/holiday-read...
One of Canada’s most prominent bioethicists, Françoise Baylis, BA’83, is frequently interviewed by the press. As the new president of the Royal Society of Canada, she hopes to encourage other academics to share their own expertise more broadly mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/encouraging-...
The Jilly Box, the brainchild of former The Bachelorette star Jillian Harris, provides a boost to small, socially responsible businesses, most of them owned by women. As its CEO, Julia Freeman, BCom’07, is focused on steering The Jilly Box to new heights mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/overseeing-t...
Salwa Karboune became the dean of the Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences in August. On her to-do list: Improving the infrastructure for research at Macdonald Campus and forging closer ties with McGill’s downtown campus mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/charting-a-c...
Looking for a good book or two to enjoy over the holidays? Here are some possibilities from the past year by (or about) McGill grads for you to consider mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/holiday-read...
Nicolas Thomas, a master’s student in McGill’s School of Urban Planning, will be balancing his studies with some new responsibilities. He recently became the youngest elected official in Brossard’s history reporter.mcgill.ca/a-new-genera...
Another McGillian who is factoring into a lot of best-of-the-year lists? Evan Goldberg, BA’05, the co-creator of The Studio, which has been listed by Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, the LA Times and Entertainment Weekly as among 2025’s best
As stated here recently, a number of books by (or about) McGill grads have been appearing on best-of-year lists. Add to that, Who by Fire (Comme le feu), the most recent movie by Quebec filmmaker Philippe Lesage, BA’98, named one of the year’s best films by The New Yorker
Earlier this year, Chokshi was one of the winners of Nature's 2025 Scientist at Work competition for photos that showcased the fieldwork of scientists
Each year, scientists around the world take part in the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. Aman Chokshi, a postdoctoral fellow at McGill’s Trottier Space Institute, was the runner-up in astronomy for Between Auroras and Dawn – A South Pole Sunrise After the Longest Night on Earth
Two books by McGillians – Blake Gopnik’s The Maverick’s Museum and Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction – appear in The New Yorker’s roundup of the year’s best books
McGill grad Alex Hutchinson’s The Explorer’s Gene was one of Smithsonian Magazine’s top science books for 2025.
Also appearing on The Economist’s best-of-the-year list was Zbig, Edward Luce’s biography of McGill grad Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the 20th century’s most influential foreign policy strategists. Zbig was also included on the best-of-the-year lists of The Washington Post and Foreign Affairs.
