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As part of the Virtual Office Hour series, McGill Alumni Career Services speaks with Ziya Tong (MA’99) about how she made her career in broadcasting, and the persistence, resourcefulness and determination that goes into following a dream.
After a decade as Principal, Heather Munroe-Blum reflects on the lessons of her term and the serious challenges facing Quebec’s universities in a speech at the Canadian Club in Montreal, March 11, 2013.
McGill celebrates its faculty members who were awarded major national or international prizes in 2011. See the incredible variety of research these award-winners have done—from how to build a brain to investigating how parenting can affect one’s health throughout the lifespan, to developments in mining technologies and advancements in cancer research.
Your facilitator, Jean Hepworth, will guide you through this session which is aimed at providing you step-by-step instructions on some of the different features which myFuture has to offer students. myFuture is used by, CaPS, Desautels Management Career Services, Engineering Career Centre and the Law Career Development Office.
Your facilitator, Jean Hepworth, will guide you through this session which is aimed at providing you step-by-step instructions on how to search and apply for OCR opportunities. This is a campaign whereby private and public organizations from across Canada, the U.S. and abroad visit McGill to recruit students in their final year of study for [...]
William Shatner, known to television fans as Captain Kirk, T.J. Hooker, and Denny Crane, returned to his alma mater, McGill University, on June 2, 2011, to receive an honorary Doctor of Letters. In 1952, Shatner earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree. Hear more about his college days at McGill and hear his address to the [...]
McGill’s winners of major prizes and awards in 2010 were honoured at the University’s annual Bravo celebration. See the variety of award-winning research they conduct at McGill — from robotics and astrophysics, to pediatric clinics and research on aging and Alzheimer’s, to early Chinese history and lessons in global leadership.
The Student Exchanges and Study Abroad office asked McGill students Amanda, Marc and Olga to talk about their experiences studying abroad on student exchanges.
See what our students (Blake, Brent, Kendell and Shakira) have to say about their first year as freshmen on the Macdonald Campus, and meet two of the professors in the Freshman Program!
In this footage from the “Learning to Teach” workshop, designed for graduate students and postdoctoral students who are presently teaching or hope to one day teach, Professor Frédéric Mégret offers some closing remarks on teaching to wrap up the workshop.
In this footage from the “Learning to Teach” workshop, designed for graduate students and postdoctoral students who are presently teaching or hope to one day teach, Professor Ken Ragan speaks about the unique challenges of reaching students in a large lecture course.
A panel discussion on the impact of the active learning classroom on teaching and the student experience. Panel: Jean-Paul Remillieux, Tina Piper, Carolyn Samuel, Nigel Roulet, and a student representative.
A panel discussion on the role of social networking in teaching and learning. Panel: Richard Donovan, Sam Bruzzese, Maureen Baron, and a student representative.
A panel discussion on the utility of lecture recordings. Panel: Laura Winer (Moderator), Eugene Daniels, Paul Lasko, Ken Ragan, David Harpp, and a student representative.
McGill University has a proud heritage of award-winning, cutting-edge scholarship and discovery. Our researchers cover the spectrum of disciplines, including physical sciences, medicine, engineering, agriculture, law, management, languages and music. In this video, hear from McGill research leaders who won major national and international prizes in 2009.
Campaign McGill has already had a tremendous positive impact on the lives of McGill students. The Campaign seeks to raise $750-million toward the University’s top academic priorities. This video profiles a few of the bright young McGill students who will benefit from the changes Campaign McGill will bring to the University.
This tribute video, created to commemorate the Montréal Neurological Institute‘s 75th anniversary, features comments from some of its grateful patients and a few of the many people who have had the honour to work with “Neuro”.
McGill’s Security Service works to ensure the safety of the campus community through patrols, liaison with police, consulting services, crime prevention programs and a wide variety of workshops and lectures for McGill’s students, staff and faculty.
This 2009 recruitment video features ‘students talking to students’ – undergraduate and graduate students share their reasons for choosing McGill and speak to the impact the McGill experience has had on them.
Campaign McGill, launched in 2007, seeks to raise $750-million toward the University’s top academic priorities. This is Campaign McGill’s kick-off video.