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Geography Department celebrates 80th anniversary

webfull — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:48:57 +0000

McGill’s Department of Geography turns 80 this year! This milestone marks the anniversary of George Kimble’s appointment as McGill’s first Professor of Geography and Department Chair on January 1, 1945.

Read the full announcement from the Faculty of Science here.

Published: 24 January 2025

McGill's Department of Psychology ranks 21st in the Times Higher Education Top 50 list

webfull — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:08:12 +0000

McGill provides a top-tier education in a wide variety of fields, as highlighted in the World University Rankings by Subject 2025, released on January 22 by Times Higher Education (THE).

McGill ranks among the top 90 in the world in all of the 11 subjects assessed, placing six subjects in the top 50. The number of institutions of higher education considered varied by discipline, from 389 for Law to 1,488 for Engineering.

Published: 24 January 2025

Geography Department celebrates 80th anniversary

webfull — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:03:17 +0000

McGill’s Department of Geography turns 80 this year!

This milestone marks the anniversary of George Kimble’s appointment as McGill’s first Professor of Geography and Department Chair on January 1, 1945.

Kimble, who had previously been a meteorologist with the Royal Navy, was allocated two rooms in the Arts Building (rooms 30 and 38) by the Faculty of Arts and Science to lay the foundation for the new department. A few months later, F.K. Hare was appointed as McGill’s second Professor of Geography (eventually becoming Dean of Arts and Science in 1961).

Published: 24 January 2025

Have you spotted these clues in your McGill email?

webfull — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:03:12 +0000

Attackers, scammers, marketers: these days they’re all taking advantage of AI to generate polished, typo-free content. Figuring out if an email is legitimate has definitely become more challenging. But when you access your McGill email through Microsoft Outlook, you benefit from several extra features that help protect you from phishing.

Keep an eye out for: phishing safety tips

Published: 24 January 2025

Aftab Ahmed on Meta’s dominance | Policy Magazine

webfull — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:27:05 +0000

January 22, 2025 | Alumnus Aftab Ahmed MPP'23 wrote about growing Meta's dominance in the digital economy as social media applications such as Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp command over three billion active monthly users worldwide. In the Policy Magazine, he wrote "Meta faces no competition capable of challenging its influence.

Published: 23 January 2025

McGill Education Named 3rd in Canada, 38th Globally

webfull — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:07:35 +0000

According to World University Rankings by Subject 2025, released on January 22 by Times Higher Education (THE), McGill ranks among the top 90 in the world in all of the 11 subjects assessed, placing six subjects in the top 50. The University placed third in Canada in in Education Studies and six other domains. THE’s subject rankings evaluate 11 disciplines based on five performance indicators: teaching, research environment, research quality, international outlook and Industry.

Published: 23 January 2025

Prestigious chairs renewed for two colleagues

webfull — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:45:09 +0000

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the reappointment of Professor Allison Christians as holder of the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Taxation Law, and Professor Marie Manikis as William Dawson Scholar. Their appointments have been renewed for seven and five years, respectively.

Published: 23 January 2025

Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model

webfull — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:09:25 +0000

(Madeleine Fol, Bruno Tremblay, Stephanie Pfirman, Robert Newton, Stephen Howell, Jean-François Lemieux)

Published: 23 January 2025

Expert: Supreme Court of Canada to hear challenge to Quebec’s secularism law (Bill 21)

webfull — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:33:11 +0000

The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it would hear a legal challenge to Quebec’s Act Respecting the Laicity of the State, also known as Bill 21.

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Published: 23 January 2025

Celena Scheede-Bergdahl Comments on Prehab Impact on Patient Recovery

webfull — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:33:36 +0000

The Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education's Dr. Celena Scheede-Bergdahl was interviewed by CBC for an article, "Prehab' before surgery speeds up patient recovery, review suggests" regarding how pre-op exercise, nutritional changes, and psychological support could reduce complications. Dr. Scheede-Bergdahl commented she sees high rates of participation in prehab at Montreal General Hospital's surgery program. "We're capturing them in a teaching moment," Scheede-Bergdahl said.

Published: 23 January 2025