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Anja Geitmann begins term as inaugural Vice-President (Global Engagement)

webfull — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:20:29 +0000

Her mission is to advance McGill’s vision for global academic leadership by enhancing the University’s international presence and ties

By Neale McDevitt, Editor, McGill Reporter

Anja Geitmann sees herself as a catalyst.

“I’m here to connect the dots and to support collaborations between McGill and the rest of the world,” said Geitmann, who today began a five-year renewable term as the University’s Vice-President (Global Engagement).

Published: 30 October 2024

NSERC awards Discovery Grants funding to eight McGill Agricultural and Environmental Sciences projects

webfull — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:10:20 +0000

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded 101 McGill research projects funding from its Discovery Grants competition for a total investment of $23.5 million, including $639,500 for eight projects submitted by researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

The Discovery Grants support ongoing programs with long-term goals, recognizing the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.

Published: 30 July 2024

New ECP3 greenhouse unveiled

webfull — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:46:41 +0000

From left to right: Roseann O’Reilly Runte (Director of CFI, Government of Canada), Hugo Dionne (Québec government representative), Marie-Claude Bibeau (Minister of National Revenue and MP for Compton—Stanstead), Peter Moffett (Director of CORSÈVE), Sébastien Roy (Professor of Biology, Université de Sherbrooke), Anja Geitmann (Dean of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill), Carole Beaulieu (Dean of Science, Université de Sherbrooke), Pierre Cossette (Rector, Université de Sherbrooke), Catherine Latendresse (Head of Communications, METRO).

Published: 6 May 2024

Update from Faculty Leadership

webfull — Thu, 02 May 2024 16:47:39 +0000

Now that our senior leaders have had a few months to settle into their new positions, find out what’s been happening on campus.

By Professor Anja Geitmann and Acting Dean Valérie Orsat

Published: 2 May 2024

McGill’s prize-winning researchers and scholars shine at Bravo Gala

webfull — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:38:54 +0000

On March 21, McGill celebrated 111 laureates at the 19^th edition of Bravo, a gala event honouring researchers who won major provincial, national, and international research prizes and awards in 2023. Guests, including researchers, their families and friends, faculty, students, and members of McGill’s academic administration, gathered to celebrate their accomplishments.

Eight of the honourees were from the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:

Published: 10 April 2024

A day of learning in the Longhouse

webfull — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:31:39 +0000

On November 22, a delegation of McGill senior academic leaders, including Interim Vice-President (Global Engagement) and Department of Plant Science Professor Anja Geitmann, Associate Provost (Teaching and Academic Programs) and Department of Natural Resource Sciences Professor Christopher Buddle, and School of Human Nutrition Professor Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, visited the Mohawk commun

Published: 24 January 2024

McGill establishes research chair to address climate change in the North

webfull — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:25:13 +0000

As Canadians experience a year of record-breaking wildfires, floods, and extreme heat, experts are warning that these conditions will persist and likely intensify over the coming decades as we experience the escalating effects of climate change and global warming. These impacts are being felt even more acutely in northern regions of the planet, where temperatures are rising at four times the global rate.

Published: 18 October 2023

AAFC Agri-Science Program announces $5.3M to BioFuelNet

webfull — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:07:05 +0000

On August 30, Vice-Principal of Macdonald Campus and Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Anja Geitmann welcomed Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Louis Francis Scarpaleggia, on behalf of Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC) Lawrence MacAulay, to the Macdonald Campus. In the presence of industry partners AgroWorld and other invited guests, Scarpaleggia announced AAFC’s $5.3 million investment in BioFuelNet Canada as part of the Agri-Science Program.

Published: 4 October 2023

Four Mac Undergrads Awarded for Outstanding USRA Posters

webfull — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:54:58 +0000

On September 7, thirty two AES undergraduate research awardees shared posters illustrating their summer research jobs.

Dean Anja Geitmann broke through the waves of animated conversation to congratulate the students for engaging in this inspiring science conversation and to award four researchers for their outstanding posters:

Published: 20 September 2023

New and renewed government funding for research in McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

webfull — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:42:02 +0000

Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, and the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced an investment of more than $960 million in support of research and innovation through a suite of programs. These programs include the John R.

Published: 30 August 2023