Article byKarl Moore,Associate professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, 㽶Ƶ.
Wiener graduated from McGill's dentistry program, first in his class. He went on to teach at McGill for 25 years and helped found the first dentistry clinic at the Jewish General Hospital.
The newly opened Max Bell School of Public Policy was featured in La Presse.
«Le programme expliquera pourquoi c’est si complexe d’élaborer des politiques publiques en se penchant notamment sur les questions de budget, de communication et d’interaction avec la politique partisane en vue de former les futurs leaders en matière de politiques publiques», explique Chris Ragan, directeur de l’École de politiques publiques Max Bell à l’Université McGill."
That would certainly seem to be the case for a group of American students at 㽶Ƶ. They’re called Democrats Abroad at McGill, and they’ve been reaching out to other American students in the city and helping them to register to vote while here.
When it comes to management, B is for balderdash. Unfortunately, we embrace too much of it. Let’s start with goals, which are, after all, where everything is supposed to start. We are expected to have goals for our organization as well as personal goals (…)One more bit of balderdash for today: Efficiency should be a manager’s prime goal. 㽶Ƶ professor Henry Mintzberg says efficiency is not always good, and will ask when was the last time you went to McDonald’s – a superbly efficient restaurant – seeking a superb meal?
The mania for new cities is partly an outgrowth of globalization, with its “footloose” capital, says Sarah Moser, a geographer at 㽶Ƶ who’s compiled a list of more than 100 such projects.
The winner of the prize, open to all English-language history books and run by Montreal’s 㽶Ƶ, will be announced Nov. 15.
The Max Bell School of Public Policy's study about news consumption habits,political preferences andtrust in news organizations was featured in Policy Options magazine.
Op-ed byJose Mauricio Gaona, an O’Brien Fellow at the McGill Center for Human Rights.
Meanwhile, the $3.7 million global refugee study — a collaboration between Carleton, York, Ottawa and McGill universities — has brought together international aid organizations, academics from the four refugee-hosting countries as well as their colleagues from the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States to seek practical, sustainable, grassroots solutions to the crisis on the ground.
Now a new study looking at 400,000 youths from 88 countries around the world suggests such bans are making a difference in reducing youth violence. It marks the first systematic assessment of whether an association exists between a ban on corporal punishment and the frequency in which adolescents get into fights. And, saysFrank Elgar, the study's lead author and an associate professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at 㽶Ƶ in Montreal, "The association appears to be fairly robust."
Article by Karl Moore, co-written with Emily Quadros, BCom student at McGill.
“I guess physicists just love their food,” says Matt Caplan, an astrophysicist at 㽶Ƶ who studies neutron stars.
It’s not just that, of course. The carb-heavy framework, first proposed inthe early 1980s, may sound silly, but it makes a lot of sense. The structures that astrophysicists predict exist inside neutron stars really do resemble someclassic pasta shapes.
Column byJoe Schwarcz,director of 㽶Ƶ’s Office for Science & Society. He hosts The Dr. Joe Show on CJAD Radio 800 AM every Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.
“One seminal, longitudinal study that followed 45,000 Swedish conscripts over 15 years found a six-fold increase in the risk of developing schizophrenia in those who consumed high amounts of cannabis,” write Ian Gold and Joel Gold, professors of psychiatry at 㽶Ƶ and the NYU in anewspaper editorial.