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Buildings and facilities

Students at the Macdonald Campus benefit from easy access to 24-hour computer labs and a wide array of study and recreational facilities such as:

  • A university farm which includes a commercial-scale dairy
  • TheÌýMorgan Arboretum—the oldest growth forest on the island of Montreal
  • TheÌýÏ㽶ÊÓƵ Herbarium—the oldest major herbarium in the country
  • TheÌýLyman Entomological Museum, which at 2.8 million specimens is the largest university-based insect collection in the country

A student sits in a red chair in the library, using her laptop.Macdonald Campus Library

Located in the Barton Building, the Macdonald Campus library houses a collection of over 100,000 volumes encompassing a wide variety of electronic and print resources in agriculture, food and animal science, nutrition,Ìýthe environment, ecology, plant science, and agricultural engineering.

A student looks through McGill apparel on a shelf in the bookstoreBookstore

The is proud to work with Macdonald Campus to ensure that students have easy on-campus access to and .ÌýOnline textbook orders can be picked up on our campus.

A researcher drives a large red farming machine in a field.

Macdonald Campus Farm

TheÌýÌýis comprised of several research and teaching facilities, including:

Jessica Gillung poses with a collection of pinned moths

Lyman Entomological Museum

This museum and research lab houses the second largest collection of insects in Canada, used by biodiversity and entomology students and researchers.

Pressed plant (D. drumondii) specimen from the McGill Herbarium

McGill Herbarium

Our collection of 140,000+ plant specimens, which dates back over 200 years, enables research on plant systematics, genetics, morphology and ecology.

More on-campus research facilities & services

Mass Spectrometry Platform

The Mass Spectrometry Platform on Macdonald Campus provides mass spectrometry service to researchers of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and beyond.

Resources by Managing Department

Animal Sciences

Small Animal Research Unit

The small animal research unit, with a housing system for rodent animal models, guinea pigs, neonatal pigs and rabbits, provides resources for small-animal models that are used for the understanding of basic scientific issues and/or as preliminary models for large-animal/human research studies.

Nutrition Lab, Earle W. Crampton

The Crampton Nutrition Lab was founded in honour of Earle W. Crampton (1895–1983), a professor in the then Department of Nutrition whose contributions to the field are universally recognized as ground-breaking. Today’s Nutrition Lab (under the direction of the Department of Animal Science) continues this proud tradition in the training of nutritionists at the graduate level, many of whom have gone on to become industry and academic leaders in their own right.

Bioresource Engineering

Bioresource Engineering Machine Shop

This machine shop operates in support of teaching, research and research contracts. All standard shop manufacturing techniques can be utilized on wood, metals, plastics, and other materials. The shop has machine laths of different sizes, large drill press, milling machine, sheet metal machines, wood working facilities, extensive welding (electric, gas, etc.) capacity, etc. Contact Leslie Laduke for more information.

Food Science

High Pressure & Microwave Processing

The food industry is always looking for new food processing methods and novel combinations of existing methods to economically produce better quality foods. High pressure processing is one such technique for pasteurization of foods or to modify their functional properties. The set up of McGill's high pressure processing plant is unique in North America, providing a show case of modern preservation technology and expanding the horizons of this research area.Ìý

Facilities also include other novel heating technologies for food preservation.

McGill IR Group

The McGill IR Group, including its personnel, facilities and expertise, is available to develop methodology for custom and specialized applications. Our strengths are chemometrics, calibration development and validation, programming and design and implementation of quality control systems, specializing in fluid-based applications.

Human Nutrition

Food and Nutrition Laboratories

Used predominantly for training tomorrow's nutritionists, dietitians and novel food product developers, the Food and Nutrition Laboratories include theÌýMary Catherine Freeman Quantity Food Production Laboratory, theÌýFrederick N. Southam Food Preparation Laboratory, theÌýSensory Evaluation Laboratory, and theÌýHelen Neilson Culinary Demonstration Room.
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Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Nutrition Lab

The CNRU is dedicated to in-patient and out-patient human nutrition experimentation using precisely controlled diets. It can support 12 research subjects on an in-patient basis. The facility is unique in Canada, in that it allows strict, in-house monitoring and testing of research subjects over prolonged periods while they consume diets prepared in house.

Parasitology

Parasitology Core Facility (PCF)

The PCF is a centralized shared research resource that provides access to instruments, technologies, services (maintenance) and consultation. The PCF contains complex, high-tech equipment, and it is not feasible for researchers to understand all their capabilities and to know how to operate the instruments without instruction and help.

Plant Science

Greenhouse and phytorium

McGill's Department of Plant Science manages a fully equipped computerized greenhouse for research on Macdonald Campus, with assistance available on site.

Multi-scale imaging facility

The Multi-Scale Imaging Facility of the Macdonald campus offers services ranging from sample preparation to image analysis.

CT scanning laboratory

The macro-CT scanning facility enables the detailed, non-destructive study of plant, soil and wood structures, through 3-D images built from CT scans. There is also a micro-CT scanner section.

Portable photosynthesis system

The LI-COR 6800 is a portable system capable of obtaining real time information and measurements about light and carbon reactions.

Macdonald Campus Operations

The Macdonald Campus Operations team is responsible for the maintenance and building operations across the campus.

Affiliated spaces

Two people walk down a path in the arboretum

Morgan Arboretum

A unique 245-hectare forest research station located on the Mac Campus.

Researchers working at a desk in the McGill Bird Observatory bird banding office

Bird Observatory

The nearby McGill Bird Observatory does research and monitors migration.

Students doing research on plants in the forest

Molson Reserve

This nearby 51-hectare reserve was donated to McGill for study and research.

benoit.cote [at] mcgill.ca (Contact for more info)

A river otter looking at the camera

Ecomuseum Zoo

The nearby Ecomuseum Zoo is a natural habitat for observing native wildlife.

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