Education
Provost Masi on budget cuts: “McGill community has stepped up, pitched in, and is working hard”
To get an update on the McGill’s financial situation, The Reporter asked Provost Anthony C. Masi to answer four questions on the response...
September 10, 2013
Jewish General Hospital supports World Suicide Prevention Day
Every year, one million people worldwide—including 4,000 Canadians—commit suicide, an average of one death every 40 seconds. As part of World Suicide Prevention...
September 9, 2013
Desjardins Group and The Neuro – training the next generation of neuroscientists
As part of The Neuro’s Thinking Ahead Campaign, a $240,000 donation from Desjardins Group, the largest financial cooperative group in Canada, to The...
September 4, 2013
Learning a new language alters brain development
Scientists at The Neuro find important time factor in second-language acquisition The age at which children learn a second language can have a...
September 4, 2013
NEURO PORTRAIT: inspiring art and science
Photo exhibit dives into the heart of creativity and the human brain WATCH the video clip (30sec): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LuKKTdgFzw (English transcript below) Starting...
August 21, 2013
Brain gain: Tripartite partnership creates leading-edge neuroscience network
McGill, Oxford and Neuroscience Center Zurich sign three-way agreement By Neale McDevitt When it comes to relationships, three is often seen as a number...
August 20, 2013
Building bridges for better health care
Abitibi-Témiscamingue is a vital partner of the RUIS McGill. Twice a year, RUIS McGill leaders, faculty and staff from Montreal visit the area...
August 13, 2013
McGill’s Faculty of Medicine Welcomes Incoming Residents
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013, newly minted medical residents gathered at the Faculty of Medicine for orientation events aimed at their introduction to...
August 13, 2013
Alcoholism: effects on the brain’s dopamine system
Those vulnerable to alcoholism may experience an unusually large response in the brain’s reward-seeking pathway when they take a drink “There is accumulating...
August 13, 2013
New network in medical physics
Initiative funded by NSERC’s CREATE program seeks to bolster innovation in the development of technologies used for diagnosis and treatment of disease The...
August 12, 2013
Montreal’s golden age of medical research
By John Bergeron Professor of medicine at McGill University MONTREAL — Sixty years ago, two McGill University scholars discovered the...
August 5, 2013
A new strategy leads to the improvement of cataract surgery
An eye for efficiency Continuing its pace-setting initiatives to enhance patients’ access to timely care while increasing workplace efficiency, the Jewish General Hospital...
August 5, 2013