Education
JGH sports medicine doctor launches on-line physical activity course this week
Dr. Ian Shrier seeks nothing less than changing the culture to where inactivity becomes aberrant behaviour Montreal, February 23, 2015 – In an...
February 23, 2015
Med4 Class Launches Senior Class Gift Campaign
The Class of 2015 gathered at lunchtime in the Martin Theatre on February 19 – the same day as their rank order lists...
February 20, 2015
$1.4 million bequest creates Richard I. Kaufman Cardiovascular Scholars Fund
Last summer, brothers Daniel and Jimmy Kaufman approached Marc Weinstein, Vice-Principal of University Advancement, to share the news that their brother, Richard Kaufman,...
February 19, 2015
Two Faculty of Medicine projects among the $4.7M in NSERC project grants awarded to McGill researchers
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced 78 Strategic Project Grants on February 10, 2015 at the University of New...
February 12, 2015
Socioeconomic differences in adolescent health getting wider
Global trends in health inequalities related to income inequality Health inequalities in young people have grown alongside socioeconomic disparities between the rich...
February 4, 2015
Speak up for Mental Health
In order to promote mental health awareness, medical and dental students from McGill University launched a photo campaign and shared their thoughts and...
January 20, 2015
Apply Now! Rossy Cancer Network Research Grants
The Rossy Cancer Network Research Grants support research initiatives in improving cancer care quality for patients in the network. What’s this? The annual...
January 16, 2015
First-year McGill medical student publishes novel
Jean-Baptiste Roberge was raised in Québec city and then in Montréal. He studied natural sciences at Cégep du Vieux Montréal prior to being...
January 15, 2015
Genetic discovery about childhood blindness
Dr. Robert Koenekoop, director of the McGill Ocular Genetics Laboratory at The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the MUHC, co-led this research. Finding genes...
January 14, 2015
It’s all in a good night’s sleep: How quality of sleep impacts academic performance in children
Study finds link between sleep quality and grades of schoolchildren in math and languages Making sure school-aged kids get to sleep at a...
January 8, 2015
Having a hard time focusing?
Research identifies complex of neurons crucial to controlling attention Our ability to pay attention to certain things while ignoring distractions determines how good...
January 8, 2015
CONGRATULATIONS to members of the Faculty of Medicine community named to the Order of Canada!
Together with Chancellor Michael Meighen, Chancellor Emeritus Dick Pound and several other McGillians, seven members of the McGill Faculty of Medicine community were...
January 6, 2015