Professional achievement unlocked: having my cat join me on national news as I comment on the current national rail lockout in Canada 🐱

“Everyone told me, if you truly want to understand who Kamala Harris is and how she got that way, you need to talk to her mother.” A writer recalls her lunch with former McGill professor Shyamala Gopalan Harris motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

The Florida Panthers won their first Stanley Cup this spring, but it was the third Cup victory for their assistant coach Jamie Kompon, BEd’89. It wasn’t easy though. The Panthers’ coaches worked hard to prevent “the worst collapse in the universe” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/the-stanley-cu…

In her research on feminist restaurants and queer cuisine, Alex Ketchum, MA’13, PhD’18, an assistant professor at McGill’s Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, examines underexplored areas of culinary history and food culture mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/exploring-quee…

In her unnerving new documentary about microplastics, science journalist Ziya Tong, MA’99, points to the growing evidence that these tiny pollutants are turning up almost everywhere – even inside our bodies mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/why-microplast…

Dean of Education Vivek Venkatesh explores the roots of violent extremism while promoting pluralism. In his academic work, he is just as comfortable on stage with a guitar as he is at the head of a classroom mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/new-dean-of-ed…

The Office of Ed-TECH in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences develops e-learning and online innovations that support the Faculty’s teaching programs – but McGill students aren’t the only ones benefitting from the office’s expertise mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/giving-medical…

The rise of space tourism, the potential danger of space debris, the possibility of asteroid mining – as space technology continues to advance, an award-winning book by legal scholar Michael Byers, LLB’92, BCL’92, asks if international law is keeping pace mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/the-final-fron…

McGill medical students learn some of their most important lessons in the Anatomy Lab, thanks to individuals whose names they might never know. McGill’s Body Donor Program plays a vital role in the Faculty’s teaching program mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-donation-lik…

Yale historian Ned Blackhawk, BA’92, believes that accounts of U.S. history typically pay little attention to the pivotal role that Native Americans played in that history. His award-winning book The Rediscovery of America serves as a powerful corrective mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/telling-the-wh…

The Federal Reserve is the central bank for the U.S. and Adriana Kugler, BA’91, is one of its governors. Growing up in Colombia, “I got to see... the dire consequences of inflation for the most disadvantaged” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/when-shes-not-…

Stick&Bow, a cello and marimba duo composed of Schulich School of Music graduates Juan Sebastian Delgado and Krystina Marcoux, traverses a wide range of musical landscapes – from the intricate harmonies of Bach to the modern rock of Radiohead mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/forging-their-…

One of Montreal’s most unique art collections belongs to the Centre universitaire de santé McGill. It includes works by celebrated artists James Wilson Morrice and Joan Miró and by medical pioneers Frederick Banting and Norman Bethune montrealgazette.com/news/local-new…

Each year, McGill’s Body Donor Program receives 80 to 100 body donations, some from as far afield as the Gaspé and Abitibi regions

McGill professor Don Nerbas co-edited a new book about Montreal’s Golden Square Mile. The book (which involves many McGillians) explores everything from the future Lord Beaverbrook’s time in the neighbourhood to the aftermath of a notorious murder-suicide mcgill.ca/arts/article/f…

Pete Rose has more hits than anyone in Major League Baseball history, but other things he did have kept him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jeffrey Lenkov, BA’87, co-created a new HBO series about the controversial sports legend -- a man he knows well mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/his-own-worst-…

McGill’s Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship has a new home. As a hub for McGill entrepreneurs, it has supported thousands of ventures, created over 10,000 new jobs and raised $3.7 billion in funding reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgills-dobson…

McGill’s Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning is helping the Canadian Space Agency prepare for the unique medical challenges associated with deep-space travel. “You have to become very adaptive” mcgill.ca/medhealthsci-a…