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RIP Henry Friesen, former McGill medical prof. He was president of the Medical Research Council and helped transform it into the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Also founding chair of Genome Canada and a Canada Gairdner International Award winner cdnmedhall.ca/laureates/henr…

In a monthly reading group led by Dean of Arts Lisa Shapiro, students, faculty and staff are engaging in conversations about everything from George Orwell to the Bouchard-Taylor Report on “reasonable accommodation” reporter.mcgill.ca/reading-group-…

Honorary degree recipients at McGill’s Spring Convocation ceremonies will include AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura, and award-winning author David Adams Richards reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-announc…

Congrats to Dispersa founder Nivatha Balendra, BSc’22. She was named one of this year’s winners of the Governor General’s Innovation Awards innovation.gg.ca/winner/dispers…

Thoughts on the Canadian election part one: McGill doctoral candidate Ben Woodfinden served as director of communications for Pierre Poilievre’s campaign thehub.ca/2025/05/10/ben…

Thoughts on the Canadian election part two: Gerald Butts, BA’93, MA’96, an advisor to Mark Carney’s campaign, shares his perspective with Paul Wells (final interview on the podcast) youtube.com/watch?v=BNOP-I…

McGill grads in the new Carney federal cabinet: Julie Dabrusin, BA’94,Minister of Environment and Climate Change Joël Lightbound, BCL/LLB’11, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement (1/2)

McGill grads in the new Carney federal cabinet Evan Solomon, BA’90, MA’92, Minister of Artificial Intelligence & Digital Innovation; and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario Anna Gainey, BA’01, Secretary of State (Children and Youth) (2/2)

Congrats to Mathieu Darche, BCom’00, the new GM of the New York Islanders. He was a part of 2 Stanley Cup championships as the assistant GM and director of hockey operations for the Tampa Bay Lightning

“There’s never been a more important time to understand, defend and invest in what makes Canada strong. Our universities are central to that” montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-eds…

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal begins on June 26 and, as usual, plenty of McGillians will be performing, including Caity Gyorgy, Kid Koala, Christine Jensen, Suuns, Beth McKenna, Carl Mayotte and Busty and the Bass montrealjazzfest.com

In his recent book, Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak, BSc’72, DSc’11, the director of the University of Chicago’s Center for the Origins of Life, examines the latest research on how life started – and whether it could exist anywhere else in the universe mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-nobel-laurea…

Earlier this yr, we spoke to Matthew Rankin, BA’01, whose film Universal Language recently won 6 Canadian Screen Awards. “History has been a thread throughout all my work as a filmmaker. Its origins were really my days as a young history student at McGill” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-filmmaker-wi…

Two sets of twins, Shreya and Megha Udupa, and Michael and Mathew Petros, are currently studying medicine at McGill. The path to becoming a doctor isn’t an easy one. Does it help to share the experience with the person who knows you best? mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-double-dosag…

McGill’s Sustainability Education Fellows program offers professors the support they need to reshape their courses by adding a new emphasis on sustainability. “It can be hard, if you’re not studying climate science, to figure out how to fit it in” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/creating-a-spa…

Jazz singer/composer Caity Gyorgy, MMus’22, has won 3 Juno Awards in the last 4 years. A McGill student during the pandemic, she says the in-person lessons she had with assistant professor Ranee Lee every week were “a godsend during that time” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-jazz-star-on…

The McGill Collaborative for AI and Society wants AI to benefit the world. For that to happen, people with very different backgrounds and skills need to work together mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/an-ecosystem-f…

Hundreds of U.S.-based researchers are thinking about leaving the country. Four major universities, including McGill, present the case for making Quebec a key destination for top-tier talent mcgill.ca/newsroom/chann…