📚 Looking for a good book or two to enjoy over the holidays? McGill News has got you covered! Discover some recent books by (or about) McGill grads for you to consider: mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/holiday-read...

One of Canada’s most prominent bioethicists, Françoise Baylis, BA’83, is frequently interviewed by the press. As the new president of the Royal Society of Canada, she hopes to encourage other academics to share their own expertise more broadly mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/encouraging-...

The Jilly Box, the brainchild of former The Bachelorette star Jillian Harris, provides a boost to small, socially responsible businesses, most of them owned by women. As its CEO, Julia Freeman, BCom’07, is focused on steering The Jilly Box to new heights mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/overseeing-t...

Salwa Karboune became the dean of the Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences in August. On her to-do list: Improving the infrastructure for research at Macdonald Campus and forging closer ties with McGill’s downtown campus mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/charting-a-c...

Looking for a good book or two to enjoy over the holidays? Here are some possibilities from the past year by (or about) McGill grads for you to consider mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/holiday-read...

Nicolas Thomas, a master’s student in McGill’s School of Urban Planning, will be balancing his studies with some new responsibilities. He recently became the youngest elected official in Brossard’s history reporter.mcgill.ca/a-new-genera...

Another McGillian who is factoring into a lot of best-of-the-year lists? Evan Goldberg, BA’05, the co-creator of The Studio, which has been listed by Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, the LA Times and Entertainment Weekly as among 2025’s best

As stated here recently, a number of books by (or about) McGill grads have been appearing on best-of-year lists. Add to that, Who by Fire (Comme le feu), the most recent movie by Quebec filmmaker Philippe Lesage, BA’98, named one of the year’s best films by The New Yorker

Each year, scientists around the world take part in the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. Aman Chokshi, a postdoctoral fellow at McGill’s Trottier Space Institute, was the runner-up in astronomy for Between Auroras and Dawn – A South Pole Sunrise After the Longest Night on Earth

Books by McGill grads appear on several best-of-the-year lists. 4 McGillians cracked the Globe and Mail’s Globe 100 list – Eric Andrew-Gee (The Mind Mappers), Ron Graham (editor of The Coutts Diaries), Susan Swan (Big Girls Don’t Cry) and Steven Pinker (When Everyone Knows What Everyone Knows…)

McGill’s Celeste Pedri-Spade: “[‘Pretendians’] become a kind of counterfeit currency, granting Canadians easy access to digestible versions of Indigenous identity and experience. But they are not ours, they are not us and they are not our stories” theconversation.com/thomas-king-...

McGill neuroscientist Udunna Anazodo and her team are the driving forces behind Imaging Without Borders, a pioneering effort that could transform global access to brain imaging. “About 70 to 80 per cent of the world does not have access to MRI systems” www.mcgill.ca/neuro/articl...

Scrivener Creative Review, the McGill literary magazine that has featured work by everyone from Leonard Cohen to P.K. Page to Sheila Heti, returned in 2025 after a 5-year hiatus. “We received over 400 [submissions] for the upcoming Fall issue” reporter.mcgill.ca/scrivener-re...

Using a 3D printer, discarded pallets and other inexpensive materials, Morley Kert, BEng’19, designs and builds unique items and recreates high-end designer furniture. Millions of viewers on YouTube take pleasure in his ingenuity and enthusiasm mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/tinkering-on...

As the CEO of Partnership on AI, Rebecca Finlay, BA’88, works with a diverse array of entities – everyone from OpenAI to UNICEF to the BBC – to encourage the development of artificial intelligence in a way that is transparent and focused on the public good mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/fostering-a-...

Time Out’s list of the coolest streets in the world includes one street that will be VERY familiar to McGillians. www.timeout.com/travel/coole...

How does McGill prepare its graduates for a challenging job market? “When you go to any employer, they look more broadly than just what your degree says about you, and McGill offers that” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/future-ready...

When a McGill research team struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they found a perfect model in nature -- mosquitos www.newscientist.com/article/2504...

In a recent interview, economist Peter Howitt, BA’68, discussed his Nobel Prize-winning research, the AI revolution, and how his curiosity about the price of wool led him to McGill mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/head-over-he...

When Mathieu Darche, BCom’00, the new general manager of the New York Islanders, was studying management at McGill and playing for the University’s hockey team, he couldn’t have imagined how those two sides of his life would end up being combined mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/his-new-job-...

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Angela Campbell appointed McGill's next Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic). Read more: https://mcgill.ca/x/i9m Angela Campbell a été nommée provost et vice-rectrice principale aux études de l'Université McGill. En savoir plus : https://mcgill.ca/x/i9s

Congratulations to McGill law professor René Provost, emeritus professor of French language & literature Yvon Rivard, and McGill alums Céline Galipeau and Clément Gosselin. They are among the winners of the 2025 Prix du Québec prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/prix-du-queb...

During WWI, McGill pathology instructor John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields, “one of the most moving pieces of poetry about the horrors of trench warfare.” The McGill Library’s 4 handwritten copies of the poem recently received special recognition from UNESCO montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

“On May 8, 1945, McGill’s end-of-term examinations were disrupted by spontaneous celebrations” following the announcement of the end of the war in Europe. With the return of war veterans, enrolment at McGill more than doubled the following year reporter.mcgill.ca/80-years-ago...

Congratulations to Katia Belkhodja, MA’12, for winning the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction for her book Les déterrées

A McGill pain researcher is teaming up with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The goal is to help people dealing with chronic pain express what they’re feeling by using art and AI reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-resea...

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Professor Emerita Bartha Maria Knoppers recently received McGill’s highest academic honour. “It is impossible to overestimate the importance of Professor Knoppers’ landmark work in bioethics, the place where law and medicine meet” reporter.mcgill.ca/bartha-knopp...

Food historian Nathalie Cooke sees menus as more than simply guides for ordering burgers or burritos. In her beautifully illustrated new book, she demonstrates how old menus offer invaluable clues about the dining cultures of past eras mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-journey-in...

McGill’s Morgan Arboretum, a beloved urban ecological space on the West Island, will be marking its 80th anniversary during Homecoming later this month with a flurry of activities on Macdonald Campus mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/celebrating-...

McGill professor Alain Farah’s award-winning novel Mille secrets mille dangers prompted an unexpected offer from celebrated filmmaker Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) – to work together to transform the novel into a movie mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/from-the-pri...

Peter Howitt, BA’68, receives the Nobel for co-constructing “a mathematical model for what is called creative destruction: when a new and better product enters the market, the companies selling the older products lose out” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

Congratulations to McGill grad Peter Howitt, the co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (aka the Nobel Prize in Economics)! www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

Sam Greene, BCom’20, MMgmt’21, studied analytics at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management. As the assistant pitching coach for the Toronto Blue Jays, he has been using that expertise to help the pitchers on one of baseball’s best teams mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/fastball-cur...

Jane Goodall has passed away. Remembering her Beatty Lecture at McGill in 2019. “It is bizarre how the most intellectual creature that ever walked the planet is destroying its only home” reporter.mcgill.ca/its-been-a-l...

RIP Balfour Mount. The McGill medical pioneer known as the “father” of palliative care, passed away in the Palliative Care Unit that bears his name at the Royal Victoria Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre www.mcgill.ca/palliativeca...

What impact does a warming planet have on public health? How much progress are we making in our understanding of cancer? McGill experts tackle some of the most important questions of our times on Mark my words, a new podcast mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/tag/podcasts/

The research that David Rolnick leads at McGill’s School of Computer Science provides a window into the possibilities that AI might offer for helping efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/ai-for-good-...

Congratulations to former McGill law professor David Lametti, BCL’89, LLB’89, on becoming Canada’s next ambassador to the United Nations

As “51st state” rhetoric drove Canadian patriotism to a fever pitch this year, Brian Naish, BSc’93, unexpectedly found himself playing a pivotal role at an historic moment – as the country’s biggest flag maker mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-flag-hungr...

Naked & Famous Denim founder Brandon Svarc, BCom’04, has a very distinct approach to jeans, one that has earned him plenty of attention. Even James Bond has been spotted in his jeans (but not the glow-in-the-dark ones) mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/the-denim-di...

Congratulations to Evan Goldberg, BA’05, for winning 3 Emmy Awards last night for his work on The Studio. He earned Emmys for writing, directing and producing the show

This is my go-to place in Montreal. I think I may have single-handedly paid for Adrian’s eventual retirement with the number of books I’ve bought from The Word over the last 30 years.

For generations of McGill students, The Word Bookstore on Milton Street has been almost as familiar a landmark as the Roddick Gates or the Redpath Museum. Adrian King-Edwards, BA’71, the bookshop’s co-founder and owner, shares some memories mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-little-boo...

Artist and activist Benjamin Von Wong, BEng’08, turns plastic waste into spectacular constructions in an attempt to compel people to think about the dangers of climate change www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

A bookish McGill law student who led hockey’s most fabled team to the Stanley Cup when he wasn’t busy writing exams. It sounds too crazy to be true - but it actually happened. Ken Dryden, LLB’73, LLD’18. What an incredible life RIP

After spending the last 2 years in France, the first cohort of students in the Global Engineering Program, a unique partnership between McGill’s Faculty of Engineering and France’s CentraleSupélec, are now at McGill mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/reimagining-...

Congratulations to Caroline Quach-Thanh, MSc’03, an adjunct professor at McGill and an infectious disease specialist at CHU Sainte-Justine. She has been named as Quebec’s new director of public health www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...