Visual effects compositor Jordan Catracchia, BSc’11, has worked on some of Hollywood’s most popular movies in recent years, including two Oscar-winning Avatar films. “[Audiences] want to be transported to another world” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/bringing-new...

Jonathan Arsenault, BEng’17, MEng’19, PhD’23, grew up cheering for the Canadiens, but as a data scientist for the Carolina Hurricanes, his focus right now is on helping his team find ways to beat the Habs mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/they-shoot-t...

Folks seem to be talking about hockey for some reason. Might as well reshare a couple of recent stories. Here’s Hockey Night in Canada’s David Amber, BA’93, on why this is “the best time of the year” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/the-best-tim...

Hockey Night in Canada host David Amber, BA’93, says no sports event quite matches the intensity of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. “It’s amazing to watch the sacrifices the players will make this time of year” mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/the-best-tim...

Time Magazine’s 2026 listing of the world’s most impactful companies places Moderna in the top spot. We spoke to Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan, BEng’83, DSc’22, 5 years ago about Moderna’s roots and its landmark COVID-19 vaccine mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/mcgills-mode...

“Sky High Trust,” a current exhibition on the ground floor of the McLennan Library, features David Grant Noble’s striking photos from 1970 of Kanien'kehá:ka ironworkers at work in New York City www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

“The ability to practice these very high-stakes events in a safe environment, and to do it over and over again, is something that’s uniquely available through simulation training.” A visit to the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/practice-mak...

The Carolina Hurricanes are one of the best teams in the NHL, thanks, in part, to their commitment to analytics. Data scientist Jonathan Arsenault, BEng’17, MEng’19, PhD’23, plays a key role for the team mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/they-shoot-t...

At the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada’s recent Conversations: sponsored by Charles Bronfman event, Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and authors Cory Doctorow and Astra Taylor shared their concerns about AI – and they had many, many concerns giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories/...

Gabor Szilasi, one of Montreal’s most acclaimed photographers, passed away recently. You can see some of his work in a current exhibition at the McLennan Library Building on the 4th floor. Upcoming tours on April 16 and May 20 news.library.mcgill.ca/rediscoverin...

Left to Their Own Devices, a podcast co-created by McGill’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy and hosted by Ava Smithing, a 2025–2026 youth fellow at the centre, is a finalist for a Peabody Award, one of the top international prizes in journalism www.thestar.com/podcasts/lef...?

Natalie Coffen, BA’18, landed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her behind-the-scenes work in the world of comedy. She says Mary Tyler Moore, Just for Laughs and McGill all played roles in preparing her for her career mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/funny-how-he...

When the Artemis II rocket circles the moon, Jenni Gibbons, BEng’11, will serve as a voice link from Earth to space — part of the team coaching the astronauts on key mission objectives www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Lewtas Office of Experiential Learning supports hands-on learning opportunities at the Desautels Faculty of Management. “Students are more motivated because they are more engaged – they can see the real-world applications of what they're learning” giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories/...

From taking part in high-stakes climate negotiations to weathering toxic online abuse, former federal cabinet minister Catherine McKenna, LLB’99, reflects on her life in politics and beyond in her recent book mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/navigating-t...

RIP John F. Burns, BA’66. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner was one of the best foreign correspondents of his generation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

So, who gets to decide who wins the Oscars? People like McGill grad Joyce Borenstein (a former Oscar nominee), and she takes the responsibility very seriously montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

McGill24, the University’s annual day of giving, raised $5.4 million for almost 90 projects on the McGill Crowdfunding platform, supporting everything from women’s hockey to robotics to the McGill Savoy Society giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories/...

McGill librarian Michael David Miller is the president of Wikimedia Canada, a non-profit committed to the growth and development of free knowledge, notably via Wikipedia. “Librarians and Wikipedia have similar goals democratizing access to information” reporter.mcgill.ca/why-is-my-mc...

More than 30 million have streamed @schulichmusic.bsky.social grad Stephen Spencer’s music videos. His key collaborator? His three-year-old daughter www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Dr. Tom Hutchinson has been a champion of humanistic medicine at McGill. “When the system is overly focused on measurement and outcome, there is not enough space for the human interaction that needs to happen” montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

RIP Bill Leggett, PhD’69. Before he led Queen’s University as its principal, he was McGill’s chair of biology, dean of science and vice-principal (academic). Also a highly regarded expert on the dynamics of fish populations www.arbormemorial.ca/en/reid/obit...

If you want your university to be a special place, you need to have some David Harpps around. An award-winning teacher (many times), a driving force behind McGill’s Office for Science & Society, a longtime university marshal for convocation. RIP www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Artful Naturalism, a new exhibition at McGill’s Redpath Museum involving artists and McGill graduate students, offers “an opportunity to wrestle with the boundaries between religion and science” www.mcgill.ca/arts/article...

McGill neuroscientist Robert Zatorre plays a large role in this New Yorker story about musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

Ice dancer Lilah Fear will be one of the flagbearers for Great Britain at the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Games on Friday. In 2022, she spoke to us about balancing her skating career with her McGill studies mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/bound-for-be...

“We looked at EDI not as a box we had to check off, but as something that could help us become a better university. We never kept our eyes off excellence as the ultimate criterion.” Christopher Manfredi looks back on his time as McGill’s provost reporter.mcgill.ca/christopher-...

Juan Pablo Luna, the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies in McGill’s Department of Political Science, recently delved into the ouster of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and the wider ramifications it holds for the region mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/all-eyes-on-...

Pollack Hall is undergoing major renovations. That means that McGill music students have an opportunity to perform in out-of-the-ordinary venues and audiences have a chance to see them in places like the Maison symphonique and the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste reporter.mcgill.ca/operas-symph...

The Emmy Award-winning producer of The White Lotus. The two sets of twins studying medicine at McGill. The tiny bookstore that has been loved by generations of McGillians. Revisit the most popular McGill News stories of 2025 mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/the-most-pop...

Rees Kassen, PhD’01, the McGill Sustainability Park’s new academic director, has a strong grasp of the important roles that both researchers and policy experts play in developing and implementing ideas that have a real-world impact mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/charting-the...

A former Olympic gold medallist, Jennifer Heil, BCom’13, knows all about the pressures that Canadian athletes taking part in the Winter Games will have to deal with. She is drawing on that experience to serve as Canada’s chef de mission for Milano Cortina mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/olympian-ceo...

Friday evenings between 4 and 7 – not exactly the most coveted time slot for a class. The fact that 500+ students enrolled in John Gyakum’s Climate and Climate Change course this semester speaks volumes about its popularity mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/teaching-the...

McGill was recently mentioned on Heated Rivalry, maybe the hottest (no pun intended) show on TV right now. Shane’s dad played hockey at McGill www.tiktok.com/@heatedrival...

📚 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-...