2008 Woodie Awards
Cutting-edge McGill research produces clones and biomedical advances
After four years of research, a team of scientists lead by Dr. Vilceu Bordignon of the Large Animal Research Unit at Macdonald Campus successfully produced Canada's first cloned pigs. Seventeen pigs were born in three litters on Oct. 22, Nov. 6 and Nov. 12.
Muslim community discusses event
This past December, Mississauga cab driver Muhammad Parvez was charged with second-degree murder for the strangulation of his 16-year old daughter. Aqsa Parvez died on Dec. 10 after police responded to a call from a man claiming to have killed his daughter.
Nation's stability shattered by election irregularities
Violence surrounding the recent election controversy between Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga has vaulted Kenya into the limelight of the global eye. A small but visible part of McGIll, Kenyan students are worried about the unrest.
Postdoc praised for research conducted up North
Climate change has been the latest hot topic in environmental discussions and many, including McGill geography postdoctoral fellow James Ford, are accepting the inevitable changes to come and working to plan for the future. Ford has been researching the effects of climate change on humans in Arctic communities and their ability to adapt to the inevitable change.
Environmentalist calls for policy changes in answer to rising temperatures
Bjorn Lomborg is a prominent statistician and social scientist, and author of two books on climate change, Cool It and The Skeptical Environmentalist. Lomborg is also the former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. Do you think it's hard to communicate a more nuanced or complex view of the impact of global warming in an era of television sound bytes and Internet blogs? Yes, it is hard in the sense that we have this very strong polarization, as you just described.
Islamic scholar addresses full house at UQAM
The Marie Gèrin-Lajoie Room at the Université de Quebec à Montreal was full to capacity this past Friday as the crowd eagerly anticipated the arrival of Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, a revered North American Islamic Scholar. Yusuf was to give his opinion on the debate surrounding reasonable accommodation in Quebec, arguing the need for Quebec to implement societal changes to suit the religious beliefs of immigrants.
