An ecosystem for AI collaboration

Artificial intelligence is transforming the world in ways that are both exciting and troubling. The McGill Collaborative for AI and Society wants to ensure that AI is used in a positive way – and the best way to do that is to bring together experts with different sets of skills.

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A jazz star on the rise

Caity Gyorgy, MMus’22, has won three Juno Awards in the last four years for her albums. The talented jazz singer and composer has been busy putting the finishing touches on her most ambitious project yet.

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A Nobel laureate on the possibility of life on other planets

In his recent book Is Earth Exceptional?, 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.

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Creating a space for sustainability in the curriculum

McGill’s Sustainability Education Fellows program offers professors the support they need to rethink and reshape their courses by adding a new emphasis on issues related to sustainability.

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A double dosage: Meet McGill’s med school twins

Two sets of twins, Shreya and Megha Udupa, and Mathew and Michael 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?

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Building a culture of sustainability

McGill’s Sustainability Projects Fund has supported more than 400 sustainability-related projects at McGill. The largest fund of its kind in Canada, it has played a pivotal role in McGill becoming one of the world’s leading universities for sustainability.

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Co-designing a transformational fund (between classes)

While attending McGill as an undergraduate, Jonathan Glencross, BA’11, was one of the driving forces behind the University’s Sustainability Projects Fund. Years later, he is still busy working on investments with an ethical focus.

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Paying it forward

Josée Goulet, MBA’90, and Jean-Charles Caty, BCom’63, both benefitted from their management studies at McGill before embarking on their successful careers. They are helping to ensure that current francophone students have similar opportunities.

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Sharing the stories of those left behind

In his new book Gone Gone, McGill professor Todd Meyers goes beyond the headlines about the opioid crisis to movingly convey the grief felt by those who have lost loved ones to overdose deaths.

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No fan of ‘eat-your-spinach’ journalism

USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan, BA’87, says that fact-based journalism is her newspaper’s ‘north star,’ and her reporters aren’t afraid of asking tough questions. But the publication also knows a thing or two about having fun.

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