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McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, [12] the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, [13] whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College. In 1885, the name was officially changed ...
Sir John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada Julie Payette, astronaut and former Governor General of Canada Timothy Harris, current Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Daniel Oduber Quirós, 37th President of Costa Rica Vaira Vike-Freiberga, 6th and first female President of Latvia ...
SIS has been offering programs at McGill since 1897, and its Masters program has been continuously accredited by the American Library Association since 1929. [1] The School is located in a historic [citation needed] building at 3661 Peel Street on the downtown McGill University campus.
In 1964, Safdie established Safdie Architects in Montreal to undertake work on Habitat 67, an adaptation of his thesis at McGill University. [12] [13] Habitat 67 was selected by Canada as a central feature of Expo 67. The project launched the design and implementation of three-dimensional, prefabricated units for living. Safdie designed the ...
Her PhD thesis was awarded the D.W. Ambridge Prize for the best dissertation in Physical Sciences and Engineering at McGill University. After completing her PhD, Arbel worked at the Montreal Neurological Hospital , where she developed computer vision methods for neurology and neurosurgery. [ 2 ]
Blanchette became Associate Professor in the McGill University School of Computer Science in 2002. His research [1] [4] [5] focuses on developing computational methods for detecting functional regions in DNA sequences. His postdoctoral work developed algorithms for reconstructing ancestral mammalian genomes. His recent work continues this path ...
Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation - McGill University; Mathieu Gervais, Observer, Assistant Deputy Minister for Science and Innovation at the Ministère de l'Économie et de l'innovation; Pierre Boivin, President, Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer - Claridge
McGill's School of Architecture, founded in 1896, is one of the oldest architecture schools in North America and the second to be established in Canada. [14] Initially a Beaux-Arts style school based in the Arts and Crafts movement, it became a Bauhaus-based institution under new directorship after World War II.