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| Motto | Grandescunt aucta labore (By work, all things increase and grow) |
| Established | 1821 |
| School type | Public |
| President | Heather Munroe-Blum |
| Location | Montreal, QC, Canada |
| Campus | Urban, 80 acres (324,000 m²) |
| Enrollment | 19,000 undergraduate, 9,160 graduate |
| Faculty | 1,485 |
| Mascot | Martlet, Redmen |
| Athletics | 14 sports teams |
| Official website | www.mcgill.ca |
McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational, international university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill is considered to be one of the best universities in Canada and amongst the top universities in the world. International university rankings such as the Gourman Report, Princeton Review, and the Times Higher Education Supplement place McGill among the top 100 global universities. In 1998, the Gourman Report placed McGill on top in their list of the best Canadian universities for Undergraduate Programs. In 2004, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked McGill 21st in the world and 12th in North America (the highest of any Canadian university). The Times study in particular recognized McGill as having "by far the most international faculty of any university in North America's top 50 and it also has the highest percentage of international students."
In 2005, McGill ranked first as Canada's "Research University of the Year" by Research Infosource. Gross research funding at McGill ranked second among Canada's top 50 research universities and for research funding normalized to number of faculty members, McGill ranked first with $381,100 per faculty member. McGill has the most per faculty research dollars nationwide from federal and provincial sources of funding (including CFI, NSERC and other organizations) 1
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Faculties
McGill's academic units are divided among eleven faculties and ten schools, the Centre for Continuing Education and Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Faculty of Arts
- Schulich School of Music
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Management
- Faculty of Science
- School of Library and Information Studies
Campus
The Arts Building
Roddick GatesThe main campus is situated in downtown Montreal at the foot of Mount Royal. Most of the buildings are situated in a park-like campus north of Sherbrooke Street between Peel and Aylmer streets and north of Docteur-Penfield Avenue west of Peel Street (near Peel and McGill metro stations).
A secondary campus, the Macdonald Campus, is in the district of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. Founded in 1905, this campus, known as Macdonald College until 1972, is some 32 kilometres from downtown Montreal on the western tip of the Island of Montreal. The Macdonald Campus is the home of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition and the McGill School of Environment.
The architecture of the downtown campus is an eclectic mix reflecting the various periods in which the buildings were erected, although they are all constructed using local grey limestone, which serves as a unifying element.
Students
Famous Mount-Royal as seen from McGill campus.McGill's student population includes 21,765 undergraduates and 9,160 graduate students (2004/05). McGill has a higher percentage of international students than any other Canadian university. This is partially due to an admissions policy that reserves a quota of spaces for international students. Although the university is one of two English-language universities in Montreal, 19.6% of students at McGill speak French as their first language.
The Quebec government has long favored international students from selected countries (such as some members of La Francophonie) to attend their universities over students from other Canadian provinces. Since 1996 it is more expensive for an out-of-province Canadian student to attend McGill than it is for many foreigners from countries that have special agreements with Quebec (e.g., France). This, in addition to McGill's international reputation, partially accounts for why McGill has a high percentage of foreign students. Nevertheless, due to Montreal's relatively low cost of living, some students paying out-of-province tuition find it less expensive to attend McGill than universities in their home province.
McGill also attracts a growing number of American students who are attracted by the ability to obtain a top-tier education at a much lower cost than would be possible at a private American university like Harvard or Columbia.
Student life is varied and vibrant reflecting the many cultures and tastes of the students and of Montreal in general. McGill University ranked first overall in the category of "Campus race/class relations friendliest" in The Princeton Review: The Best 357 Colleges. McGill ranked third for "Great college towns."
Typical McGill Ghetto street, in AugustSome of McGill's students live in an area informally known as the McGill Ghetto, that lies east of the main university grounds. The area is bordered by Sherbrooke and University streets to the south and west and by Avenue des Pins and Avenue du Parc to the north and east. The neighborhood architecture is mostly made up of historical townhouses built in the 1900s to house wealthy businessmen working close-by in downtown office buildings, before the Exodus and subsequent moves to other boroughs such as Westmount and to the suburbs. In 2003 the University acquired a former hotel on Avenue du Parc and transformed it into an undergraduate student residence thereby increasing the student population in the ghetto. Older residences (respectively named Douglas, Gardner, McConnell and Molson halls) are located on Mount Royal itself, past the McGill-affiliated Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal Neurological Institute and the university's sports complex. Other undergraduate residences include Royal Victoria College, MORE houses, Greenbriar apartments and Solin Hall (which is off campus.) The limits of the ghetto are historically set but some might say it now extends much further to the east and north, in the Plateau Mont-Royal borough.
History
James McGill, the Original Benefactor of McGill UniversityIn 1813, James McGill, a Scottish immigrant who prospered in Montreal, bequeathed his 46 acre (186,000 m²) estate and 10,000 pounds to "the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning." McGill College (now McGill University) was inaugurated in 1829 in Burnside Place, James McGill's country home. In 1843, the University constructed its first buildings, the central and east wings of the Arts Building.
In 1905, the University acquired a second campus when Sir William C. Macdonald endowed a college in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, 32 kilometres west of Montreal, today the site of McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, and the Institute of Parasitology.
Facts and trivia
- McGill professors have been facing lower compensation than their peers in other universities, which in part caused the departure of numerous renowned faculty members. 2 This issue has been improving in recent years.
- McGill was the first non-denominational university in the British Empire.
- It is one of only two Canadian universities holding a membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization comprising top-tier North American research universities. (The other Canadian university member is the University of Toronto.)
- McGill is one of only two Canadian universities with membership in Universitas 21, an international assocation of research-driven universities. (The other Canadian member is the University of British Columbia.)
- McGill has four Nobel Prize-winning graduates, and three more Nobel laureates who were former faculty/staff.
- McGill is the alma mater to two Canadian prime ministers.
- McGill has produced 125 Rhodes Scholars, more than any other Canadian University
- In the motion picture arts, McGill has produced 7 Academy Awards winners.
- McGill's MBA program has been been ranked 39th in the world and 4th in Canada by the Financial Times in 2005.3
- McGill has consistently ranked among the top 4 medical/doctoral universities nationwide, in the Maclean's rankings, an annual ranking of Canadian universities.
- McGill's class of 1952 includes William Shatner, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek. Students have (unofficially) named McGill's Student Union building after him.
- McGill's Bellairs Research Institute & campus on the island of Barbados serves as Canada's only teaching and research facility in the tropics. These facilities are used by such entities as the Canadian Space Agency for research.
- McGill's Redpath Museum, commissioned in 1880 and opened in 1882, is the oldest building built specifically as a museum in North America. Its natural history collections boast material collected by the same individuals who founded the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Smithsonian.
- It is a little known fact that the inventions of hockey, basketball and North American football are all related to McGill in some way. The first game of North American football was played between McGill and Harvard in 1874.
- Established in 1871, McGill's mining engineering program is the oldest in Canada. It is the second oldest program of its kind in North America, behind the one offered at Colorado School of Mines.
- In terms of contributions to computing, MUSIC/SP, a piece of software for mainframes, once popular among universities and colleges around the world at its time, was developed at McGill. A team also contributed to the development of Archie, one of the pre-WWW search engines. A 3270 terminal emulator developed at McGill was commercialized and later sold to Hummingbird Software.
- The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the McGill Redmen (men's) and the McGill Martlets (women's).
- McGill students maintain a friendly rivalry with Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Nevertheless, the two share a successful publishing house (McGill-Queen's University Press).
Symbols
The university's symbol is the martlet; its motto is Grandescunt Aucta Labore (by work, all things grow). Inscribed in its arms is In Domino Confido (I trust in the Lord), James McGill's personal motto. Its sports teams are named Martlets (women) and Redmen (men), and its school colours are red and white. The school song is entitled "Hail, Alma Mater." The lyrics to the song are as follows:
- Hail, Alma Mater, we sing to thy praise;
- Loud in thy Honour, our voices we raise.
- Full to thy fortune, our glasses we fill.
- Life and Prosperity, Dear Old McGill.
- Hail, Alma Mater, thy praises we sing:
- Far down the centuries, still may they ring.
- Long through the ages remain — if God will,
- Queen of the Colleges, Dear Old McGill.
List of Chancellors
- Charles Dewey Day (1864-1884)
- James Ferrier (1884-1888)
- Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona (1889-1914)
- Sir William Christopher Macdonald (1914-1917)
- Sir Robert Laird Borden (1918-1920)
- Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty (1921-1942)
- Morris Watson Wilson (1943-1946)
- Orville Sievwright Tyndale (1946-1952)
- Bertie Charles Gardner (1952-1957)
- Ray Edwin Powell (1957-1964)
- Howard Irwin Ross (1964-1970)
- Donald Olding Hebb (1970-1974)
- Stuart Milner Finlayson (1975)
- Conrad Fetherstonhaugh Harrington (1976-1984)
- A. Jean de Grandpré (1984-1991)
- Gretta Chambers (1991-1999)
- Richard W. Pound (1999- )
List of Principals
- George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1824-1835)
- John Bethune (1835-1846)
- Edmund Allen Merh (1846-1853)
- Charles Dewey Day (1853-1855)
- Sir John William Dawson (1855-1893)
- Sir William Peterson (1895-1919)
- Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes (1919-1920)
- General Sir Arthur Currie (1920-1933)
- Arthur Eustace Morgan (1935-1937)
- Lewis Williams Douglas (1937-1939)
- Frank Cyril James (1939-1962)
- Harold Rocke Robertson (1962-1970)
- Robert Edward Bell (1970-1979)
- David Lloyd Johnston (1979-1994)
- Bernard Shapiro (1994-2002)
- Heather Munroe-Blum (2003-)
Noted alumni and professors
Academics and scholars
- Eric Berne (psychiatry) — originator of the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis
- Gerald Bull — former professor of mechanical engineering, expert on projectiles, designer of the Iraqi Project Babylon
- Mario Bunge — philosopher
- Carrie Derick — first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill)
- Hamid Etemad — professor of international business and renowned business guru and researcher.
- S. I. Hayakawa — linguist, U.S. senator, former president of San Francisco State University
- Ismail al-Faruqi (philosophy and religion) — renowned Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar
- Donald Olding Hebb (psychology) — father of cognitive psychobiology, pioneer in artificial intelligence, developed concept of Hebbian learning
- Julian Jaynes — psychologist, author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- Roger Keesing — celebrated anthropologist
- James Mallory — for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar
- Ronald Melzack (medicine) — developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire
- Armand de Mestral — professor of international law
- Brenda Milner — provided the first clear demonstration of the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain with patient H.M.
- Henry Mintzberg — internationally renowned business guru
- Karl Moore — internationally known business guru
- Percy Erskine Nobbs — former professor of architecture and designer of many buildings in Montreal, especially at McGill, and in Alberta, British Columbia, and South Africa
- William Osler (medicine) — graduate in medicine (1872) and then McGill professor, he was a medical pioneer, developed the modern form of a doctor's bedside manner. Later one of the four founders of the Johns Hopkins Medical School at Johns Hopkins University
- Wilder Penfield (neurosurgery) — neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital, which are affiliated with McGill University
- Steven Pinker (cognitive psychology) — author of "The Blank Slate", "How the Mind Works".
- Judah Hirsch Quastel (biochemistry) — pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute
- Richard Birdsall Rogers — civil engineer and designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock
- Witold Rybczynski — Scottish-born McGill-trained architect and internationally known writer and critic
- Harold Shapiro, current president emeritus of Princeton University and former president of the University of Michigan.
- Bernard Shapiro (education) — Ethics Commissioner of Canada, former Principal of McGill and Deputy Education Minister of Ontario. Twin brother of Harold.
- Charles Taylor (philosophy) — renowned writer, versatile philosopher, and political theorist
- Margaret Ridley Charlton (medicine) — one of the founders of the Medical Library Association (professional associations)
Current presidents of other Canadian universities
- Paul Davenport — University of Western Ontario
- David Johnston — University of Waterloo
- Axel Meissen — Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Martha Cook Piper — University of British Columbia
- Harvey Weingarten — University of Calgary
Business and media
- Lawrence Bloomberg — former CEO of First Marathon Securities, and philanthropist.
- John Burns — current Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" journalist, formerly of "The Globe and Mail"
- John Cleghorn — former chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada, the largest bank in Canada
- Aldo Bensadoun — Entrepreneur — CEO of Aldo Group Inc.
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr. — former CEO of Seagram's Distillers
- Charles Bronfman — Order of Canada receipent, Philanthropist, former Co-Chairman of Seagram Distillers.
- Conrad Black — embattled press baron and media tycoon in the Anglo-Canadian tradition of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet, owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world
- Lennox K. Black — Entrepreneur and Chairman of Teleflex Inc.
- Livio "Desi" Desimone — former CEO of St Paul-based 3M Corporation
- Paul Desmarais Jr. — Chairman of Power Corp.
- John W. Dobson — Entrepreneur — CEO of Formula Growth Ltd. and Philanthropist.
- Darren Entwistle — CEO of Telus Inc.
- Ned Goodman — Entrepreneur (Dundee Securities, Dundee Realty, Beutel/Goodman, Dynamic Mutual Funds), CEO of Dundee Wealth Management and philanthropist.
- Adam Gopnik — staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine
- David Kassie — CEO of Genuity Capital (Investment Bank)
- Charles Krauthammer -Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist, The Washington Post and Time Magazine
- Paul Lowenstein — CEO of CCFL (Investment Bank)
- Ron Meade — founder of Altamira
- Mark Phillips — CBS News London bureau correspondent since 1982, formerly CBC News London correspondent
- Raymond Royer — CEO of Domtar Inc.
- Seymour Schulich (investments) — benefactor to the Schulich School of Music at McGill and Schulich School of Business, York University
- Richard Thoman — former CEO of Xerox Inc.
- Richard H. Tomlinson — Founder of Gennum Corporation, Professor of Chemistry, and a Pre-Eminent Benefactor of McGill University.
- Lorne Trottier — founder of Matrox
- Herschal Victor — CEO of Jack Victor Ltd.
- Mort Zuckerman — CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of U.S. News & World Report
- John Ross — former CEO of Nortel Networks
Politics and government
- Sir John Abbott — first Canadian prime minister to be born in Canada
- John Aimers — Dominion Chairman, Monarchist League of Canada
- Ian Binnie — Supreme Court justice
- Zbigniew Brzezinski — former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter
- Irwin Cotler — Justice Minister of Canada, distinguished legal scholar and international human rights lawyer
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee — Father of Confederation and one of only a few notable political assassinations in Canadian history
- Marie Deschamps — Supreme Court justice
- Morris Fish — Supreme Court justice
- Sheila Fraser — Auditor General of Canada
- Charles Gonthier — Supreme Court justice
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier — former Prime Minister of Canada
- Jack Layton — leader of the New Democratic Party
- Dr. Ahmed Nazif — current Prime Minister of Egypt
- Daniel Oduber Quirós — former President of Costa Rica
- Bernard Shapiro — Federal Ethics Commissioner
- Marie-Claire Kirkland Strover — first woman elected to the Quebec National Assembly
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga — President of Latvia
Art, music, and film
- Burt Bacharach — Academy Award-winning musician
- Win Butler — musician, co-founder of "The Arcade Fire"
- Anne Carson — poet and professor of classics
- Leonard Cohen — author, songwriter
- Robert Cooper — president of TriStar Films
- Hubert Davis — BA '00 and Oscar nominee for best documentary short subject
- Louis Dudek — poet
- Jake Eberts — producer of "Gandhi", "Chariots of Fire"
- Arthur Erickson — architect (Robson Square, Vancouver; Canadian Chancery, Washington DC; Roy Thomson Hall; Museum of Anthropology, UBC; Simon Fraser University; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; California Plaza, San Diego Convention Center)
- Colin Ferguson (actor) — actor, Coupling
- Jessalyn Gilsig — actress, Boston Public, NYPD Blue
- Gavin Heffernan — director (Expiration)
- Stephen Leacock — humorist and economist
- John McCrae — poet, author of famous Canadian poem "In Flanders' Fields"
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle — musicians and folk-singers
- Hugh MacLennan — Canadian writer (Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising)
- Cameron Mathison — actor, All My Children
- Raymond Moriyama — architect (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Ontario Science Centre; Toronto Reference Library; Canadian War Museum; Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh)
- Sam Roberts — musician
- Moshe Safdie — architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, Musee de la Civilisation, Habitat '67)
- Kid Koala real name Eric San, turntablist and musician.
- Edward Saxon — Academy Award-winning film producer
- John Ralston Saul — Governor-General's-Award-winning philosophical author
- F(rances) R(eginald) Scott — long-time law professor, authority on constitutional law, celebrated political activist, and one of Canada's leading modern poets
- William Shatner — lead actor in Star Trek:TOS, played Captain James T. Kirk.
- Ken Vandermark — Jazz saxophonist and MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner.
- Rufus Wainwright — (briefly attended — dropped out upon record deal) Canadian recording artist, musician.
- John Weldon — Academy Award winner and National Film Board animator
- Jan Wong — columnist with the Globe and Mail, wrote the "Lunch with Jan Wong" series
Inventors
- Bernard Belleau — inventor of AIDS medication 3TC
- William Chalmers — inventor of Plexiglas
- Thomas Chang — creator of first artificial cell
- James George Alwyn Creighton — inventor of North American ice hockey rules
- Charles R. Drew — MDCM '33, black American medical pioneer, track star who led McGill to five intercollegiate titles, and, as medical advisor for the Blood for Britain program of WWII, the father of blood banks
- Alan Emtage — inventor of Archie, the grandfather of search engines
- James Naismith — BA 1887, inventor of basketball
- Paul Moller — inventor of the Moller Skycar, a VTOL aircraft
- Frank Patrick — BA 1908, wrote much of the NHL rule book
- Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy — McGill coach who revolutionised football by introducing the forward pass
Others
- Robert Rabinovitch - President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- Norman Bethune — as "Bai Qiu'en," subject of essay by Mao Zedong; medical professor. He became the Red Army’s Medical Chief and trained thousands of Chinese as medics and doctors, he died in 1939 (from blood poisoning) during the Long March.
- Lawrence Moore Cosgrave — Canadian signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
- Ken Dryden — LLB '73, former Montreal Canadiens goalie, Liberal Party politician, Minister of Social Development in Paul Martin's government
- Jennifer Heil — 2004 and 2005 women's World Cup-winning skier
- John Peters Humphrey — co-writer of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Seang Lin Tan — expert on reproductive medicine and founder of the McGill Reproductive Centre
- Julie Payette — astronaut
- Sidney Pierce — BA '22, BCL '25, LLD '56, 1924 Olympic swimmer and former Canadian ambassador to many countries
- Richard Pound — former Olympic swimmer, former IOC vice president, chancellor of McGill
- Francis Scrimger. Victoria Cross winner, (1915). BA (1901), MDCM (1905). Later Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgery at the Childrens' Memorial Hospital.
- Robert Thirsk — astronaut
- Dafydd Williams — astronaut
- Jack Wright — MDCM '28, eleven-year veteran of Canadian Davis Cup team in 1920s and 1930s
Nobel Prize Graduates and Faculty Members
- Robert Mundell — former faculty member, Economics (1999)
- Val Logsdon Fitch — alumnus, Physics (1980)
- David Hunter Hubel — alumnus, Physiology (1981)
- Rudolph Marcus — alumnus, Chemistry (1992)
- Ernest Rutherford — former faculty member, Chemistry (1908)
- Andrew Schally — alumnus, Physiology (1977)
- Frederick Soddy — former demonstrator, Chemistry (1921)
Hospitals
McGill University is affiliated with seven teaching hospitals in Montreal, four of which compose the McGill University Health Centre:
- the McGill University Health Centre, made up of
- the Jewish General Hospital,
- the Douglas Hospital, and
- St. Mary's Hospital Centre.
See also
- The Redpath Museum, Montreal's museum of natural history is located in the downtown McGill campus.
- CKUT, McGill's campus/community radio station.
- James McGill, McGill's benefactor.
- The McGill Daily, McGill's independent student newspaper.
- The McGill Tribune, the student newspaper published by the SSMU
- Molson Stadium
- McGill University Faculty of Law
- McGill University Health Centre
- Students' Society of McGill University, McGill's undergraduate student union.
- Post Graduate Students' Society of McGill University, McGill's graduate and post-doctoral student union.
- List of universities in Quebec
- Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Other universities in Montreal:
- Concordia University
- Université de Montréal
- Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- École de technologie supérieure
External links
- McGill University
- McGill's Bellairs Research Institute - Barbados, West Indies
- McGill's Macdonald Campus
- TV McGill
- CKUT Radio McGill
- McGill University Professor and Course Reviews - written by students, ad-supported
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