McGill University

The Faculty of Engineering is one of the constituent faculties of the McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, offering undergraduate and... graduate degrees in chemical, civil, computer, software, electrical, mechanical, metals and materials, and mining engineering, as well as architecture and urban planning. The faculty also teaches courses in bio-resource engineering and in biomedical engineering at the masters level. The faculty includes five departments and two schools: Established in 1871, the mining engineering program is the oldest in Canada. It is the oldest program of its kind in North America, followed closely by the one offered at Colorado School of Mines, established in 1874. McGill was the first university in Canada to give instruction in Applied Science. Out of this legacy grew today's faculty of engineering. The Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics offers programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department currently has 23 full-time faculty members. In addition, an industrial perspective is provided in the classroom by adjunct professors who are practising civil engineers.
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The Faculty of Arts is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It is the university's largest faculty and second oldest after the... Faculty of Medicine. Established in 1843, it has over 250 tenured or tenure-track professors, over 6,000 undergraduate students, and over 1,000 graduate students. The faculty has an active students' union known as the Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill University. With 22% of all students enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, it is McGill's largest academic unit. The Arts Building, built in 1839 and designed by John Ostell, is the oldest building on campus still standing. Located immediately in front of the steps is the tomb of the founder of the university, James McGill. The building lies over what was once Burnside Place, James McGill's country home. Most of the departments are located in Leacock, its adjacent building. The faculty is made up of Departments which are responsible for program delivery. Departments range in size from 70 to 1,500 students and are complemented by interdisciplinary programs run by various Institutes and Centres which are affiliated with the Faculty.
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The Faculty of Medicine is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It was established in 1823 as the Montreal Medical Institution, and... became the first faculty of McGill College in 1829; it was the first medical faculty to be established in Canada.. The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree, and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833. The faculty includes three schools, the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Nursing, and the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy. It also includes several research centres involved in studies on, for example, pain, neuroscience, and aging. Most of the non-clinical parts of the faculty are housed in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, situated on McGill's downtown campus on the south side of Mount Royal between Avenue des Pins and Avenue Docteur-Penfield. The McGill University Health Centre is affiliated with the faculty, and is composed of five teaching hospitals — the Royal Victoria Hospital which incorporates the Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal Neurological Hospital.
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The Faculty of Science is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It is the university's second largest faculty with 16% of McGill... students enrolled in one of its various departments. The Faculty was not established until after 1843 following the founding of the Arts, Medicine and "Commercial Studies" faculties.
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The Faculty of Religious Studies is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. The faculty's history is rooted in the numerous... theological colleges in Montreal that became affiliated with the university during the nineteenth century. The creation of a joint board for the study of theology in 1912 allowed the colleges some autonomy in the provision of professional training for Christian ministry. This led to the creation of the Faculty of Divinity in 1948, which assumed the role of the joint board. The faculty offers a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies, Bachelor of Theology, Master of Sacred Theology, and master's and doctorate degree programs in religious studies and theology. The faculty is located in the William and Henry Birks Building, at 3520 University, on the McGill campus. The building also accommodates the Birks Heritage Chapel.
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The Faculty of Dentistry is a constituent faculty of McGill University. Founded in 1904 as the McGill Dental School, it was established as a... department in the Faculty of Medicine until becoming its own faculty in 1920. The faculty is closely affiliated with the Montreal General Hospital.
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The School of Architecture at McGill University was founded in 1896, when a chair in architecture was established in the Faculty of Applied Science ... by Sir William C. Macdonald. At that time, the program leading to the professional degree was four years in length and the School operated in the Macdonald Engineering Building under the leadership of its first Director, Stewart Henbest Capper. The School of Architecture is now one of a number of administrative units reporting to the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. The Faculty presently includes five engineering departments - Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Mining and Metallurgy - and two Schools - the School of Urban Planning and the School of Architecture. Since 1987, the Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning have been housed in the Macdonald-Harrington Building, which was constructed to accommodate the Departments of Chemistry and Mining by Architect Sir Andrew Taylor in 1896, and renovated for Architecture and Urban Planning by Architects Ray Affleck and Arcop Associates in 1987. The School offers professional programs, including B.Sc. and M.Arch.
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The Desautels Faculty of Management is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. The Faculty has been host to the McGill Management... International Case Competition since 2001. It has been hailed as a top business school in Canada by the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Le Figaro and America Economia. It is regarded as the "Harvard of Canada" and is by far the most internationally renown school in the nation. The faculty offers a range of undergraduate and graduate-level business programs including the Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy in management degrees. The faculty also offers joint programs with the Faculties of Law and Medicine. Officially founded in 1906 as the McGill School of Commerce, the faculty originated from a two year commerce program first offered in 1906. The faculty expanded in 1968 by incorporating the Graduate School of Business Administration which graduated McGill's first MBA class. In 2005, the Faculty of Management was named in honor of Marcel Desautels, a retired executive from the credit reference industry, who made several gifts of more than $32 million total to the faculty.
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The Schulich School of Music is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University in Montréal, Canada. The faculty was named after... benefactor Seymour Schulich. Music at McGill – The Beginning Music teaching began in 1884, although the program was first reserved for women. In 1889, a teaching specialist was engaged at the request of the students by a gift from the university's Chancellor, Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona. In 1896, the Royal Victoria College for girls by Lord Strathcona was founded. In September 1899, the Royal Victoria College was opened, and pianist Clara Lichtenstein arrived on the invitation of Lord Strathcona. In 1902, examinations of the Associate Board of the Royal Schools of Music of London were introduced. McGill Conservatorium of Music Faculty of Music Faculty of Music and Conservatorium of Music New Name - New Century - New Building The performance programs at the Schulich School of Music provide students with private lessons and performing opportunities in university ensembles, in addition to studies in the history and theory of music.
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The Macdonald Campus of McGill University houses its Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition,... and the McGill School of Environment. It was established in 1905 as Macdonald College and opened in 1907 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, in the West Island region of the Island of Montreal. Planned and funded completely by William C. Macdonald, who also provided a $2 million operating endowment, it was designed by architects Alexander Cowper Hutchison and George W. Wood. Several buildings in the Macdonald Campus were designed by the Montreal-based architect Andrew Taylor, including the Macdonald Physics Building ; Macdonald Engineering Building , Redpath Library , the Strathcona Medical Building —since renamed the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building. Far surpassing the Ontario Agricultural College, Macdonald College was the largest in Canada and in its day was one of the most modern agricultural colleges in the world.
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Charles Krauthammer is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician. His column is syndicated... to more than 275 newspapers and media outlets. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. He is also a weekly panelist on the PBS news program Inside Washington and a nightly panelist on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier. Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in New York City. He was raised in Montreal, Quebec, where he attended McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. He was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, 1970–1971. He later moved back to the United States, where he attended Harvard Medical School. Suffering a paralyzing accident in his first year of medical school, he was hospitalized for a year, during which time he continued his medical studies. He graduated with his class, earning a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School in 1975, and went on to complete a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Val Logsdon Fitch is an American nuclear physicist. A native of Merriman, Nebraska, he graduated from Gordon High School and attended Chadron State... College for three years before being drafted into the U.S. army in 1943. He later graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1948 and completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1954 from Columbia University. In World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. He is a member of the faculty at Princeton University. Fitch and co-researcher James Watson Cronin were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not merely retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered.
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Arthur James Marshall Smith was a Canadian poet and anthologist. He "was a prominent member of a group of Montreal poets" -- the Montreal Group,... which included Leon Edel, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, and F.R. Scott -- "who distinguished themselves by their modernism in a culture still rigidly rooted in Victorianism." Smith was born in Montreal, but lived in England from 1918 to 1920, where he "studied for the Cambridge Local Examinations, ‘and failed everything except English and history’ ." In England he became aware of contemporary poetry: "he frequented Harold Monroe's bookshop, then the citadel of Georgian poetry, and read much in the recent war poets and the Imagists." Returning to Montreal, Smith entered McGill University in 1921. While an undergraduate there in 1924 he wrote for and co-edited the McGill Daily Literary Supplement; in 1925, as a graduate student, he and F.R. Scott founded the McGill Fortnightly Review, which billed itself as a "an independent journal of literature, the arts, and student affairs edited and published by a group of undergraduates at McGill University.
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Willard Sterling Boyle, CC was a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. On October 6, 2009, it was announced that he would... share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor". Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, he was the son of a medical doctor and moved to Quebec with his father and mother Beatrice when he was three. He was home schooled by his mother until age fourteen, when he attended Montreal's Lower Canada College to complete his secondary education. Boyle attended McGill University, but his education was interrupted in 1943, when he joined the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. He was loaned to the Britain's Royal Navy, where he was learning how to land Spitfires on aircraft carriers as the war ended. He gained a BSc , MSc and PhD from McGill University. After receiving his doctorate, Boyle spent one year at Canada's Radiation Lab and two years teaching physics at the Royal Military College of Canada.
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Joyce Hemlow M.A., Ph.D, FRSC was a Canadian professor and accomplished writer. She was born to William and Rosalinda Hemlow and was educated at... Queen's University, received a B.A in 1941 and her MA in 1942, becoming a travelling fellow of the university until 1943, when she became a fellow of the Canadian Federation of University Women. She then attended Radcliffe College in the United States, gaining an AM in 1944 and a Ph.D in 1948. In 1951, she became the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and later the Nuffeld Fellow in the summer of 1954. She was the Greenshields Professor of English Language and Literature at McGill University for most of her early teaching career. She also served from 1957 to 1961 as a member of the Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her literary output mainly concerned the Burney's, best profiled in her award-winning book The History of Fanny Burney, which received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Governor General's Award for Academic Non-Fiction in 1958 and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was a Protestant.
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