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In Focus STUDENT EDITION// FALL*08 in Focus STUDENT EDITION// FALL*08 SUPPORTING IN THIS ISSUE 03 A CENTURY OF SUCCESS EXCELLENCE 04 THE TOMLINSON FELLOWS 06 A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN 07 RUNNING TO REMEMBER Canada Post Corporation Publications Mail Agreement # 40613662 FROM THE DESK OF MARTIN KREISWIRTH Owen Egan > THE WORLDWIDE COMPETITION FOR ATTRACTING AND RETAINING HIGH- QUALITY GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS IS STUDENT FIERCE, AS UNIVERSITIES ARE INCREASINGLY FOCUSED ON GRADUATE EDU EDITION// FALL*08 CATION. Through Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), McGill is strengthening its presence in this competition by increasing the number of student fellowships it OFFICE OF DONOR RELATIONS offers, exploring new avenues for student support, and making it easier to disburse AND STEWARDSHIP existing funds. We are rising to the global challenge: preparing highly-skilled grad- EDITOR uates to participate in our increasingly knowledge-based economy. We are making Mark Ordonselli it easier and more attractive to pursue the excellence offered in our graduate education WRITERS and postdoctoral training. Catriona Moore Student support at McGill is improving. We are taking steps to create a new fund- Cléa Hernandez ing environment in graduate studies, finding ways to be more flexible and creative EDITORIAL ADVISORS in our approaches to encouraging success, and easing students’ transitions during Christina Armeni their studies and after graduation. For instance, we are creating multi-year graduate Melanie McRae support packages with the ultimate goal of providing guaranteed graduate student Lori Yersh LAYOUT AND DESIGN funding. At GPS, we encourage and support innovation in funding at every level, Content and Collaboration through GPS-allocated awards, internal departmental or Faculty awards, teaching Services, Graphics Section assistantships, research assistantships, stipends, external awards, and training grants. FRONT COVER: We work with students, staff, and Faculties to make sure we are responsive to their Kimberly White, Tomlinson needs, and to build McGill’s capacity to meet these needs. Fellowship recipient By enhancing the quality of its graduate funding capabilities, McGill is taking (photo by Owen Egan) another crucial step in improving its research and graduate training, providing the type of “high-quality personnel” that Canada and the world need. We hope that you If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at will join us in improving and enhancing these initiatives by using your power to influ- [email protected] ence graduate education at McGill and maximize its effects on the world beyond. This edition of In Focus tells the stories of loyal donors and highlights some of the incredible achievements of student award recipients. Graduate scholars like the ones featured in this issue continually tell me of their appreciation for the donor contri- butions that provide the support they need to succeed at McGill. On behalf of our graduate student community, thank you for your continued encouragement and generosity. Sincerely, Martin Kreiswirth Associate Provost (Graduate Education) Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Professor of English 2 STUDENT AWARDS centuryA CENTURY OF SUCCESS > NOT LONG AFTER LOUIS MAGIL, BARCH’36, BEGAN RECEIVING HIS FIRST PAYCHEQUES, HE WAS SEND- ING MONEY BACK TO MCGILL TO PAY OFF HIS $300 STUDENT LOAN. IT WASN’T EASY; MAGIL GRADUATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND TIMES WERE TOUGH. “EVEN AS A DRAUGHTSMAN I COULDN’T FIND WORK,” HE RECALLS. After some temporary jobs around Montreal, he landed a position Even after a century, Magil’s handshake remains firm, his step in Baie Comeau as the assistant to a senior engineer on a mill con- sure, his mind quick, and his voice strong, and it’s no great leap to struction site – a “good experience” that allowed him to send those imagine him launching Magil Construction, one of Canada’s lead- first cheques to McGill and started him on a lifetime of supporting ing construction firms. For those seeking the secret to his longevi- causes close to his heart. Today the Louis B. Magil Fellowship in ty, Magil is blunt: “There is no secret – in my opinion, it is a genet- Housing, established upon his retirement in 1980, assists graduate ic gift,” he says. And as for those who would emulate his business students in the Faculty of Engineering’s School of Architecture. success, Magil offers some pithy advice: “All I can say is, whatever Last February, Louis Magil celebrated his 100th birthday, and as work you do, do a reputable job.” part of the celebrations he added another $50,000 to the fellow- ship endowment. BASSEM EID MOHAMED After his stint in Baie Comeau, Magil worked for an architect in LOUIS B. MAGIL FELLOW, 2007-08, 2008-09 Trois Rivières before making his way back to Montreal to build > Bassem Eid Mohamed, a student in the School of houses in Verdun, where he designed his first home. “It was about Architecture’s Affordable Housing Master’s program, 625 square feet and sold for $2,800,” he laughs. In 1945 he began comes to us from Alexandria, Egypt, where he earned a his own company building affordable homes for returning veterans, BSc and an MSc in Architectural and in 1953 he and two associates founded Magil Construction, Engineering and Environmental taking on large post-war housing projects in Rosemont, St-Michel, Design at the Arab Academy for St-Laurent, Pointe-Claire and Dollard-des-Ormeaux. In all, Magil Science and Technology. His the- built over 5,000 houses across the island of Montreal – in addition sis was titled “Home of the to McGill’s Otto Maas Chemistry Building, the Redpath Library Future: Towards an Architecture addition and a number of other downtown landmarks. Though he Owen Egan of Invention,” and his research at sold the company in 1980, he says he has never really left it behind. McGill focuses on inventive solutions to housing issues, “I still have an office and go back once a month,” he says. particularly via mass customization. For a recent project, Bassem used this concept to design a modular, customiz- able housing system that could be used by Inuit housing authorities to improve housing affordability and quality. Receiving the Magil Fellowship has been “very encouraging,” Bassem says, as it allows him to acquire books, journals, and other essential research materials. It also helped to relieved financial pressure while Bassem, his wife and daughter established a new life in Montreal. ALL I CAN SAY IS, WHATEVER WORK YOU “DO, DO A REPUTABLE JOB. ” — LOUIS B. MAGIL > Louis B. Magil, B.Arch.1936 STUDENT AWARDS 3 THE TOMLINSON FELLOWS: TomlinsonMANY DISCIPLINES, ONE VIBRANT COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS F > RICHARD TOMLINSON, A WORLD-RENOWNED SCIEN- WILL HANLEY TIST, INVENTOR, BUSINESSMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST, HISTORY HAS FILLED A BROAD SPECTRUM OF COFFERS ACROSS My postdoctoral research examines categories used to THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR. describe Middle Eastern societies. I am working on a book about the emergence of nationality as a social and legal cat- egory in Alexandria (Egypt) between 1880 and 1914, and I hope to understand how and when ordinary people began to identify themselves as Egyptians or foreigners. This research is based on documents produced by the city's police and its European consular courts. I also studied Western conversion to Islam between 1850 and 1950, aiming to understand what kinds of Islam the converts discovered (and created) for themselves. KATHRYN FLINN BIOLOGY AND PLANT SCIENCE > Tomlinson Fellows David Duford, Monica Ruiz-Casares and Will Hanley photographed with Dr. Tomlinson at the Tomlinson Talks Through my post-doc plant ecology re- Though he has earned a reputation for shrugging off public recog- search, I seek to build understanding of nition, he was unable to escape distinction for his landmark McGill plant diversity and distribution patterns. gift of $64 million in 2000. This record-breaking donation supports a One project is investigating phyloge- wide array of McGill causes, ranging from endowed chairs and fel- netic patterns in plant community com- lowships to the creation of a fund to encourage young surgeons in position, offering a new and promising their medical and clinical research. approach to the fundamental question Dr. Tomlinson has had a vast impact across the University, par- of which processes govern the species ticularly among graduate students. The Tomlinson Fellowships composition of communities. If closely related species share revolutionized McGill’s ability to entice and support first-rate stu- ecologically relevant traits, then phylogenetic patterns in dents for master’s degrees in the Faculty of Science and doctoral community composition will reflect the ecological determi- candidates and postdoctoral researchers in all disciplines. And the nants of species distributions. Tomlinson Talks symposium, a multidisciplinary lecture series supported by Dr. Tomlinson, enriches the intellectual experience ROBERT CHATELAIN PHYSICS of these gifted scholars once they arrive. The Tomlinson Talks, which feature presentations by graduate My research involves the measurement and postdoctoral award holders, held its inaugural event in Novem- of the transient structure that connects ber 2002. The annual Talks create a special forum through which the reactant and product states of the Fellows are able to showcase their groundbreaking research chemical reactions and physical phase and bridge disciplinary divides. While the Fellows spend their days changes. Essentially, we aim to make immersed in their own subjects, the Talks bring them together to what has been called the “Molecular broaden one another’s horizons. English Literature, Epidemiology Movie,” an ultra-short film that pre- and Biostatistics, Philosophy, Physical and Occupational Therapy – sents a dance of atoms from one stable they all share the stage on the common meeting ground of the place to another. The technique we’ll use is called fem- Tomlinson Talks, a place where the Tomlinson Fellows can enjoy a tosecond electron diffraction, and we hope to use this scien- panoramic view of the unique academic landscape that they help tific tool to answer fundamental questions about physics, to shape.
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