McGill University

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McGill University is a research-intensive, non-denominational university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill has long been considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the country and among the finest in North America. Like most Canadian universities it is a public institution supported by public funds.

Known to some as "The Harvard of the North", McGill is well-known for its pioneering research in the medical sciences, chemistry, physics and biology. The university has among the highest entry standards in Canada and the United States and is famous for its undergraduate education. It has an established history in the humanities, social sciences, music, law, business and physical education.

International university rankings such as the Gourman Report, Princeton Review and the Times Higher Education Supplement, have consistently placed McGill amongst the top-tier of global universities. In 2004, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked McGill 21st best university in the world (12th in North America) and in 1997 it described McGill as one of the 10 greatest centers of academic excellence in the world. McGill ranked 2nd in the annual Maclean's survey of Canadian universities in 2003 and 2004 and 1st in the 2003 and 2004 National Post/Research Infosource rankings. The university has also had the distinction of having the highest publication intensity of any academic institution in the country for many years. This was one of the factors which led to the school being named Canada's "Research University of the Year" in 2003. Noted for being a research-intensive university, it frequently garners the most research dollars nationwide (per faculty) from federal and provincial sources of funding (including CFI, NSERC and other organizations

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The 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.

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McGill's student population includes 21,765 undergraduates and 9,160 graduate students (2004/05). McGill has a higher percentage of American students, out-of-province students, and international students than any other Canadian university; it has students from over 150 countries. Admission at McGill is done in thirds: Two-thirds of available first-year seats are allocated for Quebec residents, two-thirds of the remaining seats are allocated for the rest of Canada, and the rest are left 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 encouraged 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 has been more expensive for an out-of-province student to attend McGill than it is for many foreigners from countries that have special agreements with Quebec. This, in addition to McGill's international reputation, partially accounts for why McGill has a high percentage of foreign students. Nevertheless, owing to Montreal's much lower rental accomodation costs, some students paying out-of-province tuition find it less expensive to attend McGill than universities in their home province.

Students life is varied and vibrant, reflecting the many cultures and tastes of the students and of Montreal. 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."

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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 associated with six Nobel laureates and two Canadian prime ministers.
McGill has produced 125 Rhodes Scholars, the most of any Canadian university.
90% of McGill students ranked in the top 10% of their high school graduating class.
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.
The McGill Daily, founded in 1911, is the longest-running student newspaper in the British Commonwealth.
McGill's MBA program has been consistently been ranked among the top 40 in the world by The Economist and Financial Times.
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 has consistently ranked among the top four medical/doctoral universities nationwide, in the Maclean's rankings, an annual ranking of Canadian universities.
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.
The Sunday Times in 1998 listed McGill as one of the 10 Centres of Excellence in the world. McGill appeared in tenth spot, behind Cambridge, Oxford, Sorbonne and Heidelberg.
The Times ranked McGill among the top 25 universities in the world, in its World University Rankings, released in 2004.
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.
McGill has had one of the top-ranked debating unions in Canada for the past two decades, winning several CUSID national championships as well as the World Universities Debating Championships.
McGill's Trivia Club has been the top Canadian team at the NAQT Canadian Sectional Championship Tournament (Division II) for the past two years, and will be representing the university at the Intercollegiate Championship Tourment in New Orleans in April 2005.
During World War II, the International Labour Organization was headquartered at McGill.
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).

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Eric Berne (psychiatry) - originator of the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis
Gerald Bull - former professor of mechanical engineering, expert on projectiles
Mario Bunge - philosopher
Carrie Derick - first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill)
Hamid Etemad - professor of international business
S. I. Hayakawa - linguist, U.S. senator, former president of San Francisco State University
Ismail al-Faruqi (philosophy and religion) - renown 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
David Levy - astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
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
Bernard Shapiro (education) - former Principal and twin brother of Harold, former president of Princeton University and of the University of Michigan
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)

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Paul Davenport - University of Western Ontario
David Johnston - University of Waterloo
Frederick Lowy - Concordia University
Axel Meissen - Memorial University of Newfoundland
Martha Cook Piper - University of British Columbia
Harvey Weingarten - University of Calgary

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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
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - former CEO of Seagram's Distillers
Conrad Black - embattled media tycoon, owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world
Livio "Desi" Desimone - former CEO of St Paul-based 3M Corporation
Adam Gopnik - staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine
Ron Meade - founder of Altamira
Seymour Schulich (investments) - benefactor to the Schulich School of Business, York University
Lorne Trottier - founder of Matrox
Mort Zuckerman - CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of "US New & World Report"

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Sir John Abbott - first Canadian prime minister to be born in 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 Vike-Freiberga - President of Latvia

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Burt Bacharach - Academy Award-winning musician
Anne Carson - poet
Leonard Cohen - author, songwriter
Robert Cooper - president of TriStar Films
Louis Dudek - poet
Jake Eberts - producer of "Gandhi", "Chariots of Fire"
Arthur Erickson - architect (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)
Sam Roberts - musician
Edward Saxon - Academy Award-winning film producer
John Ralston Saul - Governor-General's-Award-winning philosophical author
Moshe Safdie - architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library)
William Shatner - lead actor in Star Trek:TOS
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

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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 - black American medical pioneer, father of blood banks
Alan Emtage - inventor of Archie, the grandfather of search engines
James Naismith - inventor of basketball
Paul Moller - inventor of the Moller Skycar, a VTOL aircraft

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Norman Bethune - as "Bai Qiu'en," subject of essay by Mao Zedong; medical professor martyred in Chinese Revolution
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave - Canadian signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
John Peters Humphrey - co-writer of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Charles Krauthammer -Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist, The Washington Post and Time Magazine
Seang Lin Tan - expert on reproductive medicine and founder of the McGill Reproductive Centre
Julie Payette - astronaut
Richard Pound - former IOC vice president
Robert Thirsk - astronaut
Dafydd Williams - astronaut

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Val Logsdon Fitch - Physics (1980)
David Hunter Hubel - Physiology (1981)
Rudolph Marcus - Chemistry (1992)
Ernest Rutherford - Chemistry (1908)
Andrew Schally - Physiology (1977)
Frederick Soddy - Chemistry (1921)

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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 Montreal General Hospital  
the Royal Victoria Hospital
the Montreal Children's Hospital
the Montreal Neurological Hospital
the Jewish General Hospital
the Douglas Hospital  
St. Mary's Hospital Centre

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[B]斑竹有些无聊并且不自信了，何必呢？McGill 的一切不可侵犯，睚眦必报，没有一个男人应有的气度。我尊敬McGill的声誉，但我不喜欢McGill 的某些狭隘的小学生。 [/B]

你看我说的果然没错.如今这年头只许你们说MCGILL不好,我贴点东西就有人叫嚣东西南北的

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[B]narcissus [/B]

1.a hero of the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty and his pride. Several versions of his myth have survived.

2.Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Genus: Narcissus

3.murderer of Roman emperor Commodus