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109-706: The Gest Oriental Library is named in honor of Guion Moore Gest (1864–1948), whose collection of Chinese books and manuscripts formed the Gest Chinese Research Library. The Gest Research Library was officially opened on February 13 (Chinese New Year's Day), 1926, at McGill University in Montreal. It was renamed the Gest Oriental Library when the collection was moved to Princeton in 1937. The library's holdings were expanded into Japanese and Korean after World War II to form one of

218-638: A $ 200 million donation to fund the creation of the McCall MacBain Scholarships programme, the then-largest single philanthropic gift to a Canadian University, until it was surpassed in 2020 by a $ 250 million donation by James and Louise Temerty to the University of Toronto . McGill University has an acceptance rate of 38.1 per cent and a graduate acceptance rate of 29.2 per cent, with an enrolment rate of 19 per cent of all applicants. 22 per cent of all students are enrolled in

327-839: A 40-foot-high, 90-foot round geodesic dome, was built in 1957 and hosts a variety of concert series and lectures. The completion of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation–David Rockefeller River Campus in 2019, built along the East River over FDR Drive , added two acres to Rockefeller's footprint. Rockefeller's campus houses a childcare center for researchers and other university employees. Graduate students are offered subsidized housing on campus and receive an annual stipend. Student groups include People at Rockefeller Identifying as Sexual/Gender Minorities (PRISM), Women in Science at Rockefeller (WISeR), and

436-550: A Doctoral-level degree, respectively. There is a high international student presence, since over 1 in 5 students are from outside Canada. The campus is considered by many to be quieter than the Downtown Montreal campus. The Morgan Arboretum and the J. S. Marshall Radar Observatory are nearby. The Morgan Arboretum was created in 1945. It is a 2.5-square-kilometre (0.965 sq mi) forested reserve. Its mandated goals are to continue research related to maintaining

545-522: A Doctorate of Medicine and Surgery, in 1833; this was also the first medical degree to be awarded in Canada. The Faculty of Medicine remained the school's only functioning faculty until 1843 when the Faculty of Arts commenced teaching in the newly constructed Arts Building and East Wing (Dawson Hall). The Faculty of Law was founded in 1848 and is also the oldest of its kind in the nation. In 1896,

654-537: A Manchu princess, and his web of personal relations led him to the Guangxu emperor 's tutor and other high officials with collections of useful volumes. Gest suffered from glaucoma , and Gillis suggested that he try an eye medicine which was a specialty the Ma family of Dingxian , Hebei province, who kept a shop in the capital. This medicine sparked Gest's interest in traditional Chinese medicine and in collecting books on

763-541: A Subarctic Research Station in Schefferville, Quebec . McGill's Gault Nature Reserve ( 45°32′N 73°10′W  /  45.533°N 73.167°W  / 45.533; -73.167 ) spans over 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi) of forest land, the largest remaining remnant of the primeval forests of the St. Lawrence River Valley . The first scientific studies at the site occurred in 1859. The site has been

872-478: A gene that influences appetite and weight. Charles David Allis helped identify the first enzyme that modifies histones in 1996, providing early evidence that the DNA packaging material plays a crucial role in gene regulation . In 1998, Roderick MacKinnon ’s laboratory elucidated the structure and mechanism of a potassium channel , explaining how electrical signals are conveyed across cell membranes. Titia de Lange

981-477: A great many. Gest and Gillis acquired some 500 works in 2,000 juan on Chinese medicine, the largest such collection in the West at the time. Probably the most important single work in the history of Chinese medicine, Li Shizhen 's Bencao gangmu ( The Compendium of Materia Medica ), for instance, was published in the 16th century, but the collection's edition is a 19th-century reprint. Together with later additions,

1090-501: A multitude of activities and events to integrate students into the University's community. McGill is the home to more than 10,000 foreign students who make up of more than 27 per cent of the student population. The McGill endowment provides approximately 10 per cent of the school's annual operating revenues. McGill's endowment rests within the top 10 per cent of all North American post-secondary institutions' endowments. As of 2022,

1199-483: A park-like campus (also known as the Lower Campus) north of Sherbrooke Street and south of Pine Avenue between Peel and Aylmer streets. The campus extends west of Peel Street (also known as Upper Campus) for several blocks, starting north of Doctor Penfield ; the campus also streches east of University Street , starting north of Pine Avenue, an area that includes McGill's Percival Molson Memorial Stadium and

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1308-402: A possible 180 points. Of those students who entered with a bachelor's degree, the median GPA was 86 per cent (3.8/4.0), and of those students entering from CEGEP, the average R-score was 34.29. For medical students in the 2020 entering class, of those students who entered with a bachelor's degree, the average GPA was 3.88 out of 4.0, and of those students entering from CEGEP, the average R-score

1417-456: A retired United States Naval Attaché. He spoke Mandarin Chinese fluently, but could not read classical Chinese texts that had not been punctuated. He developed intimate knowledge through many years of handling books, however, and a leading Chinese bibliographer who examined his collection and his catalogues wrote that "his knowledge of Chinese bibliography is exceptionally good". Gillis' wife was

1526-669: A second full-time position in this area, the Director of Sustainability in addition to the Sustainability Officer. Recent efforts in implementing its sustainable development plan include the new Life Sciences Centre which was built with LEED-Silver certification and a green roof, as well as an increase in parking rates in January 2008 to fund other sustainability projects. Other student projects include The Flat: Bike Collective, which promotes alternative transportation, and

1635-603: A situation similar to the few other Canadian universities and early American colleges of the age. The University's athletic facilities, including Molson Stadium , are on Mount Royal, near the residence halls and the Montreal Neurological Institute. The Gymnasium is named in honour of General Sir Arthur William Currie . McGill's residence system comprises 16 properties providing dormitories, apartments, and hotel-style housing to approximately 3,100 undergraduate students and some graduate students from

1744-943: A smaller collection of Korean language books; and more than 20,000 western language volumes. Acquisition librarians specialize in each of the major areas. Professor Ch'u Wan-li (Qu Wanli; 1907–1979), Curator of the National Central Library and the Institute of History and Philology, Academic Sinica, in Taiwan compiled a 671-page Catalogue of the Chinese Rare Books in the Gest Collection of the Princeton University , published in Taiwan in 1974. The library publishes The Gest Library Journal (ISSN: 0891-0553), which started in 1986 and

1853-554: A total of 26 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Rockefeller University. The Rockefeller University was founded in June 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research —often called simply The Rockefeller Institute —by John D. Rockefeller , who had founded the University of Chicago in 1889, upon advice by his adviser Frederick T. Gates and action taken in March 1901 by his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr . Greatly elevating

1962-434: A treatment that prevents people from developing severe disease. Jean-Laurent Casanova identified genetic mutations that are responsible for a subset of unexpectedly severe cases of COVID-19. Founder's Hall was the first building on Rockefeller's campus, built between 1903 and 1906. It housed the nation's first major biomedical research laboratory and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. Caspary Auditorium,

2071-477: A unifying element. A number of these buildings are connected by indoor tunnels. The University's first classes were held in at Burnside Place, James McGill's country home. Burnside Place remained the sole educational facility until the 1840s, when the school began construction on its first buildings: the central and east wings of the Arts Building. The rest of the campus was essentially a cow pasture ,

2180-632: A will leaving his "Burnside estate", a 19-hectare (47-acre) tract of rural land and 10,000 pounds to the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. As a condition of the bequest, the land and funds had to be used for the establishment of a "University or College, for the purposes of Education and the Advancement of Learning in the said Province." The will specified a private, constituent college bearing his name would have to be established within ten years of his death; otherwise,

2289-687: Is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City , New York . It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classified as a "Special Focus – Research Institution". Rockefeller is the oldest biomedical research institute in the United States. The university is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan , between 63rd and 68th streets on York Avenue . Richard P. Lifton became

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2398-729: Is given annually. In addition, Rockefeller hosts the Peggy Rockefeller Concerts and in collaboration with Cornell University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center it hosts the Tri-Institutional Noon concert Series. In 2012, Rockefeller began participating in Open House New York 's OHNY Weekend. Award affiliations taken from "The Rockefeller University » Nobel Laureates" . Retrieved March 17, 2016 . There are more than 1,262 alumni. Notable figures to emerge from

2507-418: Is notably different from an instructor-led approach, and tasks seniors exploring educational interest as either study group moderators or participants. The program brings together hundreds of senior members yearly and has acted as a springboard for numerous senior-led initiatives such as social events, educational symposiums, and cultural festivals, including an internationally recognized yearly Bloomsday event on

2616-612: Is the corporate identity that runs the University and its various constituent bodies, including the former Macdonald College (now Macdonald Campus), the Montreal Neurological Institute , and the Royal Victoria College (the former women's college turned residence). Since the revised Royal Charter of 1852, the trustees of the RIAL are the board of governors of McGill University. James McGill

2725-589: Is the neighbourhood directly to the east of the downtown campus. Students have also moved to areas such as Mile End , The Plateau , and even as far as Verdun because of rising rent prices. Many first-year students live in the Upper Residence. Royal Victoria College opened as a residential college for women in 1899, but its Tower section became mixed gender in September 2010 while its West Wing remains strictly for women. The college's original building

2834-793: The American Council of Learned Societies . The Gest collection fell behind in its rivalry with the Library of Congress because McGill could not offer support. The economic crisis of the 1930s put the collection and the library at risk. After 1934, McGill could no longer pay Swann's salary or provide quarters for the collection and closed the Chinese studies program that had been started only a few years earlier. Gest at first paid Swann's salary of $ 2,000 when he could, but his eyesight and business were both failing. For several years Swann worked without pay and Gillis used $ 10,000 of his own savings to purchase and ship acquisitions. Gest explored selling

2943-793: The Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences , Faculty of Dentistry , Faculty of Medicine , Faculty of Education , Faculty of Law , Schulich School of Music , and the Faculty of Religious Studies . Since the 1880s, McGill has been affiliated with three Theological Colleges ; the Montreal Diocesan Theological College ( Anglican Church of Canada ), The Presbyterian College, Montreal ( Presbyterian Church in Canada ), and United Theological College ( United Church of Canada ). The University's Faculty of Religious Studies maintains additional affiliations with other theological institutions and organizations, such as

3052-586: The Faculty of Arts , McGill's largest academic unit. Of the other larger faculties, the Faculty of Science enrols 15 per cent, the Faculty of Medicine enrols 13 per cent, the School of Continuing Studies enrols 12 per cent, the Faculty of Engineering and the Desautels Faculty of Management enrol about 10 per cent each. The remainder of all students are enrolled in McGill's smaller schools, including

3161-549: The High School of Montreal . By the mid-19th century, the RIAL had lost control of the other eighty-two grammar schools it had administered. However, in 1853 it took over the High School of Montreal from the school's board of directors and continued to operate it until 1870. Thereafter, its sole remaining purpose was to administer the McGill bequest on behalf of the private college. The RIAL continues to exist today; it

3270-713: The Jewish General Hospital , the Douglas Hospital , St. Mary's Hospital Centre , Lachine Hospital , LaSalle Hospital , Lakeshore General Hospital , as well as health care facilities part of the CISSS. The University's academic units are organized into 11 main Faculties and 13 Schools. These include the School of Architecture , the School of Computer Science , the School of Information Studies ,

3379-507: The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal ), began funding separate lectures for women, given by University staff members. The first degrees granted to women at McGill were conferred in 1888. In 1899, the Royal Victoria College (RVC) opened as a residential college for women at McGill with Hilda D. Oakeley as the head. Until the 1970s, all female undergraduate students, known as "Donaldas," were considered to be members of RVC. Beginning in

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3488-569: The McGill School of Architecture was the second architecture school to be established in Canada, six years after the University of Toronto in 1890. Sir John William Dawson , McGill's principal from 1855 to 1893, is often credited with transforming the school into a modern University. William Spier designed the addition of the West Wing of the Arts Building for William Molson, 1861. Alexander Francis Dunlop designed major alterations to

3597-590: The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital . The community immediately east of University Street and south of Pine Avenue is known as Milton-Park , where a large number of students reside. The campus is near the Peel and McGill Metro stations. A major downtown boulevard, McGill College Avenue , leads up to the Roddick Gates, the University's formal entrance. Many of the major University buildings were constructed using local grey limestone , which serves as

3706-505: The Montreal School of Theology . Among Canadian universities, McGill undergraduates have the fifth highest average entering grades among high school and CEGEP students entering from their home province. Among admitted students, the median Quebec CEGEP R-score was 31.9, while the median grade 12 averages for students entering McGill from outside of Quebec ranged between 93.2 per cent and 94.4 per cent (A). For American students,

3815-776: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958, served as president of the university from 1978 to 1990. Paul Nurse , who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001, was president from 2003 to 2010. (Before Nurse's tenure, Thomas Sakmar was acting-president from 2002. ) Barry Coller , who invented the Abciximab , currently serves as the Vice President for Medical Affairs. In all, as of October 2020, 38 Nobel Prize recipients have been associated with

3924-491: The Rockefeller Archive Center , established in 1974 as part of the university and organized as an independent foundation since 2008. To foster an interdisciplinary atmosphere among its laboratories, faculty members are grouped into one or more of ten interconnecting research areas: Rockefeller University admitted its first graduate students in 1955. Today, about 255 graduate students are enrolled in

4033-616: The Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program as well as a Tri-Institutional chemical biology Ph.D. program. Rockefeller ranks highly in the CWTS Leiden Ranking , an international ranking of research impact. Rockefeller faculty have made contributions to breakthroughs in biomedical sciences. Michael W. Young was one of several scientists who located genes that regulate the sleep–wake cycle in 1984. In 1994, Jeffrey M. Friedman ’s laboratory discovered leptin ,

4142-554: The academic dress of McGill University . McGill's motto is Grandescunt Aucta Labore , Latin for "By work, all things increase and grow" (literally, "Things grown great increase by work," that is, things that grow to be great do so by means of work). The official school song is entitled "Hail, Alma Mater ." McGill maintains ties with more than 160 partner universities where students can study abroad for either one or two semesters. Each year, McGill hosts around 500 incoming exchange students from over 32 countries. The University offers

4251-453: The hepatitis C virus in laboratory cultures of human cells in 2005, leading directly to three new classes of hepatitis C drugs. Elaine Fuchs helped define the stem cells that can initiate squamous cell carcinoma in 2011, and also characterized the signaling pathways that drive malignancy . In 2013, Leslie B. Vosshall ’s laboratory identified a gene in mosquitoes that is responsible for their attraction to humans and their sensitivity to

4360-494: The 1960s McGill has experienced government funding curtailment. According to a 2016 report, McGill had a $ 1.3 billion deferred maintenance bill. The report also identified that 73 per cent of the University's buildings were in poor or very poor shape. McGill University, alongside other universities like the Université de Montréal and the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine , had longstanding quotas in place from 1920 to

4469-604: The Advancement of Learning (RIAL) was created in 1801 under an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada (41 George III Chapter 17), An Act for the establishment of Free Schools and the Advancement of Learning in this Province . The RIAL was initially authorized to operate two new Royal Grammar Schools, in Quebec City and in Montreal. This was a turning point for public education in Lower Canada as

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4578-684: The Chinese side, and Marius Jansen led a major expansion of Japanese holdings. The collection of Japanese historical documents and publications became particularly rich.The collection was renamed the Princeton East Asian Library, though often called the Gest Library. In 1972 the collection was transferred to Palmer and Jones Halls. The collection at the time of the move to Princeton in 1937 held some 100,000 volumes ( juan ), 40% of which were manuscripts, early printings, and rare editions. The 24,000 volumes of works printed in

4687-458: The Divorce of LGB from T. It was led by McGill alumnus Robert Wintemute. Transgender activist groups stormed the talk at McGill led by a speaker associated with a group they claimed was "notoriously transphobic and trans-exclusionary." The talk was cancelled shortly after it started. McGill's main campus is located in downtown Montreal at the foot of Mount Royal . Most of its buildings are in

4796-825: The East Wing of McGill College (now called the Arts Building, McGill University) for Prof. Bovey and the Science Dept., 1888. George Allan Ross designed the Pathology Building, 1922–23; the Neurological Institute, 1933; Neurological Institute addition 1938 at McGill University. Jean Julien Perrault (architect) designed the McTavish Street residence for Charles E. Gravel, which is now called David Thompson House (1934). Women's education at McGill began in 1884 when Donald Smith (later

4905-774: The Farmer's Market, which occurs during the fall harvest. Founded in 1989, the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL) is an educational community for senior learners housed in the McGill School of Continuing Studies. The program was founded by Fiona Clark, then-assistant director of continuing studies at McGill, and drew inspiration from horizontal peer-led programs, including the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. Its educational model

5014-568: The Gest Collection there. During World War II and the early post-war years, the university established programs in Chinese and Japanese studies, which required increased library holdings. From 1950 to 1952, the curator was Hu Shih , distinguished Chinese scholar and former ambassador from China to the United States. Hu engaged James Tung (Dong Shigang) as his assistant, who became Curator and served from 1952 to 1977. The collection expanded substantially under Tung's curatorship. Princeton faculty member Frederick W. Mote guided further development on

5123-429: The Institute of Parasitology, and the McGill School of Environment. As of fall 2020, despite a decrease in enrollment from the previous year's 1,962 students, the campus has a total of 1,892 actively enrolled students, including those studying part-time and full-time, across all available programs. Of the total, 1,212 students are pursuing an undergraduate degree, 374 are pursuing a Masters-level degree, and 248 are pursuing

5232-606: The Library of Congress. Gest explained his motivations in building his collection and establishing the library at McGill: Gest and Swann energetically promoted use of the collection. In 1933, Gest promoted a project for doctors at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to research the use of acupuncture to stimulate the sympathetic nervous system. Swann welcomed prominent sinologists and authors such as Berthold Laufer and L. Carrington Goodrich , and Pearl S. Buck , as well as applying for research funds with

5341-457: The M.A. and PhD degrees. The Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) oversees the admission and registration of graduate students (both master's and PhD). The McGill coat of arms is derived from an armorial device assumed during his lifetime by the founder of the University, James McGill. It was designed in 1906 by Percy Nobbs , three years into his term as director of the University's School of Architecture . The University's patent of arms

5450-597: The MUHC on the site of an old CP rail yard adjacent to the Vendôme Metro station. This site, known as Glen Yards, comprises 170,000 square metres (1,800,000 sq ft) and spans portions of Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood and the city of Westmount . The Glen Yards project has been controversial due to local opposition to the project, environmental issues, and the project's cost. In 2007, McGill premiered its Office of Sustainability and added

5559-788: The McGill War Memorial Hall depicts the figure of St. Michael and the badges of the Navy, Army and the Air Force. A Great War memorial window featuring Saint George and a slain dragon at the entrance to the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art is dedicated to the memory of 23 members of the McGill chapter of Delta Upsilon who gave their lives in the Great War. There is a memorial archway at Macdonald Campus , two additional floors added to

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5668-579: The McGill campus for the later two years for their degree course. Dawson eventually became independent of McGill and evolved into the first English CEGEP in Quebec. Another CEGEP, John Abbott College , was established in 1971 at the campus of McGill's Macdonald College. Both founders of the University of Alberta , Premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory , were also McGill alumni. In addition, McGill alumni and professors, Sir William Osler and Howard Atwood Kelly , were among

5777-400: The McGill downtown campus in Montreal, collaboration with the Université du Québec en Outaouais made it possible to offer the program entirely in Gatineau. In 2006, the Quebec government initiated a $ 1.6 billion LEED redevelopment project for the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The project will expand facilities to two separate campuses and consolidate the various hospitals of

5886-445: The Ming dynasty made it one of the largest in the West. After World War II, the collection became the third largest in the US, after the Harvard-Yenching collection (which it had once outranked), and the Library of Congress holdings, which are almost twice as large. In 2016, the library held roughly 425,000 volumes of Chinese books, with a special strength in pre-modern literature and history; some 163,000 volumes of Japanese language book;

5995-406: The School of Human Nutrition, the Bensadoun School of Retail Management, the Max Bell School of Public Policy, the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, the Ingram School of Nursing, the School of Social Work, the School of Urban Planning , and the Bieler School of Environment. They also include the Institute of Islamic Studies (established in 1952), which offers graduate courses leading to

6104-525: The Science and Education Policy Association (SEPA). The student-run publication Natural Selections is produced monthly. The Rockefeller University established a Women in Science initiative in 1998 to address the underrepresentation of women in the field. It is founded mainly by female philanthropists. The program includes scholarships and an entrepreneurship found to help increase the low number of female researchers that commercialize their discoveries. In 2004 Rockefeller's professor Paul Greengard donated

6213-479: The University bears the name of James McGill , a Scottish merchant, whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College . In 1885, the name was officially changed to McGill University. Currently, McGill has an enrollment of close to 35,000 students. Its main campus is on the slope of Mount Royal in downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie , with a second campus situated in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue , 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of

6322-421: The University to graduate over 1,000 students in health care each year. McGill's contract-affiliated teaching hospitals include the Montreal Children's Hospital , the Montreal General Hospital , the Montreal Neurological Hospital , the Montreal Chest Institute and the Royal Victoria Hospital which are all now part of the McGill University Health Centre . Other hospitals health care students may use include

6431-412: The autumn of 2010, the newer Tower section of Royal Victoria College became a mixed gender dormitory, whereas the older West Wing remains strictly for women. Both the Tower and the West Wing of Royal Victoria College form part of the University's residence system. Many students and alumni enlisted in the first wave of patriotic fervour that swept the nation in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I , but in

6540-440: The bequest would revert to the heirs of his wife. On March 31, 1821, after protracted legal battles with the Desrivières family (the heirs of his wife), McGill College received a royal charter from King George IV . The charter provided the college should be deemed and taken as a University , with the power of conferring degrees . The third Lord Bishop of Quebec , The Right Reverend Dr. George Mountain , ( DCL , Oxford )

6649-435: The collection offers material all aspects of medical thought and practice, as well as the history of Chinese science. Gillis' staff of three searched bookstores and examined private collections. Gillis had worked in American naval intelligence, and enjoyed using his training to demonstrate to his friends how to determine that the same person had used different typewriters by the similar weight of their strokes. He once verified

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6758-411: The collection to Harvard or Yale universities, but finally turned to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for help in purchasing the collection back from McGill, and then donating it to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study The institute, however, had no expertise in the area and the university had no program in Chinese studies. In contrast to the spacious and comfortable rooms in Toronto,

6867-422: The collection was now housed in what Swann called "makeshift quarters" in the basement of 20 Nassau Street, a storefront building owned by the university. Dr. Swann, the only full-time staff member, had responsibility for all aspects of the library, from cataloging to checking out books to guiding visiting scholars through the collection. During a heavy storm, she had to rouse the janitorial staff to place barriers on

6976-638: The collection, which "began as a hobby and developed into an investment, soon became a burden to a founder". Gest travelled often to Asia in the 1910s and 1920s on business for the Gest Engineering Company, which he founded and headed. As early as the 1890s he developed an interest in Buddhism and bought a Japanese manuscript scroll. He retained Chen Baozhen , a Chinese scholar who had been an imperial tutor, to locate and purchase books for his collection. Chen assembled more than 8,000 volumes, ( juan ?) mostly standard works. After Chen's death in 1900, Gest retained an agent in Beijing, Commander I.V. Gillis (1875–1948),

7085-457: The date of a purported Sung dynasty book by examining the paper fiber under a microscope. He and his staff marked missing or damaged pages with signed slips and had damaged books interleaved, rebound, and boxed. Gillis catalogued the books, which meant that they were ready to shelve upon arrival in North America, and he even crated and shipped the furniture and wall decorations that were used first at McGill and then at Princeton. In 1928 Gest hired

7194-513: The dedication ceremony, the Governor General of Canada ( Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ) laid the cornerstone. Dedicated on October 6, 1946, the Memorial Hall and adjoining Memorial Pool honour students who had enlisted and died in the First World War , and in the Second World War . In Memorial Hall, there are two Stained Glass Regimental badges, World War I and World War II Memorial Windows by Charles William Kelsey c. 1950/1. A war memorial window (1950) by Charles William Kelsey in

7303-407: The development of research capacity at the institute, whose staff made major discoveries in basic research and medicine. While a student at Johns Hopkins University , Flexner had studied under the institute's first scientific director, William H. Welch , first dean of Hopkins' medical school and known as the dean of American medicine. Flexner retired in 1935 and was succeeded by Herbert Gasser . He

7412-405: The downtown and Macdonald campuses. With the exception of students returning as " floor fellows ," few McGill students live in residence after their first year of undergraduate study, even if they are not from the Montreal area. Most second-year students transition to off-campus apartment housing. Many students settle in the Milton-Park neighbourhood, sometimes called the "McGill Ghetto," which

7521-546: The endowment is valued at $ 2.039 billion, the third-largest endowment among Canadian universities , and remains one of the largest endowments on a per-student basis. McGill launched the Campaign McGill campaign in October 2007, with the goal of raising over $ 750 million for the purpose of further "attracting and retaining top talent in Quebec, to increase access to quality education and to further enhance McGill's ability to address critical global problems." The largest goal of any Canadian University fundraising campaign at

7630-413: The existing Sir Arthur Currie gymnasium, a hockey rink and funding for an annual Memorial Assembly. A Book of Remembrance on a marble table contains the names of those lost in both World Wars. On November 11, 2012, the McGill Remembers website launched; the University War Records Office collected documents between 1940 and 1946 related to McGill students, staff and faculty in the Second World War. McGill

7739-402: The first. Motto: Grandescunt Aucta Labore ." The coat of arms consists of two parts, the shield and the scroll. The University publishes a guide to the use of the University's arms and motto. The University's symbol is the martlet , stemming from the presence of the mythical bird on the official arms of the University. The University's official colour is scarlet, which figures prominently in

7848-401: The floor above to keep water from coming through. Guion Moore Gest died in 1948, as did his longtime agent Gillis. Swann received a paycheck marked "FINAL". She protested that she was entitled to three months' notice, but the trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study extended her retirement by only two months. When Princeton's Firestone Library was completed in 1948, the Institute transferred

7957-691: The four founders and early faculty members of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine . Osler eventually became the first Physician-in-Chief of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore , Maryland, US in 1889. He led the creation of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1893. Other McGill alumni founded the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry in the 1880s. By 1961, McGill had an enrolment of 8,507 students and 925 graduate students. Since

8066-512: The full amount of his Nobel Prize to establish the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize given annually to a woman scientist in the field of biology. Rockefeller also host diverse initiatives to promote science and culture: Parents & Science Initiative, The RockEDU Science Outreach for K-12 students and teachers that includes lab experience and professional development and The Lewis Thomas Prize for writing about science

8175-730: The health of the Arboretum plantations and woodlands , to develop new programs related to selecting species adapted to developing environmental conditions and to enhance biological diversity in both natural stands and plantations. In 2019, McGill announced the construction of a new campus for its Faculty of Medicine in Gatineau , Quebec, which will allow students from the Outaouais region to complete their undergraduate medical education locally and in French. Medical students began using

8284-522: The insect repellent DEET . Ali Brivanlou's laboratory developed a method to grow embryos outside the uterus for up to 13 days in 2016, allowing scientists to study the earliest events of human development. In 2020, many Rockefeller scientists shifted the focus of their research in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . Michel C. Nussenzweig pioneered a method to isolate and clone antibodies from people who successfully recovered from COVID-19 to design

8393-465: The institution include Alexis Carrel , Peyton Rous , Hideyo Noguchi , Thomas Milton Rivers , Richard Shope , Thomas Francis Jr , Oswald T. Avery , Frederick Griffith , Colin MacLeod , Maclyn McCarty , Rebecca Lancefield , Wendell Meredith Stanley , René Dubos , Ashton Carter , and Cornelius P. Rhoads . Others attained eminence before being drawn to the university. Joshua Lederberg , who won

8502-533: The largest collections in North America. The Chinese collection is especially strong in Ming dynasty editions and works on traditional Chinese medicine . Guion Moore Gest built one of the largest collections of Chinese language rare books in North America in spite of the fact that he was not especially wealthy and could not read Chinese. Hu Shih , a prominent scholar who served as curator 1950–1952, noted that

8611-517: The late 1960s on the number of Jews admitted to the respective universities. The quota limited the Jewish student population in medicine and law to at most 10 per cent. McGill University was the subject of controversy when in January 2023, McGill University's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) hosted the event, titled Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and

8720-550: The legitimacy of the claims for years before notifying the public. The university and hospital issued a statement confirming that Archibald had "engaged in certain inappropriate conduct during patient examinations" and that they "deeply regret[ted]" any "pain and suffering" the former patients felt. New York State passed a law known as the Child Victims Act, which created a one-year window for civil suits brought by former child victims, allowing them to make cases against

8829-575: The life and work of author James Joyce. McGill's Bellairs Research Institute , in Saint James, Barbados 13°10′N 59°35′W  /  13.167°N 59.583°W  / 13.167; -59.583 , is Canada's only teaching and research facility in the tropics. The institute has been in use for over 50 years. The University also operates the McGill Arctic Research Station on Axel Heiberg Island , Nunavut , and

8938-627: The main campus on Montreal Island. The University is one of two members of the Association of American Universities located outside the United States, alongside the University of Toronto , and is the only Canadian member of the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) within the World Economic Forum . The University offers degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study. Most students are enrolled in

9047-513: The median SAT scores in the verbal, mathematics, and writing sections were 730, 730, and 730, respectively. The median ACT score was 32. Due to its bilingual nature, McGill's law school does not require applicants to sit the LSAT , which is only offered in English. For students who submitted LSAT scores in the September 2019 entering class, the median LSAT score was 163 (87.8th percentile) out of

9156-544: The new facility in August 2020. The new facility is located above the emergency room at Gatineau Hospital, part of the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l'Outaouais, in addition to new offices for the associated Family Medicine Unit for residency training . Although the preparatory year for students entering the undergraduate medical education program from CEGEP was initially planned to be offered solely at

9265-432: The prestige of American science and medicine, it was America's first biomedical institute, like France's Pasteur Institute (1888) and Germany's Robert Koch Institute (1891). The Rockefeller Foundation , a philanthropic organization, founded in 1913, is a separate entity, but had close connections mediated by prominent figures holding dual positions. The first director of laboratories was Simon Flexner , who supervised

9374-510: The program, which offers doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and biophysics. The university's organization on the basis of laboratories rather than a hierarchical departmental structure extends to the graduate program, where laboratory research is the primary focus and students can meet degree requirements by participating in any combination of courses. In partnership with neighboring Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine , Rockefeller participates in

9483-475: The schools were created by legislation, which showed the government's willingness to support the costs of education and even the salary of a schoolmaster. This was an important first step in the creation of non-denominational schools. When James McGill died in 1813, his bequest was administered by the RIAL. In 1846 the Royal Grammar School in Quebec City closed, and the one in Montreal merged with

9592-524: The site of extensive research activities: "Today there are over 400 scientific articles, 100 graduate theses, more than 50 government reports and about 30 book chapters based on research at Mont St. Hilaire ." In addition to the McGill University Health Centre, McGill has been directly partnered with many teaching hospitals for decades and has a history of collaborating with many hospitals in Montreal. These cooperations allow

9701-538: The six largest faculties: Arts , Science , Medicine , Education , Engineering , and Management . McGill alumni, faculty, and affiliates include 12 Nobel laureates and 148 Rhodes Scholars , the current prime minister and two former prime ministers of Canada , and two Governors General of Canada . McGill alumni also include 9 Academy Award winners, 13 Grammy Award winners, 13 Emmy Award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, and 121 Olympians with over 35 Olympic medals. The Royal Institution for

9810-466: The spring of 1915—after the first wave of heavy Canadian casualties at Ypres—Hamilton Gault, the founder of the Canadian regiment and a wealthy Montreal businessman, was faced with a desperate shortage of troops. When he reached out to his friends at home for support, over two hundred were commissioned from the ranks, and many more would serve as soldiers throughout the war. On their return to Canada after

9919-556: The subject. Because Gest's funds were limited, Gillis bought selectively, concentrating on works printed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which were of less interest to wealthy Chinese and Japanese collectors than works printed in the Song dynasty. He acquired "Palace editions," treatises printed by government agencies, commercial publishers, and manuscripts from all parts of the country. He did not always insist on rare editions, though he bought

10028-411: The third person responsible for the early buildup of the collection, Nancy Lee Swann , a returned missionary who was then finishing her doctoral degree in Chinese studies at Columbia University . She moved to Toronto and supplied a professional competence needed to turn a collection of rarities into a working collection. The catalogue of the collection had been prepared by the first curator, whose Chinese

10137-442: The time, the campaign was officially closed on June 18, 2013, having raised more than $ 1 billion. Campaign McGill has since been surpassed by larger fundraising campaigns, such as the University of British Columbia 's $ 3 billion FORWARD campaign and the University of Toronto 's $ 4 billion Defy Gravity campaign. In 2019, McGill launched Made By McGill , a new $ 2 billion fundraising campaign. In 2019, McGill received

10246-597: The university's eleventh president on September 1, 2016. The Rockefeller University Press publishes the Journal of Experimental Medicine , the Journal of Cell Biology , and The Journal of General Physiology . In 2018, the faculty included 82 tenured and tenure-track members, including 37 members of the National Academy of Sciences , 17 members of the National Academy of Medicine , seven Lasker Award recipients, and five Nobel laureates . As of March 2022,

10355-432: The university. In the mid-1970s, the university attracted a few prominent academicians in the humanities, such as Saul Kripke . Reginald Archibald, an endocrinologist at the university from 1948 to 1982, allegedly abused dozens or hundreds of boys during his time at the university while studying growth problems in children, including molestation and photographing them naked. Officials at Rockefeller University knew of

10464-542: The war, Major George McDonald and Major George Currie formed the accounting firm McDonald Currie, which later became one of the founders of Price Waterhouse Coopers . Captain Percival Molson was killed in action in July 1917. Percival Molson Memorial Stadium at McGill is named in his honour. The War Memorial Hall (more generally known as Memorial Hall) is a landmark building on the campus of McGill University. At

10573-637: Was 37.10. McGill does not require applicants to its medical programme to sit the MCAT if they have an undergraduate degree from a Canadian University. In the Desautels Faculty of Management's MBA program, applicants had an average GMAT score of 670 and an average GPA of 3.3. MBA students had an average age of 28, and five years of work experience. 95 per cent of MBA students are bilingual and 60 per cent are trilingual. Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research The Rockefeller University

10682-656: Was appointed the first principal of McGill College and a professor of divinity. He is also responsible for the creation of Bishop's University in 1843 and Bishop's College School in 1836 in the Eastern Townships . Although McGill College received its Royal Charter in 1821, it was inactive until 1829 when the Montreal Medical Institution, which had been founded in 1823, became the college's first academic unit and Canada's first medical school. The Faculty of Medicine granted its first degree,

10791-475: Was born in Glasgow , Scotland, on October 6, 1744. He was a successful merchant in Quebec, having matriculated into the University of Glasgow in 1756. Soon afterwards, McGill left for North America to explore the business opportunities there, especially in the fur trade. McGill was also a slave owner, and the McGill household enslaved at least five Black and Indigenous people. Between 1811 and 1813, he drew up

10900-547: Was designed by Bruce Price and its extension was designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs and George Taylor Hyde. A statue of Queen Victoria by her daughter Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll , stands in front of the building. A second campus, the Macdonald Campus , in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue houses the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition,

11009-483: Was enthusiastic about the institute. Rockefeller Jr and his youngest son David visited more often. David Rockefeller joined the board of trustees in 1940, was its chairman from 1950 to 1975, chaired the board's executive committee from 1975 to 1995, became honorary chairman and life trustee, and remained active as a philanthropist until his death. Rockefeller Institute Hospital was renamed Rockefeller University Hospital. The archives of Rockefeller University are at

11118-593: Was incorporated in Vancouver in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia . The private institution granted McGill degrees until it became the independent University of British Columbia in 1915. Dawson College began in 1945 as a satellite campus of McGill to absorb the anticipated influx of students after World War II . Many students in their first three years in the Faculty of Engineering took courses at Dawson College to relieve

11227-519: Was instrumental in founding several major universities and colleges. It established the first post-secondary institutions in British Columbia to provide degree programs to the growing cities of Vancouver and Victoria . It chartered Victoria College in 1903 as an affiliated junior college of McGill, offering first and second-year courses in arts and science, until it became today's University of Victoria . British Columbia's first University

11336-410: Was not adequate. Gillis called it "truly pathetic." Swann revised the catalogue and became curator in 1933. She remained curator until her retirement in 1946. Gest, Gillis, and Dr. Swann built the collection from some 232 titles in 8,000 fascicles in 1928 to close to 130,000 by the time the collection was moved to Princeton. By 1932, Gest's Chinese collection at McGill was second in size only to that of

11445-483: Was part of a team that found how telomeres protect chromosome ends, shedding light on the role of genome instability in cancer in 1999. Robert B. Darnell led research that defined the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome , the second leading cause of intellectual disability , in 2001. Vincent A. Fischetti was part of a group that developed a powerful agent that can target and wipe out anthrax bacteria in 2002. Charles M. Rice helped produce an infectious form of

11554-496: Was renamed The East Asian Library Journal (ISSN: 1079-8021) in 1994. The contents are available free online. 40°21′01″N 74°39′25″W  /  40.350335°N 74.657036°W  / 40.350335; -74.657036 McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research University located in Montreal, Quebec , Canada . Founded in 1821 by royal charter ,

11663-618: Was subsequently granted by the Garter King at Arms in 1922, registered in 1956 with Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh, and in 1992 with the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada . In heraldic terms, the coat of arms is described as follows: "Argent three Martlets Gules, on a chief dancette of the second, an open book proper garnished or bearing the legend In Domino Confido in letters Sable between two crowns of

11772-419: Was succeeded by Thomas Milton Rivers . As director of The Rockefeller Institute's virology laboratory, he established virology as an independent field apart from bacteriology . In the 1940s, it hosted a "scientific team that overturned medical dogma" and "became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA ." Rockefeller Sr visited the university just once, at the urging of Rockefeller Jr, who

11881-645: Was succeeded in 1953 by Detlev Bronk , who broadened The Rockefeller Institute into a university that began awarding the PhD degree in 1954. In 1965 The Rockefeller Institute's name was changed to The Rockefeller University. For its first six decades, the institute focused on basic research to develop basic science , on applied research as biomedical engineering , and, since 1910—when The Rockefeller Hospital opened on its campus as America's first facility for clinical research —on clinical science . The Rockefeller Hospital's first director Rufus Cole retired in 1937 and

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