Joseph Schull, BA’82, MA’85, and Anna Yang, BCL’88, LLB’88, experienced the transformative impact of international study firsthand. As...
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It was 2:00 a.m. in the dead of winter last year in South Korea when Piratheepan Kamalakanthamurugan read the email that would shape his future career and potentially change the lives of others.
“I was teaching English in a small town to pay off some...
Though just shy of two months into his studies at McGill, Michael Maw, a German major from Buckinghamshire, U.K., is confident that he chose the right university.
“I always wanted to study abroad, just to gain a pretty wonderful life experience,” Maw says. The prospect of travelling...
By Brett Hooton
On Quyen Su’s first day, a patient had a seizure in her chair.
But the fourth-year McGill Dentistry student doesn’t seem too shaken when looking back at the difficult start...
Violinist Aaron Schwebel, BMus’10, is used to striking gold. As an undergraduate student at McGill’s Schulich School of Music, he won the Golden Violin Award, a prestigious $20,000 scholarship presented annually to an exceptional string player who shows great promise for a performance...
In the centre: 5 Hot Cities co-leaders Jun Yeo and Melanie Walsh in India with colleagues and some of the girls they are helping to educate.
While visiting India with 27 other Desautels students as part of their management studies at McGill, Yeo and Walsh spearheaded a social...
I was born in a small village in Pakistan which had no electricity up until a few years ago. Though my parents only attended high school, they realized the importance of higher education. To this effect, we arrived in Canada in 2002 when I was 15 years old. I graduated top of my class in...
Just eight days after his final exam, David Meredith was stepping off a plane in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
As one of the five Carol and Lloyd Darlington Internship Award recipients, Meredith had been accepted to intern at Grameen Bank, a microfinance organization and community development...
Tara Dickinson, the 2010 recipient of the U.K. Trust Entrance Scholarship, admits that her choice of university might strike some people as ironic.
The first-year McGill student grew up in Oxford, England, but ultimately decided to cross the Atlantic for school. Now, whenever she...
It is safe to say that helping others comes naturally to Vivien Carli. Born into a family of health care professionals who have provided humanitarian aid in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Rwanda, the McGill international development and economics student has long aspired to make her own positive...
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