We met Veronika at the annual Eureka Festival in downtown Montreal. She’s a neuroscience researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

We met Dr. Chan Carusone during his last visit at McGill, where he gave a guest lecture about the ongoing research in his lab at UofT. He and his students are designing nanoscale electronic chips for the communication of information. Some of our readers will recognize him as the co-author of the textbook Analog Integrated Circuit Design.

Dr. Green is the Director of the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). We caught up with Dr. Green at McGill’s 2011 Human Genetics Graduate Student Research Day, where he gave the keynote presentation.

Victoria Kaspi is the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics, the Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics and Professor of Physics at McGill University. Last summer, she gave a talk on neutron stars at the 153rd meeting of the James McGill Society. We caught up with her afterwards to discuss “the cosmic gift of neutron stars”.

On May 31st, Norman Augustine received an honorary degree from McGill's Faculty of Engineering. We interviewed him before his commencement speech and asked about NASA, space exploration, and engineering in general.

On May 31st, Norman Augustine received an honorary degree from McGill's Faculty of Engineering. We interviewed him before his commencement speech and asked about NASA, space exploration, and engineering in general.

Bill Mooney works at Zynga, the company that brought you Farmville and MafiaWars. With a B.A. in Philosophy, he graduated from McGill in 1991 and, after an interesting career path, is now Studio Vice President at Zynga. He passed by McGill last week (May 16) to speak about social gaming as a career. After the talk, we sat with him to discuss why he chose Zynga, and how to make a social gaming startup.

On April 29, we attended the IEEE Electron Devices Society mini-colloquium at Concordia University, where we met with Dr. Durga Misra, a professor in the Department of Electrical/Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

You’d think that starting your own company and pitching a product would take more than a weekend. But to anyone who attended Startupifier’s Startup Bootcamp, this is not so.

We sat with Dr. David Green, director of McGill's Redpath Museum, for a Q&A session. Suffice it so say that the exhibits in the museum were of utmost delight.

At CUSEC 2011, we met Dr. Paul Kry, a computer science professor at McGill who gave a talk on computer graphics and 3D modeling.

At CUSEC 2011, we met Julie Steele, an editor at O'Reilly Media.

Interested in programming, problem solving and having a good time? Read on. We chatted with Marc Boscher from the CS Games Council about the upcoming event and why you should be a part of McGill’s team.

Being a professor is not merely his profession but his passion. Through his determination and hard work, Dr. Chodavarapu is an inspiration for many students. Here, he unravels the wonders of Bio-engineering and gives us a peak into the life of a professor.

Global Warming is real; there is no controversy. Dr. Bruno Tremblay, from McGill’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, tells us why.