Global public relations firm delivers McGill course content to staff in 12-week boot camp

Published: 2 July 2025

Being happy doesn’t just make life more enjoyable, it can help you get things done. In 2024, McGill Desautels Adjunct Lecturer Anita Nowak co-designed a course on the power of positive psychology...

Taking stock of social business activities in academia

Published: 3 May 2019

An interview with Desautels lecturer Anita Nowak is featured in the 2019 Academia Report on Social Business, an overview compiled by the YY Foundation of the diverse social business activities that...

Trois programmes dans l'air du temps

Published: 19 November 2015

Des milliers d'étudiants de partout dans le monde suivent gratuitement le cours en ligne Social Learning for Social Impact, travaillent en équipe et apprennent à réaliser des initiatives sociales...

Debate: What is the Role of Business in Humanitarian Issues?

Published: 20 November 2015

What is the wider role of business in society? While it has long been acknowledged that big businesses in particular have a part to play – by virtue of their place in society as well as the people...

McGill students’ plans to help rebuild Lac-Mégantic win praise

Published: 25 June 2014

One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-Mégantic, igniting and razing much of the town’s commercial centre, three McGill University students with a...

McGill students give future Syrian newcomers English lessons online

Published: 7 January 2016

Many people are offering help to Syrian refugees after they arrive in Quebec, but students are reaching out to refugees while they remain overseas....

Bold ideas take flight at McGill Dobson Cup

Published: 26 June 2014

One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014 McGill Dobson Cup, the annual start-up competition hosted by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Desautels Faculty of Management....

A lifetime in academia

Published: 17 February 2016

When Anita Nowak, GrDip 99, studied in the graduate diploma program of Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies, she says “a whole new world of cultural studies opened up to me.”...

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