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Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Joining Forces for Water Sustainability
The Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has been collaborating with the Faculties of Engineering, Science, Law, and Management to rejuvenate the Brace Centre for Water Resources Management to broaden its engagement with a wider group of disciplines and seed new opportunities in water-related research.
Arts
A Hub for Humanistic Social Science
The Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds brings together more than forty scholars from across the university. It is dedicated to studying social structures, social transformations, and ideas about social values from across eras and in regions around the world. The Yan P. Lin Centre provides a unified home for the humanistic social sciences, allowing for collaborations across the Faculties of Arts, Engineering, and Law, drawing on disciplines ranging from history, classics, architecture, political science, and philosophy.
Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Health Innovation
The Faculty of Dentistry’s redesigned PhD program in Oral Health Sciences was fully approved in December 2020. The new program connects trainees with researchers across disciplines and provide them with training in numerous health-related fields and methodologies. Faculty members and students are involved in numerous interdisciplinary collaborations with other Centres of Excellence on campus.
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Engineering | Science
At the Forefront of Sustainability
The Faculties of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Engineering and Science are leading the way on the sustainability front by spearheading one of McGill’s largest interdisciplinary initiatives, the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI). The MSSI is designed to mobilize faculty members from across McGill to take on complex issues that require multidisciplinary approaches.
Law and Management
Integrated Education for a Changing World
The Faculty of Law offers two joint programs in collaboration with the Desautels Faculty of Management and the School of Social Work: the Master of Business Administration (MBA) with integrated Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) and Juris Doctor (J.D.), designed to integrate common and civil law training with advanced management education, and the Master of Social Work (MSW) with integrated B.C.L./J.D., designed for students interested in transcending academic boundaries in social justice issues and in gaining an enriched perspective.
Management and Medicine and Health Sciences
Empowering Healthcare Professionals
In 2021, Desautels launched a new Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management, a fully online joint program between the Desautels Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. This program is designed for physician leaders and other healthcare professionals who are looking for managerial skills which will impact the quality, efficiency, and fiscal responsibility of healthcare delivery.
Medicine and Health Sciences
Building Resilience Against COVID-19
In 2018, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences launched the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (Mi4) and established Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Secretariat within the School of Population and Global Health.
Music
Redefining Music Training
Stemming from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), the Performance Science Initiative is a new initiative at the Schulich School of Music that bring together a multidisciplinary team who are developing strategies for the enhancement of performance skills and healthy learning, providing music students with an optimized and tailored training environment. The initiative aims to create new knowledge and challenge assumptions of existing performance practice, and apply healthy strategies drawing parallels and highlighting differences between performance domains, from the arts to business to medicine and science.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Breaking Boundaries with Interdisciplinary Master's Degrees
GPS has facilitated dossier preparation and submission for several new interdisciplinary Master's Degrees, including International Development, Digital Humanities and Gender, Sexuality, Feminist and Social Justice Studies
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In the McGill Reporter
MARCH 9, 2023
Students launch new hub to advocate for global food security
The Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security Student Nexus will provide students with hands-on learning and outreach experiences
AUGUST 30, 2022
What does it take to collaborate across disciplines?
Director of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative offers advice ahead of MSSI speaker event
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Experiential learning: McGill Desautels gives rise to discovery
Lewtas Office of Experiential Learning creates powerful hands-on learning experiences that play a vital role in the student journey
MARCH 24, 2022
Biodiversity and resilience in waterways
McGill Bieler School of Environment funding interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental challenges
JUNE 20, 2018
Boldness rewarded
McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative funds 19 projects led by faculty and students that dare to take risks
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
RI-MUHC and McGill awarded $5.1 million for infectious disease research
A new grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation will invest in leading-edge Containment Level 3 facilities and personnel