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ANNUAL REPORT2016

03 MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

06 YEAR IN REVIEW

13 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS

16 FACTBOOK: FACULTY + RESEARCH

17 FACTBOOK: STUDENTS

19 FACTBOOK: SUSTAINABILITY

20 FACTBOOK: FINANCE + ADMINISTRATION

21 FACTBOOK: ALUMNI + DONORS

23 FACTBOOK: RANKINGS

24 LEADERSHIP 2016

25 SENATE 2016

This report collects some of the important stories from the past year. To read more about the McGill community’s achievements, please visit the online version at www.mcgill.ca/annual-report/

Photos of McGill campus on pages 2, 5 and 15 by Valeria LauDesign by Jean-Bernard Ng Man Sun, McGill Graphic DesignPublished by the Offi ce of Communications and External Relations

OPEN

This Annual Report showcases some of the exceptional

ways that McGill University’s students, faculty, staff

and alumni are implementing our shared vision. Their

achievements refl ect the ongoing evolution of McGill.

Grounded by our mission, and guided by the spirit of

learning and discovery, we are exploring new ways of looking at

the world. We are focused on fi ve priority areas: student life and

learning, research and innovation, community engagement, our

work culture, and transforming our physical and virtual campus.

We are embracing new challenges. We are fi nding sustainable

approaches to how we live and work. Together, we are building a

future that is open, connected, and purposeful.

Bonne lecture,

SUZANNE FORTIER, BSc’72, PhD’76

PRINCIPAL AND VICE�CHANCELLOR

MESSAGE FROM

THE PRINCIPAL

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CONNECTED

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J A N U A R Y McGill research teams lead

three of the top 10 scientifi c

breakthroughs of 2015 as

selected by Québec Science

magazine. The prestigious

annual list honours projects

spearheaded by: Thomas

Szkopek (Department of

Electrical and Computer

Engineering) and Guillaume

Gervais (Department of

Physics); Jeff rey Mogil

(Department of Psychology);

and Christine McCusker

(Department of Pediatrics

and Research Institute

of the McGill University

Health Centre).

McGill’s Women’s 1 Woodsmen

team takes the top spot at

the 56th annual Macdonald

College Woodsmen Compe-

tition. The McGill’s men team

has a strong showing as well,

fi nishing third overall. {01}

Prof. R. Anne McKinney

is named Associate Vice-

Principal, Research and Inno-

vation, with a term beginning

on Jan. 1, 2016 and ending on

Dec. 31, 2019. Her mandate is

to support research

excellence at McGill and

increase research

performance and research

intensity at the University,

with a particular emphasis on

biomedical and health

sciences. {02}

McGill completes the

Macdonald Campus Energy

Project, which will reduce

greenhouse gas emissions

on Macdonald Campus

from stationary combustion

by 40%. Project highlights

include a heat recovery

system, conversion of the

most energy-intensive

ventilation systems on

campus, and the conversion

of the steam network to a

low-temperature water loop

to allow for the future

integration of renewable

energy such as geothermal

or solar energy.

F E B R U A R Y Distinguished McGill alumnus

Victor Goldbloom, BSc’44,

MD’45, DipEd’50, DLitt’92, dies

at the age of 92. A pediatri-

cian by academic training,

Goldbloom was a strong

supporter of McGill and taught

at the University from 1950 to

1970 before fully committing

himself to public service.

The Natural Sciences and

Engineering Research Council

of Canada (NSERC) names

McGill astrophysicist Vicky

Kaspi the 2016 recipient of

the Gerhard Herzberg Canada

Gold Medal for Science and

Engineering. Kaspi is the fi rst

woman, and one of the

youngest researchers, to win

NSERC’s highest honour. {03}

Twenty-fi ve McGill

researchers are awarded

Canada Research Chairs.

The funding will benefi t

research in areas such as the

genetics of pain and childhood

disability, the ecology of the

Arctic and engineered

quantum systems.

For the eighth year in a row,

McGill is named one of

Montreal’s Top Employers

for a wide range of factors

– including its staff fi tness

program, athletics facilities,

green urban campus and

a parental leave that extends

the regular provincial plan.

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MARCH Tobias Rees, Associate

Professor of the Social Studies

of Medicine, whose work

engages with questions of how

immunity and self are con-

ceptualized, is named a Fellow

at the Canadian Institute for

Advanced Research.

Student teams from the

Faculty of Law fi nish fi rst

in three national mooting

competitions this spring:

the Gale Cup, the Laskin

Moot, and Le Concours

Pierre-Basile Mignault.

McGill’s Research and Inno-

vation hosts the 11th annual

Bravo gala to celebrate

researchers who have won

prizes and awards during

the previous year. In all,

77 laureates are honoured.

BCom student teams from

the Desautels Faculty of

Management take fi rst

and second places in the

Undergraduate Division

at the National Investment

Banking Competition in

Vancouver. It is recognized as

one of the most prestigious

fi nancial case competitions

in North America.

The top-ranked Martlets

basketball team captures its

fi � h consecutive Quebec

conference championship {04}

while the top-seeded Redmen

basketball team wins its third

Quebec crown in four years.

APRIL McGill honours its leaders

in sustainability at the

sixth-annual Catalyst awards.

Students, faculty and staff are

recognized for their dedicated

and creative eff orts to make

the University a more

sustainable community. {05}

Prof. Isabelle Daunais, of the

Département de langue et

littérature françaises, wins

the Canada Council’s Killam

Prize for the Humanities.

The Killam Prize is one of the

country’s most prestigious

awards and given annually to

fi ve researchers in the

respective fi elds of

humanities, social sciences,

natural sciences, health

sciences and engineering. {06}

Marc Gélinas is appointed

the new Executive Director

of McGill Athletics and

Recreation. He is a former

pitching prospect for the

Pittsburgh Pirates and a

McGill alumnus with strong

sports leadership background

at both the federal and

provincial levels.

A team led by Prof. Jake

Barralet receives $1.65 million

from NSERC to provide

nearly 90 students with cross-

disciplinary training to prepare

them for high-skill jobs in the

surgical devices industry.

The project covers all aspects

of surgery-related techno-

logy, from tools for diagnosis

and patient risk reduction to

postoperative monitoring

and care.

MAY Principal Suzanne Fortier

joins as a member of the

Global University Leaders

Forum (GULF). McGill

becomes the fi rst Canadian

university to join the forum,

which acts as an intellectual

community within the World

Economic Forum to advise its

leadership on matters relating

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research, and also serves as a

resource for the Forum’s

members and constituents.

A team of scientists from

McGill, the University of

Cambridge and Stanford

Graduate School of Business

develops a new method of

categorizing music. The

researchers learn that

people’s preference for these

musical categories is driven

by personality, a fi nding that

has important implications for

industry and health

professionals.

More than 100 of the world’s

most brilliant thinkers take

part in the inaugural

Simnovate International

Summit. Hosted by McGill’s

Steinberg Centre for Simulation

and Interactive Learning, the

Summit encourages partici-

pants to immerse themselves

in the spirit of breaking

conventions and developing

new directions for health care

by temporarily leaving their

day jobs behind and becoming

“simnovaters.” {07}

McGill wins two signifi cant

international awards for its

fi ve-year Sustainable

Procurement Strategy. The

Green Electronics Council

honours McGill as a 3-Star

EPEAT Purchaser, while

the Sustainable Purchasing

Leadership Council gives

McGill an Outstanding Case

Study award. {08}

Graham Bell, James McGill

Professor of Biology, is

among 50 new Fellows

elected to the Royal Society,

the U.K.’s national science

academy. The founding

president of the Canadian

Society for Ecology and

Evolution, Bell is known for

his work on experimental

evolution, using laboratory

populations of microbes to

investigate fundamental

questions about how

organisms adapt through

natural selection to novel

environments.

JUNEA� er a year of planning

and over 150 start-up

submissions, the McGill

Dobson Centre for Entre-

preneurship awards over

$117,000 in prizes to the

winners of the McGill

Dobson Cup Start-Up

Competition. This year, a

record of 17 winning teams

across the four tracks took

home cash prizes to support

their ideas and take their

projects to the next level. {09}

Angelique Mannella is

named McGill’s fi rst

Associate Vice-Principal

of Innovation. She is

responsible for overseeing

McGill’s innovation agenda,

working closely with the

faculties and the student body

to foster and support the

community in building internal

and external partnerships.

Suzelle Barrington, a

Bioresource Engineering

professor, and John Gruzleski,

Emeritus Professor in the

Department of Mining, Metals

and Materials Engineering,

are among 43 new Fellows

inducted into the Canadian

Academy of Engineering.

McGill wins eight Prix

d’Excellence awards at the

Canadian Council for the

Advancement of Education’s

national conference in

Saskatoon – fi ve gold and

three silver medals – tying 09

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with the University of Alberta

for most in the country.

Thirteen members of the

McGill community, including

three researchers, are named

to or promoted within the

Order of Canada, while seven

McGillians are appointed to

the National Order of Quebec,

the province’s highest civilian

honour.

JULYMcGill students take home

top prizes at the annual

Institute of Food Technologists

conference, the world’s

largest gathering of food science

professionals. The two teams

win for a vegan burger that

cooks and tastes like beef and

a super-nutritious stew

customized to battle calcium-

defi ciencies in Yemen.

World-renowned pain

specialist and medical

cannabis researcher Dr. Mark

Ware, director of clinical

research at the Alan Edwards

Pain Management Unit of the

McGill University Health Centre

(MUHC), is nominated

vice-chair of an important

federal task force that will

provide guidance to the

Canadian government as it

prepares to introduce legislation

to legalize marijuana in

spring 2017. {10}

Scientists at the Montreal

Neurological Institute and

Hospital, led by Alan Evans,

use a powerful tool to identify

the fi rst physiological signs

of late-onset Alzheimer’s

disease. The research under-

lines the importance of

computational power in future

neurological breakthroughs.

{11}

McGill ranks fi rst in Canada,

and 37th globally, in the

Nature Index 2016 Rising

Stars supplement, which

identifi es institutions showing

the most signifi cant growth in

high-quality scientifi c research

publications over the past

four years.

AUGUSTThree athletes are among a

23-member entourage of

McGill graduates and students

participating in the Summer

Olympic Games in Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil. The athletes

include wrestler Dorothy Yeats,

an engineering student, and

a pair of fencers – both recent

graduates – Maximilien Van

Haaster, BEd Kinesiology’16,

and Joseph Polossifakis,

BCom’14. One student and

four graduates also serve

in an offi cial capacity with

Team Canada at the 2016

Paralympic Games. {12}

Prof. Chris Buddle begins his

fi ve-year term as McGill’s

Dean of Students. An award-

winning researcher, he has been

a member of the Department

of Natural Resource Sciences

since 2002.

The Monteregie Connection

project, led by fi ve McGill

researchers, wins the Mont

Saint-Hilaire Nature Centre’s

Alice E. Johannsen Award

of Excellence in recognition

of its research activities,

involvement of stakeholders

from the area and use of

various scenarios for the

development of the Vallée-

du-Richelieu area.

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16SEPTEMBERMcGill earns a Gold rating

in sustainability from the

Association for the

Advancement of Sustainability

in Higher Education’s Sustain-

ability Tracking, Assessment

and Rating System (STARS).

McGill researchers garner

two of the fi ve prestigious

2016 Trudeau Fellows.

Catherine Potvin {13} of the

Faculty of Science and Adelle

Blackett {14} of the Faculty of

Law will each receive a total of

$225,000 over the next

three years to support

innovative projects designed to

address challenges facing both

Canadian and global

populations.

The Royal Society of Canada

(RSC) honours a total of 19

members of McGill University.

Ten McGill scholars are named

RSC Fellows, while another

seven scholars become

members of the College of

New Scholars, Artists and

Scientists. Additionally,

Prof. John A. Hall {15} of the

Department of Sociology

is awarded the Innis-Gérin

Medal for his sustained con-

tributions to the social sciences,

while Prof. Vijaya Raghavan is

elected President of RSC’s

Academy of Science.

Members of the McGill,

Montreal and Indigenous

communities gather on lower

campus for the offi cial launch

of the Provost’s Task Force

on Indigenous Studies and

Indigenous Education. The

Task Force aims to increase

Indigenous presence at McGill

among students, staff and

faculty, and to expand the

University’s relationship with

the Indigenous communities

locally and across Canada.

{16}

OCTOBER Celebrated McGill philosopher

Charles Taylor is named the

fi rst winner of the $1-million

Berggruen Prize. Taylor,

a professor emeritus, is con-

sidered one of the world’s

foremost philosophers and has

collected several major aca-

demic prizes in recent years.

McGill administration

creates an Advisory Council

on Sustainability for senior

academic leaders, adminis-

trators, students, and

members-at-large. The council

provides strategic advice to

position the University as a

leading institution on sustain-

ability in North America.

Award-winning bestselling

novelist Margaret Atwood

gives the 2016 Beatty

Memorial Lecture in Pollack

Hall. Her topic is “Environmental

Crisis and the Humanities.”

{17}

The McGill Board of Governors

approves the appointment of

Prof. Brenda Ravenscro� as

Dean of the Schulich School

of Music.

NOVEMBER Leonard Cohen, BA’55,

DLitt’92, dies at the age of

82. The legendary poet and

singer-songwriter, whose

anthem “Hallelujah” has

touched souls around the

world, ranks among McGill’s

most notable alumni.

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20The Institut Nordique du

Québec names Murray

Humphries, a professor in

the Department of Natural

Resource Sciences, as one

of its inaugural Northern

Research Chairs. The Institut

aims to harness Quebec’s

academic, industry and com-

munity expertise to advance

the sustainable development

of the North. {18}

The Work of the Dead: A

Cultural History of Mortal

Remains by Thomas W.

Laqueur wins the 2016

Cundill Prize in Historical

Literature at McGill. The

book off ers a compelling and

richly detailed account of how

and why the living have cared

for the dead, from antiquity to

the twentieth century.

McGill students Angela Yu,

Beatrice Yeung and Aaron

Gluck-Thaler capture Rhodes

Scholarships, bringing to 142

the number of McGill Rhodes

Scholars since the awards

were created in 1902.

Education professor Claudia

Mitchell wins the SSHRC’s

Gold Medal for her 25 years

of participatory research in

Ethiopia, South Africa and

Canada. The award is the

SSHRC’s highest honour. {19}

DECEMBERMélodie Daoust of the McGill

women’s hockey team is named

female athlete of the year in

the team sports category and

among 15 McGill students to

receive an athletic fi nancial

award at the 31st annual

Quebec Foundation for

Athletic Excellence gala. {20}

The Honorable Michael A.

Meighen agrees to serve a

second term as Chancellor

of McGill University. Meighen

has been Chancellor since

July 1, 2014.

McGill receives funding for

16 Canada Research Chairs,

which are granted to

outstanding researchers

acknowledged by their peers

as world leaders in their fi elds.

The Board of Governors

approves two new senior

administration appointments.

Yves Beauchamp joins McGill

as the new Vice-Principal

(Administration and Finance)

and Martha Crago takes on

the portfolio of Vice-Principal

(Research and Innovation).

Astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi,

BSc’89, retired Supreme Court

Justice Morris Fish, BA’59,

BCL’62, LLD’01, and

philanthropist Lorne Trottier,

BEng’70, MEng’73, DSc’06, are

among seven McGill alumni

appointed to, or promoted

within, the Order of Canada.

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SPRING 2016PAUL T. ANASTAS, Doctor of

Science, is the Teresa and

H. John Heinz III Chair in the

Practice of Chemistry for the

Environment, and the Director

of the Center for Green

Chemistry and Green

Engineering at Yale University.

ZITA COBB, Doctor of Letters,

is a pioneer in the fi eld of

social entrepreneurship and

founder of the Shorefast

Foundation, which is dedicated

to creating cultural and

economic resiliency for Fogo

Island and Change Islands.

RUTH DEFRIES, Doctor of

Science, is a renowned scholar

and environmental

geographer at Columbia

University whose research

focuses on issues of

sustainability, science policy

and the impact of the human

race on the earth’s

environment.

SANDRA DJWA, Doctor of

Letters, is a writer, critic and

cultural biographer who has

played an integral role in

Canada’s literary history. She

taught Canadian literature at

Simon Fraser University,

including an appointment as

the J.S. Woodsworth Resident

Scholar in the Humanities.

CÉLINE GALIPEAU, BA’80,

Doctor of Letters, was

Radio-Canada’s fi rst female

news anchor and a role model

for an entire generation of

women aspiring to careers

in journalism.

VINTON GRAY CERF, Doctor

of Science, is an American

computer scientist who

is recognized as one of the

fathers of the TCP/IP protocol

suite, which represents the

core functionality and

architecture that defi nes

the Internet.

MARIA LABRECQUE DUCHESNEAU, Doctor of

Letters, is the founder of Au

coeur des familles agricoles, a

non-profi t organization that

works to meet the needs, both

physical and psychological,

of the agricultural community,

while sensitizing the public to

the agricultural environment.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BEVERLEY MCLACHLIN,

Doctor of Laws, was the fi rst

female Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court of Canada, the

longest serving chief justice in

the country’s history, and the

author of some of the court’s

most important and high-

profi le rulings.

SUSAN MCCLARY, Doctor of

Music, is a leading feminist

musicologist. Her research

focuses on the cultural

criticism of music in both the

European canon and the

contemporary popular genres.

HENRY PETROSKI, Doctor

of Science, is an interna-

tionally recognized engineer,

researcher, teacher, author

and communicator. He has

devoted his career to further-

ing mankind’s understanding

of technology and the role of

design in modern society.

LAWRENCE (LARRY) G. ROSSY, BA’65, Doctor of

Laws, is an entrepreneur,

philanthropist and CEO of

Dollarama, Inc. Under his

prescient leadership, his

business empire has grown

to include over 1000 retail

stores across Canada.

DR. E. FULLER TORREY,

MDCM’63, Doctor of Science,

is a research psychiatrist who

has distinguished himself

through a lifelong commitment

to improving mental illness

research and mental health

care. He was an early

proponent of the biological

basis of schizophrenia and

bipolar disorders.

ANDREAS WIMMER, Doctor

of Letters, is a professor of

sociology and political

philosophy at Columbia

University. He has helped us

more than any other recent

scholar to understand state

formation, nation building,

ethnic confl ict and war.

FALL 2016BERTRAND CESVET, BA’86,

MBA’90, Doctor of Letters,

is the chairman and senior

partner of creative services

fi rm Sid Lee. Under his

leadership, the fi rm has grown

from a small shop in Montreal

to an international

powerhouse known for

its creativity and unique

business model.

JOANNE LIU, MDCM’91,

IMHL’14, Doctor of Science, is

the International President of

Doctors Without Borders. She

has worked with Malian

refugees in Mauritania, people

aff ected by the earthquake in

Haiti and the tsunami in

Indonesia, and war-wounded

patients in Syria.

HONORARY DEGREERECIPIENTS

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PURPOSEFUL

1,677 Tenured and tenure-stream faculty

177 Endowed teaching and research chairs

158 Canada Research Chairs allotted to McGill

171 Active members of the Royal Society of Canada

FACULTY + RESEARCH

90 government- and industry-sponsored RESEARCH CONTRACTS valued at $9.5 MILLION in 2015-16 (excluding affi liated hospitals)

32 LICENCES and options to license granted to the private sector from 2015-16

MCGILL HAS A SIZEABLE PATENT ESTATE available for licensing:

139 national and international PATENT applications submitted in 2015-2016,

and 651 currently IN PROGRESS

FUNDING 2014-15[INCLUDING AFFILIATED HOSPITALS*]

FACULTY

F A C T B O O K

RESEARCH

SOURCE: CAUBO

TOTAL: $473.1 M

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT54.4% �$257.5 M�

NOT�FOR�PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

�INCL. FOUNDATIONS� 11.7% �$55.2 M�

ENDOWMENT, INVESTMENT,

AND OTHER

REVENUE 7.1% �33.7 M�

INTERNATIONAL ANDOTHER GOVERNMENTS

3% �$14.1 M�

QUEBEC GOVERNMENT15.2% �$71.7 M�

BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISES8.3% �$39.4 M�

INDIVIDUALS 0.3% �$1.5 M�

* Includes the McGill University Health Centre; the Jewish General Hospital [Lady Davis Institute]; the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital; the Shriners Hospital; the Douglas Mental Health University Institute; and St. Mary’s Hospital Center.

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F A C T B O O K

STUDENTS

BY FACULTY

ENROLMENT

27,475 UNDERGRADUATE

659 POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS

1,591 OTHER (NON-CREDIT)

9,473 GRADUATE

142 RHODES SCHOLARS (MORE THAN ANY OTHER CANADIAN UNIVERSITY)

1,295 RESIDENTS AND FELLOWS

40,493 STUDENTS[ FALL 2016 ]

BY MOTHER TONGUE BY PLACE OF ORIGIN

ENGLISH46.1%

QUEBEC51.7%

FRENCH20.3%

REST OFCANADA21.2%

OTHER33.6%

INTERNATIONAL27.0%

AGRICULTURAL &ENVIRONMENTAL

SCIENCES2,156

INTERFACULTY BA & SC

596

LAW887

MEDICINE5,229

EDUCATION2,676

SCIENCE5,594

ARTS9,005

DENTISTRY263

ENGINEERING4,702

CONTINUING STUDIES5,017

SCHULICHSCHOOL OF

MUSIC892

DESAUTELS FACULTY OF

MANAGEMENT3,062

9,022 DEGREES GRANTED IN 2015-16

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14.4%CANADIAN RESEARCH

UNIVERSITIES AVERAGE EXCLUDING MCGILL

30.2MCGILL

26.9QUEBEC

AVERAGE EXCLUDING MCGILL

AVERAGE ENTERING R SCORE* OF UNDERGRADUATES – 2015SOURCE: CRÉPUQ

* The R score (cote de rendement au collégial or cote R)is a statistical method which classifi es college students’

academic performance in Quebec.

STUDENTS

26.4% MCGILL

PROPORTION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS [AS A PERCENTAGE OF DEGREE-SEEKING STUDENTS]

SOURCE: U15 DATA EXCHANGE

10.8% MCGILL

6.5%CANADIAN RESEARCH

UNIVERSITIES AVERAGE EXCLUDING MCGILL

PROPORTION OF PHD STUDENTS [AS A PERCENTAGE OF DEGREE-SEEKING STUDENTS]

SOURCE: U15 DATA EXCHANGE

UNDERGRADUATE TUITION FEES 2016-17

* Depending on program

QUEBEC STUDENTS $2,328REST OF CANADA $7,227.60

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS $15,942.90 - $40,802.70*

F A C T B O O K

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F A C T B O O K

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS FUND (SPF)

This year, our dining halls served more than 20,000 KILOS OF PRODUCE, 3,400 KILOS OF BEEF and 180,000 EGGS from Macdonald Campus Farm.

545 ACRES of Macdonald Campus Farm land is growing food for McGill.

McGill has actively been investing in energy management projects since 2002.

To date, it has REDUCED its greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 34% and

INVESTED more than $19.1 MILLION in energy-saving projects.

As part of McGill’s asset lifecycle management, the University REDEPLOYED

over $20,000 worth of IT EQUIPMENT for reuse across departments.

Procurement Services’ initiative to incorporate specifi c sustainability criteria

in various calls for tender has impacted over $30 MILLION worth

of CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS. This eff ort continues to grow over time.

Since its creation in 2010, the SPF has allocated over $5 MILLION in

seed funding to 155 SUSTAINABILITY-RELATED PROJECTS.

More than 2,000 VOLUNTEERS have been mobilized for sustainability projects on McGill’s campuses.

Approximately 310 sustainability-related student JOBS have been created.

Approximately 86% OF PROJECTS have involved COLLABORATION between students and staff .

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 2015-2016

FINANCE + ADMINISTRATION

GRANTS - QUEBEC GOVERNMENT$443.6 M �36.59%�

GRANTS � U.S. GOVERNMENT

$7.3 M�0.6%�

SALES OF GOODS AND SERVICES

$140.2 M �11.56%�

CONTRACTS$21.1 M �1.74%�

FOREIGN EXCHANGEGAIN

$0.8 M �0.07%�

GRANTS - CANADIANGOVERNMENT

$217.2 M �17.92%�

TUITIONAND FEES

$274.3 M �22.63%�

GIFTSAND BEQUESTS$54.2 M �4.47%�

INVESTMENT &INVESTMENT

INCOME$44.5 M �3.67%�

GRANTS -OTHER SOURCES$9.1 M �0.75%�

TOTAL: $1.21 BILLION

TOTAL COMBINED SOURCES OF REVENUE

TOTAL STUDENT ASSISTANCE FROM OPERATING FUND[BY FISCAL YEAR]

2013 $25.7 M

$26.0 M

$22.7 M

$18.5 M

$16.7 M

$13 M

$7.2 M

$4.2 M

2012

2011

2009

2010

2008

2007

2014

F A C T B O O K

$27.0 M2015

2016 $29.6 M

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ALUMNI + DONORS

PHILANTHROPY BY THE NUMBERS

F A C T B O O K

OUR ALUMNIMcGill has more than 250,000 ALUMNI living in more than 180 COUNTRIES.

34,400 Donors who gave to McGill

$113 M Generated from gifts by McGill donors

$3 M+ Came from gifts of $500 or less

~2000 Donors who have given to McGill for at least 20 consecutive years

*ALL FIGURES FROM FY16

OTHERINTERNATIONAL

8%

REST OF CANADA

29%

USA13%

QUEBEC50%

More than 3,000 ALUMNI around the world actively volunteered for McGill last year.

Last year, McGill Alumni Association events attracted MORE THAN 14,000 ALUMNI.

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M O S T S U C C E S S F U L O N E - D A Y F U N D R A I S E RMcGill’s fi rst-ever Day of Giving, MCGILL24, took place on March 16, 2016.

The campaign raised OVER $793,000 for causes across McGill,

making it the most successful one-day fundraiser of its kind in Canadian university history.

Of the almost 1,600 DONORS around the world who supported the campaign,

ONE-THIRD had never given to McGill before.

N E W N E T W O R K I N G P L A T F O R MIn August 2016, McGill launched MCGILLCONNECT: a career and

mentoring platform designed to make it easier for alumni, students, faculty and staff

to connect with each other and make the most of McGill’s professional networks

around the world. More than 4,800 MCGILLIANS have joined

the community since its launch.

H O M E C O M I N G W E E K E N DHomecoming 2016 took place from October 27-30, 2016.

More than 2,500 ALUMNI attended 70 EVENTS downtown and at Mac campus,

including 342 GRADUATES celebrating their 50TH CLASS REUNION.

Alumni returned to campus from countries including France, China and Barbados:

in total, almost ONE IN SIX Homecoming attendees came

from outside of Canada.

T R A N S F O R M A T I V E G I F T T O O P E N S C I E N C EOn December 21, 2016, the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)

welcomed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, BA’94, to help celebrate a landmark $20-MILLION GIFT from the LARRY AND JUDY TANENBAUM FAMILY

to launch the TANENBAUM OPEN SCIENCE INSTITUTE. The MNI will be forgoing

patents for its discoveries and putting eff orts in place to make its

research fi ndings – and all the data associated with that research – widely available.

This establishes the MNI as the FIRST MAJOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to

the philosophy and practice of open science.

ALUMNI + DONORSF A C T B O O K

2016 HIGHLIGHTS

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RANKINGS

NO. 42IN THE WORLD

�TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD RANKINGS 2016�

NO. 30IN THE WORLD

The only Canadian university to be in the top 30 for 13 years running �QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016�

NO. 63IN THE WORLD

�SHANGHAI ACADEMIC RANKING OF WORLD UNIVERSITIES 2016�

NO. 1in Canada among

MEDICAL-DOCTORAL UNIVERSITIESfor 12 consecutive years

�MACLEAN’S UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016�

in

% OF A UNIVERSITY’S BUDGET SPENT ON SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES

for the 7th year in a row�MACLEAN’S UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016�

in

% OF A UNIVERSITY’S BUDGET SPENT ON LIBRARY SERVICESfor the 4th year in a row

�MACLEAN’S UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016�

in

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES GRANTS PER FACULTY

for the 5th year in a row�MACLEAN’S UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016�

No. 1 or No. 2 for

“RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR” for the past 14 years among

Canada’s Top 50 research universities �RE$EARCH INFOSOURCE 2016�

F A C T B O O K

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LEADERSHIP 2016SENIOR ADMINISTRATIONPrincipal and Vice-ChancellorSuzanne Fortier

ProvostChristopher Manfredi

Secretary-GeneralStephen Strople (to June 30, 2016)

Edyta Rogowska

Vice-Principal (Administration and Finance)Michael Di Grappa (to June 13, 2016)

Morty Yalovsky (interim)

Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation)Rose Goldstein

Vice-Principal (Health Aff airs)David H. Eidelman

Vice-Principal (Communications and External Relations)Olivier Marcil (to September 30, 2016)

Marc L. Weinstein (interim)

Vice-Principal (University Advancement) Marc L. Weinstein

Deputy Provost, Student Life and Learning Ollivier Dyens

General Counsel and Director of Legal ServicesLine Thibault

Chief of Staff , Offi ce of the Principal and Vice-ChancellorSusan Aberman

DEANSAgricultural & Environmental Sciences

Anja Geitmann

ArtsHudson Meadwell (interim to June 30, 2016)

Antonia Maioni

Continuing StudiesJudith Potter

DentistryPaul Allison

EducationDilson Rassier

EngineeringJim Nicell

Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesJosephine Nalbantoglu

LawDaniel Jutras (to June 30, 2016)

Robert Leckey

LibrariesColleen Cook

Desautels Faculty of ManagementIsabelle Bajeux-Besnainou

MedicineDavid H. Eidelman

Schulich School of MusicSean A. Ferguson (to June 30, 2016)

Julie Cumming (interim)

ScienceR. Bruce Lennox

StudentsAndre Costopoulos (to June 30, 2016)

Glenn Zabowski (interim to July 31, 2016)

Chris Buddle

BOARD OF GOVERNORS ChancellorMichael A. Meighen

Principal and Vice-ChancellorSuzanne Fortier

Members-at-LargeMaryse Bertrand (as of May 1, 2016)Nathalie BourqueMichael BoychukGerald Butts (to March 3, 2016)Stuart (Kip) Cobbett, ChairPeter CoughlinKathy FazelClaude Généreux, Vice-Chair Stephen HalperinSamuel MinzbergRam PandaMartine TurcotteThierry Vandal

Alumni Association RepresentativesBryan HaynesTina HobdayCynthia Price Verreault

Academic Staff RepresentativesDerek Nystrom Alvin Shrier

Administrative and Support Staff RepresentativesVictor Chisholm (as of Feb. 8, 2016)Ronald Critchley

Senate RepresentativesDavid Noble HarppEdith Zorychta

Student Representatives To May 31, 2016 Kareem Ibrahim (Students’ Society of McGill University)Danielle Toccalino (Post-Graduate Students’ Society)

As of June 1, 2016Ben Ger (Students’ Society of McGill University)Victor Frankel (Post-Graduate Students’ Society)

Student Observers McGill Association of Continuing Education StudentsNely Gaulea (to Jan. 19, 2016)Sean Murphy (as of Jan. 20, 2016)

Macdonald Campus Student SocietyJade Corriveau (as of June 1, 2016)Josefi na Zalba (to May 31, 2016)

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SENATE 2016EX OFFICIOThe Chancellor The Chair and three members of the Board of Governors The Principal and Vice-ChancellorThe Vice-PrincipalsThe ProvostThe Deputy ProvostThe DeansThe Secretary-General

ELECTED ACADEMIC MEMBERSFaculty of Agricultural and Environmental SciencesJacqueline Bede Marie-Josée Dumont Ashraf Ismail

Faculty of ArtsJoan BartlettJim Engle-Warnick John Galaty Amanda HolmesLucyna Lach Gillian Lane-Mercier Derek Nystrom Philip Oxhorn Trevor Ponech Fiona Ritchie

School of Continuing Studies Guy Mineau

Faculty of Dentistry Mari Kaartinen

Faculty of EducationMindy Carter Caroline Riches Alenoush Saroyan

Faculty of Engineering David CovoRonald GehrReghan Hill Amine KamenDavid Lowther

Faculty of LawAngela CampbellRichard Gold

Desautels Faculty of ManagementSaibal Ray Morty Yalovsky

Faculty of MedicineDaniel Bernard Terence Coderre Gordon Crelinsten Elaine Doucette Eleanor Elstein Rebecca Fuhrer Kalle Gehring Kenneth Hastings Terence Hébert Bernard Robaire Laurie Snider Karsten SteinhauerEdith Zorychta

Schulich School of MusicLisa BargFelecia Moye

Faculty of Religious StudiesGarth Green

Faculty of ScienceMasad Damha Gregory Dudek Peter Grütter John Gyakum David Harpp Timothy Moore Alfonso MucciNigel RouletDavid Stephens

University LibrariesGenevieve Gore Marc RichardNatalie Waters

ELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT STAFFRosemary Cooke Antonia Di Paola Brett Hooton Ruth Kuzaitis Michel MartelMary Jo McCullogh

ELECTED STUDENT MEMBERSStudents’ Society of McGill UniversityDavid Benrimoh Benjamin Brunot Parvesh Chainani Allen Chen Julie Choi Kathleen Chu Kareem Ibrahim (President) Alexander Kpeglo-Hennessy Chloe Rourke Devon Sanon Marina Smailes Erin Sobat Joshua Thon

McGill Association of Continuing Education Students Darine BaderNely Gaulea

MacDonald College Students’ Association Josefi na Zalba

Post-Graduate Students’ SocietyNicolas Chatel-LaunayDoaa FaridDevin Mills Danielle Toccalino (Secretary-General)

Postdoctoral ScholarTomer Noyhouzer

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Grounded by our mission, and guided by the spirit of learning and discovery, we are exploring new ways of looking at the world.”PRINCIPAL SUZANNE FORTIER

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