Higher Education

I write  education and alumni stories for McGill's Faculty of Medicine
For several years, I covered higher education for different publications, including the Globe and Mail (See below: What Would Da Vinci Do?) and University Affairs (See below: Now, it's your turn)

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A feature story in the Globe and Mail's Canadian 
University Report  2009 that looks at the benefits of a 
liberal arts degree and the students who enroll in university  
programs for the sheer love of the subject. 

A 2007 feature story in University Affairs Magazine on the often thankless task of  being a departmental chair.
A selection of some of the 200+ stories I wrote for the Times Higher Education Supplement 
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​​A feature from St. John's in Newfoundland and Labrador
​o​n the lab that discovered proof that depleted uranium was in the bodies of Gulf War vets.
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An organized action by academics  to try and  sanction Israel for its treatment of Palestinians is dealt a blow after left-wing icon Noam Chomsky repudiates their tactics.  I reported this in a 2003 Times Higher Education article.
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David Healy, a world-renowned pharmacologist is offered a job at the University of Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and then has that offer rescinded after he gave a lecture critical of the pharmaceutical industry. 


One of a series of stories on whistleblower Nancy Olivieri, a University of Toronto blood researcher whose findings were disputed by the drug company that funded and subsequently closed down her clinic
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