McGill University
Public university in Montreal
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| 2025 | Ranked #1 medical school nationally in Canada by Maclean's for the 20th consecutive year. |
| 2024 | Pierre Boivin becomes Chancellor, starting his term in 2024. |
| 2024 | Performed at the U Sports University Cup in Toronto, Ontario, representing McGill University at the national university sports championship event. |
| 2024 | Ranked 18th worldwide on the QS World University Ranking of top medical schools. |
| 2023 | H. Deep Saini becomes the principal of McGill University, taking office in 2023 and continuing to the present. |
| 2022 | The faculty's community service programs provided $3,453,923 of free dental care to underprivileged populations through various clinics, including the Jim Lund Dental Clinic, Montreal Children's Hospital Clinic, McGill Mobile Dental Clinic, and McGill Summer Dental Clinic. |
| January 3 2022 | Renamed from Faculty of Dentistry to Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, reflecting its evolution and progress. |
| 2021 | Mahmud Jamal, a McGill BCL and LLB graduate from 1993, was appointed as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada after serving as a Judge on the Court of Appeal for Ontario. |
| 2021 | Julie Payette concluded her term as Governor General of Canada. |
| 2021 | John McCall MacBain becomes Chancellor, serving from 2021 to 2024. |
| September 2021 | Professor David Theodore became the director of the School of Architecture. |
| 2020 | Jennifer Davidson was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the care and protection of children and young people in Scotland and abroad. |
| 2020 | Kirsten Hillman begins her role as ambassador to the United States. |
| 2020 | Established a new satellite campus for McGill Medicine French stream MD, CM program in the Outaouais region, with a graduating class size of 24 and total program size of 96. |
| November 17 2020 | 'Redbirds' was announced as the new name for McGill men's varsity teams. |
| September 2020 | For medical school students entering in fall 2020, the mean undergraduate GPA was 3.87 and mean MCAT score was 32.1 (85th–88th percentile). |
| September 2020 | Faculty of Medicine changed its name to Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to reflect interprofessional growth and diversity. |
| 2019 | Nicholas Kasirer, a McGill BCL and LLB graduate from 1985, was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada after serving as a judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal. |
| 2019 | David Lametti became Minister of Justice |
| 2019 | Robby Hoffman, a McGill University alumnus, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Children's, Preschool Children's, Family Viewing |
| 2019 | Kate Biscoe, a McGill University alumna, won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
| 2019 | The Faculty was awarded the Gies Award for Outstanding Vision by the American Dental Education Association, recognizing its innovative approach to dental education and community service. |
| 2019 | Launched a strategic planning exercise to position the Faculty as a global leader among dental schools, covering the period 2021-2026. |
| 2019 | Douglas Cardinal invited as a notable lecturer for the McGill School of Architecture lecture series |
| November 2019 | McGill School of Architecture collaborated with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) to organize the CCA Interuniversity Charrette, a week-long event involving over 10 Canadian universities. |
| September 2019 | In fall 2019, the School of Architecture demonstrated a significant gender diversity, with 119 female and 44 male undergraduate students, and 54 female and 36 male graduate students enrolled. |
| April 12 2019 | McGill University officially announced that men's varsity teams would cease to be called the Redmen. |
| 2018 | Laurent Duvernay-Tardif graduates from McGill's Medical School and becomes the first medical doctor and first Quebecer to play and win the Super Bowl |
| 2018 | Matthew Rosenberg, a McGill University alumnus, won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
| 2018 | Elham Emami becomes dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, serving from 2018 to the present. |
| 2018 | Performed again at the U Sports University Cup in Fredericton, New Brunswick, continuing their participation in the national university sports championship event. |
| 2018 | Carme Pigem and Odile Decq invited as notable lecturers for the McGill School of Architecture lecture series |
| 2018 | McGill Faculty of Medicine produced a Rhodes Scholar in the 2018 cohort. |
| 2018 | McGill Redbirds win their fifth consecutive CCBA National Championship. |
| 2018 | A student union referendum was held, with 78.8% of 5,856 participating students voting in favor of changing the teams' name. |
| 2017 | Sheilah Martin, a McGill BCL and LLB graduate from 1981, was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada after serving as a judge of the Court of Appeal of Alberta. |
| 2017 | Karina Gould became Minister of Democratic Institutions |
| 2017 | Julie Payette began her term as Governor General of Canada. |
| 2017 | Performed at the U Sports University Cup in Fredericton, New Brunswick, participating in the national university sports championship event. |
| 2017 | Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe invited as notable lecturers for the McGill School of Architecture lecture series |
| 2017 | Department of Anatomy and Physiology ranked 3rd globally in QS World University Rankings, following Oxford and Cambridge Universities. |
| 2017 | The #ChangeTheName campaign was organized by the McGill Student Union Indigenous Affairs committee to challenge the team's name. |
| 2017 | McGill Redbirds win their fourth consecutive CCBA National Championship. |
| September 26 2017 | The school was renamed the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture following a C$12 million gift from architect and McGill graduate Peter Fu. |
| 2016 | David Adjaye invited as a notable lecturer for the McGill School of Architecture lecture series |
| 2016 | McGill Redbirds win their third consecutive CCBA National Championship, defeating the Montreal Carabins 3-2 on a walk-off home run by catcher Christopher Stanford at Ahuntsic Park in Montreal. |
| 2015 | John McCallum became Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada |
| 2015 | Catherine McKenna became Minister of the Environment and Climate Change |
| 2015 | Jim Carr became Minister of Natural Resources |
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