Discovery Lecture

Established in 2002, this lecture is designed to showcase and promote excellence in science journalism. The lecture is sponsored jointly by the Faculty of Science and the School of Journalism.

The lecture is held annually in the winter semester and is free and open to the public.

• Hey! There are cockroaches in my Chocolate ice cream (2002)
  Dr.Joe Schwarcz
  McGill Office for Chemistry and Society
• Science, Non-Science and Nonsense from Aliens to Creationism (2003)
  Dr.Lawrence Krauss
  Ambrose Swassey Professor of Physics,Case Western University
• Future Fantasy: Turning dreams into reality (2004)
  Bob McDonald
  Host, CBC, Quirks and Quarks
• Cold as Ice; Canadians know a lot about Cold…or do we? (2005)
  Dr.Gordon Giesbrecht
  Professor of Thermophysiology, University of Manitoba
• And now for the weather (2006)
  David Phillips
  Senior climatologist, Environment Canada
• Can Animals think? (2007)
  Jay Ingram
  Host, Discovery Channel, Daily Planet
• The Darwin Beat: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Evolution (2008)
  Carl Zimmer
• Evolution and its Causes (2009)
  Dr. Charles Goodnight
• Darwinian Evolution: From Conception to Misconception (2009)
  Dr. Andrew M. Simons 
• Truth, an inconvenience (2012)
  Jay Ingram
• How to Build a Robot Brain: From Artificial Intelligence to Emotional Intelligence (2015)
  Dr. Angelica Lin
  View lecture video here.