March 2021
- The Rathlyn Foundation donates over $3.4M to Made by McGill: the Campaign for Our Third Century.
April 2021
- Marika Roy establishes the Alain and Marika Roy Fund for Bioengineering Professors.
- The Faculty of Law receives $1M from David Binet to help create an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Fund and establish a Business Law Chair.
June 2021
- With a $1M gift, Claude Généreux and Myriam Legault strengthen the men’s varsity lacrosse program and create new awards for exceptional student-athletes.
- BMO Financial Group gives $2M to the Faculty of Science to establish a new student awards program for responsible AI research, and $2M to The Neuro in support of the Brain Tumour Research Centre.
August 2021
- The R. Howard Webster Foundation invests in innovative pedagogy with a $1.5M gift to the CoLab, a partnership between the Faculty of Education and Trafalgar School for Girls.
- An anonymous donor gives $3.5M USD to Leadership for the Ecozoic, a partnership between McGill and the University of Vermont that aims to empower graduate students to find pathways to a flourishing world.
- The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences receives a generous bequest from the estate of the late James Turnbull.
September 2021
- Continuing support established by Ian Soutar in 2007, the Soutar family provides renewed funding for career enhancement and professional development in the Faculty of Engineering and the Desautels Faculty of Management with a new $1.5M gift.
- With a $2M gift, Donald Lewtas establishes the Lewtas Experiential Learning Office in the Desautels Faculty of Management.
October 2021
- Dave Pelletier donates $1.5M to create new scholarships, fellowships and undergraduate research awards in the Faculty of Science.
- An extraordinary bequest from Ray L. Hart is expected to be the largest donation to the School of Religious Studies since its founding in 1948.
November 2021
- With donations totalling $13M, Gerald Rimer and the Rimer family support a major renovation of the Leacock Building and build the foundation for a future Institute for Indigenous Research and Knowledges.
From left to right: Neil Rimer, David Rimer, Danny Rimer, Marie-Françoise Wiegert, Gerald Rimer and Richard Rimer.
- TD Bank Group supports the development of carbon-free technologies with a $2M gift to the McGill Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy.
December 2021
- Continuing its generous support of the McGill Space Institute (MSI), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grants an additional $2.5M to help build outrigger telescopes for the CHIME project, led by MSI Director Victoria Kaspi.
- George Lengvari gives back to his two alma maters with a joint $2M gift to the varsity basketball programs at McGill and Concordia University.
From left to right: Ryan Thorne, Suzanne Fortier, George Lengvari, Rikki Bowles.
- With a $1M gift, Martine Turcotte helps make McGill more accessible to youth in care by funding new outreach and recruitment initiatives, a full-ride bursary, and experiential learning opportunities.
- A $1.5M commitment from Amelia and Lino Saputo Jr. Foundation provides funding for the new Office of Ed-TECH (Education Technology and E-Learning Collaboration for Health) and McGill’s Dementia Education Program.
February 2022
- Joanne Rémillard-Furino creates an endowed chair in biomolecular, cellular, and tissue engineering, named in honour of her late husband Salvatore Furino.
- David Laidley establishes the new Laidley Centre for Business Ethics in the Desautels Faculty of Management with a $5M gift.
David Laidley