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Robin Koning

Robin Koning

2022 Science Engagement (Falling Walls Engage)

Robin Koning is a Communications and Marketing Officer for Research and Innovation (R+I) at McGill University, a position she has held since 2018. She has a Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia, which she now applies to her role managing a variety of special projects at R+I, including the Beatty Lecture and the units involvement in McGills bicentennial in 2021-2022. She has also worked on archive-related contracts based in Canada and the USA, including for the United Nations Multimedia Unit and the human rights organization WITNESS. Prior to her MAS, she held a variety of communication roles in the Canadian documentary film and television industry.

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McGill University

Canada (Montreal)

McGill University is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from over 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country.

McGill is recognized around the world for the excellence of its teaching and research programs. Ernest Rutherford’s Nobel Prize-winning research on the nature of radioactivity was conducted at McGill, part of a long tradition of innovation on our campuses that includes the invention of the artificial blood cell and Plexiglas. Today our professors are building the new field of epigenetics, developing alternative energy sources from crop plants and driving human achievement in every field imaginable.

In addition to a stellar faculty, McGill is known for attracting the brightest students from across Canada, the United States, and around the world. McGill students have the highest average entering grades in Canada, and our commitment to fostering the very best has helped our students win more national and international awards on average than their peers at any other Canadian university. The prestigious Rhodes Scholarship has gone to a nation-leading 145 McGill students.

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McGill Beatty Lecture

Change Through Exchange:

Established in 1952, the Beatty Lecture is McGill’s most distinguished and endowed lectureship, and one of Canada’s longest running lecture series. The Beatty Lecture aims to foster the exchange of ideas by bringing the worlds leading thinkers to McGill to give a public lecture on a subject of their choice and spend one or two days engaging with McGill faculty and students. The Lecture takes place in the fall, on the Universitys downtown campus.

From the Nobel to the Pulitzer, from the Kremlin to Wimbledon, from Cambridge to Carnegie Hall, McGill has hosted a diverse range of prestigious voices under the Beatty Lecture banner. In recent years, our speakers have been conservation advocate Jane Goodall, authors Roxane Gay and Margaret Atwood, philosopher Charles Taylor, psychiatrist and bioengineer Dr. Karl Diesseroth, pianist Alfred Brendel, and social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus. The topics that lecturers have covered are equally eclectic and provocative, including the environment, human rights, urbanization, evolution, comedy, philosophy, and much more.

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