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1991

Gretta Chambers, Sixteenth Chancellor (and first woman to hold that office), 1991-1999.

Carellin Brooks and megan McNeill jointly McGill's 100th Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.

Open House featured the Grow Home, which became a worlwide model for affordable housing.

1992

McCord Museum reopened after extensive renovation and extension.

1993

Department of Human Genetics established in the Faculty of Medicine.

McGill Institute for the Study of Canada established.

Seagram Sports Science Centre opened.

1994

Bernard Shapiro, Fifteenth Principal and Vice-Chancellor, 1994-

Richard Pound, Chairman, Board of Governors, 1994-1999.

1996

Statue of the founder, James McGill, erected on campus by the McGill Associates as part of the University's 175th anniversary celebrations and a first biography published. James McGill of Montreal, by S.B. Frost, McGill-Queen's Press.

Twenty First Century Fund capital campaigne closed after three years with a record $206 million total.

McGill Sports Hall of Fame inaugurated.

1997

M.H. Wong (Engineering Science) Building opened.

1998

Nahum Gelber LAw Library opened.

McGill School of Environment established.

The Gretta Chambers Chair in East Asian Art History and the Foo-hooa Se Memorial Lectureship in Chinese Classical Poetics endowed.

McGill University Health Centre created, including the Montreal General, the Royal Victoria, the Montreal Children's and the Montreal Neurological hospitals, and a new facilty proposed to be located in south-west Montreal.

1999

Richard Pound, Seventeenth Chancellor, 1999-

Robert Rabinovitch, Chairman, Board of Governors, 1999-

McGill registered 19,963 full- and part-time degree and diploma candidates, including 6,118 graduate students, interns and residents; also 8,748 students registered in Continuing Education.

22% of all students registered gave French as mother tongue.

McGill awarded 6,193 degrees, diplomas, and certificates, including 321 PhDs.

William and Mary Brown Student Services Building opened, consolidating all student services in one location, including the Student Medical and Mental Health Centre.

Responding to a provincial government enquiry with the document "Tradition and Innovation: An International University in a City of Knowledge," McGill University called for a major increase in government support for all Quebec universities, and proposed an ambitious interdisciplinary program for the new millennium.

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