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McGill University’s Macdonald Campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue got a major boost from a former student last week when it received $5 million donation from Margaret A. Gilliam, BSc’59.

The donation to the university’s Institute for Global Food Security will “help the campus’s professors, researchers and growing contingent of graduate students in their ongoing efforts to understand the root causes of hunger and malnutrition, and develop novel solutions to eradicate food insecurity around the world,” McGill said in a statement.

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As a gesture of appreciation for Gilliam’s generous philanthropy, McGill announced it will be naming the Institute for Global Food Security at Mac in her honour.

The Institute, established in 2010, is recognized as Canada’s leading centre for research, education, and specialized initiatives related to food, agriculture, nutrition and water in a global context, McGill said.