McMaster Archive

October 27, 2014

You won’t want to be late for this dinner

How much exercise do you really need? What would happen if we found alien life? And why is art so hard to understand?

October 27, 2014

Marauders honour fallen soldier before game in Ottawa

Members of the Marauders football team carried the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regimental flag onto Gee-Gees Field Saturday before their game against Ottawa.  

October 27, 2014

President Deane to speak on McMaster’s next decade

President Patrick Deane will deliver the next talk in the McMaster Seminar on Higher Education: Practice, Policy, and Public Life.  

October 24, 2014

Library Announces Winners of OpenCon Travel Scholarships

Two McMaster graduate students have each received a $1500 travel scholarship from the McMaster Library to attend an Open Access conference in Washington DC.

October 23, 2014

Life lessons from the Hero of Parliament Hill

Sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers left an impression on Melinda Munding long before he became the Hero of Parliament Hill.  

October 23, 2014

Be wary of a ‘Canadian Patriot Act’ says peace studies prof

“The shootings on Parliament Hill should prompt an open and sustained conversation about how, as a society, we should balance national security interests with the freedoms that are the bedrock of Canadian democracy."

October 23, 2014

McMaster United Way campaign kicks off with bus pull fundraiser

McMaster United Way Campaign Kicked off with bus pull fundraiser on October 1st. Staff, Student and Faculty teams competed to pull the McMaster Shuttle Bus 50 feet down the campus road.

October 23, 2014

Exercise goes straight to your head

While our cognitive abilities will decline as we age, we do have some measure of control over that decline.  

October 23, 2014

Marauders to honour Nathan Cirillo at Saturday’s game

The exact plan is still being formalized, but one key detail is certain — the McMaster Marauders football team will enter Ottawa's Gee-Gees Field on Saturday carrying the flag of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada.

October 23, 2014

Provost ‘optimistic’ about State of the Academy

McMaster faces a considerable list of challenges in the next few years, but Provost David Wilkinson says there are many opportunities for the University to flourish and remains, “incredibly optimistic about the future.”

October 23, 2014

Senior leaders, students talk future of education at LearningXChange

Senior McMaster leaders and students tackled some tough questions on the future of education recently.

October 22, 2014

Construction begins on new Fitzhenry Studios

Construction has begun on the School of the Arts' vibrant new studio space.  

October 21, 2014

Dr. Mike Evans wants to focus on ‘edutaining’ the masses

A family physician who has become a YouTube sensation through his videos that provide health advice in an engaging, easy-to-understand way, will be the keynote speaker at a public talk on Monday, Oct. 27.  

October 21, 2014

McMaster preparing for new admissions system

The campus tours are the same, the school colours haven’t changed, but the more than 40,000 people who apply to McMaster as undergraduates next fall will have a very different experience than their predecessors.

October 21, 2014

MJ’s ‘Dangerous’ deserves some credit

Musicologist Susan Fast’s new book has made an appearance in the New York Times.  

October 21, 2014

Hamilton Artists Inc. offers free membership to Studio Art students

The distance between McMaster and James Street North just got a little bit shorter.

October 20, 2014

Réjean Hébert to deliver Monday talk: ‘No home care priority without appropriate financing’

Hébert, who served as Minister of Health and Social Services in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2012 until earlier this year, will give a public talk on Monday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m., at McMaster Innovation Park.

October 20, 2014

McMaster successfully launches new HR system

This past weekend, McMaster successfully added its new human resources system to Mosaic.  

October 20, 2014

#MyDayAtMac: Share your McMaster experience with the world

On Wednesday, Oct. 22, be sure to take part in #MyDayAtMac — a call for photos from the entire McMaster community.

October 20, 2014

‘Not your mother’s book club’ launches Monday

In 2009, his book The Peep Diaries was named one of Oprah’s “25 Books You Can’t Put Down.” Now, writer Hal Niedzviecki finds himself on campus as the Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer-in-Residence.