McMaster Archive

October 28, 2014

Six new projects funded through the Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative

The Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative, funded through a generous donation from Chancellor Suzanne Labarge, has awarded funding to six new projects for the coming year.

October 28, 2014

Women’s rugby team celebrates first OUA title, gets set for nationals

The McMaster women's rugby team will face a familiar foe to start the 2014 Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) women's rugby championship, which gets underway this week in Guelph.

October 28, 2014

Engineering student to play lament at Corporal Cirillo’s funeral

Computer science student Jazz Kersell will play the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' regimental lament at Tuesday's funeral for Corporal Nathan Cirillo.  

October 27, 2014

FWI Update: Focus on research excellence

A letter from President Patrick Deane to the McMaster community.

October 27, 2014

McMaster leaders, researchers join premier in China

A group of senior administrators and researchers from McMaster are among a select number of delegates joining Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne on a week-long trade mission to China.

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.