Daily News

January 22, 2010

McMaster students in financial need will be the beneficiaries of a new bursary fund named for the University's retiring President Peter George.

January 21, 2010

Mark Tarnopolsky has become the first holder of the McMaster Children's Hospital/Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation Chair in Neuromuscular Disorders.

January 20, 2010

In December, while most of the University was preparing for exams or the holidays, representatives from McMaster were in China showcasing the University to an eager crowd of potential graduate students.

January 19, 2010

Despite growing public concern about concussions because of serious hockey injuries, researchers from McMaster have found that we may not be taking the common head injury seriously enough.

January 19, 2010

Two weeks remain in McMaster's 2009 United Way Campaign and with just a few days left, organizers are encouraging the community to help in a final push to meet its $225,000 goal.

January 18, 2010

If you're one of the millions of North Americans who made it your resolution to start shedding pounds in the New Year, you know that there are hundreds of options available promising rapid results.

January 18, 2010

As global efforts continue to help victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti, there are several ways members of the McMaster community can lend their support.

January 15, 2010

In a new course on entrepreneurship offered this semester by the DeGroote School of Business, students from across McMaster University will be exposed to the challenges and hurdles entrepreneurs face when developing a new business.

January 14, 2010

When Jodie Smith enrolled in the School of Social Work's Social Change: Social Movements and Advocacy class, she thought she had a pretty good idea of what she was getting into - but she ended up learning much more than she expected.

January 14, 2010

The University Library and Collaborations for Health, an interfaculty initiative, are jointly establishing two new, state-of-the art facilities in Mills Library to house the McMaster Health Forum and the Lyons New Media Centre.

January 13, 2010

If Nintendo stars Mario and Luigi immigrated to Canada, chances are they would keep their jobbas as plumbers, but they probably wouldn't buy a new carro to drive around in.

January 13, 2010

Results of the recent rapid transit survey show the McMaster community strongly supports a proposed light rail system for Hamilton.

January 12, 2010

Wil Waluchow explains prorogation.

January 8, 2010

The first week back brought sub-zero temperatures, a dusting of snow and an annual winter favourite: Frost Week.

January 8, 2010

The DeGroote School of Business, in partnership with the Strategic Capability Network, is challenging the leaders of tomorrow to predict what the workforce and workplace will look like in 2040.

January 7, 2010

Three McMaster alumni and a former faculty member were recently awarded Orders of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour.

January 6, 2010

Before a team of doctors at McMaster University, including Dr. Gordon Guyatt, championed evidence-based medicine, physicians often misunderstood or ignored the available evidence in their clinical decisions.

January 6, 2010

A Nobel-winning process for testing new drugs to treat diseases such as Huntington's, Parkinson's and muscular dystrophy is getting an electrical charge.

January 5, 2010

In a decade the use of prenatal ultrasounds in pregnant women increased by 55 per cent, suggesting a need to review current practices, says a McMaster University researcher.

January 4, 2010

Musicians take advantage of a previously undocumented musical illusion to change the way audiences hear their performances. Intriguingly, the performers themselves are generally unaware of what they are doing.