Daily News

April 8, 2009

Hidden amongst the McMaster University Library's manuscript collections there is a small, unassuming 15th century manuscript which has been identified as a version of the Liber Visionum or Book of Visions.

April 8, 2009

McMaster University has been awarded $672,021 for four research projects in the areas of multimedia, health, archaeology, and energy by the Canada Foundation for Innovation under the Leaders Opportunity Fund.

April 8, 2009

Students were given the chance to honour their favourite professors recently at the 2009 MSU Teaching Awards Night. Given on behalf of all full-time undergraduate students, the awards are designed to recognize and encourage excellence in teaching. Faculty Awards, as well as Merit and Lifetime Achievement Awards were given out at the ceremony.

April 7, 2009

McMaster students, athletes and the community will be the winner with the appointment of Jeff Giles as McMaster's new director of athletics and recreation. Giles is a graduate of Queen's University where he was a track and field athlete. He went on to become a Chartered Accountant and has had a significant career in business with many connections to athletics including seven years as the Chief Operating Officer of the Canadian Football League.

April 6, 2009

A McMaster University assistant professor who has dedicated her life to making pregnancy and childbirth safer in the developing world has been awarded a prestigious humanitarian award by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

April 6, 2009

Junior guard Aminu Bello is this year's recipient of the Liam Stevens Award. The award was presented at the McMaster Marauder Courtside Club year-end banquet by Liam Stevens' parents, Angela and Dale Stevens.

April 6, 2009

An Italian proverb says "Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter." The second annual McMaster Innovation Showcase hopes to prove that sentiment.

April 3, 2009

When McMaster University's nuclear reactor first opened, a Conservative was Prime Minister, the economy was in recession, and nuclear-based research was on the upswing.

April 3, 2009

Tammy Villeneuve of the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute has been named the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Richard Hunt Award for Outstanding Service by the Canadian Digestive Health Foundation.

April 3, 2009

As another academic year wraps-up, student leaders from across campus are being recognized for their dedication to the McMaster community. Two ceremonies, Residence Recognition Night and the 29th Annual Student Recognition Night honoured students for varying roles of leadership this academic year.

April 3, 2009

Johns Hopkins University is honouring one of McMaster's own at the school's next commencement ceremony. Ralph Pudritz, director of McMaster's Origins Institute, will be inducted into the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Society of Scholars on May 20 in Baltimore, Maryland.

April 2, 2009

The City of Burlington, Halton Region and McMaster University signed an official agreement today laying out the timelines and next steps for the University's historic expansion into Burlington. Mayor Cam Jackson, Halton Regional Chair Gary Carr and McMaster University President Peter George signed the agreement during a Mayor's luncheon series event in Burlington.

April 2, 2009

McMaster University's Female Athlete of the Year Award, first presented in 1984/85, has been renamed the Therese Quigley Female Athlete of the Year Award in honour of Therese Quigley, McMaster's director of athletics and recreation.

April 1, 2009

Residents of the Ainslie Wood and Westdale neighbourhoods are recognizing McMaster students who have had a positive influence on the community by presenting them with special certificates of achievement.

April 1, 2009

A McMaster University professor emeritus who is one of the world's leading authorities on evidence-based medicine has been awarded Canada's top prize for outstanding leadership in medicine. Dr. David Sackett, a founder of McMaster's medical school, has been named the winner of the 2009 Gairdner Wightman Award.

April 1, 2009

Approximately 250,000 Canadians are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, a condition that causes the upper chambers of the heart to quiver and leads to an increased risk of stroke and complications of circulatory system.

March 31, 2009

The Learning Technologies Resource Centre (LTRC) is launching McMaster's new Learning Management System. Dubbed ELM (E-Learn@Mac), McMaster's new environment is based on Blackboard's learning system, Vista Enterprise, and is integrated within Blackboard's Community and Content Systems.

March 30, 2009

Forty McMaster biology students presented talks based on their senior research projects at the 22nd Annual Ontario Biology Day (OBD) held at University of Windsor. This group constitutes almost half of those currently conducting senior thesis/project courses in the Department of Biology.

March 30, 2009

McMaster University is releasing a list of salaries of those employees whose 2008 income, as reflected on their T4 slips, met or exceeded $100,000. Corresponding 2008 taxable benefits are also listed. The disclosure of this material is mandated under the Ontario Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act.

March 30, 2009

Healthy individuals may be able to significantly reduce their risk of heart disease without additional side effects by taking a single capsule that combines three blood-pressure-lowering drugs, a statin and aspirin, according to a study led by McMaster University researchers at the Population Health Research Institute.