Daily News

March 27, 2009

The Ontario government has reinforced its commitment to post secondary education in its new provincial budget. The government announced $150 million in immediate and one-time support for colleges and universities.

March 27, 2009

Members of McMaster's Faculty of Social Sciences have begun a review of how best to meet the needs of an aging society, while continuing to strengthen the University's tradition as a centre of excellence in the study and research of gerontology and health and human aging.

March 27, 2009

It seems so bountiful that many take it for granted. Not Kevin Mumford. He understands that water is a precious resource that needs to be nurtured in order to sustain life and the societies we've developed around it.

March 26, 2009

McMaster professor Walter Craig, a Canada Research Chair of Mathematics Analysis and its Applications, is one of nine outstanding Canadian researchers to be awarded a Killam Research Fellowship. Awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the fellowship holds a value of $140,000 over two years and will enable Craig to devote two-years to full-time research.

March 26, 2009

As a student in the Bachelor of Health Sciences Program, Jennifer Nash learned about the importance of evidence-based medicine in health policy and clinical practice. Now as an intern at the World Health Organization, the McMaster alumna and recent chiropractic graduate is putting her knowledge into action as she assists in shaping international guidelines in evidence-based traditional medicine.

March 26, 2009

When a person becomes critically ill, their body responds by increasing blood glucose levels - part of its way of adapting to a serious illness.

March 24, 2009

First, a McMaster University study discovered beta-blockers can increase the risk of certain cardiac complications around the time of surgery. Now the study has become one of the most-cited findings in its discipline.

March 24, 2009

Faster healing, customizable tactile displays and more efficient video signage were the three start-up business ideas that most impressed judges at the inaugural McMaster Start-Up Challenge.

March 24, 2009

McMaster University researchers are about to launch Canada's first tuberculosis (TB) vaccine clinical trial with a vaccine totally designed, manufactured and tested within McMaster. "The exciting thing for McMaster is that this is translational research that has gone from the basic science where the vector has been designed here at McMaster, then manufactured here, with all the pre-clinical studies done at McMaster," said Dr. Fiona Smaill, a professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine.

March 24, 2009

McMaster's Peace and Conflict Studies Society's fifth annual Projecting Peace Film Festival is just around the corner. The festival is designed to promote dialogue and awareness on global issues that impact our society.

March 23, 2009

Like many students, Meghan Burns headed south for Reading Week. Unlike most, however, she was heading to work.

March 23, 2009

Students have the opportunity to skip a meal this week to help others for whom missing meals may not be a choice but a necessity. The McMaster chapter of Meal Exchange, a national youth-driven charity that empowers youth to create social change in their communities, kicks-off its annual Skip a Meal campaign this week.

March 23, 2009

The milestone fifth season of MARS Apprentice 2009 concluded last week with four commerce students receiving full-time paid internships at sponsor companies.

March 20, 2009

Mac Cares, a new student club focused on assisting disabled people, recently donated $7,000 to the MacWheelers, a specialized fitness and wellness program for people with spinal cord injury run by the kinesiology department. The funds received by MacWheelers will be used to purchase a Nu Step, a special piece of exercise equipment that allows people with paralysis to exercise their whole body - an important method to keep those with spinal cord injury fit and healthy.

March 20, 2009

French scholars from across the globe will congregate at McMaster for an international conference titled, Aime Cesaire: dialogues contemporains avec le monde francophone (Aime Cesaire: Contemporary Dialogues with the Francophone World). Hosted by the Department of French and the Faculty of Humanities, the conference will act as the official launch of the department's doctoral application and expand on the department's new area of concentration, Francophonie et diversite (Francophone and Diversity).

March 19, 2009

You are probably asking yourself, "Just what is an engineering musical?" The musical is part of an annual tradition that sees a group of engineering students join together to create a singing and dancing extravaganza dubbed the McMaster Engineering Musical. Complete with a full band and the students' unique interpretations of popular songs, the eleventh musical titled, Mathemadness kicks-off tonight.

March 19, 2009

Disappearing utensils and take-out containers made of sugar may sound funny, but make no mistake: using items like these help Hospitality Services keep the environment clean, and that is no laughing matter. As part of its efforts to make campus dining more sustainable, Hospitality Services has introduced a number of eco-friendly initiatives that help both the environment and the local economy. These include providing oxo-biodegradable cutlery and take-out containers made from renewable resources, as well as purchasing local and organic produce for campus meals.

March 18, 2009

Lindsey Kettel and Cory Minkhorst took second place for their collapsible bicycle trailer invention at the Canadian Engineering Competition held in Fredericton. They were also recipients of the Environmental Awareness award. The two fifth-year mechanical engineering and management students were one of eight university engineering teams competing in the innovation category. They qualified for the national event by winning their category at the Ontario Engineering Competition, which was held in February.

March 18, 2009

International bodies such as the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and the G-8 have made the improvement of global health a priority. Dr. Jong-wook Lee, former director-general of the World Health Organization, has said that "in the face of today's global challenges of poverty, inequities, disease and epidemics, there is an increasing demand for dynamic health leaders with sound technical skills."

March 17, 2009

Lily is a health sciences student stuck in the middle of a love triangle. She can't seem to choose between Rosco, an ambitious medical student, and her sweet-tempered classmate, Jim. It may sound like a typical 20-something love story, but inject some singing, dancing and a virus that renders people without a sense of rhythm and what you get is Viva La Virus, a new musical written, directed and performed by students in the Bachelor of Health Sciences (B.H.Sc.) program at McMaster University.