Daily News

February 21, 2008

The snow came just in nick of time for the fifth annual Hawkrigg Cup on Feb. 2.

February 21, 2008

Last November, the McMaster Students Union Emergency First Response Team (EFRT) became the first campus response team, and one of the first emergency medical services in Canada, to begin using a new type of life-saving equipment called an impedance threshold device (ITD).

February 20, 2008

The McGuinty government is investing $150,000 to support scientific collaboration between McMaster University and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Researchers from both universities will share knowledge, ideas and resources, including McMaster's powerful Titan electron microscope -- one of the most powerful microscopes in the world.

February 20, 2008

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then Nicole Hemmer would be beauty with a purpose. The first-year kinesiology student is among 40 Canadian women competing in the Miss World Canada pageant in Toronto next month. The winner of the competition will represent Canada at the Miss World pageant in Ukraine this September.

February 19, 2008

Increasing educational awareness and reaching the financial target. Those were the two goals identified in August by McMaster's 2007/08 United Way committee. Six months later, all of the hard work paid off with the achievement of the financial target, and an enormous boost in United Way awareness throughout the McMaster community. With the original target set at $180,000, the campaign exceeded this with a grand total of $200,256.

February 19, 2008

Times change, people change, and so do McMaster departments. The McMaster department formerly known as ORCIP, the Office of Research Contracts and Intellectual Property, is changing its name to MILO, the McMaster Industry Liaison Office.

February 15, 2008

Neuroscience research brings us closer to understanding the mysteries of the human mind. In an effort to promote interest in brain research among high school students, the fifth annual McMaster Brain Bee will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 19.

February 15, 2008

While most people head south for their winter vacations, Paul Hubner kept going until he reached one of the coldest places on Earth -- the South Pole.

February 15, 2008

Canadian astronaut Dave Williams, who took part in an historical mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavor last summer, will give a public lecture at McMaster University. The lecture, which is part of a free series hosted by the Origins Institute, will take place Wednesday, Feb. 20 at the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning, Room 1305/07 at 7:30 p.m.

February 14, 2008

Maybe it was luck, maybe it was hard work, or maybe it was a combination of both, but Andrew Lambert must be doing something right to achieve a perfect GPA three years in a row.

February 14, 2008

The Networks of Centres of Excellence today awarded $14.9 million to McMaster University to establish a centre that will be a world leader in the development and commercialization of medical isotope probes.

February 14, 2008

McMaster University has identified a preferred site for its proposed campus in Burlington, selecting a highly-visible location that is both accessible and strategically located.

February 14, 2008

His company's head office may be tucked away in the rolling hills of Ontario's dairy country, but it has strung together the world. Walter Booth (P.Eng.), chairman of the Timberland Group of Companies, today announced a $2-million donation to the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, the institution that he acknowledges helped to set him on a path to global success.

February 13, 2008

Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve. A wide banner was unfurled on the brick wall of Cambridge Memorial Hospital last week to celebrate the new relationship between the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and the hospital.

February 12, 2008

Engineering students on McMaster's Junior Design Team took third place at last weekend's Ontario Engineering Competition.

February 12, 2008

Five hundred delegates at the 2007 Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (CANO) conference rose to their feet as Dr. Denise Bryant-Lukosius accepted the CANO/Pfizer Research Award of Excellence for her influential work related to Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) roles, with a particular focus in oncology.

February 12, 2008

McMaster Registrar Lou Ariano is leaving McMaster to take on a new job as Registrar at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan.

February 12, 2008

Arriving 10 minutes early for my meeting with McMaster alumna Elaine Lau, I got a sneak preview of the concert she will be performing with Joseph Ferretti in Convocation Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 12. Two pianists playing together on two pianos? It's pretty amazing.

February 12, 2008

Should we start with the good news or the bad news? The good news is that nanotechnology -- the science of the very small -- has global impact and the future of the Nanotech- nology Revolution is looking bright indeed.

February 11, 2008

Imagine sitting in class. At the front of the room, your professor is pacing back and forth, talking a mile a minute, gesticulating wildly. A jug full of water sloshes violently in his right hand.