Daily News

December 11, 2007

Leo Johnson could be Canada's Next Great Prime Minister. The second-year economics student is a semi-finalist in the CBC's nation-wide contest that asks young Canadians for innovative ideas on how to make their country a better place for everyone.

December 11, 2007

Teresa Cascioli, the entrepreneur who took a bankrupt Ontario brewery and made it into a stunning financial and marketing success, is donating $1 million to McMaster University to help boost the next generation of entrepreneurs. The gift was announced this morning in the atrium of the DeGroote School of Business.

December 10, 2007

More than 400 MBA students will converge on the DeGroote School of Business at the beginning of January for the 2008 MBA Games. This national student competition will draw teams from at least 16 schools from across the country.

December 10, 2007

Environmental and Occupational Health Support Services (EOHSS) is launching a new website today that will offer safety training courses online, making it easier for McMaster employees to learn how to prevent accidents and injuries in the workplace.

December 7, 2007

The year 1982 was a time when leg warmers were popular clothing accessories and the most hip hairstyle was the mullet -- for both women and men. In that year, 76 unique individuals joined the McMaster University family.

December 7, 2007

A McMaster-led research initiative to develop bioactive paper that can detect and ward off life-threatening bacteria and viruses has been selected by The New York Times Magazine for its annual "Year in Ideas" issue to be published Sunday, Dec. 9.

December 6, 2007

This notice is to advise you that a McMaster student has been diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). The City of Hamilton's public health and community services department oversees all investigations into TB infections and as a precaution has notified the public and is contacting individually any persons they believe may have had contact with the student.

December 6, 2007

The Montreal Massacre happened 18 years ago today, but for some people, the memory of Dec. 6, 1989 is as vivid as if it happened yesterday.

December 6, 2007

The McMaster Engineering Society (MES) held its annual Santa Hog campaign on Friday, Nov. 30 to raise money for Interval House of Hamilton. This year, the group managed to raise $1,542 during six hours of caroling.

December 5, 2007

Catherine Olaveson's academic journey has taken her from the glamorous world of the cosmetics industry to the jungles of Panama where she found herself waist-deep in mud.

December 5, 2007

McMaster's Department of Mathematics & Statistics held its second annual Math@Mac online mathematics competition for high school students on Thursday, Nov. 29.

December 4, 2007

It's hard to know where to begin with Ethan Vishniac, the newest addition to the Department of Physics & Astronomy: Within a few minutes, his conversation having ricocheted off a number of topics, you discover that he is also the editor of The Astrophysical Journal.

December 4, 2007

Two technology start-up projects from McMaster's Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneur- ship and Innovation are among the winners of this year's Canada's Top 10 Competition organized by the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation.

December 3, 2007

How did music originate? How do infants and young children acquire knowledge about music? How does the brain change with musical experience? And why is music found in all cultures around the world when it appears to have little to do with helping us survive? These were just some of the questions that were addressed at a workshop hosted by the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind on Saturday, Dec. 1.

December 3, 2007

December can be a stressful month for students as they prepare for exams, but there are services available to help make exam time as stress-free as possible.

November 30, 2007

Researchers using supercomputer simulations have exposed a very violent and critical relationship between interstellar gas and dark matter when galaxies are born -- one that has been largely ignored by the current model of how the universe evolved.

November 30, 2007

More than 300 high school geography students and teachers will get a unique hands-on look at cutting edge geographic information system (GIS) technology at the 9th annual GIS Day on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at McMaster University.

November 30, 2007

Several Canadian publishers have announced price reductions on their textbooks to bring Canadian prices in line with American prices. Titles Bookstore is passing these savings on to students.

November 29, 2007

McMaster University has launched a new PhD program unique in Canada to train leaders in the field of health policy. The Health Policy PhD is now accepting applications for the interdisciplinary program which will begin in September 2008.

November 28, 2007

McMaster University nursing professor John Vickers agreed to dye his hair a multitude of colours -- pink, green and blue -- as part of a fundraising effort that collected $785 on behalf of the Spread the Net campaign which sends sleeping nets to Africa to prevent malaria in children.