Daily News

July 4, 2007

Is your neighbour's lawn a jungle? Is there garbage on it? Want to do something about it? The McMaster Students Union, the Off-Campus Resource Centre and the City of Hamilton are looking for McMaster students to take part in Project Watchdog.

July 4, 2007

Visiting lecturer Professor M.S. Swaminathan will present two lectures at McMaster next week. A public lecture on Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Food Security will be held on Wednesday, July 11 at the University Club at 7 p.m. and a biology seminar on Science and the UN Millennium Development Goals will be held on Thursday, July 12 at the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery (MDCL), Room 1105 at 12 noon.

July 4, 2007

McMaster University's decision earlier this spring to apply a larvicide to selected areas of campus to protect against the gypsy moth infestation that has affected much of Eastern Canada and the U.S. has been successful, said grounds manager Barbara Rabicki.

July 4, 2007

New students and parents will be visiting McMaster's campus for Summer Orientation Days from June 28 to July 12. The orientation program is a collaborative effort between Student Affairs and the Academic Program Offices and will assist students with their university transition and academic registration.

July 4, 2007

Heard the buzz about Facebook, Second Life, Flickr, blogs, wikis and other strange-sounding things? Confused about what they are and how to use them? Well, many library staff members were in the same position until they joined an exciting program to introduce them to these technologies.

July 3, 2007

Teaching the body's own immune system to seek out and destroy cancerous tumours represents a promising way to fight a disease that kills more than 70,000 Canadians a year.

July 3, 2007

The Synergy Business Camp hosted at the DeGroote School of Business had teens craving for more at its summer orientation session last week. The session featured exciting workshop leaders such as Y108, RBC Royal Bank and POWERGROUP Communications.

July 3, 2007

Helping companies find ways to shave dollars from manufacturing processes and boost productivity is the impetus behind a new university-industry initiative.

June 29, 2007

The McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) has been granted a licence renewal for seven years. The news arrived late Thursday afternoon from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

June 29, 2007

Joe Palka, a fourth-year honours physical science student, is learning the ropes of nuclear research through his position as a neutron activation technician at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor.

June 29, 2007

Providing a better quality of life for seniors through education and research is the focus of a new agreement between McMaster University and the Regional Municipality of Halton.

June 29, 2007

Some of their project titles are multi-syllabic mouthfuls that would suggest -- at first glance -- the research pursuits of post-doctoral students. But the group of keen and committed students celebrated at Monday's reception in Convocation Hall are all undergraduates and recipients of an award that pays them to pursue their research interests for 16 weeks this summer.

June 28, 2007

Pageant contestant. Dance instructor. Lifeguard. Nuclear engineer. Most people would be satisfied with any one of those pursuits. But not Aditi Garg. She's looking to add role model to that list by competing in the 17th annual Miss India-Canada pageant this Saturday, June 30 in Toronto.

June 28, 2007

The Centre for Continuing Education received national recognition earlier this month for one of its programs. The Addiction Education Program has won the 2007/08 National Award for Continuing Education Program Excellence granted by the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE).

June 28, 2007

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and McMaster University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that outlines further details for the relocation of the CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory (MTL) to Hamilton.

June 27, 2007

Robert Cooper and Elko Kleinschmidt, professors of strategic market leadership at the DeGroote School of Business, have been named the world's top innovation management scholars in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Product Innovation Management.

June 27, 2007

Canada will have its first human embryonic stem cell library based at McMaster University thanks to a multi-million-dollar commitment this morning from a Hamilton businessman.

June 26, 2007

Every year, hundreds of new professors establish their teaching and research careers at McMaster. The following interview with Michael D. Noseworthy launches a new feature for the Daily News, called Faculty Profile, a spotlight on McMaster's newest professors.

June 26, 2007

Thanks to continuing investment in technology, the Student Accounts & Cashiers Office has updated the tools available on their website to provide better, more efficient ways of serving students and departments online.

June 26, 2007

Residents in long-term care facilities who require pain management represent an extremely vulnerable population, and their pain is often overlooked unintentionally because of the challenges and barriers to obtaining accurate pain assessments.