Daily News

August 30, 2007

GO Transit will offer Sunday evening service to McMaster along Highway 407 starting Sunday, Sept. 9. The additional service will provide commuters, especially students, with another option for getting to campus on the weekend.

August 30, 2007

Making sense of dollars and cents is what Ryan Giles does as a treasury operations assistant at McMaster's Downtown Centre. The third-year commerce student plans on pursuing a career in the financial field.

August 28, 2007

The Mills Learning Commons Project is the 2007 recipient of the McMaster Students Union's Rudy Heinzl Award of Excellence, which recognizes an outstanding one-year achievement that improves the lives of McMaster students.

August 27, 2007

Parlez-vous francais? That's what a group of McMaster students did this summer at Universite Laval in Quebec City, thanks to a program called Explore.

August 24, 2007

McMaster University Library is pleased to announce that it has awarded a visiting ASECS fellowship to Stephen D. Snobelen, director and associate professor of the History of Science and Technology Programme at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

August 24, 2007

It was a celebration of summer for McMaster employees yesterday at the annual ice cream party hosted by senior management.

August 24, 2007

From building a heart-lung machine to developing a water filtration system for a small African village, high school students who participated in McMaster's Learning Enrichment Advancement Program (LEAP) will have some interesting stories about how they spent their summer vacation.

August 23, 2007

Five McMaster professors have received a boost of recognition for excellence in teaching from the Ontario government's Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Richard Day, Deborah Cook, Marshall Beier, Miroslav Lovric and Mandeep Malik are recipients of the Leadership in Faculty Teaching (LIFT) Award.

August 22, 2007

Shawn McCann isn't your typical librarian. He recently joined McMaster University Libraries as the immersive learning (gaming) librarian, but don't think he's playing video games all day. He's responsible for using new technologies like gaming and virtual worlds to make libraries relevant to today's tech-savvy students.

August 22, 2007

Wes Davies spends his summer days welcoming visitors to campus and clearing up any confusion they might have about getting around. He also works as a flag person, directing traffic on the construction site of the new Ronald V. Joyce Stadium to keep pedestrians safe and traffic moving smoothly.

August 21, 2007

Eissa Nematollahi, a member of the Advanced Optimization Laboratory at McMaster and a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was selected as one of three finalists in the tri-annual International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT) Young Researcher competition.

August 21, 2007

They left from Canada's Steel City and traveled to the industrial heartland of one of the most resource-rich countries in the world to learn about steel, structures, culture and many other subjects.

August 20, 2007

McMaster University researchers have first insight into how Huntington's disease (HD) is triggered. The research will be published online in the British Journal, Human Molecular Genetics, on Monday, August 20.

August 20, 2007

In early June, the Division of Archives and Research Collections at Mills Memorial Library announced a new project, the development of a state-of-the-art website on Peace and War in the Twentieth Century.

August 17, 2007

The next time you have a question about your tuition fees, you might find yourself speaking with Tabassum Wyne. The third-year anthropology student has been working at Student Accounts & Cashiers for the past year and hopes the position will lead to a career in a related field.

August 16, 2007

In 2008, inspectors from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board will be on the McMaster campus to conduct a Workwell Health and Safety Audit. These inspectors will ask you and your colleagues questions about safety policy, programs and practices. Will you be ready to answer their questions?

August 16, 2007

Building homes in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana, painting a school in Mexico and working with homeless shelters in Hamilton are just some of the experiential education opportunities offered by McMaster's Service Learning Department.

August 15, 2007

Business owners know that having a strategy can increase the likelihood that their business will succeed, but developing those strategies is often both daunting and cost-prohibitive. The DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University has a solution.

August 15, 2007

Librarians and library staff recognize that many students arriving at McMaster have never used such a large library. They know that libraries can initially seem like intimidating places and may leave some feeling mystified.

August 14, 2007

An injection of more than $2.7 million will be coming to 21 McMaster University researchers. Yesterday, the Ontario government announced funding awards through the Ontario Research Fund and the Early Researcher Award programs.