Daily News

June 15, 2007

Dr. Fred A. Hall's term as associate vice-president (academic) will be extended by one year, starting July 1, 2007. The extension was approved by the Board of Governors on June 14.

June 14, 2007

McMaster University's Board of Governors today approved a 2007/08 budget that is the cornerstone of a conservative financial strategy that could see the University eliminate the operating in-year deficit within three years.

June 14, 2007

An international study led by a McMaster researcher aims to determine if a manual procedure to turn breech babies in the uterus can result in fewer births by caesarean section.

June 14, 2007

McMaster's planned Burlington campus took another significant step forward today as the University's Board of Governors approved the project in principle.

June 14, 2007

Following an international search, Mo Elbestawi has been appointed McMaster University's next vice-president Research and International Affairs. His five-year appointment begins July 1, 2007.

June 13, 2007

The next time you venture into your garden armed with plants, consider who you place next to whom. It turns out that the docile garden plant isn't as passive as widely assumed, at least not with strangers. Researchers have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings.

June 13, 2007

The Division of Archives and Research Collections at Mills Memorial Library has been awarded almost $100,000 to develop a state of the art website on Peace and War in the Twentieth Century. Culture Online Programme.

June 12, 2007

A research study that may provide hope of finding an effective, alternative intervention for children with autism who do not respond to Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI), is being conducted under the leadership of McMaster University.

June 12, 2007

There will be no plenaries, PowerPoint presentations or posters at the Symposium on Student- Centred Learning in the Life and Health Sciences: Beyond the Small Class Setting on June 15 and 16 at the MDCL.

June 11, 2007

Summer is near and kids are looking for excitement while their parents are looking for somewhere safe, non-competitive and educational for their children to have fun.

June 11, 2007

Is your summer job less about a line on your resume and more about the looming tuition bill you have to pay this fall? Worried about paying off your student loans when you graduate?

June 8, 2007

Marvin Gunderman has cockroaches in his office, but he won't be calling the exterminator any time soon. The cockroaches are his pets, not pests. Gunderman, also known as the "bug man," is an insect aficionado. As technical coordinator, curator of entomology and insect taxonomist in the Department of Biology, Gunderman is as happy as a bug in a rug.

June 8, 2007

This weekend, researchers from the world over will meet at McMaster University to look at ways of improving global health through safe water.

June 8, 2007

This week's question was submitted by Daniel Wojcik, who wanted to know what the University is doing to reduce pollution and green the campus.

June 7, 2007

When it comes to career paths, Beverley Thompson did an about-face -- switching from designing, constructing and building as an engineer to the patient-centred world of bedside nursing. Today, she will be one of 321 graduates receiving their bachelor of science in nursing (BScN) degrees from McMaster University's School of Nursing during convocation ceremonies at Hamilton Place.

June 7, 2007

Almost 600 students will receive degrees from the Faculty of Engineering today in a convocation ceremony being held in the Great Hall at Hamilton Place.

June 7, 2007

The DeGroote School of Business held final presentations and closing ceremonies yesterday for the High School Business Heroes marketing competition.

June 6, 2007

Three members of McMaster's Faculty of Engineering were inducted to the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 1. Members of the Academy are nominated and elected by their peers to honorary Fellowships for their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.

June 6, 2007

One of the earliest works that Herman H. Levy donated to the McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) is a woodcut by Netherlandish artist, Hieronymous Cock. For Levy, a collector of important European art, the acquisition of a work by an artist who influenced many of the printmakers of his generation and thereafter made perfect sense.

June 5, 2007

Spring has arrived, bringing blooms and splashes of colour to McMaster's many gardens.