Daily News

July 26, 2007

Business student Jonathan Arsenault didn't hear the dreaded words, "You're fired," when he competed in Impact Apprentice 2007, a national business contest for post-secondary students modeled after the popular TV show hosted by Donald Trump.

July 26, 2007

Technologists looking to step up the corporate ladder and internationally trained professionals looking to gain a foothold in the Canadian workplace have a new education program to help them succeed.

July 25, 2007

More than 300 students from around the world are studying English as a Second Language (ESL) at McMaster this summer. The pre-university and university students are participating in specialized three- and four-week ESL programs offered by the Office of International Affairs.

July 24, 2007

A Hamilton study proves that sperm freezing and banking is an effective way to preserve fertility in adolescents and young adult males with cancer.

July 23, 2007

Software analyst Rick Hazell, who worked in Computing and Information Services for 38 years, passed away on July 20, 2007.

July 23, 2007

No one can deny that the effects of globalization have been profound. This is particularly true in the engineering profession, where both large and small companies routinely draw talent and resources from the entire world.

July 20, 2007

A twist on the classic Shakespearan comedy Measure for Measure kicks off the 17th Annual McMaster Summer Drama Festival tonight. Directed by Krystal Berwick and set in a North American metropolis, the play looks at the policing of poverty and its effects on society.

July 19, 2007

The sign that once hung above the entrance to McMaster's Rathskeller student pub has disappeared. The painted wood sign was last seen in March hanging on the wall above the stairs leading down to the Bridges Cafe in the Refectory.

July 19, 2007

The student grounds- keeper positions offered at McMaster every summer provide experience in both a team environment and within a large and diverse institution. Chris Foster, a fourth-year music student, and John Fleming, a third-year civil engineering student, applied for the positions for exactly these reasons.

July 19, 2007

Barry Commoner, touted by TIME magazine as the "Paul Revere of Ecology" in 1970, is the subject of a new book by Michael Egan, assistant professor in the Department of History.

July 18, 2007

More than 50 of Canada's best and brightest high school students are attending McMaster's annual Shad Valley program, a four-week enrichment program that focuses on science, engineering, technology and entrepreneurship.

July 18, 2007

When broken bones pierce the skin, the chance of infection is a doctor's number one concern. McMaster University researchers have a hunch something as simple, and cheap, as mild soap could do a better job of preventing infection than the decades-old practice of flushing dirt out of a wound with saline.

July 17, 2007

Chris Wood of the Department of Biology is one of seven professors to be honoured by the Royal Society of Canada, the organization announced recently in releasing its annual list of new fellows. It is the largest contingent of McMaster faculty to receive awards in a single year, bringing to 70 the number of faculty members who have been invited to join the Society.

July 16, 2007

When Ken Blackwell was hired as the Bertrand Russell archivist at McMaster in 1968, he was asked to investigate "a computer-based catalogue" to provide better access to Russell scholarship. Little did he know that almost 40 years later, he would be completing the digitization of more than 35 years of Russell scholarship through McMaster's Digital Commons.

July 13, 2007

In light of the proposed academic boycott of Israeli universities called for by the University and College Union in Britain, I am compelled to state that academic freedom, freedom of inquiry and freedom of research specialization and association are some of the basic tenets of post-secondary education. I join with colleagues across Canada and around the world in deploring this call for an academic boycott.

July 13, 2007

Gone are the days of making tie-dyed T-shirts at summer camp. Children attending McMaster's Venture Summer Camps are building their own MP3 players.

July 12, 2007

McMaster University and AM900 CHML have announced a three-year radio agreement that will see Hamilton's news-talk leader broadcast all McMaster home and away football games, pre- and post-game shows as well as a weekly, one-hour McMaster Athletics and Recreation Magazine show.

July 12, 2007

The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc. is investing $100,000 to develop an innovative hearing aid technology, called the Neuro- Compensator.

July 12, 2007

If all the world's a stage, then Krista Janke would be playing her dream role. The third-year theatre and film studies student isn't acting in a play; she landed a summer job as an events and marketing assistant at Career Services. But it's more than a summer job for Janke, who hopes to work in the field after she graduates.

July 11, 2007

A startling discovery on the development of human embryonic stem cells by scientists at McMaster University will change how future research in the area is done.