Daily News

December 6, 2006

The McMaster Engineering Society (MES) held its annual Santa Hog campaign on Friday, Dec. 1 to raise money for Interval House of Hamilton. Every year before exams, a group of engineering students, led by the MES Culture Chair and the Redsuits (the engineering spirit leaders), visit classes and offices, spreading pre-exam holiday cheer, singing carols and collecting donations.

December 5, 2006

The Nature of Things will air a one-hour documentary film by Judy Jackson called The Man Who Couldn't Sleep on Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. The film follows Stephen Lewis to South Africa and Lesotho on one of his last missions as UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Lewis is also McMaster's Social Sciences Scholar-in-Residence.

December 4, 2006

McMaster's business librarian, Jeannie An, has been named as one of 19 fellows of the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) Leadership and Career Development Program. An, who has been at McMaster since 2004, is one of only two Canadians awarded a 2007-08 fellowship.

December 1, 2006

A McMaster researcher and graduate student have received grants from the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada to further their research in Alzheimer's disease.

November 30, 2006

A McMaster University research project into how the body's immune system fights off a virus may be a key stepping stone towards developing generic antiviral medications to treat outbreaks of emerging diseases in the very early stages.

November 29, 2006

A McMaster associate professor who has been a role model to hundreds of medical school students and residents has received a national award recognizing excellence in family medicine education.

November 29, 2006

Students in Dr. Ann Herring's fourth-year anthropology course have spent the past term researching, writing and editing articles for a book entitled Before the San: Tuberculosis in Hamilton at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.

November 28, 2006

Their science is small. Their ideas are big. And their rewards are huge. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced yesterday that McMaster University was awarded more than $13.5 million to support three projects that will provide dozens of McMaster researchers and their research teams access to cutting-edge equipment and facilities to continue McMaster's tradition of world-class research.

November 28, 2006

McMaster's DeGroote School of Business and Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada Inc. launched a nationwide competition today that challenges savvy undergraduate business students across Canada to develop an innovative experiential marketing campaign for the new 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer and compete for the title of Canada's Next Top Ad Exec.

November 28, 2006

McMaster's Athletics and Recreation department is climbing to new heights with the opening of a new indoor climbing wall in the David Braley Athletic Centre last week.

November 27, 2006

People of any age can get the flu. Influenza is a serious, acute respiratory illness that is caused by a virus. A viral illness cannot be treated with antibiotics.

November 27, 2006

Imagine having the opportunity to do research in a Biohazard Level 3 lab to determine why women are more susceptible to HIV-1 than men. Or develop an algorithm that might one day help construct an experimental wireless optical link between Brandon Hall and the McMaster Innovation Park.

November 24, 2006

It's an age-old mystery: How does music manage to bring us to tears one minute and to a state of euphoria the next? Does the contorted expression on a rock star's face during a searing guitar solo, or on an opera singer's face during an aria indicate to the audience a deep emotional connection with the music, or is it merely theatrics?

November 24, 2006

The Henri Gaudier-Brzeska birdbath has been reinstalled in front of the McMaster Museum of Art after it was taken to a bronze foundry in Toronto to be restored in August.

November 23, 2006

Eighteen studies by researchers at McMaster University consistently show poor families and those with chronic illnesses benefit the most when they receive comprehensive health and social services rather than piecemeal help each time a crisis surfaces.

November 22, 2006

McMaster alumnus, Joe Hewitt ('77), was recently named assistant race director of the Mississauga Marathon.

November 22, 2006

McMaster's L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History, Dr. H.V. Nelles, received the 2006 Tyrrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada on Nov. 19. The medal is awarded for outstanding work in the history of Canada.

November 21, 2006

Should an influenza pandemic hit, hospitals and intensive care units could be flooded with patients requiring critical care, but not enough ventilators and antiviral medications to go around.

November 21, 2006

Canadians view compassionate, respectful palliative and end-of-life (P/EOL) care as a core value. The goal of palliative care is to provide high quality care to terminally-ill or dying persons and their families.

November 20, 2006

In 450 BC, Confucius is reputed to have said, "Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand." This proverb is an accurate reflection of Bob Henderson's approach to the practice of experiential education.