McMaster Archive

November 8, 2006

History and biology departments awarded $100,000 grants

History and biology students are enjoying better learning opportunities thanks to a $100,000 Departmental Learning Innovation Grant that was awarded to both departments in June. Funded by the Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation, the grants are worth $100,000 over three years.

November 7, 2006

CUPE ratification vote scheduled

CUPE Local 3906 representing McMaster's Teaching Assistants has scheduled a ratification vote on the University's Best Offer for settlement of their collective agreement.

November 7, 2006

Investment in a DeGroote MBA offers high return

McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business is in the top three when it comes to return on investment according to Canadian Business's annual MBA guide.

November 6, 2006

School of Graduate Studies hosts open house

McMaster's School of Graduate Studies is hosting two Graduate Studies Open Houses on Monday, Nov. 6 and Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the McMaster University Student Centre.

November 6, 2006

Burgeonvest Securities to donate a day’s commission to McMaster

Burgeonvest Securities Ltd. will host its 3rd annual Commission Contribution Day on Wednesday, Dec. 6 to benefit the Campaign for the Athletics & Recreation Centre and Stadium. On that day, the company and its investment advisors in the Hamilton and Burlington offices will donate to McMaster their respective commissions earned on the sale or purchase of all stock and bond transactions.

November 3, 2006

If I had a million dollars

Take five first-year MBA students, $1 million in play money, the stock market and mix. What do you get? The Financial Post's second annual MBA Portfolio Management Competition.

November 2, 2006

Pain Awareness Week examines chronic pain disease

The need to treat chronic pain as a disease in itself will be the focus of three events for health care professionals being held in Burlington next week as the second annual Pain Awareness Week is marked across the country.

November 2, 2006

McMaster hosts Grade 9 students on Take Our Kids to Work Day

McMaster hosted 100 Grade 9 students at the 12th annual Take Our Kids to Work Day on Wednesday, Nov. 1.

November 2, 2006

Job shadow program provides career exploration opportunities

This week, more than 100 students at McMaster University are participating in the 2006 Job Shadow Program. Now it its fourth year, the program provides students with the opportunity to meet with career mentors and spend a day in their workplace.

November 2, 2006

Lecture focuses on children’s health and the built environment

The "Built Environment" is a term that Public Health has increasingly borrowed from the planning and design fields.

November 1, 2006

Perry discusses importance of health care role models

The importance of exemplary role models in health care settings, especially for students and novice staff, will be the topic of the second annual Bernice King Lectureship in Clinical Nursing Education, taking place on Nov. 8 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

October 31, 2006

Students award high marks to McMaster in Globe survey

McMaster students have given the University high marks in academic reputation, quality of education, libraries, student satisfaction, and extra-curricular activities, according to The Globe and Mail's University Report Card.

October 31, 2006

Physics students win four awards at national conference

McMaster students attending the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick last week walked away with four out of the six prizes for talks and posters.

October 31, 2006

Public open houses scheduled for McMaster Burlington Campus

The City of Burlington and McMaster University will be holding a series of open houses to allow the community to provide input and ask questions about the new McMaster University Burlington Campus.

October 30, 2006

McMaster student honoured for volunteer work

Alim Nagji has been volunteering since he was eight years old. Now 19, the second-year health sciences student was recently honoured for his dedication to helping others with the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers from the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.

October 27, 2006

Open letter to McMaster’s Teaching Assistants

The University has written an open letter outlining the Settlement Proposal it has made in its negotiations with CUPE Local 3906 representing Teaching Assistants at McMaster.

October 27, 2006

There really is nothing as ‘blind as a bat’

. . . because bats are not blind. They are, however, the world's only flying mammal with more than 1000 species. Some are as tiny as a bumblebee, weighing about as much as a dime while the largest have wing spans approaching 1.8 metres (almost 6 feet).

October 27, 2006

Update on CUPE vote

Teaching Assistants, represented by CUPE Local 3906 Unit 1, voted Thursday to conduct a further ratification vote on the University's offer for a renewal collective agreement. There will be no strike at this time.

October 27, 2006

Romanza romances McMaster

Audiences are in for a treat with Romanza's beautiful classical singing. Consisting of three tenors and an accompanying instrumental trio, this ensemble specializes in well-beloved works from the operatic, choral, popular, and folk repertoire.

October 26, 2006

McMaster employees get in shape during Healthy Workplace Week

McMaster employees are healthier thanks to the efforts of the Healthy Workplace Group, which organized this week's Healthy Workplace Week events.