Daily News

October 4, 2006

An international scientist at McMaster University has been awarded a new national scholarship worth $174,000.

October 4, 2006

Thanks to a $120,000 donation from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), two new high-tech digital classrooms are now open and ready for students and staff at the DeGroote School of Business. The classrooms were unveiled yesterday at a ceremony at DeGroote.

October 4, 2006

For 40 years, there has been a steady stream of Tibetans fleeing their homeland, seeking asylum in India and Nepal. But the road is not easy and a new study to be published in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health has found high rates of physical and mental hardship among Tibetan refugees crossing the Himalayan range from China to Nepal.

October 3, 2006

Senior executives and researchers from the major automakers and associated industries will meet at McMaster University on Thursday, Oct. 5 to work toward making parts more durable, and cars more fuel-efficient and kinder to the environment.

October 3, 2006

Can't walk and chew gum at the same time? Chances are you've got a problem with multi-tasking, and that problem will likely get worse as you get older.

October 3, 2006

Thanks to the many blood-safety interventions introduced since 1984, the overall risk for most transfusion-transmitted infections has become exceedingly small.

October 2, 2006

Every year, unsafe water, coupled with a lack of basic sanitation, kills at least 1.6 million children under the age of five years. That's more than eight times the number of all people who died in the 2004 Asian tsunami, and it's happening every year. The health of human societies is very closely linked to the provision of safe drinking water and sanitation. In many developing countries, a large fraction of the disease burden is directly linked to water-borne pathogens and contaminants. So, if we can protect our ecosystems that supply water, we all should enjoy better health, right? Well that's the topic of a lecture and discussion being held on Wednesday, October 4 in the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. It's the first United Nations University - International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and McMaster University joint workshop focusing on water and it's free and open to the public. Titled How Ecosystems Impact Human Health,/b> - keynote speaker, Professor Ulisses Confalonieri, from the National School of Public Health in Brazil and former vice-president (Latin America) International Society of Doctors for the Environment, will look at the major consequences of ecosystem degradation to human health. Workshop co-organizer and recently appointed director of UNU-INWEH, Dr. Zafar Adeel, says the UNU has an extensive network of institutions and individuals in developing countries. "We're strategically increasing our emphasis on improving health in developing countries through safer and more reliable water provision and there are obvious opportunities to collaborate with McMaster, particularly through its Collaborations for Health initiative." Allison Sekuler, associate vice-president of research, couldn't agree more. "This is the kind of partnership we need to encourage. McMaster contributes significantly to the research in this area and when you couple that with the UNU's expertise and their access to the global research community, the result is a group with unique global strength. It's a great forum to bring people with an interest in water together to discuss the realities of the situation." Confalonieri's keynote address will be followed by an overview of McMaster's Collaborations for Health initiative and then a panel discussion. The panel is comprised of Hans van Ginkel, rector of the UNU; Ulisses Confalonieri; Susan Elliott, dean of social sciences; Mark Sproule-Jones, professor of political science; Zafar Adeel; and moderated by Allison Sekuler.

October 2, 2006

This summer, I had the amazing opportunity to volunteer in Arequipa, Peru for three months with AIESEC, the world's largest student-run organization.

October 2, 2006

Revenez Lundi (Come Back on Monday), a play created through a creative collaboration between McMaster School of the Arts researcher Dr. Catherine Graham, the Theatre Parminou (Quebec) and the Compagnie de Campus (Belgium) opened the Festival International du Theatre Action in Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

September 29, 2006

The Lyons Instructional Media Centre is now open after a three-phase renovation project that created a new home for the centre's audiovisual collection.

September 29, 2006

McMaster's MacVIP team has successfully paid 2,700 graduate students using the new payroll system. This is the second of three conversions to be integrated into the new system. More than 3,000 employees are now being paid using MacVIP.

September 29, 2006

MacAbroad is helping an increasing number of students to "Go Further," as their new logo suggests. As a new division of McMaster's International Students Services, MacAbroad is responding to growing student interest in international opportunities that range from studying, working, or teaching abroad, to volunteering, interning, and service learning programs.

September 29, 2006

More than 200 representatives from McMaster will attend the 2006 Ontario Universities' Fair from Friday, Sept. 29 to Sunday, Oct. 1 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

September 29, 2006

By now you should have received the fall edition of the Times either at home or here on campus. Some of the changes are obvious: it's slightly taller with better paper and the cover features a bold, fresh look.

September 29, 2006

Things may seem a little more peaceable at McMaster this week, thanks to the efforts of two dynamic Humanities undergrads.

September 29, 2006

Two McMaster engineering students have recently unpacked their bags after completing a four-month volunteer term in Zambia and Ghana.

September 28, 2006

Member of Provincial Parliament Ted McMeekin visited the McMaster Innovation Park last week to formally announce the McGuinty government's $10 million investment in the McMaster Innovation Park (MIP) and nearly $4 million more for technology transfer initiatives.

September 28, 2006

To kick off McMaster's 2006 United Way campaign, the President's Office will be hosting the 5K Run and 3K Walk on Oct. 20 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

September 28, 2006

More than 20 artists and speakers from several countries will take part in the 12th International Great Romantics Festival from Thursday, Oct. 5 to Saturday, Oct. 7. Presented by the City of Hamilton, McMaster University's School of the Arts and the American Liszt Society, the event will celebrate the Golden Age of Music.

September 27, 2006

The Art of War, Sun Tzu's famous military treatise, has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics. While The Art of War is often applied to business, Thomas Zepf, a second-year commerce student at the DeGroote School of Business, took the application in another direction and wrote a book titled The Art of Work.