Daily News

April 17, 2006

The Department of Religious Studies celebrated the 40th anniversary of its graduate program Thursday, April 6. The first graduate program of its kind in Canada, McMaster has had a tremendous influence on the academic study of religion in Canada and abroad.

April 17, 2006

The Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition and the Department of English and Cultural Studies welcomes Italian political philosopher, Antonio Negri, as 2006 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor on Tuesday, April 18.

April 13, 2006

More than 140 university and high school students crowded into a McMaster lecture hall on Tuesday to hear the crew of an underwater simulated space mission talk about the cutting-edge experiments they are conducting this week that will impact on the future of both medicine and space exploration.

April 13, 2006

Next week, McMaster University will be the subject of a daily series on radio station 900 CHML. Each segment will chronicle an aspect of McMaster that has or will have an impact on the community.

April 12, 2006

The search for McMaster's outstanding employees and teams has been successful and the nominees, recipients and their nominators have been notified. This year's nominations include individuals and teams whose contributions demonstrate excellence in areas from administration, research, student services and community outreach, just to name a few.

April 12, 2006

The McMaster Alumni Association is pleased to announce 11 alumni will be inducted into the 2006 Alumni Gallery. Join us on Alumni Weekend 2006, for the Alumni Gallery Reception and Induction Ceremony starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 3 in Convocation Hall.

April 11, 2006

The contributions of more than 130 student leaders from McMaster's 11 residences were celebrated at Residence Recognition Night on March 30. University President Peter George brought greetings on behalf of the University and thanked residence leaders for their part in building a more inclusive community.

April 11, 2006

What exactly do bioengineers do? How are biomedical devices implemented in the industry? What career opportunities exist for bioengineering students upon graduation? These were the kinds of questions answered by the special guests at the Bioengineering at McMaster Society (BEAMS) Industry Night "The Promise of Bioengineering" hosted by BEAMS VP External, Mohammed Khalaf on Thursday, March 23, 2006.

April 11, 2006

Doug Welch, professor of physics & astronomy, received some good news this week: NASA has allocated 180 orbits of the Hubble Space Telescope for Welch's latest research.

April 10, 2006

If you don't innovate, you stagnate. But how should companies innovate? Innovation guru Henry Chesbrough will share his insights at McMaster this Thursday (April 13) in a special lecture and round table discussion.

April 10, 2006

If life is too short for long division, why do so many spend far too much time trying to make sense of the math we encounter every day? Miroslav Lovric, associate professor in the department of mathematics and statistics, knows that math is often the source of fear, frustration - and yes - bad memories, that renders people incapable of understanding some of the basic mathematical problems they encounter on a daily basis.

April 7, 2006

The pandemic of "Spanish Influenza" that swept the globe in 1918 killed over 50,000 Canadians and countless more fell ill. Yet little is known about the effects of the pandemic in Hamilton. How many people died? Who were they? What did the city do to try to stop the frightening epidemic?

April 6, 2006

In a recent research project, Clean Air Hamilton, a multi-stakeholder group dedicated to improving air quality in Hamilton's community, has determined which air pollutants have the most health impacts in the city. In conjunction with the Ministry of the Environment, City of Hamilton, Environment Canada, Rotek Environmental and Green Venture, a bus-sized vehicle was equipped with instruments to find and measure pollutant sources and their relative importance.

April 6, 2006

Students can talk with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield next week as he hosts an interactive session via a live satellite feed with "aquanauts" in a NASA underwater habitat and research laboratory.

April 6, 2006

McMaster's Wiliam J. McCallion Planetarium was apparently the hot ticket in town last night. Many of those who arrived for the 8 p.m. Big Bang lecture were turned away due to a substantial-sized crowd vying for one of the 51 seats in the planetarium.

April 5, 2006

Debates around access to and affordability of post-secondary education are impassioned and inspired, but what of discussions around quality?

April 5, 2006

Spring has arrived and the term has finally come to a close. Today is the last day of classes at McMaster and students are gearing up to write exams, which begin Friday, April 7 and run until April 26. A total of 74,167 examinations will be written during this exam session. Students must present their McMaster Student Identification Card at each examination.

April 5, 2006

A growing movement to force corporations to disclose exactly how much they pay their executives is a knee jerk reaction to high profile corporate scandals a McMaster finance expert says.

April 4, 2006

Just over a week ago, on Friday, March 24, more than 350 McMaster students spent the night together at the Ivor Wynne Centre as part of the Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life to raise funds for cancer research.

April 4, 2006

Jeremy Patry was honoured on Sunday evening, as this year's recipient of the Liam Stevens Award. The award was presented at the McMaster Marauders Courtside Club year-end banquet, by Liam's parents, Angela and Dale Stevens.