Daily News

November 28, 2005

At the end of October, to cap off the University's 75th anniversary celebrations, the Daily News presented 75 people, places and things that make up McMaster University. As part of the story, members of the McMaster community were asked to submit a few of their own favourite things from McMaster. The new entries include The Nina de Villiers Rose Garden, from Pam Coupland, switchboard supervisor, University Technology Services (UTS); the Les Prince family, from Steve Tournay, recreation facility assistant, Department of Athletics & Recreation; and Edwards Hall and Wallingford Hall, from first-year science student Alicia Young.

November 28, 2005

Leading 8-2 at half time, the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's water polo team survived a late McMaster attack and barely held on for their second straight Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship title. McMaster was able to dig deep following their sudden death overtime victory the evening before and make a stunning comeback that fell just short.

November 28, 2005

Ontario University Athletics (OUA) announced the 2005 all-stars on Saturday, Nov. 26 as voted by the coaches. The McMaster Marauders boasted an impressive six players on either the first or second team, further displaying the strength of the Marauder water polo program.

November 25, 2005

There was standing room only as a crowd of almost 400 people attending the inaugural event of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind on Saturday evening found out that the answer to this question, in a word, is yes. This integrated lecture and concert, the first event of its kind to bridge the science and art of music, was a success that intrigued and delighted audience members and performers alike. Lecturer Glenn Schellenberg led the audience on a journey both academic and entertaining, towards the understanding of the effect of music on intellect.

November 25, 2005

Canadians will soon have another energy alternative to help offset increasing utility bills while helping to address environmental concerns. Commercial development of a new wind turbine for residential and commercial use is underway by Cleanfield Energy Corp., working in collaboration with McMaster University and the Ontario Centres of Excellence - Centre for Earth and Environmental Technologies.

November 24, 2005

Susan F. Buck-Morss, the Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, has been named a 2005 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar, a prestigious title reserved for a select few in Canada and the United States. Buck-Morss is a noted scholar of critical theory from Cornell University.

November 24, 2005

Salim Yusuf, a professor of medicine at McMaster University, is to be inducted as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada at a ceremony in Ottawa this weekend. Election to the Royal Society is the highest honour that can be attained by scientists, scholars and artists in Canada. Those chosen as fellows are recognized for their dedication to achieving excellence, and enhancing Canada's competitiveness on a global basis.

November 24, 2005

India-Canada Society (ICS) of Hamilton, which draws a large part of its membership from the McMaster community, was awarded a 2005 YMCA Peace Medal this week for its work in promoting communal harmony, fighting racism, initiating the annual Gandhi Peace Festival and McMaster Peace Lecture. "The India-Canada Society (ICS) organization has a long history and strong connections with McMaster University," says Sourav Ray, assistant professor of marketing from McMaster's DeGroote School of Business, and general secretary of the ICS executive committee. "In any community we live during our lifetime, we all should strive to contribute to the social well-being in meaningful ways."

November 23, 2005

Author and carpenter John Terpstra graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in English literature. He now finds himself walking the halls of academia in a new role: as this year's Writer-in-Residence in McMaster's Department of English and Cultural Studies. Author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry and creative non-fiction, Terpstra's Disarmament was nominated for the Governor General's award for poetry (2004) and Falling into Place won the City of Hamilton Award for non-fiction (2003).

November 23, 2005

Catherine d'Anjou, a recent graduate from the McMaster University medical school, was named the University's first recipient of the ALTANA Pharma Family Medicine Scholarship - a fund that each year gives medical students across the province a $5,000 scholarship if they pursue family medicine as their specialty. d'Anjou and her fellow recipients from the University of Toronto, The University of Western Ontario, Queen's University and the University of Ottawa were honoured last Thursday night at a reception in Toronto at the 43rd Annual Scientific Assembly of the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP).

November 23, 2005

Gokul Bhandari, a PhD student with McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, is the first recipient of the Canadian Securities Institute Research Foundation (CSIRF) Scholarship. He has been awarded a $25,000 scholarship based on his dissertation. Bhandari's doctoral study, entitled Incorporating Cognitive Support in Investment DSS, attempts to combine recent findings from behavioural finance into information systems research.

November 22, 2005

Over the years, we have heard stories that radon gas in basements causes lung cancer, that fallout from bomb testing mutates babies, and that exploding reactors such as Chernobyl contaminate the world, destroy wildlife and kill hundreds of thousands of people. On the other side of the coin, Canada has the world's largest supply of uranium, and the CANDU reactor has a proven track record for energy efficiency, environmental cleanliness, and safety. A recent Ipsos Reid poll found that 74 per cent of Torontonians support the construction of new nuclear power plants to boost Ontario's energy supply and combat rising fuel prices.

November 22, 2005

A lecture this week will examine the implications of the Iraq war on women in the Middle East. The Women's Studies Speakers Series Program will present a lecture by Shahrzad Mojab, director and professor of the Women's and Gender Studies Institute, on "Occupation, Militarization and Resistance: The Case of a Kurdish Women's NGO in Iraq". It will be held Thursday, Nov. 24, 2:30 pm, BSB B135.

November 21, 2005

A highly multicultural population makes Canada a prime candidate to fall victim to emerging infectious diseases associated with travel, says a clinician-scientist who will be delivering two lectures at McMaster University on Nov. 24. Kevin Kain, director of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health in Toronto, will be the speaker at the annual Henry and Sylvia Wong Forum in Medicine. He will deliver a scientific lecture at noon, geared towards students, researchers, scientists and health care professionals. A second lecture at 4:30 p.m. will be open to the public.

November 21, 2005

For the third year, McMaster students are hoping to fill a bathtub with donations for victims of abuse. Until the end of November, a 'kiddy pool' covered in rubber ducky stickers will be set up in the McMaster University Student atrium, where students are taking up a collection of toiletry items for women and their children who have been exposed to any form of abuse.

November 21, 2005

McMaster University professor Gary Warner has been awarded Canada's highest honour for lifetime achievement. Governor General Michaelle Jean named Warner to the Order of Canada Friday at Rideau Hall. Warner has taught courses on French African and Caribbean literature, on French language and 17th-Century literature, as well as on peace and international development at McMaster.

November 21, 2005

Mohit Bhandari, an orthopaedic surgeon and Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Trauma at McMaster University, is leading an International Hip Fracture Research Collaborative to develop large clinical trials to improve health outcomes in patients suffering from hip fractures, at a two-day meeting beginning today. The collaborative represents more than 200 leading hip fracture surgeons from 20 countries in North America, Europe, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Bhandari is joined by key leading McMaster researchers, Gordon Guyatt, P.J. Devereaux, and Stephen Walter, in hosting this week's meeting at the Wyndam Bristol Place Toronto Airport Hotel.

November 21, 2005

If there is to be peace in our time, it is up to the educators to teach it to future generations. Of course, who will teach the educators? This is the main purpose behind the fourth annual Peace Education Conference in Canada at McMaster University, presented by the Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace and the McMaster Centre for Peace Studies this November 24 to 28, 2005. This four-day conference has been a much-needed gathering place for the last three years - for not only peace researchers, educators, and activists - but people from all backgrounds, who recognize that the responsibility to cultivate a culture of peace in society belongs to all. Participants in the past have ranged from those who live in residence at McMaster to guests flying in from places as remote and distant as Cyprus.

November 18, 2005

Yesterday, snow fell upon the bare branches of a small tree that this spring will burst into blossom, representing the peace and friendship that exists between Japan and Canada. At the east side of Hamilton Hall Thursday, the Sakura Project donated Japanese flowering cherry trees to McMaster University. The Sakura Project is an initiative of the Japanese Consulate to promote peace & friendship between Japan & Canada, by planting thousands of flowering Sakura cherry trees throughout Ontario.

November 18, 2005

An expert in creating and controlling light particles and an undergraduate student who combines a love of languages and song will both take the podium at today's Fall Convocation to accept the University's top awards. Laura Banducci is the winner of this year's Chancellor's Gold Medal by ranking 'highest in scholarship, leadership and influence.' While graduate student Ningning Feng has been named the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal winner for achieving the highest academic standing in his degree program.