Daily News

March 11, 2005

More family physicians will be trained at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. The Hon. Marie Bountrogianni, Ontario's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Minister of Youth and Children's Services, today announced the addition of 22 new first year family medicine residency positions by 2006. Previously, the school had 41 new family medicine residents join the two-year program. The increase is part of an initiative of the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care to increase the supply of family physicians in Ontario, and improve health care.

March 11, 2005

Foreign species, such as zebra mussels and carp, are invading the Great Lakes and changing the ecology of this vital ecosystem. A study from McMaster University published in the March issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research suggests that for the round goby, a recently introduced fish species, their ability to wrest territory from native fish plays a key role in their dominance of the Great Lakes.

March 10, 2005

Robert Hamilton, a multimedia professor at McMaster, was awarded a $20,000 research grant for new media and audio artists from the Canada Grants Council. The funding supports his project, "Moving Pictures", an interactive display of still images. It was one of three to receive funding in this category.

March 10, 2005

It's decision time for the Ontario government and a critical time for MPPs to hear from you that strong and vital universities are the foundation of Ontario's future. "The Bob Rae Report on Postsecondary Education established the clear need for new resources for higher education and laid out an action plan that will help to ensure that Ontario universities and colleges can deliver the programs needed to train tomorrow's leaders and entrepreneurs," says President Peter George. "But the report isn't enough. It is essential that the provincial budget expected within the next month increases funding to universities. It is vital that the government support increased accessibility and quality."

March 9, 2005

McMaster's Engineers Without Borders is hosting a lecture series about appropriate technology for sustainable development and minimizing consumption habits.

March 9, 2005

Bridges Vegetarian Cafi celebrated its existence as one of Canada's only all-vegetarian campus eateries, at a grand opening celebration Tuesday. The event, which was by invitation-only, featured entertainment from Pangaea, samples of food from the cafi, performances from a jazz band, an exhibition of student art, and a word from President Peter George and McMaster students Aaron Orkin and Jaime Baxter, who came up with the idea for the cafi.

March 9, 2005

It has been more than two months since a devastating tsunami hit South East Asia. But McMaster's relief efforts have not dwindled with time. In fact, momentum for relief efforts by students, faculty and staff continue as strong as the day they learned of the tragedy. This Saturday, McMaster will host an all-day symposium entitled "In the Aftermath of the Tsunami, What are the Challenges We Face?" The event will feature speakers on McMaster's relief efforts and will discuss ways to sustain these efforts.

March 8, 2005

Ever wondered what would happen if two stars collided? McMaster's own Alison Sills can give you the answers at her Science in the City presentation When Stars Collide, tonight in Rm. 1105 in the Michael DeGroote Center for Learning.

March 8, 2005

Students interested in learning more about biomedical engineering are invited to participate in a live webcast today at 7 p.m. During the event, faculty members will introduce McMaster's new graduate program in biomedical engineering. It is a unique program that resides equally within the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Health Sciences, and offers degrees at Master's and PhD levels.

March 8, 2005

McMaster students Georgina Krilis, kinesiology, and Kara O'Brien, arts & science, will facilitate and provide first-hand resources on adult youth involvement in non-profit boards of directors at Volunteer Hamilton's Board to Board Cafi on Thursday, March 10.

March 8, 2005

McMaster University, the DeGroote School of Business and the DeGroote Commerce Society will host Roundtable 2005 from March 10-12 at the McMaster Student Centre. Roundtable is an annual three-day convention that brings together current and future business leaders from across Canada. It is a venue for university students and members of the corporate community to meet, exchange ideas and discuss leading edge issues in business.

March 7, 2005

McMaster's School of the Arts will host international artist Artur Tajber, from Cracow, Poland from March 7-11. Tajber will present a public lecture at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 in the McMaster Museum of Art. He also will create a special performance and video presentation at Transit Gallery on Locke Street in Hamilton. The performance is scheduled for Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m. These events are free and open to the public.

March 7, 2005

Heather Crowe, a moving anti-smoking speaker, will be the featured keynote speaker on Monday, March 7 at McMaster University, coinciding with a special smoke-free day on campus. After waitressing for 40 years, Crowe, a non-smoker, was awarded workers' compensation following her diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer relating to exposure to second-hand smoke at her workplace.

March 7, 2005

McMaster's Jan Sargeant is the only Canadian lead investigator to join a network of more than 50 food safety experts from 18 colleges and universities who will investigate several of the most prevalent food-related illness pathogens. The network will be looking at pathogens including E. coli, Salmonella and Campylobactor to determine where they are found in the environment, how they are sustained, and how they infect herds.

March 7, 2005

The conference "Over the Waves: Music In/And Broadcasting" drew together scholars from Canada, the U.S. South America, and Europe this past weekend at McMaster's Downtown Centre to share their research on music and radio, television, film and the internet.

March 4, 2005

Specialists from various broadcast media will gather at McMaster's Downtown Centre this weekend to examine the political, bureaucratic, corporate and commercial structures that inform and regulate the nature of music in broadcasting. Participants will examine the ways in which music broadcasting expresses and creates "imagined communities" based on class, region, gender, etc.; the manner in which listeners in "body and spirit" experience music on the radio, in television and on the internet; how the dispersal of musical sound through broadcast media shapes notions of space; and the phenomenality of music in broadcasting.

March 4, 2005

Grade 8 students across the city have been working hard and preparing to write the Gauss mathematics competition, which will be held later this spring. For several months McMaster University students have been volunteering as tutors at 10 local public schools during after school sessions, helping prepare the students for the competition.

March 4, 2005

One of Canada's oldest campus radio stations -- McMaster's CFMU -- will raise its voice this weekend for its annual fundraising campaign. With a goal to raise $21,000, the on-air appeal, called "Raise Your Voice" will run March 5-11. The fundraiser will continue throughout the spring.

March 4, 2005

McMaster has strengthened a student exchange program with one of Latin America's leading post-secondary institutions. Dean of business Paul Bates, dean of engineering Mo Elbestawi and associate vice-president, International Affairs, Luke Chan recently visited Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey Mixico, to renew and expand an international student exchange agreement.

March 4, 2005

Students at McMaster University will launch a $75,000 fundraising campaign today (Friday) to send the school's solar car team to compete in their first ever North American Solar Challenge this July 17 to 27. This year's race is a special edition of the biannual American Solar Car Challenge that will see competitors race on a highway route that starts in Austin, Texas, crosses the Canadian border into Manitoba and finishes in Calgary, Alberta. Cars will reach speeds of over 100 km/h while using the equivalent electrical output of a toaster.