Daily News

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.

March 3, 2005

McMaster students are hoping to bridge the gap between Hamilton and developing nations during today's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Day. Students with the McMaster chapter of EWB will construct a bridge in front of the John Hodgins Engineering Building. They also will showcase a treadle pump used in water-deprived areas of Ghana and Mali in front of The Barn in University Plaza, Dundas, and have a display set up in the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC).

March 3, 2005

Both the University and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3906 are pleased to announce that a new collective agreement has been reached for the bargaining unit representing teaching assistants. In a vote held Tuesday, March 1 and Wednesday, March 2, 2005, CUPE members ratified the terms of the agreement by a clear majority.

March 3, 2005

Two grants totaling $3.5-million were awarded today to McMaster University researchers: one to explore how Canada's aging population will affect the labour force and the economy; the other to find solutions to the devastating and pervasive problem of bullying.

March 2, 2005

A world leader in dynamical systems theory and mathematical biology will deliver next week's Britton Lectures. David Rand, chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, uses mathematical modeling to study evolutionary and ecological systems, to improve our understanding of the processes of biological change, and to develop new theories about the behaviour of ecological systems. Much of his work is driven by questions arising in experimental biology and in medicine, to which he applies deep mathematical theories and his own creative insights.

March 2, 2005

McMaster University and General Motors of Canada have partnered to establish two new automotive engineering centres -- the GM of Canada Centre for Engineering Design and the GM of Canada Centre for Corrosion Engineering Research. "GM Canada sees McMaster as a key educational partner as we work together to enhance automotive innovation and commercializable R&D in Canada," said Al Green, vice-president personnel and operations for General Motors of Canada.

March 2, 2005

Peter George, president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University, was named this morning recipient of the 2005 Spirit of the Community Award. The award is given to a member of the Hamilton community who best exemplifies leadership and volunteer involvement. The award is given by Hamilton Safe Communities, a not-for-profit organization committed to improving the quality of life in Hamilton.

March 2, 2005

Depressed people die prematurely, and it's not just suicide. Depression is a very common illness that frequently is recurrent and leads to significant disability. It is less recognized that people with depression are at twice the risk of dying prematurely from a host of physical illnesses such as cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease.

March 1, 2005

McMaster English professor James King will discuss his trials and tribulations in writing the biographies of Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat and Jack McClelland, a trilogy that chronicles the emergence of modernism in Canadian literature at this Thursday's McKay-Thode Lecture. Entitled "Reinventing Canadian Literature", the lecture takes place at 8 p.m. in the Ewart Angus Centre, Rm. 1A1.

February 28, 2005

They reflected, then renovated and now are rejuvenated  that is, the 250 McMaster employees who participated in the third annual "Inspiring from Within" conference. Last Thursday and Friday, employees gathered at the historic Old Mill in Ancaster to be inspired by inspirational and informative keynote speakers, session leaders and facilitators speaking on various topics.