Daily News

October 13, 2004

McMaster University's solar car project has been recognized for technological innovation and excellence by the Yves Landry Foundation. The Foundation, founded in 1998, works to advance technological education and skills training in order to resolve the skilled labour shortages facing Canadian industries.

October 13, 2004

Canadian universities got their own report card today. The annual survey by the Globe and Mail changed its approach this year using a rating method rather than a rankings approach. McMaster scored an A in Education, and A- in Student Services, and a B+ in career preparation. "They're great results and show once again that McMaster should take a lot pride in the quality educational experience we deliver to students both inside and outside of the classroom," says president Peter George.

October 13, 2004

Sixteen McMaster students have received National In-Course Excellence Awards from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. The awards recognize and foster active citizenship, creative leadership and academic excellence in upper-year post-secondary students.

October 12, 2004

First-year students hoping to "ace" year one of university can stop by the McMaster University Student Centre Marketplace today to learn about the services that can help get them there. A new First Year Ignition Success Fair, hosted by the Centre for Student Development, First Year Experience Office, and Career Services, is showcasing McMaster's resources and services that can help students achieve academic success.

October 12, 2004

Family and friends of Bruce E. Clarke gathered Friday in front of Divinity Hall to remember and pay tribute to one of McMaster's long-serving employees. There they unveiled a plaque and a tree planted in his remembrance. Clarke, 73, passed away in March of this year.

October 12, 2004

The McMaster Marauders defeated the York Lions 35-6 Saturday. The game, which took place at York Stadium, was a battle of the nation's top two running backs -- the Marauder's Jesse Lumsden and York's Andre Durie. Lumsden held Durie to 43 yards on 11 carries as Lumsden ran wild, going for 213 yards on 23 carries, and two touchdowns.

October 12, 2004

An additional orientation session about the new job evaluation system for positions in the MUSA bargaining unit has been added. The session will take place Tuesday, Oct. 26 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Health Sciences Centre, Rm. 1A1.

October 12, 2004

Golfing on a Monday afternoon, spending the summer in the garden or traveling the world are retirement dreams that may soon be a little easier for McMaster employees with the launch of a new financial and pre-retirement planning program. A new initiative, offered by Toronto-based Financial Knowledge Inc., provides employees with customized textbooks, workshop books and a Web-based resource on planning for retirement. Developed in partnership between Working at McMaster and Retirement Support Services, it will soon be available to all McMaster employees.

October 8, 2004

Every day, engineers develop and discover innovative new technologies. But how do those technologies get from the university laboratory to the mainstream market? The McMaster University School for Engineering Practice, the first of its kind in Canada, will ensure that future engineers will have the necessary mix of skills to recognize and develop new technologies and to take those new technologies to market in a safe, efficient, and environmentally sound manner.

October 8, 2004

The Marauders will travel to Toronto tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 9) to face off against the York Lions. The 2 p.m. game will be a showdown of the top two rushing teams in the country and their two focal points, McMaster's Jesse Lumsden and York's Andre Durie.

October 8, 2004

At least $300 million in matched funding from the Ontario government will support the Canada Foundation for Innovation for research and development, announced Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty this week. "This announcement is a great relief to Ontario's university-based research community," said McMaster University President Peter George. "It will help us to build the research capacity necessary to conduct research at the frontiers of knowledge."

October 8, 2004

Three years worth of writing, recording, blog-sphere guerilla promotion culminated, and the eventual foray into the world of live music culminated Wednesday, Sept. 10 with the North American release of Last Exit, an album by The Junior Boys, a duo comprised of McMaster alumni Jeremy Greenspan and Matthew Didemus. The album, released in North America on Domino Records, had a highly successful European release through Kin Records, the one-man army label that launched both the Junior Boys career and its own through their thoroughly unique sound (Visit www.electrokin.com for the full story on the rise of the Junior Boys).

October 7, 2004

Ron Foxcroft can rhyme off the reasons why he wants to be part of McMaster's Athletics & Recreation Centre and Stadium project: his affection for McMaster, his desire to help youth, his admiration for the McMaster teams and his love of football. But really, he doesn't need a reason. "I want to, that's been the secret," he says. "This is not a chore, this is a joy."

October 6, 2004

The latest exhibition of Canadian art at the McMaster Museum of Art is the direct result of a student's outstanding art history paper. When Mira Radanovic, a fourth-year McMaster humanities student majoring in art history and English, submitted her essay, The Resurrection of Robert Harris, she expected it to be read only by her professor. Instead, it inspired an exhibition in the Museum's Togo Salmon Gallery and an eight-page brochure.

October 6, 2004

The McMaster men's basketball team will play Bradley University, an NCAA, Division I team from Peoria, Illinois on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m. at the Burridge Gymnasium on the McMaster University campus.

October 5, 2004

How does choice in public schooling affect student outcomes? What are the impacts of university based automatic scholarships on university choice? What makes for a successful transition from high school to university? How does government funding to charitable organizations affect the fundraising efforts of the organizations and the donors to these organizations? These are just some questions researchers hope to answer with the development of the new Public Economics Data Analysis Laboratory that opened recently in Kenneth Taylor Hall, Rm. 118.

October 5, 2004

Now, more than ever, McMaster commuters are on the "GO". In response to a growing increase in those using GO Transit, service to and from McMaster will increase for a second time this fall. At the beginning of September, GO Transit almost doubled service to the University, but realized it's not enough.

October 4, 2004

It started with a bronze moment and ended with a silver celebration. Elisabeth Walker, McMaster occupational therapy student in the School of Rehabilitation Science, was a double medal winner in the swimming competitions at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. Walker received bronze in the 50-meter butterfly and silver in the 4 x 100 medley relay.

October 4, 2004

Not all blowouts are works of art, but the McMaster Marauders will take what's given to them. In front of a packed house at Les Prince Field for annual homecoming celebrations, the seventh-ranked Marauders took advantage of several takeaways to earn a 54-2 victory over the Guelph Gryphons.

October 1, 2004

This Saturday, the McMaster Marauders will battle the Guelph Gryphons during the University's 67th annual Homecoming game on Les Prince Field. The game, which begins at 2 p.m., will be a contest for sole possession of second place in the OUA.