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August 21, 2000

It will be a full house at McMaster this fall. McMaster's 11 residences will be filled to capacity, the result of a successful recruitment strategy introduced this year. First-year students with averages of 75 and over were guaranteed a place in residence in admission offers from McMaster. "All incoming Level I students who met the residence application deadline and criteria have been accommodated. But we do have a waiting list of about 200 and we are advising these people to find other accommodation," says Mary Keyes, associate vice-president of student affairs.

August 21, 2000

Runners carrying water from Canada's Pacific and Arctic Oceans are jogging through the University campus today. The runners are part of Relay 2000 – a . . .

August 18, 2000

McMaster will receive approximately $600,000 for its Ontario Work Study Program (OWSP) this year, almost double the 1999-2000 amount. Liza Jamani, financial award administrator, Office of Student Financial Aid & Scholarships, notes that the increase "puts the University in a better position to increase the size of the envelope in addressing the post-secondary education costs for full-time students." More students will be able to access the funding as a result, she says.

August 17, 2000

Students will be visiting homes in the Ancaster, Dundas and Aldershot areas to raise awareness of the lack of funding for post-secondary students in Ontario. . . .

August 17, 2000

Web designers for CIS have been busy this summer creating a new McMaster home page. As in other years, members of the University community are being invited to view the sample home pages and to vote for the one they like best. "There are three designs to select from and viewers who cast votes for the page they like best will have an opportunity to enter a draw to win a prize. We welcome and appreciate feedback," says Muriel McKay, analyst, LAN support group, CIS. The last day to cast your vote for the page you like best is Aug. 22. To view the three choices, visit http://www.mcmaster.ca/homepage00/macvote.htm

August 17, 2000

McMaster scientists thrilled by $10m, see story in today's Aug. 17 Hamilton Spectator.

August 15, 2000

HAMILTON (August 15, 2000)  On behalf of Health Minister Allan Rock, Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced today a Government of Canada investment of nearly $10 million to fund health research at McMaster University, through the CIHR. In making her announcement, Copps congratulated Hamilton area researchers and acknowledged the federal government's ongoing investment in health. The contribution of Hamilton's researchers in increasing our health science knowledge is a resource we must cultivate and maintain, she stated. Through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Hamilton researchers will continue to provide Canada's health care system with a sound scientific foundation. Today's announcement is part of the $194 million announced by Minister Rock and CIHR President Alan Bernstein earlier today in Alberta for national health research initiatives. The grants and awards will be allotted over five years and will provide a direct benefit to 647 health researchers across Canada.

August 15, 2000

An endorsement from the University Budget Committee means McMaster will offer its Honour Awards for a second year next fall. The news is being greeted enthusiastically by members of McMaster's Enrolment Management Team and the Faculty deans. "Acceptances of McMaster offers of admission by Ontario high school graduates have increased tremendously this year. We believe the two key reasons for this success are the new Honour Awards and the guaranteed residence for Level I students," says Fred Hall, associate vice-president academic and chair of the Enrolment Management Team.

August 14, 2000

For the second time in its seven-year history the McMaster University baseball team will play at Toronto's SkyDome. McMaster is one of six teams invited to play in this year's Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association First Pitch Classic tournament at the SkyDome on Friday, Sept. 8. The Marauders, the defending Ontario West Division Champion, are scheduled to play defending Ontario East Champion Durham College at 8 am. McMaster played in the inaugural First Pitch Classic against the University of Toronto in the fall of 1996. Two additional CIBA exhibition games and the Toronto Blue Jays game vs. the Detroit Tigers will follow McMaster's game. McMaster opens its regular season at Western on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. The Marauder baseball team will open at home on Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. versus archrival and defending national champion Brock.

August 14, 2000

Since the beginning of 1999, the School of Business has hired five professors, but acting dean Willi Wiesner tells National Post reporter Sean Silcoff in Saturday's paper "that doesn't even begin to make a dent in the number we need." Weisner says the school needs at least 15 more professors "just to make people feel we're sort of on top of things." Enrolment at the school has grown by about 25 per cent in the past 10 years and is expected to grow that much in the next two, but the school is finding it difficult to attract and keep professors, who can expect to earn more at U.S. business schools. (National Post, Aug. 12, 2000)

August 14, 2000

First-year McMaster students who enroll in a Student Send-Off event in their local community get a head start on their university experience. The Send-Offs, to . . .

August 11, 2000

Hundreds of first-year students and their parents are visiting McMaster today to learn more about University life and what McMaster has to offer. Campus walkabouts, library and museum tours, and information sessions on everything from financing a university education to preparing for professional schools to succeeding at university are among the many planned activities. Students will also have an opportunity to learn more about campus clubs and student activities. Photo: A McMaster student speaks to visiting parents.

August 10, 2000

Pining for a cool, shady oasis during the palmy days of midsummer? Wouldn't you know it, the McMaster Museum of Art has the perfect solution: an indoor, air-conditioned exhibition that celebrates artists' conceptions of the tree. Called "Arboretum," the exhibition makes use of artworks from the permanent collection, one photograph and one sculpture, as well as several paintings and prints in a whole forest of styles.

August 10, 2000

A decline in full-time faculty during the nineties prompted an increase in part-time faculty teaching at McMaster, but University provost and vice-president academic Harvey Weingarten says that trend is now being reversed. "The goal now is to teach students with full-time faculty members. It's turning around," Weingarten is quoted in today's Hamilton Spectator. The story, by Jon Wells, focuses on a Statistics Canada report released on Aug. 6 which highlights a 9.7 per cent national drop in full-time university professors from the 1992-93 to 1998-99 academic years. In Ontario, the drop was 11.7 per cent. Weingarten says Ontario's declining numbers reflect cuts to universities. "After 1995, following government cuts, our full-time faculty declined 10 per cent in two years." The student-to-teacher ratio in Ontario is 21.1, the highest in the country.

August 4, 2000

The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet has published a study which raises concerns about the injection of new clot buster drugs in heart attack patients. The study by Shamir Mehta, assistant professor of medicine and director of the coronary care unit at the McMaster University Medical Centre, found a 25 per cent excess in bleeding into the brain in patients administered these drugs by bolus injection. Intracranial hemorrhage is rare but fatal or severely disabling in the majority of cases. For the full story, click here

August 2, 2000

Veronika Czerneda, administrative co-ordinator, materials science and engineering, died July 31 at the Henderson Hospital. She was 51. Funeral service to be held at 11 . . .

August 1, 2000

Two McMaster students will be studying for a year in Jerusalem, thanks to a new travel bursary established under the McMaster Student Opportunity Fund. Rachel Gold, a third year student in psychology, plans to take the Ulpan (intensive course in Hebrew), followed by Israel studies and general studies at the Rothberg International School. Graduate student David Miller, Department of Religious Studies, is going to take Hebrew for the entire year along with courses and seminars in advanced Biblical Hebrew, Second Temple literature, types of Jewish leadership in late antiquity, and Jews in Greek and Roman literature.

July 28, 2000

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/WitelHas.jpg” caption=”S. Witelson and K. Hasanee”]A McMaster medical student in his final year of studies is the first recipient of the Dr. Henry . . .

July 27, 2000

McMaster has appointed a native students health sciences co-ordinator in its Faculty of Health Sciences to develop a partnership with the Aboriginal community and enhance opportunities for Aboriginal students. The new co-ordinator, Cornelia Wieman, will work with the Faculty and the community to liaise with Aboriginal students, help develop curriculum relevant to those students and raise the profile of Aboriginal health care issues within the Faculty. Her duties address the recommendations of a McMaster University task force on Native Students in Health Sciences Programs.

July 26, 2000

McMaster University has been awarded $17.8 million for research infrastructure from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The funding, announced today, will support six research projects at McMaster.