Daily News

May 30, 2000

Supreme Court Justice Madame Louise Arbour and members of the Canadian Brass will receive honorary degrees at McMaster's Spring Convocation ceremonies this week. Degrees will be awarded to more than 2,700 McMaster graduands. The Convocations will be held at Hamilton Place on Summers' Lane on May 30, 31 and June 1.

May 29, 2000

Members of the McMaster community are invited to pedal, paddle or car pool to work next week as part of Canadian Environment Week. McMaster, along with several other corporate organizations and groups in the region, is participating in an area and national initiative aimed at challenging people to leave their cars at home June 5 to June 9. The Hamilton-Wentworth Commuter Challenge is part of a nation-wide competition between employers, schools, towns, cities and regions of Canada for the distinction of having the highest percentage of commuters who leave their cars at home. To register for the Canadian Commuter Challenge, click here By registering, you will receive an e-mail message each morning of the event, which will enable you to add your daily commuting data to the totals for both McMaster and Hamilton-Wentworth. For more information about the Canadian Commuter Challenge, click here

May 29, 2000

Hamilton, May 29, 2000 -- On Saturday, 27 May 2000, at approximately 12:30 p.m., Clara Fali was found in her apartment by friends. Fali was reported to have been last seen on Friday, 19 May 2000, by a colleague from McMaster University where Fali does research work in biochemistry. Fali was to attend Calgary on Friday, 26 May 2000, but was not found on her pre-arranged flight by friends who were at the airport to pick her up. The Calgary friends grew concerned and contacted common friends in Hamilton to check on Fali. This is when she was found in her apartment. Emergency staff attended the apartment to find Fali deceased. A post-mortem has been performed and investigators are awaiting further testing from the Centre of Forensic Science before a cause of death can be determined. Police are asking for assistance from any persons who may have known Fali or of persons who have knowledge of her movements in the past two weeks. Detective Ray Rikic is the lead investigator and can be contacted at 546-3827.

May 26, 2000

McMaster University will receive $12,662,008 in funding from the Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) to support a wide variety of research projects, OIT board member Sheldon Levy announced yesterday (May 25) in a special ceremony at the University. "It is a tribute to the innovative spirit of McMaster University and its researchers that such a wide variety of projects have been selected for OIT support," Levy said.

May 26, 2000

World-renowned primary care researcher Dave Davis, professor, family and community medicine, and health administration, University of Toronto, will explore the failure of clinical practice guidelines . . .

May 25, 2000

Society's imprint on the natural world has been a consistent theme in Ed Burtynsky's art. Whether mine tailings, quarries, tire piles or the most recent . . .

May 25, 2000

The President's Advisory Committee on Community Relations held its annual community meeting last night (May 24) at St. Mary's High School and President Peter George took the opportunity to discuss the proposal he will be sending forward to the University's Board of Governors with regard to the ongoing operation of the Mactron, the University's new video message centre and scoreboard. "I recognize that this has been a source of irritation to many people on and off campus," said President George. "It has also been difficult to tell people what we have been doing because we have contractual obligations that we have needed to sort through. However, we believe we now have the agreement of both parties, we have consulted the major stakeholders, and we believe we will soon be in a position to take a formal proposal to the Planning and Building Committee of the Board of Governors about the Mactron."

May 24, 2000

An extraordinarily generous gift to McGill University by one of its graduates, Canadian scientist and businessman Richard H. Tomlinson, is the largest-ever single donation to the university and probably the largest in the history of Canadian higher education. "We are dazzled not only by the size of the gift but also by its scope and imagination, which will benefit a host of University priorities," declared Principal Bernard Shapiro, in announcing the gift of more than $60 million today. Tomlinson is a professor emeritus of chemistry at McMaster. To view the full release on the McGill University Web site, click here

May 19, 2000

Employees who purchase everything from pens to lab equipment for the University will benefit from several new changes in the procedures for buying and paying for goods and services. A committee comprised of representatives from across campus spent a year reviewing the purchasing procedures on campus and came up with a number of suggestions aimed at improving and simplifying the process for buying and paying for goods, as well as empowering employees who are making purchasing decisions.

May 18, 2000

May 17, 2000-Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation in partnership with McMaster University is immediately launching an unprecedented recruitment campaign to address critical shortages of physicians across all specialty areas within the organization. HHSC is prepared to aggressively seek out the best physicians to join its top-notch health care team. National shortages of physician specialists, attrition, and uncertainty over the future of HHSC's three acute care hospital sites, have all contributed to the critical shortage of health care specialists in Hamilton. Ultimately. HHSC hopes to fill more than 85 physician vacancies.

May 18, 2000

Children who have sustained a brain injury will benefit from a donation made to McMaster's CanChild, the Centre for Childhood Disability Research. The Economical Insurance Group dedicated $25,000 to CanChild's Effective Rehabilitation for Children and Youth with Brain Injury program on May 11. "This generous donation will allow CanChild to focus specifically on researching and disseminating research on brain injuries," said Mary Law. "It is also interesting to note that this pledge came from an insurance company. It demonstrates they are dedicated to developing the best care and treatment for their clients."

May 16, 2000

A tragic car accident Friday evening (May 12) claimed the life of McMaster student Sandro Alberico. The 22-year-old had completed his third year of the . . .

May 15, 2000

Due to efforts by McMaster, along with other Ontario universities, a state-of-the-art research facility is to receive funding from the province. The provincial government has announced it will invest $9.4 million over three years in a Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron. The facility, currently under construction at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, will take four years to complete and cost a total of $173.5 million. Adam Hitchcock, senior scientific consultant with CLS and professor of chemistry at McMaster, is pleased with the provincial government's participation. "The CLS is a major investment in the science and technology field. The facility will be used by researchers in a variety of disciplines for 30 years to come," he says. Hitchcock predicts that the Canadian-owned and operated facility will have a positive impact on research in this country.

May 15, 2000

McMaster University joins business and industry in celebrating North American Health and Safety Week. In Canada, institutions such as the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering promote activities that recognize the importance of safety and health in the workplace. McMaster's Department of Risk Management Services is sponsoring technical seminars on Tuesday and Thursday and a barbecue in the Quad to recognize nearly 100 members of the McMaster community who serve on joint Health and Safety Committee. For further information, and for a calendar of activities, see the risk management Web site at http://www.mcmaster.ca/riskmanagement or call the office at ext. 24352

May 13, 2000

McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Leadership Award John Mayberry, former CEO & President, Dofasco Premier's Research Excellence Award's Mohamed Bakr, Electrical & Computer Engineering Premier's . . .

May 12, 2000

The Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University will hold its annual Spring convocation ceremony this afternoon (Friday, May 12 at 2:30 p.m.) at Hamilton Place. Joining the 250 graduands are honorary Doctor of Science degree recipients Henry G. Friesen, an internationally known medical scientist and educator, and Irene Uchida, who has gained international recognition during her distinguished career for her work in the field of genetics. Friesen will give the Convocation address.

May 12, 2000

The thoughts and ideas of Northrop Frye have been scrutinized and celebrated by scholars throughout the world. But, until now, an important element of the late Canadian literary and cultural critic's work has been overlooked. The Departments of English and the Religious Studies are hosting an international conference to explore the religious contexts of Frye's thinking on May 17-19, entitled "Frye and The Word."

May 12, 2000

An interactive Web site and database listing of housing opportunities for off-campus living is up and running, just in time to accommodate inquiries from students who plan to attend McMaster in the fall. Jennifer MacLennan, in-coming off-campus co-ordinator, explains that the site will provide students with up-to-date information and detailed listings of off campus accommodations.

May 11, 2000

[img_inline align=”left” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/connolly.jpg” caption=”Stuart Connolly/R.Scheffler photo”]May 11- 2000-Canadian cardiologists today reported the results of a major study which found that a more expensive dual-chamber type . . .

May 11, 2000

Mathematics & statistics professor, Miroslav Lovric, is a recipient of this year's OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards. Deborah Flynn, president of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, announced the recipients of the annual award on May 9. "These are the men and women who both inspire and inform their students. The recipients of the teaching awards go that extra mile to ensure that their students receive the very best in course development, instruction and research."