Daily News

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.

July 25, 2000

Ottawa, July 25, 2000  Minister of Health, Allan Rock, and the president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR),Alan Bernstein, announced today the creation of 13 health research institutes that will bring together, in a virtual way, researchers that are widely separated by geography and discipline, to focus on issues that affect the health of Canadians. Research institutes will be created in the areas of: * aboriginal people's health; * circulatory and respiratory health; * cancer research; * gender and health; * genetics; * health services and policy research; * healthy aging; * human development, child and youth health; * infection and immunity; * neurosciences, mental health and addiction; * musculoskeletal health and arthritis; * nutrition, metabolism and diabetes; and, * population and public health.

July 24, 2000

Toronto, July 24--The Ontario government will provide $4 million for free tuition and location incentives to new doctors willing to practice in underserviced areas, health and long-term care minister Elizabeth Witmer announced today. "This initiative will provide financial assistance to medical students and address the needs of rural and northern communities," Witmer said. "We are working with doctors, medical students and communities to ensure that all Ontarians have access to physician services." The tuition grant and the location incentives fund combined will provide students with $10,000 for each year of undergraduate medical training.

July 20, 2000

The July 2 election in Mexico was a great advance in Mexico's quest for democracy. Right-wing candidate Vicente Fox was elected president, ending 71 years of supremacy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). From June 25 to July 8, McMaster University Associate Professor of Political Science, Nibaldo Galleguillos, lead a team of five Canadian academics from York, Guelph and McMaster universities to observe the electoral process. Professor Galleguillos has been attending elections in Mexico since 1991; an important area of his research has been in regards to democratic development in Third World countries, focusing on electoral reforms and elections.

July 20, 2000

The 2000 season promises to be another exciting campaign for Marauder Football. After finishing tied for second in the OUA last season with a 6-2 . . .

July 19, 2000

The McMaster Marauder Men's Volleyball team will have a new Head Coach for the 2000-2001 season. Dana Cook will take over as Head Coach after . . .

July 18, 2000

Negotiations between the University and the McMaster University Staff Association (MUSA) continue over the summer, albeit slowly. The parties are attempting to work out their first contract.

July 18, 2000

The McMaster University Department of Athletics and Recreation is pleased to announce the 2000 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees. The inductees are, Bernie Custis (Builder), . . .

July 14, 2000

Hamilton - Six researchers from McMaster University will receive the Premier's Research Excellence Awards (PREA), Energy, Science and Technology Minister Jim Wilson announced July 13 on behalf of Premier Mike Harris. The researchers will receive up to $600,000 from the province and up to $300,000 from the university.

July 14, 2000

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July 10, 2000

McMaster's Shad Valley Program is under way for the third year and fifty-two enthusiastic teens, including two from Scotland have begun an intensive four week program that will introduce them to university life.

July 10, 2000

Dr. Andrea Baumann has been appointed as Director of McMaster Health Sciences International effective July 1, 2000. Dr. Baumann is the Associate Dean of Health . . .

July 10, 2000

As a way of introducing local high school students to the highly successful Shad Valley Program, the University is opening its doors to 85 teenagers on Saturday.

July 7, 2000

The U.S. National Institutes of Health have awarded $1.7 million to a Canadian research team led by the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University for a three-year study that will influence services and policy for children with disabilities.

July 7, 2000

Canadian bank executive Wayne C. Fox is putting his money where his alma mater is. The vice-chairman of CIBC and 1973 MBA graduate of McMaster University is making a personal investment of $1 million for the establishment of a chair in business innovation in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.

July 7, 2000

The 2000 McMaster Students Union Charity Golf Classic attracted 104 enthusiastic duffers — the highest number of participants ever to turn out for the annual . . .

July 7, 2000

Level I acceptances to McMaster University are up significantly over last year. June 29 numbers supplied by the Ontario Universities' Application Centre show that first-year . . .

July 5, 2000

As part of the Office of the Registrar's efforts to add flexibility to the scheduling of undergraduate courses, and to address the prospect of increased . . .

July 5, 2000

Photograph (l-r):University President Peter George and work team chairs David Kidney, Gillian Howard (vice-chair), Jennifer Wesson-Howe and Lynn Hruczkowski. McMaster will be hiring an external organizational change consultant and asking individual members of the community who possess expertise in particular areas to assist with the implementation of some 21 recommendations aimed at improving and enhancing the work environment for staff. I have the time, will and desire to make things better here...to make McMaster an employer of choice, said University President Peter George at the opening of the first of two town-hall meetings held on campus last week to roll out the recommendations, made by four committees comprised of staff volunteers. George said many of recommendations will be relatively easy to implement but some will require a cultural shift and attitudinal change by many people.