Daily News

February 18, 2000

The Ontario government's new emissions trading plan for the electricity sector may be seriously flawed, suggests Andrew Muller, a professor in the Department of Economics.

February 17, 2000

Students at McMaster University who are in need of financial assistance will benefit from a new bursary fund created by TD Bank Financial Group. TD Bank Financial Group is dedicating $500,000 for the establishment of the TD Bank Financial Group Bursary Fund at McMaster.

February 16, 2000

Providing quality research and highly trained professionals are among the goals of McMaster's new Institute for Applied Radiation Sciences, approved last month. The new institute aims to build on the University's existing network within the nuclear and health care industries.

February 16, 2000

Marauder head football coach Greg Marshall has signed a new agreement with McMaster University and will continue to lead the Marauder football team into the new millennium.

February 14, 2000

Senate approved a motion on Feb. 9 to establish an ad hoc committee to review the process whereby decisions concerning the residence system are made. The committee will make recommendations to Senate as to how those decisions should be arrived at in the future.

February 14, 2000

The University is closed today because of severe winter weather. For the University to be "closed" means that classes are not held, meetings and other scheduled events are cancelled, staff other than those employed in "essential services," as defined in this statement, are not expected to be at work, but are paid for a normal day, examinations are cancelled, deadlines for assignments and other submissions are postponed until the same hour on the next business day on which the University is not "closed." Under a new Storm Emergency Policy and Procedures adopted this year, McMaster University will close automatically if the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board closes all its schools for the day. The HWDSCB has closed all of its schools and buildings today and has cancelled transportation.

February 14, 2000

World-famous Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) is best known as the creator of Anne of Green Gables. However, she was also an avid photographer and her work as a visual artist will be showcased in an exhibition which begins Sunday, Feb. 20 and continues to Sunday, April 9 at the McMaster Museum of Art.

February 11, 2000

Brian McCarry has faced many roadblocks when lobbying for environmental actions. From monetary concerns to political grappling, he thought he'd seen it all. That is until he visited top U.S. officials in Washington last week.

February 10, 2000

McMaster is embarking on a new direction in undergraduate education and it now has an academic compass to navigate these new and uncharted waters. Yesterday Senate approved a new Academic Plan for the University which spells out the institution's guiding principles and defines the ways in which the University will uphold these tenets.

February 10, 2000

Barna Szabados thought it was inevitable his name would be added to a long list of engineers who had failed to solve one of science's most baffling problems. Szabados had spent four years trying to discover a method of dimming fluorescent light bulbs -- a simple-sounding problem that had dumbfounded everyone who had tackled it.

February 10, 2000

Senate has approved a new combined honours BA in health studies and another subject. The new program explores contemporary and historical meanings and practices associated with health and health care from an arts perspective.

February 10, 2000

First-year students are able to quickly connect and identify with McMaster, but, according to a report reviewing Welcome Week 1999, the transition into a new academic setting isn't as immediate.

February 8, 2000

Thirty-two industry, banking and business managers in China know more about Western management skills today thanks to a knowledge transfer course provided by McMaster faculty and IBM in Beijing.

February 8, 2000

The Faculty of Humanities colloquium series promises to pursue the intellectual mission of the humanities -- the pursuit of wisdom in its different forms. The first in the series, Writing Up Lives in the Humanities, on Feb. 15, focuses on a hot trend -- researching and writing the biography.

February 8, 2000

Students will not have access to health professionals at the Student Health Services(SHS) office on evenings or weekends, starting in September. The office already knows it will have to cut these hours as a result of the "No" vote on a proposed health services fee increase in the MSU referendum held this month.

February 7, 2000

Professor of medicine Mark Levine is the first holder of the Buffett Taylor Chair in Breast Cancer Research. As the Buffett Taylor Chair in Breast Cancer Research, Levine will conduct independent research and clinical trials in breast cancer, evaluate the use of innovative methods to improve communication between physicians and women with breast cancer, and research methods to improve the use of clinical practice guidelines in the care of women with breast cancer.

February 7, 2000

McMaster University is on the mind of many high school graduates, according to statistics released by the Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC). As of Feb. 3, the University has seen a seven per cent increase in applications over the same period last year.

February 6, 2000

With the rapid changes in steel production, it is expected that the steel making process of today will be unrecognizable in 20 years. The objective . . .

February 6, 2000

The Region of Hamilton-Wentworth has initiated a class environmental assessment study for the newly proposed McMaster University/Main Street West entrance.

February 4, 2000

What elements best prepare children for successful learning? The School Readiness to Learn Project, undertaken by the Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk . . .