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October 31, 2008

Brandon Hall Parents Update – Oct. 31

It was great to see such a large turnout for Wednesday's Open House as Brandon residents officially opened their on-campus lounge. The lounge is located in the Refectory Building and provides all Brandon Hall students with their own space to connect and maintain their community spirit.

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October 30, 2008

McMaster professor rapidly takes research tool to market

For most professors, having a stranger appear and finish your research project might sound like something concocted by the Brothers Grimm. However, for one McMaster research team, such a chance meeting led to a fairytale ending. Our tale began last year when assistant professor of pediatrics Les Berry traveled to Geneva to present a poster on an innovative method for determining the levels of certain clotting agents in human blood. Berry, who works as part of Anthony Chan's research team at the Henderson Research Centre in Vascular Biology and Thrombosis, was excited by the science but also concerned about its prospects.

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October 30, 2008

McMaster community attends annual Sustainability Day

Members of the McMaster community attended McMaster's first annual Sustainability Day yesterday. The event showcased a number of campus groups who provided information to students and community members about their sustainability activities. Some of the groups that participated in the event were MACgreen, security services, ACT office, Hamilton Street Railway, purchasing services and McMaster's Healthy Workplace, among others.

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October 29, 2008

Professor receives chemical engineering award

Thomas Marlin, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the D.G. Fisher Award by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. He received his award at a CSChE meeting in Ottawa on October 20. The D.G. Fisher Award is presented to an individual who has made substantial contributions in the field of Systems and Control Engineering. The award is sponsored by the Suncor Energy Foundation, Shell Canada Limited and the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta.

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October 29, 2008

Media coverage affects how people perceive threat of disease: study

Popular media coverage of infectious diseases greatly influences how people perceive those diseases, making them seem more dangerous, according to a new study from McMaster. The research, published online in the Public Library of Science: ONE, suggests diseases that show up frequently in the print media -like bird flu - are considered more serious than similar diseases that do not receive the same kind of coverage, such as yellow fever.

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