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March 27, 2006

Greenpeace co-founder to visit McMaster

Patrick Moore,Greenpeace co-founder and now chair and chief scientist, Greenspirit Strategies, will be speaking on "Searching for a Sustainable Energy Future" at McMaster on Wednesday, March 29 in Burke Science Building (BSB), Room B135 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Moore's free, public address will focus on the scientific evidence showing nuclear power to be an environmentally sound and safe choice of energy.

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March 24, 2006

Stepping into the iPod age

We are stepping into a new age of academia where learning consists of more than just lectures with a professor at the front of a classroom. Instead, innovative technologies such as podcasts, video casts, framework environments, weblogs, wiki software, touch screens and text messaging have pushed both students and instructors towards a new way to teach and learn.

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March 24, 2006

2006 Ontario budget post-secondary news

The McGuinty government released the 2006 Ontario provincial budget yesterday. Although the Budget's primary focus was on addressing infrastructure needs, it did include some additional details on the roll out of the Reaching Higher plan for post-secondary education. The province will double student aid spending by 2009-10, and include increases to 60,000 the number of students getting up-front grants in 2006-07. It also raises the annual income threshold at which a two-child family qualifies for grants, from $35,000 to $75,000.

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March 24, 2006

Inaugural Bourns lecture addresses the evolution of genomics

Established in 2004 by Dr. Arthur Bourns, former McMaster President and professor emeritus, chemistry, this lecture series will bring a distinguished scholar in the field of bioethics to McMaster every two years. Given the revolutionary advances in biotechnology, genetic engineering and health-related research, the field of bioethics has become an urgent and challenging area of scholarly investigation. This lectureship aims to foster a wide-ranging discussion about the pressing ethical questions and how they might be addressed from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including humanists, social scientists and policy makers, medical and natural scientists, and engineers.

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March 23, 2006

Ontario Biology Day welcomed McMaster students

Forty-six McMaster biology students presented talks based on their senior research projects at the 19th annual Ontario Biology Day last weekend at the University of Western Ontario. The group constitutes almost half of those currently conducting senior thesis/project courses in the department of biology.

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