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Leadership in the year 2020 – will you be ready when it’s time?

What will it take to be a successful leader in the year 2020? Ask people to name notable CEOs of the present day and you'll probably hear Bill Gates, Martha Stewart, Mike Lazaridis, Donald Trump, Conrad Black. These people have become household names, but not always in a good way. Can the leaders of tomorrow correct the mistakes of the past and move forward to future success? The DeGroote School of Business will seek to answer that question on Thursday, March 9 at Leadership Vision 2020. Keynote speakers Bob Hedley, vice president of leadership at Maple Leaf Foods, and Richard Glover, Ontario area vice president for Frito Lay Canada, will share their insights with students, industry guests and faculty at this student organized event.

City clinic established for women without family doctors

A new clinic for women ages 20 to 45 who do not have a family physician has been set up by the City of Hamilton's Public Health Services and McMaster's Department of Family Medicine. The Well Women Clinic (WWC) will run at two locations: the Mountain Clinic at 1447 Upper Ottawa Street and the East End Clinic at 2255 Barton Street East, Unit #8. The focus of the care will be on women's health issues, and the services will include: pap tests, pregnancy/sexually transmitted infections testing, immunizations, emergency contraception, and birth control (including IUD insertion). Women with other medical problems will be referred appropriately. Family physicians and public health nurses will be providing the care in the WWC.

High school students enjoy first Math@Mac day

The first Math@Mac day was deemed a success by organizers from the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. On Tuesday, March 7, approximately 130 local high school students accompanied by 15 teachers from a total of 16 schools, visited McMaster for this event. The day, aimed at inspiring students interested in pursuing math at the post secondary level, included a presentation by David Earn on the Mathematics of SARS and Emerging Diseases and another by Bartosz Protas on Fluid Mecahnics and Flight. Undergraduate volunteers from math, physics and Miroslav Lovric's Teaching Mathematics (2U03) course facilitated an interactive problem-solving session for the high school students. Lovric concluded the day's activities with a discussion prompted by students' questions on careers in math, revisions to the grade 12 curriculum, and preparation for first year courses at university. Lovric's message to the students was two-fold. "Take as much math as you can in high school to prepare for university and remember that you are responsible for your own learning."