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Advanced practice nursing chair renewed for Alba DiCenso

The appointment of McMaster nursing professor Alba DiCenso as the CHSRI/CIHR Chair in Advance Practice Nursing has been renewed by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the final six years of her 10 year term. Her work, related to education, mentoring, research, and communications, has included evaluation of nurse practitioner roles and intervention and the management of nursing services; a proposal to improve access to high quality health care for Canadians with common chronic diseases through the integration of advance practice nurses in specialized roles; and the provision of bursaries to graduate students.

Debating Ontario’s Power Question: Wilson Lecture

Viv Nelles, McMaster's L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History, is hoping to reinvigorate public debate over the future of Ontario's electrical system. In his inaugural lecture Thursday Feb.16, Nelles told his audience that when he passes Hamilton Cemetery on York Boulevard, he hears voices; early twentieth-century community leaders engaged in a lively and constructive political debate over the power question. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the people of Ontario once more need to engage in a vigorous debate over the future of electricity. The conclusion to be drawn from the lecture: important and complex issues are for elections.

DeGroote professor named Member of Order of Canada

The men, taxi drivers who had immigrated to Hamilton from India, were looking for help. Their bosses were discriminating against them, giving them less valuable fares and calling them racist names. They came to Harish Jain who taught and studied human rights, human resources and labour relations at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. Together the drivers and Jain called the owner of the taxi company. Jain still remembers standing in his office listening to the woman as she talked to her employees. "Hearing that woman on the phone - the way she spoke to these men. That's what made me a community activist," says Jain. Today, 20 years later, Jain was recognized for his work with racial minorities and immigrants when he was inducted as a member of the Order of Canada.

Snow closure procedures

There was confusion this morning for many people at McMaster about whether the University was open or not. Under the Snow Closure Policy the University closes if the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board closes its schools. However, today the University decided to stay open. "The School Board made a decision to close based on criteria that are important for its students and staff," said McMaster president, Peter George. "However, we deal with different issues at the University. For example, this week our students are writing mid-terms, and in view of the improving weather forecast, we decided that closing would be too disruptive to our students. We made the right decision to keep the University open but the confusion highlights the need for us to change our Snow Closure Policy so we are not tied to decisions that don't necessarily reflect the University's needs."