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February 2, 2006

Two engineering students share prestigious gold medal

Four-year cumulative averages of 11.8 by McMaster engineering students Gaurav Bahl, electrical engineering, and Andrew Maw, computer engineering, resulted in the first tie at an Ontario university for the most prestigious award in undergraduate engineering. Both students received the gold medal award from the Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education at the Faculty of Engineering's annual Awards Assembly. This is the first time since the award was established in 1961 that two students at the same university have tied for graduating with the highest cumulative average.

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February 1, 2006

DeGroote business grads rank among best in North America

MBA and commerce students from the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University continue to score among the highest in North America in a recent Major Field Test (MFT) conducted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) - the largest educational assessment organization in the world. The exam was administered in December 2005 to graduating students, and DeGroote's undergraduate commerce students scored in the 95th percentile in North America while the MBAs scored in the 90th percentile.

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February 1, 2006

Cosmic archeology

As human beings, its easy to feel big - we have machines that allow us to see particles that are less than a billionth of a metre big, we've built towering skyscrapers hundreds of metres tall, we fly thousands of kilometres around the world in mere hours and we've even traveled more than 380,000 kilometres to the moon. However, perhaps it is good to be reminded every so often of our size in the scale of things.

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January 31, 2006

School of the Arts presents Directors’ Series 2006

McMaster's School of the Arts is now presenting its annual Directors' Series, a festival of unique shows directed by theatre and film students in their final year of study. The Directors' Series 2006 features eight new plays, six written by the directors themselves. From social realism to absurd comedy, from docu-drama to surreal fantasy, all 12 of the plays dynamically engage with our culture and our times, each in its own unique style.

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January 31, 2006

Gary Warner named Hamilton’s Citizen of the Year

It has been a notable year for McMaster's Gary Warner. On the heels of receiving the Order of Canada, the professor of linguistics and French has been named Hamilton's Distinguished Citizen of the Year. Warner was selected among six recipients (three from McMaster) last night to receive the 2005 Royal Bank Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award.

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