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December 5, 2005

Students to explore forces that shape our world

More than 500 high school geography students and teachers will get a special hands-on look at cutting edge geographic information system (GIS) technology at the seventh annual GIS Day Tuesday, Dec. 6, at McMaster. Hosted by the School of Geography & Earth Sciences and the Centre for Spatial Analysis, this event fulfills part of the Ontario geography curriculum for Grades 9, 11 and 12 students. Students and teachers from 17 high schools from Hamilton, Burlington and Oakville have registered for the daylong workshop.

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December 2, 2005

Honorary degree presented to renowned pediatrician

McMaster's Oded Bar-Or, a professor emeritus in pediatrics and renowned expert in sport medicine and childhood obesity, was honored Thursday by the Jozef Pilsudski Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland. A delegation from the Polish academy visited McMaster University this week to grant Bar-Or an honorary degree in recognition of his lifetime work in the area of children and exercise.

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December 2, 2005

Collaborations for Health positions McMaster as Canada’s premier health university

A campus-wide initiative to position McMaster as Canada's premier health university is moving forward. Collaborations for Health aims to capitalize on McMaster's unique culture of collaboration and experience in tackling complex health problems using the combined insights of many disciplines. It will leverage existing areas of strength and foster new strategic research and educational collaborations focused on health.

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December 1, 2005

Robo-patients allow McMaster students to practise until perfect

Robotic, simulated patients are allowing students in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine to practise clinical skills before they reach human patients. A simulator lab training centre set up by the anesthesia department allows students to experience the challenges of working in a hospital operating room in a setting that looks and functions as close as possible to the real thing. An official opening of the lab was held on Wednesday.

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November 30, 2005

Jay Ingram to take audience on mind-bending experience

Popular science writer Jay Ingram is the special guest speaker at Wednesday's Science in the City public lecture. Ingram, who is also the producer and co-host of the Discovery Channel's award-winning Daily Planet and recipient of an honorary Doctor of Science degree from McMaster, will speak about the Theatre of the Mind: The Science of Consciousness.

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