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McMaster’s peace efforts land 2005 YMCA Peace Medal

India-Canada Society (ICS) of Hamilton, which draws a large part of its membership from the McMaster community, was awarded a 2005 YMCA Peace Medal this week for its work in promoting communal harmony, fighting racism, initiating the annual Gandhi Peace Festival and McMaster Peace Lecture. "The India-Canada Society (ICS) organization has a long history and strong connections with McMaster University," says Sourav Ray, assistant professor of marketing from McMaster's DeGroote School of Business, and general secretary of the ICS executive committee. "In any community we live during our lifetime, we all should strive to contribute to the social well-being in meaningful ways."

McMaster medical student receives incentive to choose family medicine as her specialty

Catherine d'Anjou, a recent graduate from the McMaster University medical school, was named the University's first recipient of the ALTANA Pharma Family Medicine Scholarship - a fund that each year gives medical students across the province a $5,000 scholarship if they pursue family medicine as their specialty. d'Anjou and her fellow recipients from the University of Toronto, The University of Western Ontario, Queen's University and the University of Ottawa were honoured last Thursday night at a reception in Toronto at the 43rd Annual Scientific Assembly of the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP).