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June 7, 2005

McMaster’s Brian McCarry receives Canadian Environment Award

Brian McCarry, McMaster chemistry professor and chair of Clean Air Hamilton, was awarded a silver community award at a Canadian Environment Awards ceremony last night at Toronto's historic Liberty Grand. The fourth Canadian Environment Awards is a national program that celebrates the commitment of Canadians who are acting locally to help protect, preserve and restore the country's environment. The centrepiece of the Canadian Environment Awards is the Community Awards, which honours individuals and groups of Canadians chosen from more than 150 nominations submitted by the Canadian public. Gold and silver winners in six categories were announced.

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June 6, 2005

Humanities, arts & science, business students graduate today

McMaster will confer degrees upon more than 1,000 students today (June 6) in the Great Hall at Hamilton Place. At 9:30 a.m., 521 humanities and arts & science students graduate, and at 2:30 p.m., 490 business students graduate. Honorary degrees will be presented to Linda Hutcheon, Hugh Fraser and David Brown. Hutcheon and Brown will deliver the Convocation addresses at their respective ceremonies.

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June 6, 2005

McMaster University student-athletes are scholarly

McMaster celebrated the academic accomplishments of its student-athletes Sunday at the ninth annual Marauder Scholar Brunch held as a part of McMaster Alumni Weekend. In 2004/2005, McMaster established a new benchmark with 299 student-athletes (38 per cent) achieving a minimal sessional average of 9.5 (out of 12) - or 80 per cent.

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June 6, 2005

McMaster honours four outstanding students

For the first time, McMaster will honour four graduating students for obtaining the highest cumulative grade point average of their class. Alaina Benoit, honours linguistics; Christian Kurtz, honours business commerce; Jonathan Little, honours kinesiology; and Matthew Schmidt, honours French-A and linguistics, are recipients of the 2005 Governor General's Silver Academic Medal for each receiving a grade point average of 11.9. The students will receive the honour at their respective convocation ceremony this week.

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June 4, 2005

Jean Chretien awarded degree for distinguished public career

This Spring, McMaster University is conferring honorary degrees on David Brown, Jean Chretien, Cathy Crowe, Hugh Fraser, Ben Heppner, Eric Hoskins, David Hubel, Linda Hutcheon, Mike Lazaridis, Samantha Nutt, Ivan Reitman, Haddon Robinson, and J. Michael Rowe. We don't normally defend our choice of honorary degree candidates, but in the case of Jean Chretien, there is an aspect of his contribution to the country that deserves mentioning, and of which many are not aware.

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