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April 29, 2005

A polymer chemist’s view of protein synthesis and design

David A. Tirrell, a world-renowned polymer chemist, will provide the second annual David B. MacLean Lecture at McMaster. Tirrell will explore some of the opportunities that arise when one tries to bridge the gap between natural and synthetic polymers by using the protein biosynthetic apparatus of bacterial cells to prepare well-defined 'artificial proteins' according to design principles familiar to the polymer chemist.

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April 29, 2005

Students meet future Swiss neighbour

When five students met distinguished McMaster alumni Joseph Ingram, special representative of the World Bank to the UN and the WTO, who was on campus yesterday to talk about the World Bank's good governance agenda, they were getting to know a future neighbour.

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April 28, 2005

BlackBerry creator to be honoured by McMaster

Mike Lazaridis, founder, president and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering at its spring convocation. Lazaridis will also address the 550 undergraduate, Master's and PhD engineering students at the convocation ceremony to be held June 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m., in the Great Hall at Hamilton Place.

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April 28, 2005

McMaster mourns workers killed on the job

McMaster honoured workers who have been killed or injured on the job at a ceremony today to mark the National Day of Mourning. Hosted by MUSA CLC Local 2003-1, in conjunction with McMaster's unions, the ceremony took place under the University flagpoles, in front of the Burke Science Building.

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April 28, 2005

The sooner you know, the sooner you can help

Most parents, and many family physicians, are unfamiliar with the early warning signs that can signal autism. Although new research shows these signs can be observed in infants as young as, or younger than, 12 months, children with autism are typically not diagnosed before the age of three. The Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University, a leader in autism research in Canada, hopes its autism awareness campaign will help to lower that age so interventions crucial to improving childrens outcomes can begin earlier.

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