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CPEC renamed Career Services

If phoning McMaster's Career Planning & Employment Centre (CPEC) today, don't be surprised by the answer you get. There's a reason the greeting will be, "Career Services," because as of today, the career resource centre has a new name. CPEC has changed its name to Career Services to reflect the range of services it provides to students, alumni, employers and other key stakeholders. "Students know us as the place to get a job," says Lisa Boniface, manager of the new Career Services, "But we also have wonderful services to support students in career planning, education planning, and experiential learning."

Posted on July 30: Student receives prestigious business award

As a business woman, Jane M. Klausman said she understood first-hand the challenges faced by young women pursuing careers in business and the importance of helping women become business leaders. As a result of her bequest to Zonta International, out of which came the Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship Program, female students like McMaster's Amber Gibbins are on the path to success. "It means a lot to me to be recognized by an organization that's primary objective is to advance the status of women," says the McMaster commerce student, selected by the Zonta Club of Hamilton to receive the prestigious $600 scholarship.

Posted on July 30: Summer research programs build enthusiasm in the lab

McMaster's Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research (BIMR) summer student research program has paid off in more ways than chemistry student Phil Elder could have imagined. Not only has it boosted his enthusiasm for chemistry now he can't wait to do his thesis. The fourth-year honours chemistry student was one of 17 BIMR students who participated in an annual engineering poster presentation yesterday (Thursday). Approximately 200 students took part in the event, including those in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), and students with Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grants in science and engineering.

Posted on July 29: Modern hostage drama played out on stage at McMaster

News of hostages appears daily in media around the world. As reporters examine the reasons people are taken hostage and governments work to rescue their citizens, a different investigation of hostage situations will be happening on the McMaster University campus as part of the McMaster Summer Drama Festival, which runs July 26-31. In conjunction with performances of Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, the cast, crew, and audience of this edgy modern hostage drama are invited to participate in an open discussion Friday, July 30 at 12 p.m. in Togo Salmon Hall, Rm. 719. Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, directed by McMaster student Robert Porter, presents an Irishman, an Englishman, and an American trapped in a cell in Lebanon during the Civil War in the late 1980s. They struggle to stay alive and sane by constantly testing one another's wits, faiths, and senses of humour.