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Posted on June 9: McMaster recognized for advancing education

Teamwork has once again paid off as McMaster University has been awarded three medals at the Prix D'Excellence, the prestigious annual awards program of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE). The CCAE recognizes outstanding achievement in alumni affairs, public affairs, development, student recruitment, and overall institutional advancement. Teamwork showed up in a big way in the first place entry in the Best Print Ad or Ad Campaign. Anne Plessl, Library Development Advisory Group, teamed up with the Department of Athletics & Recration and photographer Scott Gardner to develop the @ your library posters for McMaster University libraries. This innovative marketing campaign for used varsity athletes to help make fellow students more aware of the resources available at their library of choice.

McMaster recognizes scholar athletes

McMaster presented the Marauder Scholar Awards to the top McMaster scholar-athletes at the eighth annual Marauder Scholar Brunch Sunday. The Marauder Scholar Award is presented on an annual basis to student-athletes who have achieved a minimal sessional average of 9.5 (80 per cent) over 24 units while competing for a varsity or club team during the school year. The recipient of the Dr. Mary Keyes award for the Top Female Marauder Scholar was Lulu Bursztyn, a fourth-year chemical engineering student and member of the McMaster women's wrestling team. The winner of the Dr. Jack Kennedy award for the Top Male Marauder Scholar was Jonathan Little, a third-year kinesiology student and co-captain of the McMaster cross country and middle distance track team.

Posted on June 4: Julie Payette on working and living in space

Julie Payette knows she has a cool job. As an astronaut, she's one of a select group of people who get to see earth from space. And to her, that's one of the greatest things about space exploration. "As far as I'm concerned, the greatest privilege we get from working in space is we are able to bring back pictures of earth," she says. Payette offered a first-hand account of her experiences with the Canadian Space Agency and on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission, during a talk hosted by the Faculty of Engineering Thursday. She displayed several images of earth from space, including the Northern Lights, the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest, forest fires, land clearings and New York during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "If everyone could go up and see the earth from up there, I think we would treat the planet a little better."