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Posted on April 28: Community blood pressure sessions ‘closing the loop’

McMaster's Department of Family Medicine is helping raise awareness of the importance of regular blood pressure monitoring. A recently launched "Community Hypertension Awareness Program" (CHAP) is 'closing the loop' between health promotion activities in the community, and clinical care by family doctors. Steady attendance at the CHAP' blood pressure sessions reveals that many older adults are interested in having their blood pressure measured and their cardiovascular risk factors recorded and sent to their family doctor, according to Janusz Kaczorowski, research director in the Department of Family Medicine. To date, more than 600 Grimsby-area residents have attended sessions for blood pressure monitoring and cardiovascular risk assessment in local pharmacies.

Posted on April 27: CFI boosts nine McMaster research projects

Nine McMaster research projects have received more than $1 million in the latest round of the Canada Foundation for Innovation's New Opportunities Fund (NOF). The funding will allow new and talented researchers to conduct their research in world-class facilities. To date, 85 McMaster projects have received a total $14,477,113 from the NOF. Thirty-three Canadian institutions across the country received $29.9 million under this program to help them attract and retain 164 high-caliber researchers in 145 projects. NOF enables eligible universities to provide research infrastructure for newly-recruited faculty members, in their first full-time academic appointment in Canadian degree-granting institutions, so that these researchers can undertake leading-edge research. The fund also enables institutions to recruit new faculty members in the areas of research identified as priorities in their strategic research plans.

Posted on April 23: Students bid McMaster campus farewell for another year

More than 2,900 students will move out of residence April 25 to 29, with almost 2,723 of these moving out between Tuesday, April 27 and Thursday, April 29. Student residences on-campus officially close on Thursday, April 29. It will be busy on the roadways near the residences in both the north and west quads, particularly during the peak periods between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. University staff who travel the roadway and/or park in Zone 2 opposite McKay Hall, the Commons Building and Woodstock Hall will find this area particularly busy over the next few days. To avoid the bustle of cars pulling in and out of the parking spots and the general increase in pedestrian and vehicular traffic in this area, staff are encouraged to park in Zone 2 south of the tennis courts for the next few days.