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Posted on Feb. 9: Community Forum encourages co-operation, communication

Through University and neighbourhood planning initiatives, student and community partnerships, and many other measures, new lines of communications and co-operation are being forged between McMaster University, the City of Hamilton, and the west Hamilton communities. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004, the City, the Ainslie Wood/Westdale Community Association of Resident Homeowners Inc. (AWWCA), McMaster University through the President's Advisory Committee on Community Relations (PACCR), and the McMaster Students Union (MSU) will once again create new links at a Community Forum. Focusing on the theme of student housing and related issues in west Hamilton, this meeting will allow participants to develop recommendations for issues of common interest, ask questions, and present suggestions.

Posted on Feb. 6: Female high school students discover diverse world of engineering

Creating innovative biomedical devices. Designing golf courses. Exploring new methods to make drinking water safe. Engineers do these things and more. More than 250 high school students are expected to attend the second annual McMaster Women's Engineering Experience on Saturday, Feb. 7 to learn more about the diverse fields of study engineers engage in. The students, who are coming from areas such as Belleville, Newmarket, Mississauga and the greater Hamilton area will learn about the engineering design project led by civil engineering professor Sarah Dickson, engineering risk management issues from civil engineering and management graduate Cathy Taylor '82 and chemical engineering topics from chemical engineering professor Lisa Crossley.