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Posted on June 25: McMaster celebrates successes of three young leaders

What do an international physician, an authority on information technology, and a specialist in mutual funds have in common? Each one of them graduated from McMaster and, more recently, they were each named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40. The University would like to congratulate David Feather, president, Mackenzie Financial Services Inc., Samantha Nutt, executive director, War Child Canada, and Gerry Smith, president and chief executive officer, Changepoint Corporation. The prestigious Top 40 Under 40 list is part of a national program founded and managed by The Caldwell Partners to celebrate the leaders of today and tomorrow, and to honour Canadians who have reached a significant level of success but have not yet reached the age of 40. Each of the McMaster graduates on the Top 40 Under 40 list demonstrates innovation and acts as inspirations for other young Canadians.

Posted on June 24: McMaster awarded $3M to study how to identify woman abuse

McMaster University researcher Harriet MacMillan has received a $3-million grant from the Ontario Women's Health Council to research how best to identify woman abuse in health settings. Almost one in 10 women are physically abused by an intimate partner in any given year, and up to one-third of Canadian women report some form of physical or mental abuse over the course of their lifetime. Many women disclose abuse during the course of routine or emergency medical visits, and therefore the health care response to woman abuse is key in helping women cope with this problem. "To date, the research available does not tell us what health care responses are optimal to identify women who are abused and to assist them in getting the help they need in either the health setting or the community," says MacMillan. "This research program will ask women, both those who are abused and not, and their health providers how best to identify woman abuse in health settings. It will then test, using the design of a randomized controlled trial, which of three approaches best help women, and their children, reduce their exposure to further violence."

Posted on June 23: McMaster rolls out first online degree credit course

McMaster is launching its first fully online degree credit course today (Monday). The course, on the theme of Body and Soul, Pleasure and Pain in the Later Middle Ages, will examine the roles played by women and men of all social classes in the late medieval period, says Kathy Garay, who teaches for the Faculty of Humanities. The course is available to anyone in level 2 or above of any university program, worldwide. The seven-week course runs June 23 Aug. 8. Full information about the course is available at www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/hum2f03. More than 160 students have registered for the course, developed with support from the Office of the Dean of Humanities and McMaster's Learning Technologies Resource Centre.