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January 17, 2003

Posted on Jan 17: One-third of Ontario students apply to McMaster

As of Friday, 101,668 Ontario high school students have applied for entrance into an Ontario university, announced the Council of Ontario Universities. Of these students, approximately one-third have applied to McMaster, indicates preliminary data from the University. "We're pleased to see so many students are interested in applying to the University," said Fred Hall, associate vice-president academic. "These numbers speak to the strong demand in all of the programs that McMaster has to offer." Historically, 65 to 70 per cent of students who apply to university in Ontario go on to register. In a news release, minister Dianne Cunningham said, "Our government has always promised that there would be a place for every willing and qualified student in college or university. I am pleased to report that the preliminary numbers are within our plans, and I remain confident that with the measures we have taken, and continue to take, we will meet that commitment."

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January 17, 2003

Posted on Jan. 17: Scientist awarded $400,000 grant to study lupus

McMaster University researcher Boris Sakic has been awarded more than $400,000 Cdn to study mechanisms of brain damage in an autoimmune disease. The assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences along with four American researchers have been awarded separate grants to study this aspect of an autoimmune disease known as systemic lupus erythematosus. The grants were from the U.S. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Lupus is a disease which can be fatal, and in which immune cells become confused. Instead of protecting the body by attacking bacteria or virus, they start to attack the body's own cells by producing proteins called autoantibodies. When the brain becomes the target this often results in psychosis, depression and memory loss.

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January 16, 2003

Posted on Jan. 16: Personal values bode well in business

Hubert Saint-Onge sounds more like a self-help guru than a leader of the information revolution. Where others making presentations at this week's McMaster World Congress on Intellectual Capital, Innovation and E-Business filled the heads of their audiences with talks on integrated concepts for measuring the performance of e-services and how to build knowledge-based cultures in organizations, Saint-Onge speaks of values, "your sacred self" and other words which seem to have vanished from the business dictionary. Speaking as part of a lunch-time panel at the conference's opening session yesterday, the University of Waterloo's executive-in-residence told participants that despite the massive changes information technology has brought to the world, there's still room for individual values, still chances for individuals to make a difference. Click here to read more. (The Hamilton Spectator, Jan. 16, 2003)

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January 16, 2003

Posted on Jan. 17: Groves opens doors to medical residents

Through its link with Hamilton Health Sciences, Groves Memorial Community Hospital is now a teaching site for medical residents specializing in rural medicine at McMaster University. On Jan. 25 it will open its doors to 40 first- and second-year students, to introduce them to rural medicine and generate an interest in pursuing the specialty. Click here to read more. (The Guelph Mercury, Jan. 16, 2003)

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January 15, 2003

Posted on Jan. 15: McMaster turns off cheating, by turning it in

It's as old as the hills, maybe even older than this clichi. Plagiarism. Whether it's stealing ideas, facts or passages, academic dishonesty is not new to universities. But since the advent of the internet, cases of it have grown. At McMaster, there were 173 cases in the 2001-02 academic year  90 more than the year before. Offences ranged from plagiarism from the internet to copying of assignments. "Cheating is not new," says Andrea Thyret-Kidd, McMaster's academic integrity officer. "However, with the Internet now in existence, so many students have taken the old way of cheating and are now using this new technology." McMaster is battling back with Turnitin.com, a computer software package designed to reveal plagiarism. Turnitin.com is used by a number of Canadian universities, including the University of Western Ontario, the University of Toronto and York University. "Cheating is a universal problem that universities are responding to," Thyret-Kidd says.

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