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Posted on Nov. 29: Romanow report has important messages: AUCC

The report issued by the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada has important messages for all Canadians, says the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). "Canada's universities recognize the need to ensure that citizens across the country have access to high quality health care services," says Robert J. Giroux, president of AUCC. Click here for the complete Canada NewsWire story.

Posted on Nov. 29: McMaster recognizes top scholars

Eight first-year students were recently recognized with McMaster Scholar Awards, valued at approximately $30,000 each over four years. This year's winners competed against more than 1,000 applicants from across Canada. The recipients are, pictured in front, right to left, Ayesha Hashambhoy, Christina Schoenhoeffer, Kalinda Ramsaran and Alicia Pinarello. Pictured in back, right to left, are Michael Schatte, Trisha Pataki, President Peter George, Heather Wong and Karleen Dudeck. The McMaster Scholar Awards are the University's most prestigious entrance scholarships. In 2002-03, the McMaster Scholar Awards were redesigned to increase the value of the scholarships. In 2002, first-year meal plans and residence costs were added to the cash value of the award. The awards are presented to students with an average of 90 per cent or higher and who have demonstrated strong academic, extracurricular and leadership achievements.

Posted on Nov. 28: Downtown Centre offers specialized program to home and health care workers from Ontario’s Native communities

More than 120 home and health care workers from Native communities across Ontario will gather at McMaster during December and January to receive specialized training offered through McMaster's Centre for Continuing Education. The Chiefs of Ontario, with funding from Health Canada, asked McMaster to provide the training to representatives from 135 First Nations communities in Ontario. McMaster is currently the only university in the province to offer extensive programming in case management education. Over the next eight weeks, three groups of approximately 40 participants each will arrive at McMaster for six days of learning under The First Nations Case Management Training Program. The program gets under way on Monday, Dec. 2 with the first group of participants. "We have developed a week-long program that has been specially designed by McMaster professor Anju Joshi for the needs of the home and community care workers in various First Nations communities," says Ruth Nicholson, CCE program co-ordinator. "The program will feature experts who are aboriginal as well as non-aboriginal and we hope it will be culturally relevant and sensitive." "We have worked hard to customize the program's content for the participants and we are very fortunate to have the support of a wonderfully committed McMaster faculty to assist in the teaching and delivery of a wide range of subject areas," says Joshi, associate professor of gerontology. Joshi says learners will enhance their knowledge and skill sets needed to perform the role of a case manager and will be able to critically examine issues that affect the delivery of service. Instruction will cover the areas of advocacy, the health and social concerns of individuals and families in different life stages, legal issues, depression and diabetes, and case management models and approaches. The program will be delivered by a multi-disciplinary faculty of professionals and includes Wayne Warry, Bill Lee, Irene Turpie, Dawn Martin-Hill, Micheline Gagnon, Kathy MacDonald, Elizabether Latimer and Harriet MacMillan. Nicholson says the program is being supported by federal funding and is part of a new First Nations and federal government initiative to bring much needed co-ordination to home and community care in Native communities. "The Chiefs of Ontario were impressed with our program and that played a role in their decision to come here. This is really an honour for Hamilton, McMaster and the Downtown Centre, " said Joshi. The first session kicks off with a ceremony beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning (Dec. 2), which will feature aboriginal singer Lisa Longboat, Chiefs of Ontario spokespersons Tracey Antone and Donna Loft, and University President Peter George. Sessions two and three will be held during the weeks of Dec. 9 and Jan. 20. Wednesday evenings during the program (Dec. 4 and 11 and Jan. 22) have been set aside for cultural and social activities in the University Centre Marketplace. These events are being sponsored by McMaster's Indigenous Studies Program and the Office of the President. For more information, contact Ruth Nicholson at ext. 24520.

Posted on Nov. 28: Scientists show planets created in hundreds, not millions, of years

McMaster researcher James Wadsley has helped demonstrate that large gaseous planets like Jupiter could be created in hundreds, not millions of years, as previously believed. The research associate with SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network) is part of a team of international astrophysicists from the U.S. and Switzerland, who have successfully created the first computer simulation that shows giant gaseous planets can be formed quickly. Their research is published in today's edition of Science. Wadsley became involved when he developed the gas computer code used for the research as a post-doctoral fellow while at the University of Washington in Seattle. Lucio Mayer, of the University of Zurich, is the lead author. The co-authors are University of Washington astrophysicist Thomas Quinn and Joachim Stadel, formerly of the University of Victoria in British Columbia and now at the University of Zurich. The popular theory holds that rocky planets like Earth were created as rocks orbiting in a disk around the young sun continuously collided, sticking to form larger and larger objects. Further from the sun, the collision process is thought to take millions of years. This theory is more difficult to accept for giant gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn because the planets have to form before nearby bright stars can disperse the gases that must be added to the theoretical rocky core. The new approach assumes that the disk is heavy with gas that can fragment under its own gravity to form gas giant planets in just a few hundred years without a preceding rocky stage.

Posted on Nov. 28: 25-year employees inducted into Quarter Century Club

In 1977, 96 new faculty and staff joined McMaster University. Last night, they joined a special group McMaster's Quarter Century Club. "In every decade, McMaster has grown and prospered," remarked President Peter George to the staff and faculty who contributed 25 years of service to the University. "You saw it happen. In fact, you helped to make it happen. None of what McMaster is today would have been possible without the faculty and staff who dared to dream, to ask the right questions, to go above and beyond the call of duty to help a colleague or a student. You have all risen to meet the challenge, and the University is very grateful." About 20 more employees than last year were inducted, as a result of the University marking cumulative service. Introduced in 2002, the intent of cumulative service recognition is to acknowledge the total service of employees, including those who left the University for a time and then returned to continue their work. Click here for a list of the inductees.

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