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posted on March 28: Board of Governors approves campus master plan

McMaster now has a campus master plan to guide growth and change at the University for the next 30 years. The Board of Governors approved the document at its meeting yesterday (March 27). Senate approved the final campus master plan at its March 13 meeting. "We're really excited about this plan," said Karen Belaire, vice-president administration and chair of the campus plan steering committee. "There's lots of interest and a lot of excitement." Belaire said staff have begun using the plan with building projects that are now under development. Cited as a "living document," the plan provides planning principles, a parking strategy, stewardship for heritage preservation, open spaces and the natural environment, management of traffic demands and guidelines for building community partnerships. It will be reviewed annually and updated. The next steps will be to develop an implementation policy protocol and finalize a campus plan brochure. The University began developing a new campus plan in November 2000, working with Urban Strategies Consulting. The steering committee and consultants conducted extensive consultation with various stakeholders and held a visioning workshop and two open houses to gather input on the draft document.

posted on March 28: World renowned archeologist delves into Gatalhvy|k, agriculture origins

The remains of one of the oldest complex settled villages lies on the plains of central Turkey. The 9,000 year-old site, called Gatalhvy|k, has been described as "the dig of the new millennium." The project director for the Gatalhvy|k archeological excavations and research, Ian Hodder, is one of this year's Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professors. Hodder, professor and chair of the department of cultural and social anthropology at Stanford University, has written extensively on archaeological theory and the prehistory of Europe. Hodder spoke about Hybrid archaeology: archaeology, culture and society in the making of Gatalhvy|k yesterday. He delivers his second lecture, From subsistence to sex: themes in the origins of agriculture, tonight (Wednesday March 27) at 7 p.m. at the Information Technology Building, Room 137. The Hooker lectures are sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the H.L. Hooker Endowment Fund. (End of story)

posted on March 26: Medical & health physics student named top co-op student in country

She loves languages, science, art and physics. She describes herself as a people person. Jodi Powers' diverse interests made choosing a field of study difficult. They made choosing a career even tougher. So Powers opted for the co-operative education stream to give herself a chance to explore whether medical & health physics were the right areas for her to focus on. Now, only weeks from completing a four-year degree, Powers, 24, is confident she's headed in the right direction. She's been named the top co-op student for 2001 by the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education. And she credits her co-op education experience with guiding her into her soon-to-be fulltime occupation as a radiation safety officer at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary. AWARD WINNER: (L-R)Kathy Verspagen, Canadian Association for Co-operative Education (CAFCE) national president; Stefan Kerry, CAFCE student awards committee director; Jodi Powers, Acting President Peter Sutherland. Photo by Shelly Easton