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  • Canada to accept more PhD students as permanent residents

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Thursday, 03 November 2011 13:45
    Canada will accept up to 1,000 international PhD students per year as permanent residents through the Federal Skilled Worker Program, according to a recent announcement by the Federal Government.  Starting November 5, 2011, many international PhD st...

  • Appreciating McMaster's postdocs

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:49
    McMaster is celebrating the contributions of its PDF community during the National Postdoctoral Fellow Appreciation Week, Sept 19-23. The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, in partnership with the Centre for Leadership in Learning, has organized three profe...

  • Celebrating Graduate Student Day

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Thursday, 08 September 2011 15:45
    The School of Graduate Studies hosted a Welcome Event and Lunch for new and returning students. More than a thousand graduate students, undergraduate TAs, grad faculty and staff celebrated Graduate Student Day at a Welcome Event and Lunch on Septembe...

  • Graduate Students Recognition Day

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:03
      Nominations are open! Go to the Graduate Students Association site for more details....

  • Clean Air Commute

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Monday, 14 June 2010 09:38
    McMaster University has registered in Pollution Probe’s Clean Air Commute 2010, happening June 14-18. Employees are encouraged to take that ‘first step’ and commute to work in a cleaner way by biking, walking, telecommuting, taking p...

  • Astronaut Dave Williams Announces a New Scholarship

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:16
    Graduate students studying biomedical engineering at McMaster University received a boost on June 10th from Canadian astronaut, physician and professor of surgery Dr. Dave Williams.  He announced the creation of the first schol...

  • Five New History Databases

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Wednesday, 09 June 2010 08:16
    The library also purchased five new history databases, Adding to strong collections on war and peace, the Library has purchased five primary research databases exploring World War II and the Holocaust. ...

  • Elsevier ScienceDirect Backfiles Purchased

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Wednesday, 09 June 2010 08:15
    Online access to articles on ScienceDirect is now greatly expanded!  The library has purchased the complete backfile collection, giving seamless access to over 1500 journals from their first volume through the current issues.  Elsevier's suit...

  • New graduate program taps into world's water issues

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Wednesday, 26 May 2010 00:00
    A unique partnership between United Nations University and McMaster University is set to make Hamilton a hub for the study of water issues around the world. ...

  • Canada's most prestigious scholarship awarded to eight McMaster students

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:00
    by Laura Thompson - May 18, 2010 By the time she applied for graduate school, Soumaya Zlitni was a straight A-plus student who spoke three languages and had published in one of the most high profile journals in her field. Now, at age 27, the PhD candi...

  • Who's Grad Student is it Anyways?

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Monday, 22 March 2010 00:00
    March 22, 2010   A biologist, a business woman and a chemical engineer walk into a bar... That was the scene at Theatre Aquarius last week as 17 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows took part in an innovative improvisational workshop to enha...

  • Networking for Newbies

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Friday, 19 March 2010 00:00
    How to build successful relationships post grad school by Kathryn Allan - March 19, 2010 The School of Graduate Studies would like to thank Kathryn Allan for volunteering to write about her experience at the Networking Workshop, hosted by MITACS. Ev...

  • New opportunities for students in the Arts

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 00:00
    February 03, 2010 The Faculty of Humanities is strengthening its commitment to the fine arts at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. A new proposed bachelor of fine arts will allow humanities to expand its offerings in its outstanding studio art...

  • McMaster a popular partner at recruitment ‘speed dating'

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:00
    January 20, 2010 In December, while most of the University was preparing for exams or the holidays, representatives from McMaster were in China showcasing the University to an eager crowd of potential graduate students. Read the full story on McMa...

  • Vacant seats on Board of Governors, Senate

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 00:00
    Posted on January 15, 2010 at 10:30 AM. Nominations are open for candidates wishing to fill vacant undergraduate and graduate student representative seats. Read the full story on McMaster’s Daily News »...

  • Students come together to study entrepreneurship

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 00:00
    by DeGroote School of Business January 15, 2010   No single way exists to start, develop and manage a business. In a new course on entrepreneurship offered this semester by the DeGroote School of Business, students from across McMaster Universi...

  • Mills to house Health Forum, New Media Centre

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:00
    by McMaster University Library January 14, 2010   The University Library and Collaborations for Health, an interfaculty initiative, are jointly establishing two new, state-of-the art facilities in Mills Library to house the McMaster Health Forum and ...

  • McMaster catches Olympic Fever

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Friday, 18 December 2009 00:00
    December 18, 2009   The Games may not be until February, but McMaster is already seeing its fair share of Olympic action.   Read the full story on McMaster’s Daily News »  ...

  • Bigger and bossier better for fish families

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Monday, 14 December 2009 00:00
    December 14, 2009   If you are spending the holidays with big Uncle Frank or bossy Aunt Minnie and wondering whether you would be better off with another family, spare a thought for the humble cichlid fish.   Read the full story on McMaster’s Da...

  • Plants prefer their kin, crowd out competition from strangers

    News & Events - SGS News
    Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00
    November 17, 2009   Plants don't mind sharing space with their kin but when they're potted with strangers of the same species they start flexing their leaves, a study by McMaster University reveals.   Read the full story on McMaster’s Daily News...