Digital technology, patient-centred care and hometown roots are just some of the things this year's crop of health sciences graduates say are important to them.

Nearly 500 students will graduate from health sciences programs May 24 at a 2:30 p.m. ceremony in downtown Hamilton.

By Karen Heska '07,
Alumni Blogger

My name is Karen Heska.  My husband, David, and I crossed paths at a Christian group at McMaster in 2003. I was enrolled in the Nursing program and David was in the Engineering program. I had vowed during Frosh Week (after spending time with a lot of red suited engineers chanting "beer, beer, beer") that I would never date an engineer. Well, never say never...

Site preparations are underway for the construction of L.R. Wilson Hall, McMaster’s new home for the liberal arts.

Facility Services is installing hoarding around the site, the former home of Wentworth House, in anticipation of construction which begins shortly.

McMaster professor Wayne Lewchuk will be speaking to Mac10 young alumni at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute in Toronto about his research in precarious employment and the implications of the rise of this trend on the health and well-being of the Millennial generation.