McMaster University

McMaster University is a medium-sized research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 16,771 full-time and 3,599 part-time students (as of 2004).

Academics

McMaster has been particularly renowned for its academic strengths, most notably in the fields of health sciences and engineering. The university has been named Canada's most innovative "medical-doctoral" university eight times in the past 11 years by Maclean's in its annual ranking of Canadian universities.

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In addition, McMaster's reputable DeGroote School of Business, houses the Allen H. Gould Trading Floor. The Allen H. Gould Trading Floor is a state-of-the-art educational tool that enables students to experience the relationships and interactions of the financial markets. It is one of the first such facilities in North America, and one of only 30 in the world.

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The McMaster University Library system consists of four libraries. The Mills Memorial Library for humanities and social sciences - The Mills Memorial Library houses the papers of Bertrand Russell and other major Canadian collections.

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Innis Library, located in Kenneth Taylor Hall for Business. H.G. Thode Library of Science & Engineering and Health Sciences Library.

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The University Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries. The collection contains more than 1.9 million volumes, 1,423,102 microform items, 174,956 non-print items and 11,041 linear feet of archival material. Current periodical titles number about 11,880. (1997)

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The McMaster Museum of Art houses six thousand works of art, including those bequeathed by Herman Levy.

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McMaster had a nuclear reactor

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since 1959 for nuclear science and engineering research. Separately, the natural sciences had a planetarium since 1949 and engineering boasts the Communications Research Laboratory.

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The university's health sciences reputation started with the foundation of its medical school -- with non-traditional small-group problem-based learning tutorials since adopted by other programs -- in the 1960s. However, it quickly grew with programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, midwifery, and other allied fields.

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When Albert Einstein died in 1955, his brain was preserved for medical research. A portion of it is held at the McMaster brain bank. Researchers there have identified differences in his brain that may relate to his genius for spatial and mathematical thinking.

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A recent $105 million (CDN) donation was given to McMaster's medical program from billionaire Michael G. DeGroote. The money will be used to upgrade the current medical school, which will be called the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. He is also a benefactor to McMaster's business school (which also bears his name), the Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery (MDCL), and the Student Centre.

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Billionaire - Michael G. DeGroote - Business school

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