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).

Campus

McMaster's main campus is bordered to the north by Cootes Paradise, an extensive natural marshland, to the east and west by residential neighbourhoods and to its south by Main Street West, a major artery of Hamilton. Its northern boundaries are a popular destination for hikers and joggers who make use of the many trails that connect the campus to the RBG's lands.

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Cootes Paradise - Marshland - RBG

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The buildings and facilities represent the ongoing development that has been happening on McMaster grounds since it purchased the property from the city of Hamilton in 1928. Its six original gothic-style buildings are now flanked by over 50 structures built predominantly during booms in the early 1970s and the late 1990s to present.

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Hamilton - Gothic

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Perhaps the most distinctive component of the campus skyline is that of the McMaster University Medical Centre, a multi-use research hospital that ranks among the largest public buildings in Canada. It is connected to the Life Sciences building and the recently completed (2004) Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning & Discovery which houses many well-funded research groups in areas of genetics, infectious diseases and several specific conditions.

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Genetics - Infectious diseases

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The McMaster nuclear reactor (MNR) completed in 1959, is the only Canadian medium flux reactor in a university environment. It is a "pool-type" reactor with a core of enriched uranium fuel moderated and cooled by light water. The MNR, provides wide range of irradiation, laboratory and holding facilities which include: A cyclotron, an accelerator, a small-angle neutron-scattering detector and wide-angle neutron scattering facilities.

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Satellite Campuses

Recently, McMaster has begun spreading physically beyond its inflexible West Hamilton borders into other areas in the region.

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Downtown Hamilton

A converted office tower on Main Street serves as McMaster's Centre for Continuing Education.

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Burlington

Now in its initial development phase, McMaster University announced in 2004 that in partnership with the neighbouring city of Burlington, it would be constructing a new arts & technology intensive campus in that city. Plans call for a small initial cohort to be admitted in 2007 in leased space and the University hopes to have an enrolment at the Burlington campus of nearly 5000 students by 2020. The Burlington campus concept is contingent on provincial government approval, not yet sought, of the academic programmes and the necessary funding.

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The proposed campus has proven controversial and the plan has been opposed by many deans and other faculty members. The McMaster Students Union has serious reservations with the project and may openly oppose the project dependent upon either a fall vote in the student representative assembly or a general referendum.

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Industrial Research Park

Announced in 2005, McMaster has purchased a large industrial park two miles east of its main Hamilton campus that will be redeveloped to contain an array of research facilities for the development and construction of materials, biotechnology and automotive technology. The park is expected to produce thousands of jobs and millions of dollars for the local and provincial economies.

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In July 2005 it was announced that CANMET, a federal government materials research laboratory, would be relocated from its Ottawa centre to Hamilton, helping spear-head the development of the McMaster research park. A predicted $60 million in partner funding is expected to establish the new laboratory by 2008.

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CANMET - Ottawa

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