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First-year Life Sciences student Tess Schwartz shared her personal battle with anorexia nervosa in the Hamilton Spectator and the Daily News.  Tess says a “harmless health kick” became an unhealthy obsession that led to involuntary admission to Sick Kids Hospital and postponed her plans to attend McMaster last September. “Taking the rest of the year off was the best decision I could have made for myself because it gave me time to return to a healthy state,” Tess wrote in the Daily News.

David Venus, a professor with the Department of Physics & Astronomy who teaches a Media Numeracy: Telling Stories with Math course published a guest column in the Hamilton Spectator encouraging parents not to be misled by distorting math results from the province’s Education Quality and Accountability Office.

 Catherine Maybrey, Career Integration Specialist with the Faculty of Science, and Lisa Dyce, Student Educational Developer at the MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching, were published in University Affairs. In their article “Do grad students perceive career resources as valuable?”, Catherine and Lisa call on supervisors and graduate program chairs to endorse services available to their students and encourage the use of on-campus career resources. “By working together, faculty members, graduate students and staff can overcome the barriers created by students’ perceptions in order to facilitate critical career conversations, increase student wellness and set graduates up for long-term success and life satisfaction,” write Catherine and Lisa.