The #University of South Carolina in #Columbia #Cancelled Classes for Today Due to #Weather. Then Gov. #McMaster Instructed the University to Remain Open. Then the University Cancelled all Columbia Campus Class Again, Effective from 2:30 P.M. Onward. Students are Confused.

I just ran across these pictures from my last #shure prototype. This was an #rf #pll board. We needed a shield and I decided we could use #kicad and some brass sheet stock from #mcmaster to build a custom shield. I drew it in kicad on the am and had a shield cut on the #laser #lpkf machine in our #Niles #illinois office by afternoon and I bent and soldered it straight away. #electronics #freecad

@brian_gettler In 1985 at the #McMaster #Chemistry Department, I was one of three inaugural recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships from the #Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The other two were Chemical Engineering PhD students, possibly in Alberta. My understanding was that this was to ‘experiment’ with university-industry graduate research partnerships that are still popular in the #UnitedStates. The Xerox program no longer exists, and neither does the XRCC itself. Sad.

In Episode 34, Bill & Jumelle are amazed at the lack of accountability for $1.8B of unaccounted for money.

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#SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #curtisloftis #mcmaster #henrymcmaster #accountability

https://www.live5news.com/2024/04/18/after-release-scathing-report-mcmaster-still-maintains-confidence-sc-treasurer/

The #Chemistry Club at #McMaster #University is helping students recover face-to-face socializing that was devastated by the #COVID #pandemic , resulting in feelings of #loneliness even among normally very social #college undergrads. #HigherEd

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/anyone-else-feeling-like-this-colleges-universities-grappling-with-loneliness-epidemic-among-students/article_d3d1881b-6fb8-58a8-aa15-3fa50591edb2.html

McMaster University biologist Jianping Xu is part of a team studying the bacteria and fungi that grow on bats' wings and can cause white-nose syndrome. According to the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, a partnership of veterinary colleges and the British Columbia Animal Health Centre, the syndrome is thought to have killed over six million bats since 2006. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/bat-microbe-research-1.7369845 #HamOnt #McMaster #Bats #Environment

#McMaster University's board of governors heard a presentation this week advocating that the Hamilton institution divest from companies with ties to Israel.

The board did not take any immediate action, but chair Jane Allen said they had learned from the presenters, who spoke on behalf of the McMaster chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/bds-presentation-to-mcmaster-board-1.7364218 #HamOnt #News

"Many former top officials in Trump’s administration continue to say they remain confounded by his seeming admiration for the #Russian autocrat.

In a new book, Trump’s former national security adviser H.R. #McMaster described his bafflement at his boss’s eagerness to please #Putin.

Mr. McMaster recounted how, in 2018, #Trump reveled over a newspaper article about comments Putin made both deriding America’s #political system and praising Trump."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine-war.html

Five years now teaching reproducible research workflows at #McMaster. The course outline and materials are here:

https://github.com/paezha/Reproducible-Research-Workflow

Trump Forced Afghans to Release 5,000 Taliban

“General H.R. #McMaster told #CNN that Donald #Trump sought to negotiate with the Taliban as U.S. troops began leaving #Afghanistan.

He undermined the Afghan government by forcing the to release 5,000 members of the #Taliban.”

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/01/trump-forced-afghans-to-release-5000-taliban/

Credit where credit's due: @KatyTurNBC is doing her best to hold McMaster to account for the contradictions inherent in his interviews and his book about the threat Donald Trump poses.

McMaster is weak. @Msnbc Good job Katy Tur. Hold his feet to the fire. #mcmaster

HR McMaster selling his book on Morning Joe—it’s a cowardly performance by McMaster, wanting it both ways, critical of Trump with a massive dose of bothsiderism - McMaster is kinda useless. #morningjoe #mcmaster

Vladimir #Putin exploited Donald #Trump’s “ego and insecurities” to exert an almost mesmeric hold over the former #US president, who refused to entertain any negative evaluation of the autocratic Russian leader from his own staff, and ultimately fired his national security adviser, HR #McMaster, over it.

“After over a year in this job, I cannot understand Putin’s hold on Trump,” McMaster recalls saying in the memoir.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/21/trump-putin-hr-mcmaster-memoir

#TheGuardian: Putin manipulated Trump’s ‘ego and insecurities’,
former US national security adviser HR #McMaster claims …in new memoir

"I suggested that #Putin was confident he could ‘play’ #Trump and get what he wanted, sanctions relief and the US out of #Syria and #Afghanistan…
“I could tell that Trump was getting impatient… I said what I needed to say. If he was going to be contrary, I hoped he would be contrary to the #Russian dictator, not to me.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/21/trump-putin-hr-mcmaster-memoir

A team of #McMaster University students in #HamOnt will soon head to Iceland, where they'll camp out by a series of underground lava tubes they plan to map with a drone.

The drone uses hardware and software designed by the undergraduate students, who hope their tech will one day be used in space exploration to specially map underground areas in space.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/mcmaster-dare-1.7254534 #Science #Space

"Decades ago, McMaster University paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Now the Hamilton post-secondary school is looking to reverse course and 're-wild' its west campus that sits beside the Cootes Paradise nature sanctuary." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/mcmaster-rewilding-1.7252998 #HamOnt #McMaster #Environment #News #CBC

In Episode 34, Bill & Jumelle review the insanity of bringing SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis to help understand the $1.8B error he's responsible for.

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"Pro-Palestinian student protesters say they hope talks with McMaster University will continue after a week of camping out on campus.

"Members of the group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights met with Sean Van Koughnett, McMaster's dean of students, on Friday, after calling for the university to disclose and divest its investments they say have ties to Israel and the conflict in Gaza."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/pro-palestinian-encampment-mcmaster-week-one-1.7202166 #HamOnt #McMaster #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #News #CBC