MEDIA RELEASE: 2 January 2020 – R00001
McMaster University and Brock University are expanding their partnership and will sign a renewed collaboration agreement with additional shared academic initiatives.
The signing will take place Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 10 a.m. at the Niagara Regional Campus of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, which is located in the Roy & Lois Cairns Health & Bioscience Research Complex at Brock University.
Following the signing, members of the media are invited to join Brock and McMaster students and faculty for a tour of the anatomy lab shared by students from the two schools.
What: Brock University and McMaster University Memorandum of Understanding signing
When: Wednesday, Jan. 8, 10 a.m.
Where: Niagara Regional Campus, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine McMaster University at the Roy & Lois Cairns Health & Bioscience Research Complex, Room 240, Brock University
Who: Paul O’Byrne, Dean and Vice-President, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University; Gervan Fearon, President, Brock University; Amanda Bell, Regional Assistant Dean, Niagara Regional Campus McMaster University; Peter Tiidus, Dean, Applied Health Sciences, Brock University.
Members of the media are asked to RSVP to Dan Dakin and park in Reserved Lot A in front of the Roy & Lois Cairns Health & Bioscience Research Complex on the day of the signing.
For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:
* Dan Dakin, Manager Communications and Media Relations, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970
* Veronica McGuire, Media Relations, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
vmcguir@mcmaster.ca, 289-776-6952
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