MURAnews Spring 2017 - present

President’s Corner
Contacting MURA

News and Events

What's Happening at Mac

Volunteer Opportunities

News from the College and University Retiree Associations of Canada (CURAC)

Community Connections

Contacting Human Resources

Members’ Corner

President’s Corner
News and Events

Your Money/Your Health

• 2024 Annual General Membership Meeting
• Welcome New Council Members
• Welcome New Retirees
• Recent Passings

• Order of Canada Appointment
• In Memory of Chancellor Emeritus Mel Hawkrigg
• Remembering Former President Geraldine Kenney- Wallace

• MURA Spring Fling
• MURA Walks 2024
• Tour of McMaster Museum of Art
• Upcoming! Book Now! Oskee Wee Wee!
• Mark your Calendar – MURA Holiday Lunch
• MURA Scholarship News
• Unifor Local 5555 Retired Workers Chapter

• Retiree Benefits Reminders
• Parking on Campus

• Flamborough Volunteer Opportunities

• CURAC 2024 National Conference

• The Missing Oysters
• Suggestions for Summer Reading
• Summertime Brain Teaser

President’s Corner
Contacting MURA
News from MURA

• Notice of Annual General Membership Meeting
  
• Special presentation to the AGM
• 2024 Nominating Committee Report
• MURA Spring Fling 2024
  
• An invitation to a guided tour of the McMaster Museum of Art
  
• MURA Walks 2024
  
• Retirees in the news
  
• Welcome new retirees
  
• Recent passings

• McMaster Optimal Aging Portal Weekly Bulletin and YouTube Channel
  
• Advance care planning
  
• Reminders for your end-of-life planning
  
• Importance of self-care: Nurturing our well-being as we age
  
• Parking on campus

• Upcoming departmental celebrations
• Brighter World: latest news in research at McMaster
• Mac in the news

• How to minimize web tracking

• Join the SHARE Network
• McMaster research studies seeking older adult participants

• The After Life: life following retirement
• Retirement in Niagara-on-the Lake
• According to the Lore: an Evening of Folktales, Frights and Fantasy

• President’s Corner
• Contacting MURA
• News from MURA
• • Save the date – MURA Annual General Membership Meeting
  • Call for nominations
  • Recent passings
    
  • Welcome new retirees
  • MURA scholarship funds
  • Save the date – 2nd Annual MURA Spring Fling
  • Annual Holiday Luncheon
  • MURA walks – Winter 2024
  • News from CURAC
• Your Money/Your Health
• • January 2024 pension plan increases/updates
  • 2023 tax documents
  • Parking on campus
  • Notifying Human Resources of address changes
• A reminder about retiree benefit plan booklets
• What to do with old technology devices

• What’s happening at Mac
• • McMaster breaks ground on new student residence
  • University Club lounge now open to all
  • Patrick Deane Fall honorary degree recipient
  • Math and Stats 80th anniversary
  • Generative artificial intelligence at McMaster
• Volunteer opportunities
• • Physiotherapist-led tele-rehabilitation
  • Bay Area Science & Engineering Fair
• Members’ Corner
• • #@%#!**&$?#^!
  • The Ghost in the Addict
  • A Winter Holiday in the Orkneys

• President’s Corner
• Contacting MURA
• News from MURA
• • MURA Holiday Luncheon
  • First MURA Graduate Scholarship awarded
  • Graduand award winner 2023
  • MURA walks
  • Retirees in the news
  • Welcome new retirees
  • Recent passings
    
• What’s happening at Mac

• • Campus Greenhouse

  • McMaster Children’s Centre

• Volunteer opportunities
• • McMaster Chaplaincy Exam Hospitality Program
    
  • Kinesiology research study participants needed
  • School of Rehab Science virtual exercise trial
    
  • CURAC needs Communications Cttee members
• Your Money/Your Health
• • Questions about your Sun Life health & dental claims coverage?
  • McMaster retiree $10,000 out-of province/country emergency medical coverage
  • Consider a legacy gift to McMaster
  • Parking on campus
  • Notifying Human Resources of address changes
• Computer Tips & Tricks
  
• • Free online access to movies, TV, and more through Hamilton Public Library
    
• Members’ Corner
• • A Sense of Place: Miscou Island
    
  • The fun of singing and playing music online!
    
  • Missing the bus is not always a bad thing
    
  • A creative life after retirement
    
  • Holiday Spectacular

• President’s Corner
• Contacting MURA
• News from MURA
• • 2023 MURA Annual General Meeting
  • Welcome New Council Members!
  • Welcome new retirees
  • Retirees in the news
  • Best Canadian scientists from McMaster
  • Order of Canada appointments
  • Recent passings
  • MURA events
  • MURA Holiday Lunch
  • MURA Scholarship News
  • McMaster University Retirees Continue to Give Back to the University
  • Report on CURAC Annual Meeting 2023
• What’s happening at Mac
• • Order of Canada Appointment
  • McMaster University Campus Architecture and Sculpture Tours
    
• Your Money/Your Health
• • Retiree Benefits Reminders
  • • Claim Submissions
    • Retiree Out of Province/Country Emergency Medical Coverage Update
  • Check your Biennial Pension Information Statement
  • Changes Coming to OHIP Funding for Visits to Optometrists
  • Parking on campus
  • Contacting Human Resources
• Volunteer opportunities
• • Recruiting for a resistance band training research study
  • Recruiting for a light-weight resistance training research study
• Members’ Corner
• • Chimneys: Dundas and Prague
  • In Praise of Walking
  • A Joyful Habit

Spring 2023

• President’s Corner
• News from MURA
• • 2023 Nominating Committee Report
  • Proposed changes to MURA’s Constitution
  • Welcome new retirees
  • MURA Spring Fling 2023
  • McMaster note cards
  • Retirees in the news
  • MURA Graduate Scholarship Fund
  • Recent passings
  • CURAC Report
• What’s happening at Mac
• • Brighter World
• Volunteer opportunities
• • Study Looking for Volunteers to Participate in Mobility Programs
  • McMaster Convocation Assistants
  • An Invitation to Become a Volunteer Workshop Facilitator
• Your Money/Your Health
• • Diet and Healthy Aging
  • Managing Cholesterol with Diet and Lifestyle Changes
  • A Reminder for Your End-of-Life Planning
  • Thinking About Enrolling in Courses at Mac?
  • Local Pharmacies in Ontario are Now Able to Prescribe for Common Ailments
  • You May Need to Pay for Tests by Optometrists and Ophthalmologists
  • Flourishing – What is it and How Do We Achieve it?
• Members’ Corner
• • Time on My Hands
  • Insomnia
  • Nostalgia and the Writing of Books
  • The Gift of Up - Ascending into Grace Space

• President’s Corner
• News from MURA
• • From the MURA archives
    
  • Retirees in the news
  • 2022 MURA Graduand Award winner
• Your Money/Your Health
• • January 2023 pension plan updates
  • Sun Life changing its pharmacy benefit manager
  • Free online access to newspapers and magazines through Hamilton Public Library
  • Mac Optimal Aging Portal e-learning tutorials
    

• What’s happening at Mac
• • New construction
  • Brighter World - MIRA awards $240,000 in catalyst grants
• Members’ Corner
• • Pliny on the FIFA world cup
  • Singing!
  • A notebook

Fall 2022

• News from MURA
• • Tribute to John Paul (Jack) Evans
    
• What’s happening at Mac
• • New construction
  • Brighter World
• Your Money/Your Health
• • McMaster photo ID card
  • Walking and artistic endeavours -- a boon to good health
• Computer Tips & Tricks
• • Multi-Factor Authentication
    
• Members’ Corner
• • Hiking (all) the Mountains of Scotland - Stephen Walter
  • Services for Students with Disabilities at McMaster - Tim Nolan
  • Friendship - Ellen Ryan

• News from MURA
• • 2022 MURA AGM
  • Retirees in the news
  • Welcome new Council members!
  • From the MURA archives: Social activities and trips
• Brighter World: Latest research in infectious diseases at McMaster
• Computer Tips & Tricks
• • Trend Micro Antivirus software
• Your Money/Your Health
• • Maintaining physical and mental fitness during retirement
  • When to cut back or stop driving due to age-related changes?
• Members’ Corner
• • Travelling companion - Elaine McKinnon Riehm
  • Personal relaxation strategy - John Horsman
  • Learn Greek! - Anthony Carr

• Members’ Corner
• • Time well spent - Dennis McCalla
  • Objurgatory? Dwy? - Elaine McKinnon Riehm
  • Birthing of the Canadian Phoenix - Steve Staniek
  • A musical journey from playing to composing - Fred Moyes
• Your Money/Your Health
• • Updated information on the shingles vaccine
  • Maintaining physical and mental well-being in less-than-ideal circumstances
  • Update on out-of-province/country health insurance options
• What’s happening at Mac
• • McMaster’s research information website “Brighter World”
• CURAC
• • The 2022 CURAC/ARUCC Virtual Assembly
  • 2022 CURAC/ARUCC Annual General Meeting and best practices sessions
  • Why does MURA belong to CURAC?

• A MURA funding update
• 2021 MURA Scholarship and Prize winners
• From the archives -- MURA’s funding over the years
• Piano playing cures pandemic blues
• Podcasting: let your voice be heard!
• You CAN teach an old dog new tricks!
• As they were
• Flying high after retirement
• Aging and sleep
• Cataract surgery - Information to consider
• Cycling Without Age

• Becoming a published novelist, retirement dream come true
• Buy Nothing Project
• Current trial of online health self-management support for patients with chronic illnesses
• Walking, fitness trackers, and 10,000 steps
• What is the advice on expired medications?

• Report on 2021 Annual General Meeting
• Summary of special presentation to the AGM
• Welcome new Council members!
• More on coffle -- Sandy Darling
• Hinterlands -- Elaine McKinnon Riehm
• Changing of the seasons -- John Horsman
• From the MURA archives
• Exercise doesn’t need to be a four-letter word!
• Hypertension and non-medical prevention strategies
• Gardening – a mood booster
• Retirees in the McMaster Online Directory
• Alvin Lee’s Memoir available in e-book format
  

• Retirees in the news
• Oddities -- Elaine McKinnon Riehm
• Pandemic Pastimes
• Dental care for seniors
• Music and your health
• Staying social during the pandemic
• Microwave Shakshuka
• Cohousing coming to Hamilton
• The Period Promise campaign
• CURAC discounts and affinity agreements

• (Re)discover your local library
• Schooldays redux
• Osteoarthritis of the hip and knee
• Everything you wanted to know about the COVID-19 vaccine
• In case of emergency
• Cyber security
• Virtual grief chat line
  
• Make an easy, healthy, mix-and-match soup
• Making winter a little easier
• Gardening in Small Spaces Webinar

• New graduate student academic awards fund
• 2019 MURA Scholarship winners
• Return of historical artifacts
• McMaster’s contributions to pandemic research
• Issues with Sun Life health & dental claims coverage
• Free online exercise course
• Diversions, fall 2020

• Changes to your McMaster email service
• MURA Member Survey – an interim report
• The retirees of McMaster: an important part of the McMaster Community
• McMaster retirees: a more robust contribution? Ten ways to enhance retiree volunteer participation at the university
• Hearing aid benefit, summer 2020
• Passing on your passwords
• Summertime treat

• Medical alert systems
• Importance of the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal in these trying times
• Streaming music services
• Virtual sites to explore while waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic
• Lynda.com – free online learning tool

• McMaster installs its 19th Chancellor
• McMaster’s new President
• Further information on vision care benefits
• Exercise, memory and the older adult
• What is the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal?
• Vacation calling? What to know about health insurance before you go
• McMaster pension plans: how have they done over the past 10 Years?
• Are our pensions keeping up with inflation?

• The Student Activity and Fitness Expansion at the David Braley Athletic Centre
• Trees@Mac
• Retiree health benefits for eyeglasses, contact lenses, and laser eye correction surgery
• Are your affairs in order?
• Sharing photos and other large files – alternatives to email
• One MURA member’s personal experience with a phone scam

• Report from the 2019 CURAC Conference
• Suspicious email
• A primer on prescription drug fees
• Improved Sun Life process for vaccine expense reimbursement

• Mac photo ID card for retirees
• How diet, exercise and medication play a role in your heart health

• What you should know about ambulance fees in Ontario
• How do you invest in your financial well being?
• What is a MAC ID and why should you have one?
• Congratulations to Dorothy Willott on the occasion of her 100th birthday!

• Have you heard about the new shingles vaccine?
• Eye examination funding
• Men’s health: what the latest research tells us
• Hiking and biking in the Hamilton area
• Changing your bank account?

• Telephone scams
• How technology can help you as you age
• The Red Book of Hamilton
• Have you heard about Knitted Knockers?

• Public libraries are great places for retirees
• Resilient aging in community: housing alternatives
• Five diet changes supported by research evidence

• Exercise programs can help reduce falls and prevent injuries
• Hamilton Third Age Learning
• Visiting library services

• Looking for a physiotherapy clinic covered by OHIP?
• What works best for relieving back pain?
• Recycling cell phones
• Services for seniors - Ontario 211

• Tips to identify trustworthy health information
• Doing it yourself: self-publishing
• ‘McMaster Reads’ online book club
• Remembering Peter George
• Twiddlemuffs

• Your CPP survivor pension may surprise you
• Are you thinking of moving to a retirement residence?
• The Little Black Book of Scams
• Pinterest
• What’s new on the Optimal Aging Portal?