June 30, 2022
Feast your eyes, hold your nose: Arthur the corpse flower is ready to bloomArthur, one of the three mature corpse flowers on campus, is set to bloom any day now. The enormous, rare plants take years to bloom, and their name comes from their signature stench of rotting flesh.
June 29, 2022
Parminder Raina, pioneer in research on aging, appointed to Order of CanadaRaina is receiving one of the country's highest honours in recognition decades of research to understand and improve older adults’ health and quality of life.
June 29, 2022
IBH students tackle real-life challenges for community organizationsThe first full graduating cohort from the Integrated Business and Humanities (IBH) program helped community organizations tackle real-life challenges as part of the Capstone in Community Engagement course this past term.
June 28, 2022
Artists look to bring memories to life in a guidebook of the cityTwo McMaster graduates are lending their artistic talents to a guidebook that looks to celebrate memory and shared spaces in Hamilton.
June 28, 2022
McMaster approves 2022-23 consolidated budgetDescribed as a forward-looking financial plan, the budget is the result of a strong collaborative effort supported by faculties and areas across the university.
June 23, 2022
Refreshed curriculum re-imagines traditional notions of leadership through humanities and equity lensThe McMaster Humanities Leadership curriculum, which offers opportunities for undergraduate students across all Faculties to develop their own approach to leadership, has been refreshed to to deepen its focus on equity, diversity and inclusion.
June 23, 2022
McMaster grad takes on top job at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board“Be intellectually curious and adopt a learning mindset and keep that with you through your career," says Mac grad John Graham, head of the CPPIB.
June 22, 2022
New catalogue featuring Omni search tool now live at McMaster librariesThe new library catalogue is expected to better meet the needs of McMaster’s academic community thanks, in part, to a search tool called Omni which is now in use at 18 university libraries across Ontario.
June 21, 2022
A Grand day of STEM activities for Indigenous high school studentsSix Nations Polytechnic partners with McMaster University and the University of Waterloo to explore STEM field work in the Grand River.
June 21, 2022
In conversation with Robert Innes, incoming chair of McMaster’s Indigenous Studies departmentMcMaster Daily News sat down with Robert Innes, incoming chair of the newly created Indigenous Studies department, to discuss building on the successes of existing Indigenous Studies program at McMaster.
June 21, 2022
MIRI director Savage Bear (formerly Tracy Bear) on advances in Indigenous research at McMasterMcMaster Daily News sat down with Savage Bear, formerly known as Tracy Bear, Director of McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI), to discuss advances made by the Institute and its collaborative partners.
June 21, 2022
Reflecting on advances in Indigenous education and research at McMasterTo mark National Indigenous Peoples Day, a look at some of the strides made to advance Indigenous education and research at McMaster over the past year.
June 20, 2022
McMaster announces acting associate vice-president, Equity and InclusionAnand has led the Equity and Diversity portfolio in the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences since 2018.
June 20, 2022
McMaster supports graduate students displaced by TalibanTwo forcibly displaced students from Afghanistan share how qualifying for funding through the McMaster Students At Risk Bursary (SARB) will allow them to continue their educational journeys.
June 20, 2022
Portable electron microscope brings a hidden world into viewGrade 5 students in Dundas got to use an extremely sophisticated scanning electron microscope that can display features on the scale of nanometres, or billionths of a metre.
June 20, 2022
Grant partnership to support research to help students learn and work across disciplinesThe MacPherson Institute's Kelsey Harvey explains how McMaster University and Canadore College are partnering on a new project to better prepare students for the real-world work environment.
June 20, 2022
15 research projects awarded over $2.4 million in SSHRC grantsFourteen researchers across several faculties received Insight Grants and one researcher received a Partnership Development Grant.
June 17, 2022
‘We’re all in the university of life’ — Scenes from the Indigenous graduation ceremonyThe first in-person Indigenous graduation ceremony in years was held on Thursday, June 16. Warm, welcoming and celebratory, here are some highlights from a very special celebration.
June 17, 2022
Spring 2022 convocation: A celebration of our graduatesTwelve convocation ceremonies were held across May and June to mark the achievements of graduates across McMaster's six faculties.
June 17, 2022
Meet Engineering valedictorian Aya Aboughanem"There’s no set path or timeline for anyone, so don't stress about the future too much."