Fighting tumors, a provincial election and McMaster gets some Fast Company

McMaster’s Office of Public Relations highlights McMaster’s experts making local, national and international headlines.

Expert opinion:

Global National News interviewed Karen Mossman (Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences) about the rapidly advancing field of cancer immunotherapy, which boosts the body’s natural ways of attacking tumors.

CTV News Channel, CBC Radio’s Here & Now, St. Catharines’ CKTB radio and Hamilton’s 900 CHML interviewed Peter Graefe (Political Science) and CBC Radio’s Ontario Morning, CFRB, and 900 CHML interviewed Henry Jacek (Political Science) about the dynamics of the provincial election campaign.
In an editorial, The Hamilton Spectator highlighted mathematical analysis by Michael Veall (Economics) of the Conservatives’ jobs plan.

The National Post published a piece quoting Martin Gibala (Kinesiology) on the scientific challenges of measuring the relative value of different kinds of exercise.

Research:

Technology and business magazine Fast Company covered research by a McMaster team based at the Biointerfaces Institute and supported by the Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network, that resulted in a lab’s worth of technology being packed into a tiny gelatin capsule to be used for testing water safety. The story quoted team member Carlos Filipe (Chemical Engineering).

The Vancouver Sun reported on research presented by Deborah Sloboda (Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology) that suggests a high-fat diet during pregnancy may be just as damaging to offspring as having an undernourished mother and that the effects span more than one generation.

Community  engagement: 

The National Post published an op-ed by Michael Veall (Economics) on calling the mathematics of the Ontario Conservatives’ Million Jobs Plan into question.

The Hamilton Spectator reported on the opening of a new exhibition of modern sculpture at the McMaster Museum of Art.

CTV’s flagship national morning program, Canada AM, interviewed Beatrix Wang, winner of the Brain Bee, in continuing coverage of the a national competition held at McMaster to test high-school students’ knowledge of the brain.

Teaching, learning and student success:
The Hamilton Spectator highlighted Ken Cruikshank’s appointment as Dean of Humanities.