January 20, 2016
With problems to crack, Mac hack has got your backMore than 350 students participated in the second annual DeltaHacks student hackathon for change at McMaster University from Jan 16 to 17. Teams were given 24 hours to find an innovative way to address a real-world problem.
January 19, 2016
‘Mathstronauts’ help middle schoolers take on science, engineering challengesNearly 100 local middle school students and dozens of McMaster undergrads teamed up to take on a pair of science and engineering challenges this weekend.
January 19, 2016
DeGroote Women’s Professional Network is your ticket to opportunityThe new DeGroote Women's Professional Network will be formally unveiled during a sold-out event on January 19 at Burlington's Ron Joyce Centre.
January 18, 2016
Hamilton to host 2016, 2017 Vanier Cup football gamesThe CIS championship match is scheduled for Nov. 26 in 2016, while the date for 2017 will be confirmed in the coming months.
January 18, 2016
Collective Arts brews unique learning experience for Mac studentsStudents spent part of a day touring Collective Arts Brewing staff, who showed them the beer-making process from start to finish. The tour gave the students a glimpse at how the theories they learn in the classroom play out in the real world.
January 15, 2016
Descendants of Black Death confirmed as source of repeated European plague outbreaksAn international team of researchers has uncovered new information about the Black Death in Europe and its descendants, suggesting it persisted on the continent over four centuries, re-emerging to kill hundreds of thousands in Europe in separate, devastating waves.
January 14, 2016
First Nations artist brings art and storytelling to McMasterAs part of the University’s Perspectives on Peace campaign, the Museum of Art and the Indigenous Studies Program present Elizabeth Doxtater’s Art of Peace exhibition and events.
January 14, 2016
What the hack? Students gather for problem-solving sessionDeltaHacks, an event organized by the student club HackitMac, is in its second year at McMaster University. The hackathon takes place over a 24-hour period this weekend at McMaster from January 16 to 17 and brings together 500 students from across Ontario.
January 14, 2016
Phone book physicsPhysicist Kari Dalnoki-Veress organized an experiment on campus with interlocking phone books and recruited students to help him demonstrate its inseparable strength.
January 13, 2016
Bowie’s most popular songs, according to scienceMcMaster's Digital Music Lab has crunched the numbers and determined Bowie's most popular songs.
January 13, 2016
New Exhibition Highlights Resilience and Understanding Health through ArtResilience is the focus of a new exhibition of contemporary art at the McMaster Museum of Art, developed in partnership with McMaster Professor Christine Wekerle as a direct result of her research into maltreatment.
January 13, 2016
McMaster helps launch Hamilton’s new Anti-Racism Resource CentreThe new Anti-Racism Resource Centre will include confidential intake space, meeting rooms, a community meeting hall and a resource library.
January 13, 2016
Strong showing at John Molson MBA competition for DeGroote teamHosted by Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business, the MBAICC is the largest and oldest case competition of its kind.
January 12, 2016
How research can help build healthy communitiesLearn more about how McMaster research is helping to build healthy, vibrant communities at the next set of events in the Big Ideas, Better Cities series.
January 12, 2016
McMaster researchers reveal predictive staircase to leukemiaMcMaster researchers have taken a giant leap in identifying the early stages of a deadly cancer and predicting how it will develop in individuals.
January 11, 2016
Al Jazeera airs documentary on DeGroote School of MedicineThe global broadcaster calls the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine "one of the world's most innovative medical schools."
January 11, 2016
Take the three-minute challenge in 2016Graduate students have 180 seconds to present complex research to a panel of non-specialist judges at McMaster's annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition, also known as 3MT, taking place on February 18 at the David Braley Health Sciences Centre in downtown Hamilton.
January 10, 2016
Multi-university clean energy project awarded $4-million NSERC grantAn international research project focused on developing new clean energy technologies has received $4M from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
January 8, 2016
How (and why!) we’re growing the flu inside this Mac labAren't we supposed to be getting rid of the flu?
January 7, 2016
DeGroote students flex their skills at MBA Games, John Molson MBA CompetitionEach year, the MBA Games marks the largest gathering of MBA students in Canada. Students from business schools across the country compete in three categories: Academics, Athletics and Spirit.