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December 11, 2015
Business students’ best bets for surviving exam seasonOrganizational skills, study groups and a little bit of Netflix.
December 10, 2015
New Planetarium show explores ancient legends, modern observations of Big DipperA new planetarium show brings together knowledge from Six Nations storytellers and the Indigenous Studies Program with knowledge from the Department of Physics and Astronomy
December 10, 2015
Province’s university funding formula report releasedA report highlighting results from consultations on the future funding model for Ontario universities has been released by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
December 10, 2015
New Dean and Vice-President, Faculty of Health SciencesPaul O’Byrne, chair of McMaster’s Department of Medicine, will assume the role on July 1, 2016.
December 10, 2015
New state-of-the-art Learning Portfolio platform launching in 2016After months of extensive campus-wide consultations with faculty, staff and students, McMaster has adopted a new Learning Portfolio technology.
December 9, 2015
Wilson Foundation establishes prestigious leadership awards at McMasterThe Wilson Foundation is establishing a new awards program hosted at McMaster which will nurture and cultivate the country’s next leading thinkers.
December 8, 2015
Classes end, exam period beginsIt may not feel like it outside, but it is December – and that means the fall term has come to a close.
December 8, 2015
Learning the ‘Art of Leadership’A new course developed by the Faculty of Humanities explores how mentoring others can help students build leadership skills to help them succeed at McMaster and in the workplace.
December 7, 2015
New facility will test how long nuclear reactor components lastThe Nuclear Materials Post Irradiation Examination Facility's name might be a mouthful, but its purpose is simple: to study the lifespan of components in nuclear reactors when subjected to intense irradiation.
December 4, 2015
More must be done to stop post-op deathsPost operative deaths are not uncommon and more needs to be done to understand just how to prevent them, says McMaster researchers.
December 4, 2015
National Day of RemembranceThe community will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Montreal massacre with a special service in Gilmour Hall 111 on Friday, Dec. 4th.
December 3, 2015
Goats may be best weapon against invasive speciesStill using herbicide? You must be kid-ding.
December 2, 2015
Ceremonial beam signing an important milestone in Wilson Hall constructionA recent beam signing marked an important milestone in the construction of L.R. Wilson Hall.
December 1, 2015
HIV-infected mother’s milk could contain hundreds of shields against virusMcMaster's Ken Rosenthal speculates there could be hundreds of innate immune factors in breast milk that act like tiny shields, blocking the virus from entering the bloodstream of a nursing child.
December 1, 2015
Patrick Deane to speak on the UN Millennium GoalsMcMaster President Patrick Deane will discuss the role of the University and the United Nations millennium development goals at a talk to be held Thursday, Dec. 3 at 3:30 in Convocation Hall.
December 1, 2015
Partners share good chemistry as Health Canada grants pharmaceutical testing licence to McMaster labsHealth Canada has granted the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology the authority to test the active ingredients used in pharmaceutical products, making McMaster the first Canadian university to earn a drug establishment licence.
November 30, 2015
McMaster signs MOUs with some of China’s leading universitiesMcMaster University participated in a recent research and development summit with a COU delegation and Ontario’s Premier Kathleen Wynne, as part of the Province’s efforts to develop further collaboration in China.
November 30, 2015
Studying strange visitors from an ecosystem far, far awayThey come from the dark waters of the deep sea, bringing their strange habits to temporary homes in the mud along British Columbia’s rocky shoreline.
November 26, 2015
Mac grad Matthew Sheridan named Ontario’s Young Entrepreneur of the YearMatthew Sheridan, inventor of the Nix Colour Sensor and a McMaster alumnus, was named Ontario's Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2015 Ontario Business Achievement Awards on Nov. 25.
November 26, 2015
Steadfast focus required to silence drums of warDr. Samantha Nutt, a McMaster alumna, activist and founder/executive director of War Child Canada, delivered the second Perspectives on Peace lecture to a packed Convocation Hall.