July 11, 2022
New minor in Latin American studies explores diverse experiencesThe interdisciplinary minor offers insights into the diversity and breadth of Latin American experiences for those new to the subject, and a chance for Latinx students to see themselves in the university curriculum.
July 8, 2022
Project rethinking care team approach for high-risk population wins President’s Award for Community Engaged ResearchThe Second Heart Project is a peer-focused, multi-disciplinary harm reduction strategy that helps people who inject drugs with infective endocarditis.
July 7, 2022
Meet the recipients of the President’s Award of Excellence in Student LeadershipSix McMaster students are the 2022 recipients of the President’s Award of Excellence in Student Leadership.
July 7, 2022
Violinist turned doctor masters the ‘music’ of medicineSiobhan Deshauer, a recent McMaster graduate and rheumatologist, uses her YouTube channel to give viewers an inside look at the health-care system and to demystify medicine for the masses.
July 6, 2022
McMaster students helping build local 2SLGBTQ+ community archivesMcMaster students have been engaging with and helping catalogue a collection at the Hamilton Public Library that will be used as the basis for the building of the Hamilton 2SLGBTQ+ Community Archive.
July 5, 2022
New guidelines for flexible work at McMaster now availableThe guidelines, created to help teams navigate flexible work arrangements, were developed by the Workplace and Employee Experience Committee.
July 5, 2022
New gift from Power Corporation supports leadership hub and programming at DeGroote School of BusinessThe Power Corporation Leadership Hub will offer a collaborative space for students, faculty and industry partners to reshape business leadership together.
July 4, 2022
A return of an alumni campus traditionAfter a two-year absence, McMaster welcomed back alumni celebrating milestone anniversaries of their graduation in June.
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.