McMaster Archive

August 30, 2016

How one first-year student found her inner “social justice warrior”

Elissa James traveled to Morocco to teach English, learn Arabic and explore a new culture, but after witnessing the brutality of the Arab Spring, she returned to Canada with a passion for human rights.

August 30, 2016

MACgyver workshop challenges students to think on their feet

Over the summer undergraduate students were put to the test with mock situations with regular, high-tech espionage threats to students who had to solve puzzles using key engineering concepts found in labs.