From assisting the Public Health Agency of Canada better understand the spread of COVID variants of concern to making recommendations to inform Ontario’s vaccine rollout, McMaster researchers are lending their expertise to federal and provincial decision makers.
Health & Medicine
Stelios Georgiades is the inaugural holder of the McMaster Children’s Hospital Chair in Autism and Neurodevelopment.
Canada & the World
Dawn Martin-Hill leads ambitious — and successful — research that helps Indigenous communities get access to clean, safe water. The secret, she says, is to listen to the true experts — the people in the community.
Health & Medicine
Eating oily fish regularly can help prevent cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals, researchers find.
Health & Medicine
Immunologist and vaccine researcher Zhou Xing explains how he and a large team of colleagues mobilized 20 years of vaccine research to rapidly develop and test two new second-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
Catherine Connelly is targeting poverty’s root causes: inequality and exclusion in the labour force.
Health & Medicine
New research from McMaster has proven that a five-day course of high-dose amoxicillin will do just as well for children six months to 10 years old with common pneumonia.
Health & Medicine
Stelios Georgiades is the inaugural holder of the McMaster Children’s Hospital Chair in Autism and Neurodevelopment.
Health & Medicine
New research from McMaster has proven that a five-day course of high-dose amoxicillin will do just as well for children six months to 10 years old with common pneumonia.
Health & Medicine
Eating oily fish regularly can help prevent cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals, researchers find.
Science & Technology
From assisting the Public Health Agency of Canada better understand the spread of COVID variants of concern to making recommendations to inform Ontario’s vaccine rollout, McMaster researchers are lending their expertise to federal and provincial decision makers.
Health & Medicine
The funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation reflects McMaster's nationally recognized strengths in materials research and healthy aging.
Science & Technology
Neuroscientists at McMaster have found a link between children who are at risk for the common condition, which can cause clumsiness, and difficulties with time perception such as interpreting changes in rhythmic beats.
Canada & the World
Internet shutdowns prevent citizens from documenting violence and holding perpetrators accountable. But the international community and foreign internet providers, governments and advocacy networks can help.
Canada & the World
Tracy Bear will hold joint appointments in the Faculties of Social Sciences and Health Sciences and comes to McMaster from the University of Alberta. She is a Nehiyawiskwew (Cree woman) and member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan.
Canada & the World
A new website focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals showcases impactful research at McMaster that aligns with the goals and offers a toolkit for other institutions and researchers.
Environment & Sustainability
Mice pups living on mountain tops reserve their energy for growth rather than warmth. When they get too cold, they conserve energy by slowing down their metabolic processes.
Environment & Sustainability
Karen Kidd is trying to find ways to minimize the harmful impacts of economically important industries on freshwater resources and aquatic life.
Environment & Sustainability
The annual Synergy Award for Innovation recognizes partnerships between universities and Canadian industry in natural sciences and engineering research and development.
Culture & Society
School of the Arts director Stephanie Springgay combines research and art to explore the act of walking during COVID.
Culture & Society
Artifacts and art like standing stones through history possess an extraordinary power to capture our attention even as civilizations rise and fall.
Culture & Society
When everything else is changing, engaging with activities that “we have always done” can provide comfort.
Business & the Economy
Darren Lawless' job is to connect people. So how does that work during a pandemic?
Business & the Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how non-profit organizations operate and how they’re funded. Whether it will be enough to help the non-profit sector address growing social problems remains to be seen.
Business & the Economy
Everyone — health-care workers, kids in school or people running errands — needs masks. There’s no reason they shouldn’t be made here at home.