Culture & Society
Unlike other brown characters who have appeared on television before her, such as The Simpson’s Apu, Devi is more than a sidekick or a figure of fun. She drives the narrative, and in ways that are alternately inspiring, cringe-worthy and relatable.
Health & Medicine
Biochemistry and biomedical sciences professor Eric Brown has been awarded one of six annual Killam Research Fellowships for his work on antibacterial drug discovery for drug-resistant infections.
Health & Medicine
Evidence shows that cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton cloth, block droplet and aerosol contamination of the environment, which may reduce transmission of COVID-19.
Health & Medicine
Physical activity can help people manage the stress of COVID-19, but closures and distancing have made it even harder to exercise. Mac researchers are developing a free toolkit to help us all cope.
Science & Technology
An international team of scientists, including a researcher from McMaster, set out to establish the ecological importance of glass frog translucency and, in doing so, have revealed a novel form of camouflage.
Canada & the World
Fifty-eight per cent of Canadians were already using masks before Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam announced the policy change May 20, says research from political science and public opinion researcher Clifton van der Linden.
Canada & the World
Immigrants and other newcomers to Canada are worried about maintaining their relationships and staying afloat, and need government consideration and support.
Canada & the World
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted food supply chains and put new pressures on grocery stores, hitting society’s most vulnerable. We asked Melanie Bedore, an assistant professor in Geography & Earth Sciences, about the issue.
Environment & Sustainability
When the sea lamprey invaded the Great Lakes, lake trout — once a top predator fish, and the lamprey's preferred food — were transformed into Swiss cheese and began dying out. Until scientists developed one of the most successful invasive-species-management programs in the world.
Environment & Sustainability
Canadian and the US have invested more than $22.8 billion in cleaning up the Great Lakes in the last 35 years -- and that's money well-spent, a new article finds, with every dollar toward cleanup catalyzing more than $3 worth of community revitalization.
Culture & Society
Unlike other brown characters who have appeared on television before her, such as The Simpson’s Apu, Devi is more than a sidekick or a figure of fun. She drives the narrative, and in ways that are alternately inspiring, cringe-worthy and relatable.
Culture & Society
The existential threat we’re facing right now might explain the proliferation of conspiracy theories, extreme political ideologies and #Reopen protests.
Culture & Society
In 1917, Private Gordon Parkinson wrote home with news that he’d been quarantined due to an outbreak of mumps in camp. Now, a new transcription project is making this letter, and other historically significant items in the Library’s digital archives, easier for scholars to find and use.
Business & the Economy
To navigate this reopening, we need a balance between the advice of health professionals and the alarm of economists, writes business Dean Len Waverman.
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