McMaster Engineering researchers have initiated a $2 million project to work with General Motors Canada (GM Canada) to develop methods to help ensure the safety and reliability of autonomous and electrified vehicles.
This fall, McMaster University students are using a new, virtual reality app to hone their anatomy expertise outside of the classroom.
September 14, 2018
September 5, 2018
Because hair grows incrementally, researchers could specifically measure changes in exposure to lead during the last weeks of one Franklin expedition crew member's life.
March 5, 2018
Data centres and smartphones will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040, according to new research from W Booth School’s Lotfi Belkhir.
March 1, 2018
Two McMaster researchers have received the prestigious Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science for their ground-breaking paper connecting the delivery, by meteorites, of the building blocks of RNA, the first genetic material found in all life today, to warm little ponds on Earth.
December 8, 2017
The science is advancing quickly, and there is international concern about making sure it proceeds transparently, responsibly and beneficially.
August 15, 2017
Five McMaster research projects have been awarded more than $1.9 million combined for infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
July 18, 2017
Filomena Tassi, Member of Parliament for Hamilton West – Ancaster – Dundas was on campus July 18 to tour the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI).
July 12, 2017
Inside the Lab is McMaster Engineering’s new Instagram story series that gives a behind-the-scenes look at how our students are working towards tackling the grand challenges facing our world through innovative research projects.
July 5, 2017
The federal government unveiled its new $1.26-billion strategic innovation fund today at McMaster Innovation Park.
June 26, 2017
McMaster’s dean of engineering has been elected by his peers to join a distinguished academy that offers key advice on matters of critical importance to Canada.
Kathryn Grandfield, assistant Materials Science and Engineering professor, awarded the Petro-Canada-McMaster University Young Innovator Award. Karen Balcom, Associate Professor in McMaster's Department of History, is the 2017/2018 recipient of the MacPherson Teaching Fellowship.
June 22, 2017
McMaster and Ryerson universities have announced the Smart Robots for Health Communication project, a joint research initiative designed to introduce social robotics and artificial intelligence into clinical health care.
June 5, 2017
Recipients are considered global leaders in a number of diverse research areas and academic disciplines.
Five outstanding faculty members have been recognized as ‘complete scholars’ with the title of Distinguished University Professor.
June 1, 2017
Five McMaster researchers will take on everything from senior isolation to antimicrobial resistance as Vanier Canada Graduate Scholars and a Banting Fellow.
May 5, 2017
He was a world-renowned scientist, a pioneer in harnessing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, and one of McMaster’s most visionary leaders. Now medals belonging to former McMaster president Henry G. Thode are on display in Thode Library.
April 11, 2017
Strengthening the foundations of Canadian research is the focus of a new report by a federal advisory panel released April 10th commissioned by Federal Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.
April 4, 2017
Final year engineering students will be showcasing their stellar cutting-edge technological capstone projects during three popular annual expos at McMaster University.
March 24, 2017
On March 23, The Forge held it's third annual Forge@MAC Student Startup Competition. The event was attended by over 200 guests including students and individuals interested in the Hamilton entrepreneurial ecosystem.
March 23, 2017
This Fund is in addition to ongoing support for cluster funding to accelerate economic growth in key sectors including advanced manufacturing and health and bio-sciences.
March 21, 2017
Two research projects – one focused on electric vehicles, the other on eye disease – have each received a $4 million boost from the Ontario Research Fund.
February 28, 2017
Seven McMaster researchers received nearly $1.37 million combined for infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
February 24, 2017
The technology – best known for powering the computer that beat human challengers on the game show Jeopardy! – allows users to better understand their own data.
February 15, 2017
Three McMaster research projects have received a combined investment of nearly $1.7M over three years from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.
February 7, 2017
Michael Brook, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and School of Interdisciplinary Science, is the winner of this year’s Chemical Institute of Canada’s Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award.
January 31, 2017
16 projects, spanning four continents and representing all six Faculties have been funded in the latest round of the International Initiatives Micro Fund (IIMF).
January 11, 2017
A team of McMaster leaders is in India this week meeting university representatives, policymakers and alumni in and around New Delhi.
January 9, 2017
The awards, funded through CFI’s Major Science Initiative Fund, were announced today by Canada’s Minister of Science.
December 13, 2016
Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction awarded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions.
December 2, 2016
McMaster has been awarded six new Canada Research Chairs and three renewals, bringing a total of $8.9M in new funding from a federal program aimed at retaining and attracting research leaders.
November 18, 2016
This year's Innovation Showcase focused on the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity exhibited by students, graduate students, post doctoral fellows and researchers from across campus.
November 14, 2016
McMaster's Associate Vice-President, International Affairs, Peter Mascher, is in Thailand to discuss university-private sector collaboration and share best practices in research and innovation.
October 28, 2016
Contributions to a key professional society has earned a McMaster materials engineer recognition from his peers.
October 4, 2016
Nine grad students and post-doctoral fellows have been have been recognized as some of Canada’s most promising young researchers.
September 26, 2016
A $250,000 donation will allow McMaster researchers to test a new app designed to help stroke survivors and their care providers.
September 9, 2016
McMaster's David Harris Smith is one of four researchers awarded $140,000 each by the provincial government's Early Researcher Award program, which recognizes early career researchers for their potential to become world-class innovators.
August 16, 2016
Cranston’s research work explores the use of trees and materials from nature and how to reuse them in a wide range of sustainable and renewable products.
July 26, 2016
The McMaster Fraunhofer Project Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (BEAM) research facility will be home to several of McMaster’s leading researchers.
July 12, 2016
Manish Verma, an Associate Professor at the DeGroote School of Business, has received NSERC funding to further his research involving rail safety and the overland movement of dangerous goods.
June 23, 2016
More than one hundred McMaster researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have received a total of $15.7M from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.
May 30, 2016
McMaster’s Acting Vice-President of Research, Allison Sekuler was recently in the Netherlands to explore and expand partnership opportunities and share best practices in university research and innovation.
May 18, 2016
McMaster is exploring Research and Development and commercialization opportunities in Israel as part of a week-long business mission to the Middle East led by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.
May 3, 2016
Among the recipients are two researchers taking on infectious diseases in two very different ways.
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