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Why does entrepreneurship matter? Where do I start if I have an idea? How do successful founders navigate the entrepreneurship ecosystem at McMaster? Learn the answers to these questions and more at the Made at Mac: Celebrating…

Veronika Dornan and Hector Robinson brought the sun, moon and Mars into the Greensville library branch Saturday afternoon for four-year-old Ella and dozens of other kids and grown-ups. The astronomy PhD students set up the Faculty…

James Lemoine is talking about being in high school while his single mom worked hard so he wouldn’t need a part-time job. “She would tell me, ‘I’ll worry about the financial side of things, you worry about your education,” says LeMoine,…

A significant step forward in supporting graduate students has been taken with the release of the Task Force on Graduate Funding report, which makes recommendations along five key themes that emerged during extensive cross-campus…

“Writing stories is the easy part these days,” says writer Lynda DiPietro.  The real problem is dealing with the formatting, the technology and a bunch of other issues that make things difficult. “Seems that system platforms are designed to…

Throughout history and around the world, eclipses have inspired rituals, shaped beliefs and driven scientific inquiry. Ahead of the total solar eclipse that will be viewable from parts of North America on April 8th, 2024, a panel of…

Gerry Wright, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, has been awarded the 2024 Killam Prize in Health Sciences for his internationally-renowned research in antimicrobial resistance…

How would you increase sustainable travel to campus, improve active mobility around the city and support international collaboration considering the social, ecological and economic impacts? Students from across campus accepted these…

A cancer therapy and diagnostics company that grew from a McMaster professor’s idea into a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company is being acquired by global pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca in a deal valued at as much as $2.4 billion…

Eleven professors from the faculties of Engineering, Science and Health Sciences pitched their innovative startup companies for a chance to earn McMaster’s Professor Entrepreneur Fellowship. The first program of its kind at…