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Researcher launches next phase of Canada-wide flood forecasting network
McMaster researcher Paulin Coulibaly has secured a second round of federal and industry funding to continue a McMaster-based national research network focused on strengthening flood forecasting across Canada. The $1.4 million in federal funding for FloodNet2 builds on a $5 million investment in 2014 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada that […]
Biology professor Graham Scott has a starring role in a nature documentary series
Biology professor Graham Scott started to worry while watching Cunk on Earth. The Netflix mockumentary stars a clueless host who asks real historians inane and absurd questions. Scott was just weeks away from taping his expert segment on a nature documentary series. As the credits rolled on Cunk on Earth, Scott turned to his wife and […]
McMaster researcher awarded more than $2M from Weston Family Foundation to advance precision antibiotic for IBD
In the fall of 2025, McMaster University scientist Jon Stokes discovered enterololin, a potent new antibiotic with the potential to treat inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), like Crohn’s. Now, with more than $2 million in fresh funding from the Weston Family Foundation, the new drug candidate is on the fast-track toward achieving its potential, and could advance […]
From forgotten potato farm to research and conservation forest preserve
McMaster’s year-long, shovel-breaking Battle of the Buckthorn in the Dundas Valley started with an email. In April 2012, city councillor Brian McHattie emailed Wayne Terryberry to ask about the university’s plans for its 127-acre property on Lower Lions Road in Ancaster. Terryberry was the right person to ask – he was McMaster’s Coordinator of Outdoor Recreation […]
Jennifer Graci is the glue that holds Kinesiology together
People of McMaster celebrates the incredible people who help make McMaster a great place to work, learn, teach and conduct research. Click here for the rest of the series. The Faculty of Science asked chairs and directors to recommend standout staff who go above and beyond for students and their colleagues. As always, the Department of Kinesiology was the first to respond. […]
McMaster exhibit challenges the view of older adults as passive bystanders to technology
A new photo exhibition at McMaster asks some simple questions: how do older Hamiltonians actually use, think about, and interact with technologies in their homes? The answers – an Apple Watch, a walk-in bathtub repurposed as a spa, an Alexa deployed as a daily joke machine– tell a more interesting story than the usual one about older people and tech. […]
Rob Hallman and the art of the ‘squiggly’ career
From a love of Byzantine art to a career as a lawyer now working for LinkedIn, alumnus Rob Hallman (’96) has not exactly followed a linear career path since his time as a history undergraduate at McMaster. “At Linkedin, we spend a lot of time with researchers studying career paths, and our CEO likes to say […]
Pushing the boundaries of AI
Yufei Yuan, a professor of Information Systems at DeGroote, has been studying AI, neural networks and automated reasoning since the 1990s. But he’s been interested in emerging technologies his entire life. At age 25, armed with an undergraduate degree in mathematics, he designed a numerical control machine built with semiconductor technology. By age 30, he’d […]
Minimally invasive procedure offers new hope for patients with complications from blood clots
A major international clinical trial co-led by McMaster University has found that a minimally invasive procedure significantly improves symptoms and quality of life for people living with a painful and often disabling condition that can develop after deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Researchers found that patients who received the procedure experienced less severe post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) and significantly […]
MBA students turn community challenges into impactful stories at GRIT Week
After five fast-paced days of fieldwork, filming and problem-solving, first-year MBA students wrapped up GRIT Week the way any good story should end: with a short film premiere. As lights dimmed at the DeGroote Impact Film Festival (DIFF), students settled in to watch their own work on screen, which were short videos documenting the challenges […]