News - McMaster Social Sciences

A tree-lined path winding through McMaster campus in the fall.

January 27, 2023

Search begins for Wilson College director and endowed chair

The academic leaders will develop further academic programming, build an equitable and diverse community of students and researchers, contribute to scholarship in civic studies and build McMaster’s reputation for research and teaching excellence....

Researchers extracting DNA from the remains of people buried in the East Smithfield plague pits

January 19, 2023

Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death

Researchers at McMaster's Ancient DNA Centre studied more than 600 genome sequences of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague...

A researcher wearing a protective suit, mask and gloves using a forcep holds up the tooth of someone who died during the Black Death pandemic

December 19, 2022

A look back at research in 2022: From health care to tech to social justice

Inhaled vaccines. Digital storytelling. The legacy of pandemics past, and a lot more. Here’s a quick recap of some of McMaster’s best-read research stories from the past year. ...

Smiling Hendrik Poinar seated outdoors wearing a blue shirt and blue pants.

December 9, 2022

Nobel connections: Hendrik Poinar reflects on his graduate supervisor’s legacy and the Ancient DNA Lab

As his former mentor and graduate supervisor Svante Pääbo receives the Nobel Prize for medicine, McMaster evolutionary geneticist Hendrik Poinar talks about the ways in which Pääbo fundamentally shaped his own groundbreaking research. ...

A graphic that reads 'Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Winners' and features seven headshots

November 28, 2022

Vanier Scholars recognized for research excellence and potential

Seven McMaster scholars from across the Faculties of Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Engineering have been awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. ...

Four masked people photographed indoors. 2 are making a V sign with their fingers.

November 28, 2022

Peer support is a valuable mental health service, research finds

“Somebody helped me at one time, and I wanted to be able to pay it back.” Peer support services offered by CMHA Hamilton offer an overwhelmingly positive experience, a new McMaster study finds....

November 24, 2022

Events at McMaster: Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women

Please note that the panel event scheduled for December 6, 2022 is cancelled and the Men’s Walk and the REDress Project is postponed until February 14, 2023. ...

A masked Justin Trudeau bent over to speak to a young child who has what appears to be a lollypop in his mouth.

November 22, 2022

Analysis: How Canada plans to break records with its new refugee targets

If the Canadian government sticks to its new plans for refugee resettlement, the next three years could have significant implications for refugees and refugee policy beyond Canada’s borders....

'Grace and Frankie' actresses Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda posing for a photo against a dark blue backdrop

November 17, 2022

Analysis: Ageism in tech: Older adults should be included in the design of new technologies

Technologies are now ubiquitous in everyday modern life, but ageism means that older adults are excluded from the design of the technologies that they use....

November 17, 2022

$36M federal investment supports McMaster-based research projects

The new investment in McMaster's research enterprise includes more than $8.5 million for biosciences research at Canada's Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats....