March 21, 2023
Week-long festivities, events celebrate launch of Indigenous Studies department
Film screenings, special menus, drumming, Indigenous vendors, an undergrad research symposium and more: Community members are invited to celebrate the launch of the Indigenous Studies department at a series of free events on campus. ...
March 10, 2023
Wilson College announces new minor in Leadership and Civic Studies
Students from all faculties who take the required courses can declare the minor, which will be included in the 2023-24 undergraduate calendar....
March 8, 2023
Another Hamilton is possible
There are generations of analyses of alternatives to police that state any ask for more police is both a policy and leadership failure, Ameil Joseph and Sarah Adjekum write. The Hamilton Police Service’s proposed budget increase has reignited calls to defund the police. Last Monday, a demonstration was held in front of city hall […]
March 6, 2023
Physician workforce planning must adjust for aging population, changing practice patterns: new analysis
The authors hope their analysis will inform governments and the medical profession in planning the appropriate number of new physicians who should enter medical practice. ...
March 3, 2023
Faculty of Social Sciences launches three co-op programs
The co-op program options — in Economics, Political Science and Work and Labour Studies — build on the faculty's commitment to work-integrated learning....
February 28, 2023
Yana Stainova explores musical “enchantment” in Venezuela, in award-winning book
Can music help you transcend your circumstances? Anthropologist Yana Stainova explores musical “enchantment” among young musicians in Venezuela and considers its influence in political movements. In her ethnographic book Sonorous Worlds (2021), sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor Yana Stainova dives into the lives of young Venezuelan musicians who participate in the state-funded music education […]
February 28, 2023
Apply now for an Undergraduate Student Research Award
Why wait until graduate school when you can build your research portfolio now? If you are in your third or fourth year of undergraduate studies, you could spend your Spring term conducting full-time paid research through the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRAs). The USRAs support research partnerships between undergraduate students […]
February 28, 2023
Vass Bednar named one of Globe and Mail’s 2023 Changemakers
The executive director of McMaster’s Master of Public Policy in Digital Society program was recently featured as one of 50 ‘Changemakers’ in one of Canada’s top publications. Vass Bednar was unveiled as a recipient of the prestigious award, a who’s who of 50 emerging Canadian business leaders, in the Globe and Mail’s Report on […]
February 24, 2023
Deadly waves: Researchers document evolution of plague over hundreds of years in medieval Denmark
Longitudinal study reveals Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, was reintroduced into the population again and again...
February 17, 2023
Older adults with obesity experienced greater stress during COVID-19’s first year
Adults over 50 living with obesity were more likely to experience stressors during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite being less likely to perceive the pandemic’s consequences as negative, says a McMaster University-led study....
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