McMaster News Archive

July 16, 2025

Join us for an in-person Horizon Europe Pillar II Engagement Session, hosted by the Research Office for Administration, Development & Support (ROADS). Agenda Highlights Horizon . . .

April 28, 2025

Artist Talk: Michelle Bunton, Expanded Data Artist in Residence Michelle Bunton is a practicing artist, award-winning curator and roller derby player currently residing as an . . .

January 17, 2025

On March 26, 2025, in the McMaster University Student Centre, researchers, clinicians, and families from across McMaster University, McMaster Children’s Hospital, and St. Joseph’s Healthcare . . .

January 17, 2025

MIRA Trainee talks are an opportunity for trainees, including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across all six McMaster Faculties to present their aging research . . .

January 16, 2025

In this talk Henrique Castro-Pires proposes a new method — decoupling — to analyze both problems at once in several cases. He will provide simple . . .

January 16, 2025

In this presentation Cathy Fournier will provide an overview of an Indigenous community-identified and led collaborative funding initiative undertaken at a major university in Canada . . .

January 16, 2025

Many of us in academia struggle mightily with the idea of work-life balance amidst the expectations of others, our own ambitions and passion for the . . .

January 16, 2025

This talk aims to provide an introductory understanding of meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis as a complement to a more traditional narrative review. The talk will . . .

January 16, 2025

Join John Marlovits and Matthew Wolf-Meyer as they focus on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record and argue for the need . . .

January 16, 2025

Join Jennifer Forestal as she uses the cases of Twitter, Wikipedia and Reddit to discuss how the effects of public shaming are shaped by the . . .

January 16, 2025

In this presentation/workshop, Matthew Gutmann explores the question of why we can reject the notion that everything a woman does must be attributed to her . . .

January 8, 2025

Studying neighbourhoods is important, but difficult, because they vary from person to person. We have developed an open-source survey instrument that allows researchers to collect . . .

January 8, 2025

In his 3-part talk, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers will argue that p-value does not constitute an acceptable measure of statistical evidence, that the Bayes factor is much . . .

January 8, 2025

Conspiracy theory research has exploded in the last five years. However, many questions remain about how best to measure beliefs in conspiracy theories. Joseph Uscinski . . .

January 8, 2025

At the turn of the 20th century, when immigrants made up one-third of the population in crowded American cities, contemporaries blamed high urban mortality rates . . .

January 8, 2025

Research has shown that visuals make more lasting impressions than blocks of text. Yet too many still believe that data visualization is reserved for quantitative . . .

December 20, 2024

The Meet Your Supervisor networking event connects undergraduate students looking for a summer research position with faculty members in aging research. The event is an excellent . . .

December 3, 2024

Dr. Sukhvinder Obhi, Associate Vice-President, Research (Society & Impact), invites you to a panel discussion focused on the global public health concern of childhood obesity . . .

December 3, 2024

Join us as McMaster graduate students showcase how their research is building a brighter world. Watch the pitch competition unfold and help us celebrate our . . .

November 8, 2024

Many real-world principal-agent problems have both moral hazard and adverse selection. Existing tools largely analyze only one problem at a time. In this talk Henrique . . .