McMaster Archive

September 18, 2019

The Renaissance Award: A summer on sustainable farms

Megan Watson and Avery McNair spent their summer travelling across Canada learning first-hand about small-scale regenerative farming, all thanks to the McMaster Renaissance Award.

August 9, 2018

Exploring how to be Indigenous allies through art, thanks to a Renaissance Award

For the past four months, Alexia Olaizola and Emily Siskos have crossed Canada from east to west and back again, exploring how Indigenous visual art is being used as a form of cultural reclamation and resistance.

August 2, 2018

Math, physics, French… and Buddhism? Mac student expands her horizons, thanks to a Renaissance Award

Buddhism a path to better student mental health? Cissy Suen has been on a four-month trek to enlighten herself on that question.