Impact & Service

Professor Kristina Llewellyn delivered a keynote speech and joined a panel discussion with education advocates.  

Tristan Bomberry on Indigenous health, the importance of bringing community perspectives into the research process, and work that's rooted in relationships.

Areas of women’s health and well-being that have historically been overlooked and underfunded are getting the attention they deserve by women-led research teams at McMaster Engineering.

The key is wraparound supports for overall health and well-being, such as addiction counselling, peer support, legal services, hygiene and reproductive health supplies and housing services. 

Student-run StyleCycle directly supports local families in a sustainable way that has in turn fuelled Maryam Muayad and Maria Alex's research interests.

Created by McMaster Engineering and the Early Childhood Development Initiative, the kits combine hands-on engineering play with meaningful representation, so children from underrepresented communities ca see themselves in STEM.

Ben Ahren is one of a few remarkable doctoral students to be awarded the Brain Canada Foundation and Heart & Stroke Canada Personnel Award for Black Scholars, which supports Black graduate students.

Saeed started the Little Light Project, which creates colouring books, stickers and greeting cards for children at a community hospital. It's a reminder that healing isn't just physical: It's emotional, relational, and profoundly human.

The student-run group is gearing up for their biggest event of the year: Marathon of Sport, which raises awareness and thousands of dollars for the Special Olympics Foundation.

The scholarships, which fully fund a master's or professional degree at McGill, are awarded based on character, community engagement, leadership potential, entrepreneurial spirit, academic strength and intellectual curiosity.

'The cleverest person I ever had the privilege to work with’ — Colleagues, students and community members pay tribute to the beloved and long-serving DeGroote professor.

Over 35 of the 73 extraordinary nominees for this year's YWCA Hamilton Women of Distinction awards are McMaster students, graduates, faculty or staff.