Impact & Service

'Co-op can open all kinds of doors.' The Faculty of Science undergraduate researcher is sharing insights and encouragement from his experience with his peers.

As director of operations at Hamilton-based Sonic Unyon, Humanities grad Lisa La Rocca is working on programming, city events, pop-up shows and the Juno kickoff concert.

How the inaugural cohort of Wilson College got involved in their first year across McMaster’s campus and the Hamilton community.

“We want every student to know they’re welcome and they belong” – outreach program brings high schoolers to campus once a month for mentoring, workshops and classes.

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.