Leadership, Culture & Society

Researchers use modern technology to reconstruct the properties of one of Earth's oldest naturally occurring materials commonly found in ancient rock art.

Polyamorous family provide great support for each other, especially when it comes to raising kids, but they experience marginalization within the health-care system and fear of judgment by health-care providers.

McMaster University Library archivist, Bridget Whittle highlights some of the rare and original wartime propaganda materials in McMaster's extensive World War I and World War II collections and explains what made them such powerful weapons of war.

McMaster University Library has acquired the corrected proofs of the first two volumes of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's highly influential three-volume work, Principia Mathematica, now publicly available for the first time thanks to a donation from philosophy professor and Russell scholar Bernard Linsky.

An international research team led by scientists from McMaster University has unearthed new evidence in Greece proving that the island of Naxos was inhabited by Neanderthals and earlier humans at least 200,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously believed.

In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, pulp fiction paperbacks became a pop-culture phenomenon. Now, a collection of more than 900 novels recently donated to McMaster University Library is offering insight into the colourful and often racy genre that brought popular reading to the masses.

A growing number of "dad bloggers" are using social media to provide a window into their lives as fathers.

A unique, grassroots-driven survey of LGBTQ+ people in Hamilton shows a tremendous need for dedicated space and support services.

Through one-of-a-kind materials and first-hand accounts, the Dr. William G. Bensen Fur Trade Collection of Robert D.W. Band, recently donated by the Bensen family to McMaster University, is bringing to life this often-tumultuous period and the role it played in the formation of Canada.

When you are used to doing things a specific way and measuring the outcomes in certain ways, self-disruption is the act of challenging those fundamental tenets with an eye to improving outcomes for customers and hence staying competitive.

The way we live and work is being disrupted like never before. Various technological, demographic, economic, political and environmental forces are forcing us to rethink the way we run society's key institutions.

Fourteen researchers from across campus each took 180 seconds to explain their research on aging. It's all part of a student-driven initiative to bring together early-career researchers with a wide range of expertise and experiences.