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Three headshots of Hiliary Monteith, Mackenzie Martin and Anthony Shuko Musiwa

August 29, 2023

McMaster welcomes three new Banting postdocs

Three McMaster postdoctoral researchers have received the 2023 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, one of Canada’s most prestigious postdoctoral awards....

Jackie Porter, a McMaster student, holding a clay cooking vessel from the 16th or 17th century

June 23, 2023

Study of archaeological cooking vessels sheds light on Indigenous histories

McMaster researchers are working with communities at Six Nations to analyze hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century pottery fragments to provide a clearer picture of local Indigenous histories. ...

Ian-Carlo sitting at a desk in front of a laptop, leaning his head on his hand and smiling.

June 15, 2023

Convocation 2023: Blazing a trail in Latin American studies

When he came to McMaster, Ian-Carlo Morales-Nunez had no idea how the next few years would play out. This week, he graduates with the university's very first minor in Latin American and Latinx studies. ...

April 19, 2023

How Indigenous and western knowledge can work together to improve Six Nations water security

Dawn Martin-Hill is advocating for Indigenous knowledge to be used alongside western science to tackle water security issues in Six Nations of the Grand River....

Two gloved hands inspecting dental and skeletal remains

April 5, 2023

New $1M gift supports graduate students in biological anthropology

The Shelley Saunders/Koloshuk Family Scholarship has supported promising McMaster PhD students in biological anthropology since 2008 and has helped McMaster’s Department of Anthropology earn a global reputation as a research powerhouse. ...

Researchers extracting DNA from the remains of people buried in the East Smithfield plague pits

January 19, 2023

Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death

Researchers at McMaster's Ancient DNA Centre studied more than 600 genome sequences of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague...

Smiling Hendrik Poinar seated outdoors wearing a blue shirt and blue pants.

December 9, 2022

Nobel connections: Hendrik Poinar reflects on his graduate supervisor’s legacy and the Ancient DNA Lab

As his former mentor and graduate supervisor Svante Pääbo receives the Nobel Prize for medicine, McMaster evolutionary geneticist Hendrik Poinar talks about the ways in which Pääbo fundamentally shaped his own groundbreaking research. ...

Several students with their heads bent and using pens to write. One of the students is closest to the camera and in focus, while the others are in the background and slightly out of focus.

November 10, 2022

Analysis: Canada’s Latin American community is growing, and universities must improve teaching about the region

As Latin American communities continue to grow, universities must teach students about Latin America and Latinx communities in interdisciplinary ways....

A group of schoolchildren eating lunches out of lunchboxes at a table.

October 26, 2022

Rising food insecurity is a population health risk, expert warns

With more and more families struggling to afford food, it's time to consider effective food programs, starting with school lunch programs, expert Tina Moffat says....

Tristan Carter, a lead author of the study and professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University who has conducted research in north-central Crete for nearly three decades.

August 23, 2022

Analysis of everyday tools challenges long-held ideas about what drove major changes in ancient Greek society

A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where the first European state flourished during the Bronze Age: the ‘Minoan civilization.’...