Stephen Jarislowsky, an iconic figure in the Canadian financial sector and one of McMaster University’s transformative philanthropists, has died. He was 101 years old. McMaster’s flags are being lowered on Thursday, Nov. 12, in his memory. During McMaster’s Changing Tomorrow Today Campaign in the 1990s, Jarislowsky made the first gift that supported then-president Peter George’s […]

As Ashkan Irannezhad sees it, we have three options when it comes to climate change—and the first two are impossible to pull off. The first option is to pretend climate change doesn’t exist, says Irannezhad, a former postdoctoral fellow in Drew Higgins’ lab at McMaster and research associate with Aimy Bazylak’s group at the University […]

As Canadians mark Remembrance Day, two items preserved in the McMaster University Libraries’ archives offer strikingly different views of the First World War. One reflects the patriotic idealism that sent young men to war. The other captures the devastating personal loss that changed a woman’s life forever. The first is a newly acquired hand-illuminated vellum […]