“Indigenous people were engineers — we weren’t called engineers, but we were. We found solutions to a lot of things like medicine, transportation, hunting, farming and aquaculture, and our designs have held up for thousands of years.”   -Duncan Cree, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Kileigh Harrington is here because she wants to make a difference.   Surrounded […]

People of McMaster celebrates the incredible people who help make McMaster a great place to work, learn, teach and conduct research. Click here for the rest of the series.  Matt Vonk doesn’t want to be known as the football guy.  Sure, he had a storied football career that included a career in the Canadian Football League, but when you ask him what he wants […]

When Bronwen Glover meets people at a social event, she is usually asked what she does for a living.   When she replies that she’s a book conservator at McMaster University, her response is often met with great interest and a flurry of questions.  The truth is that Glover is both a scientist and an artist, […]