(Opens in new window) April 13, 2021 Brighter World Grant accelerates McMaster University, SQI Diagnostics effort to move infection testing innovation from lab to market A new grant is helping McMaster engineers and a Toronto precision-medicine diagnostics company to get infection-testing technology to market while generating opportunities for students.
April 7, 2021 Meet Paulin Coulibaly, champion of water research in Canada and equity, diversity and inclusion at McMaster on Episode 11 Paulin Coulibaly talks about managing flood risk in Canada, working with Global Water Futures and advocating for EDI at McMaster.
(Opens in new window) March 30, 2021 Daily News McMaster Engineering awarded $592,000 for sustainable infrastructure training The partnership will equip up to 150 technologists and engineers to design, construct, operate and maintain sustainable infrastructure that is resilient to climate change.
(Opens in new window) March 19, 2021 CBC News In the media: Wastewater is a COVID-19 ‘early warning system,’ Ontario spends $12M to test sewage The province announced Thursday that it is partnering with 13 academic and research institutions to create a surveillance network to test wastewater samples taken from communities across Ontario.
March 12, 2021 Tom Wanyama named Lab Director for the Learning Factory The Learning Factory is world-class facility that simulates the factory of the future, with several manufacturing and post-processing stations for students to work with.
March 4, 2021 Three projects led by McMaster Engineering researchers receive $11.3M in federal funding The projects will build and expand the tools that will bolster McMaster’s nationally recognized strengths in materials research and healthy aging.
February 26, 2021 McMaster researcher Gail Krantzberg to co-lead policy advice on Great Lakes Krantzberg's research focuses on the Great Lakes, environmental restoration science and public policy.
February 5, 2021 Sheardown Lab and Ripple Therapeutics receive NSERC grant to improve treatment for millions with eye disease The Epidel drug delivery technology is based on a discovery that drugs can be engineered into controlled release pharmaceuticals without polymers or excipients.
February 3, 2021 To prevent millions more masks in landfills, McMaster researchers develop a way to recycle them McMaster’s Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (CEPEM) and B.C.-based Vitacore have launched Canada’s first end-to-end recycling program for single-use masks and respirators.
January 26, 2021 McMaster Centre of Excellence receives $1.2M to advance Canadian-made personal protective equipment The funding will support McMaster University’s Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (CEPEM) in making next generation PPE.
(Opens in new window) January 26, 2021 Hamilton Spectator Province gifts McMaster $1.2 million for PPE development The investment will help accelerate work at McMaster's Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials.
(Opens in new window) January 21, 2021 Hamilton Spectator In the media: ‘Significant potential’: McMaster researchers create lab-grown meat that ‘felt and tasted’ like the real deal The researchers have tested the method on mouse and rabbit cells, and they believe it will work for pork and beef.
