November 3, 2023
Anthropology MA student wins award for scurvy research
Meg Langlois, a second-year MA student in Anthropology was recently awarded the Davidson Black Award for top student poster at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Biological Anthropology (CABA-ACAB). Her research was undertaken as part of the SSHRC Insight Grant project “Integrated approaches paleopathology and paleodiet: Insights into the diet-disease nexus in […]
November 1, 2023
Social Sciences in the news: October 2023
Experts from across the faculty were featured in a number of media outlets, both national and international, in October. Here’s a selection: iHeartRadio: John Moore Round One, Vass Bednar CBC News: Ontario apartment buildings bring investors double-digit returns. Some tenants say they’re paying the price, Steve Pomeroy Hamilton Spectator: New owner of Hamilton rentals aims to preserve […]
October 27, 2023
715 hours of expert facilitation and counting
The latest Community Research Platform (CRP) impact report indicates that McMaster’s CRP staff provided over 700 hours of facilitation for community engaged research partnerships and projects. McMaster’s CRP is a partnership between the Faculty of Social Sciences and five community organizations designed to foster community-engaged research that advances community wellbeing. The Platform is currently […]
October 20, 2023
Bone loan: Significant collection of skeletons arrives at McMaster
Researchers dig into a new collection of colonists' skeletons, believed to the largest of its kind in Canada....
October 17, 2023
Anthropology Spring 2023 Newsletter
Anthropology Spring 2023 Newsletter MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Dear Anthropology Friends, As I reflect on the 2022-2023 year, I am struck by some of the challenges we collectively navigated (from strikes to holiday floods) and the incredible generosity of our extended Anthropology family (including substantial donations from Victor Kolschuk and Anne Keenleyside). This […]
October 10, 2023
New findings put 1918 flu pandemic in a different light
Remains of victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic indicate that pre-existing medical conditions and socioeconomic factors increased likelihood of death, McMaster researchers find. ...
September 29, 2023
Video project empowers Indigenous communities to make decisions about using DNA analysis at residential school sites
Researchers at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre are working with Indigenous communities to create informational videos that will help communities decide whether to use DNA identification at residential school burial sites. ...
August 31, 2023
A new study shows a link between institutionalization, hip fractures, and death
In a thought-provoking study conducted by Dr. Megan Brickley, she shares a summary of her article: Patterns of hip fractures found in institutionalized individuals who died in Missouri, USA, between 1910 and 1967 reveal a disturbing picture of underfunding of public institutions, resulting in a lack of resources and attention and fractures that led […]
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....
August 9, 2023
Vitamin C in Hominin Diet
Professor Emeritus Henry Schwarcz proposes a solution to an old and important problem in hominin (human) evolution: where did our ancestors get vitamin C when they were living in northern Eurasia (for example in the Neander Valley (tal) in Germany)? The answer appears to be: pine needles. “Hominins emerging from Africa in the Pleistocene […]
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