Art of Research 2025 Gallery
Winning Entries
Galactic Inferno Learn More
Tamara Koletic
Winner, Advanced technology
Galactic Inferno
Optically Inscribed Polymer Films: A New Way to Encode Information Learn More
Kyle Stegman
Runner-up, Advanced technology
Optically Inscribed Polymer Films: A New Way to Encode Information
What the Water Remembers Learn More
Melike Yilmaz
Winner, Building an equitable world
What the Water Remembers
The Housing Crisis That Never Left (The Clichettes' "Up Against the Wallpaper") Learn More
Dev Pandya
Runner-up, Building an equitable world
The Housing Crisis That Never Left (The Clichettes' "Up Against the Wallpaper")
Honouring Indigenous Story Through Art and Science Learn More
Emily Wood
Winner, Connecting communities
Honouring Indigenous Story Through Art and Science
Unflattening Late Formative Tiwanaku Learn More
Andrew Roddick
Runner-up, Connecting communities
Unflattening Late Formative Tiwanaku
From First Breath: A Life Polluted Learn More
Julianna Colafranceschi
Winner, Planetary health and sustainability
From First Breath: A Life Polluted
Microbiomes in the Moonlight Learn More
Milena Esser
Runner-up, Planetary health and sustainability
Microbiomes in the Moonlight
Love is in the Air(way) Learn More
Leila Somani-Davis
Winner, Promoting a healthy society
Love is in the Air(way)
Collective Memory Learn More
Melike Yilmaz
Runner-up, Promoting a healthy society
Collective Memory
Boosting Light: Amplification in a hybrid erbium-silicon waveguide Learn More
Batoul Hashemi
People’s Choice
Boosting Light: Amplification in a hybrid erbium-silicon waveguide
Advanced technology
A peppermint twist on a lift-out grid Learn More
Bavley Guerguis
A peppermint twist on a lift-out grid
Affordable, Real-Time Monitoring of NK Cell cytotoxicity on an impedance-based Chip
Atomic Gaze Learn More
Joaquin E. Reyes Gonzalez
Atomic Gaze
Atomic Resolution Image of a Nitride-based Ferroelectric Domain Wall Overlaid on a Color Map of Neighbouring Domains
Atomic Skittles Learn More
Babafemi Samuel Agboola
Atomic Skittles
Brain Face Learn More
Steven Brown
Brain Face
Bringing to Life the Unseen Beauty of Breathing at the Microscale
Can HotSpotter identify individual big brown bats via collagen-elastin patterns?
Evaluating rodent bone structure with hematoxylin staining
Fixing the Exposure Learn More
Zeynep Berra Yilmaz
Fixing the Exposure
Flow Meets Function: Balancing Casting Rate and Electrical Resistance in Li-ion Battery Electrodes
Hamilton’s Smart City Digital Twin
The Birth of a Bowling Pin Smaller than a Human Hair
Tracking the Moment: When Technology Meets Live Performance
Engineering Life with 3D-Bioprinting Learn More
Aidee Arizpe Tafoya
Engineering Life with 3D-Bioprinting
Growing Virus and Gaining Experience; McMaster Student’s Foray Into Adenovirus Biomanufacturing Learn More
William Pihlainen-Bleecker
Growing Virus and Gaining Experience; McMaster Student’s Foray Into Adenovirus Biomanufacturing
Illuminating Cellular Conversations in the Gut
Is it a Klimt? : Gut microbiota and host interactions
Nano-Kraken Learn More
Trevor Smith
Nano-Kraken
New entrepreneurs in a Kenyan community Learn More
Benson Honig
New entrepreneurs in a Kenyan community
Pores in perspective: Unveiling the structural hierarchy of PEEK hollow fiber membranes
Star-shaped materials that capture sunlight Learn More
Muhammad Munir
Star-shaped materials that capture sunlight
Sunflower Learn More
Caleb Whittier
Sunflower
Zooming Into Innovation: Atomic Details Driving Next-Gen Devices
High-quality 2D dielectrics are essential for building cutting-edge 2D/3D hybrid electronic devices. In this work, we present an image of a newly developed 2D dielectric. As we zoom into the interface, a distinct InO? layer—formed by intercalating InO? at the epitaxial graphene (EG)/SiC interface—becomes visible. Interestingly, this interfacial InO? differs in stoichiometry from its bulk counterpart. At the highest magnification, captured using the Spectra TEM at CCEM, McMaster University, individual atoms are clearly resolved: the bright spots correspond to indium atoms, while the darker ones represent silicon.
Building an equitable world
Helping a social entrepreneur Learn More
Benson Honig
Helping a social entrepreneur
Putting knowledge into practice Learn More
Benson Honig
Putting knowledge into practice
Successful transition to a Professional Community Oriented Entrepreneur
Taking Two Small Steps Back to Look at the Big Picture Learn More
Karina Tavernese
Taking Two Small Steps Back to Look at the Big Picture
The irony of nursing: surviving to provide, but at what cost? Learn More
Amrita Jessica Sondhi-Cooke
The irony of nursing: surviving to provide, but at what cost?
Connecting communities
During Learn More
Zeynep Berra Yilmaz
During
Research Poster Learn More
Cynthia Lawrence
Research Poster
Sharing knowledge beyond Canada Learn More
Benson Honig
Sharing knowledge beyond Canada
Snacks and Science: Where Research and Community Connect
Stories of Connection Learn More
Karina Tavernese
Stories of Connection
The Creative Cafe Learn More
Mohit Bhandari
The Creative Cafe
How can you keep 1500 surgeons in a packed auditorium over 3 days? Create an experience! As program chair for a 2025 Surgical Trauma Course in India, we set the vision- “it’s not a course-it’s an “experience”. Let’s create a community experience that facilitates a space for all that we are, whether mastering surgical skills, showcasing our scientific work, exercising our entrepreneurial spirit, sharing our love of the arts, expanding our understanding across generations –and, of course having fun. The course community included surgeons around the world, trainees, students, medical industry professionals and families.
We dedicated a large footprint of space in the meeting called “he Creative Cafe. We invited all attendees to submit art for a gallery as well as live artist demos in residence workshops over 3 days. Nobody will submit they told me? Well, we received 200 submissions quickly. There is art in surgery and there is often great surgical precision in art. The gallery connected our community in a human way —leaving us all with a better understanding of each other —and that fundamentally became the experience we had hoped for.
We Got You Sis: Sexual and Reproductive Justice, Education through Sisterhood and Community Care
When Research Becomes Art: Thinking Through Visual Composition
Planetary health and sustainability
"Climate Change, Sustainability and Planetary Health" McMaster Dialogues Ep. 3 behind the scenes
A Winning Sustainable Model Learn More
Benson Honig
A Winning Sustainable Model
Droplets in an ancient asteroid Learn More
Carmen Andrei and Gabe Arcuri
Droplets in an ancient asteroid
It’s The Little Things That Matter Learn More
Daniela Klobucar
It’s The Little Things That Matter
Murre-ky Imitations Learn More
Jolie Nguyen
Murre-ky Imitations
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, How Augmented are Your Branches?
Rust Learn More
Beth McNally
Rust
Science in Action: Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future
Some Mayfly, others may transport contaminants Learn More
Colleen Wardlaw
Some Mayfly, others may transport contaminants
The Mountain Stayed Still Learn More
Zeynep Berra Yilmaz
The Mountain Stayed Still
Promoting a healthy society
Altering the function of fat to lower blood pressure
Fresh Vegetables Reach a Community Learn More
Benson Honig
Fresh Vegetables Reach a Community
Health Educator and Entrepreneur Learn More
Benson Honig
Health Educator and Entrepreneur
Held by the Water Learn More
Zeynep Berra Yilmaz
Held by the Water
Invisible Realms Learn More
Narges Kalani
Invisible Realms
Language in the Brain Learn More
Ivona Kucerova (on behalf of ARiEAL)
Language in the Brain
Molecular Foundations of Brain Development Learn More
Leanne Monteiro
Molecular Foundations of Brain Development
Novel anti-tumor defense mechanism in the brain Learn More
Jacek M. Kwiecien
Novel anti-tumor defense mechanism in the brain
On the Road to Healthy Aging Learn More
Karina Tavernese
On the Road to Healthy Aging
The Humble Beginnings to Improved Binocular Vision Testing Learn More
Fermin Retnavarathan
The Humble Beginnings to Improved Binocular Vision Testing