Two McMaster professors are McMaster’s newest members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, the country’s first national system to recognize multidisciplinary work in emerging intellectual leaders.

Chandrima Chakraborty, a professor of English and cultural studies, is an expert on the 1985 Air India bombings and post-9/11 violence against South Asians. James MacKillop, the Peter Boris Chair in Addictions Research, specializes in the causes and treatments of addictions.

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A professor emerita from McMaster’s department of classics has been elected a fellow of the British Academy.

Katherine Dunbabin, an archeologist who specializes in Roman art, published her first book, The Mosaics of Roman North Africa, in 1978 — a time when there was little research into Roman art in English. She has since published extensively on the intersection of Roman mosaics and Roman social culture.

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Tobias Berg has been appointed the inaugural Boris Family Chair in Leukemia and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Translational Research for the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. His five-year term started on June 1, 2019.

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Nearly a dozen McMaster engineering-affiliated professionals have joined a cohort of 54 highly accomplished engineers who were inducted as Fellows into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) during a ceremony in Québec City on June 21.

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Six McMaster professors have been named 2019 University Scholars, an award that recognizes the achievements of mid-career researchers.

Recipients have distinguished themselves as international scholars and have demonstrated a commitment to the discovery, communication and preservation of knowledge, excellence in education and pedagogy, and to serving local and global communities.

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Luke is the recipient of the 2019 Brockhouse Medal, awarded by the Canadian Association of Physics to “recognize and encourage outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to condensed matter and materials physics.”

Luke is an international leader in studying the physical properties of new quantum materials and is being recognized for his ground-breaking experimental studies on new quantum magnets and superconductors with remarkable physical properties.

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Allan Downey, an associate professor of Indigenous studies and history, has won this year’s English-language Canada Prize for his book The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity and Indigenous Nationhood.

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Left, Mohit Bhandari with Gov. Gen. Julie Payette, and right, Jamal Deen with Gov. Gen. Julie Payette at Rideau Hall on March 14, 2019. (Photo courtesy Sgt. Johanie Maheu, Rideau Hall ©OSGG, 2019).

Mohit Bhandari and Jamal Deen were presented with the insignia of a Member of the Order of Canada on March 14. Read the full story on the Daily News.

New Canadian Mathematical Society Fellows Lia Bronsard (left) and Miroslav Lovric (right)

Two McMaster mathematics professors are among the very first Fellows of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

Lia Bronsard and Miroslav Lovric were among 49 Canadians named to the CMS Inaugural Class of Fellows, which recognizes mathematicians who have made “significant contributions to the profession and to the Canadian Mathematical Society,” according to a press release from the CMS.

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Hendrik Poinar (centre) with Karen Mossman (left), acting vice-president, Research, and Gay Yuyitung (right), executive director, MILO / Photo by Ron Scheffler for McMaster University.

November 8, 2018

Three McMaster researchers have been recognized for their work by the office of the vice-president, Research at this year’s Innovation Showcase. Those recognized included Hendrik Poinar, John Valliant, and John Bandler. To read the full story, visit the Daily News.

January 8, 2019

McMaster’s Henry Giroux, whose public commentaries on education, politics, government, race and culture have appeared in publications and on broadcasts across Canada and internationally, is to receive the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award.

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January 10, 2019

McMaster is well represented in the most recent appointments to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor. Four Mac alumni have been named members of the Order, after being included in Governor General Julie Payette’s new year’s list. To read the full story, please visit the Daily News.

Shane Neilson (left) with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada. (Photo by Sgt Johanie Maheu,Rideau Hall © OSGG, 2018).

October 3, 2018

A McMaster PhD candidate in the department of English and Cultural studies – who also happens to be a practising physician, adjunct professor of family medicine, award-winning writer and advocate for dis/ability issues – has won a 2018 Impact Award from the Government of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. To read the full story, please visit the Daily News.

Nobel laureate Donna Strickland joins a growing list of McMaster graduates and faculty whose work has earned them a Nobel Prize.

October 2, 2018

In 1981, Donna Strickland graduated from McMaster’s Faculty of Engineering with a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics.

From here, she went to the University of Rochester, where her doctoral work on chirped pulse amplification blazed a trail for current-day corrective laser eye surgery and, this week, earned her and her doctoral supervisor, Gérard Mourou, the Nobel Prize in physics. To read the full story, please visit the Daily News.