Research with societal impact

A team of medical and engineering researchers worked together to create a functioning model of intestinal cells to answer a crucial question about celiac disease, creating the potential to develop a treatment or cure.

It’s highly flexible, light weight, low cost to manufacture and serves multiple functions. The ubiquity of polyvinyl chloride – or PVC – in our day to day lives points to an abundance of applications. What’s sorely lacking are adequate practices for recycling and reuse.

Zeinab Hosseinidoust, Fereshteh Bayat and Tohid Didar, working with a colleague from Université Laval, have developed a simple new way to store, identify, and share phages, making them more accessible to patients who need them.

Using ‘digital twins’ technology, a McMaster team created an evolving virtual model of Calgary based on real data, which accurately predicted the catastrophic 2013 flood, allowing them to suggest ways the city could have mitigated its impact.

Don't touch the water or let your dogs near it when blue-green algae blooms are present, warns Gail Krantzberg, professor and program lead in engineering and public policy in the W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology, McMaster University.

McMaster researchers recently met with several federal officials who visited Hamilton to learn more about the university’s growing life sciences ecosystem.

Reducing CO2 emissions is part of the public discourse on addressing climate change, but what are we doing to remove CO2 that’s already been emitted? The de Lannoy Lab in McMaster Engineering is exploring how the oceans can be used to sustainably remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

As climate change continues to impact livelihood and drive populations to seek better opportunities, a new research project is exploring the challenges faced by climate migrants and host communities in key urban areas.  

We’re counting down to Spring Convocation 2024 by featuring students who reflect on a specific aspect of their Mac Eng education and the role it played in their journey.

For the fifth year, and the largest workshop to date, a delegation from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and the University of Toronto joined McMaster faculty and students for three days of research-focused activities. 

As Canada and First Nations look to a future of achieving safe, reliable and zero-emission energy, collaboration with residents from northern and remote communities is key to exploring viable and long-lasting solutions. The need to build relationships and mutual understanding inspired a two-day Community Energy Transition Workshop at McMaster.

A roundup of McMaster Engineering stories that spotlight innovative research to tackle the negative impacts of climate change.