The goal

To create a website that curates lists of professors and community leaders’ top ten books. Students and other readers can get to know their professors, learn more about a niche field, become leaders themselves by reading peer-reviewed book lists.

The Team

• Aimee Castro

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The Goal

To organize a series of three themed coffeehouse evenings in order to promote discussion and exchanges between McMaster researchers and the greater Hamilton community.

The Team

• Dominique Beauregard Cazabon, Master’s, Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour
• Aimee Battcock, Master’s, Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour

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The goal

To examine curricular and pedagogical practices of professors, instructors and teaching assistants in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The Team

• Rochelle Wijesingha, PhD, Sociology
• Roger Pizarro Milian, PhD, Sociology

The goal

To enhance the mental and physical health and well being of graduate students at McMaster University through interactive and informative wellness workshops.

The Team

• Matthew Stork, PhD, Kinesiology
• Marie-Josee Perrier, postdoctoral fellow, Kinesiology
• Sari Isenstein, Master’s, Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour
• Denver Brown, PhD, Kinesiology

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The goal

To enhance the awareness and develop international graduate student life.

The Team

• Charmini Wimalasena, PhD, French
• Udayakumar Sivalingam, MBA
• Sanaz Vaghei, PhD, French

The goals: To collaborate with departments and associations that cater to the needs of graduate students to offer innovative, engaging, interactive, and needs-based health/wellness outreach programming to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at McMaster University.

Wellness for Academic Success promotes overall wellness, community-building, and academic performance.

The Team

• Sujane Kandasamy, Master’s, Health Research Methodology
• Rachel Kelly, Master’s, Biology
• Manraj Kaur, PhD, Rehab Sciences

The goals:

• To publicize and raise interest in climate research at McMaster.
• To encourage interdisciplinary cooperation and learning among researchers.
• To increase interest in our research programs among current and prospective students.

The Team

• Katelynn Daly, Master’s, Earth & Environmental Science Rachel Skubel, Master’s, MSc, Earth & Environmental Science
• Myroslava Khomik, postdoctoral fellow, Science
• Kelly Biagi, Master’s, Earth & Environmental Science

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The goal: To fundamentally change the way society accesses information by developing a new search engine that allows free access to information at the touch of a button, a ‘stream engine.’

The Team

• Charles Burke, PhD, Geography and Earth Sciences
• Chris Higgins, PhD, Geography and Earth Sciences
• Ryan Garnett, PhD, Geography and Earth Sciences
• Matt Adams, PhD, Geography and Earth Sciences
• Justin Hall, Master’s, Geography and Earth Sciences

The goal: To run a series of six interdisciplinary talks at McMaster University during the 2015/16 academic year.

The Team

• Michael Hemmingsen, PhD, Philosophy
• Beverley Anger, Master’s, Philosophy
• Laure Benacquista, PhD, Philosophy
• Ben Prus, PhD, English & Cultural Studies
• Justin Morris, PhD, Philosophy

The goals:

• To develop critical edification and innovative learning practices regarding the journey to academia.
• This project is envisioned as a way to place failures of the brightest, celebrated and successful academics at the centre of the graduate experience, rather than at the periphery.
• To bridge McMaster resources and academics across disciplines in collaboration with the Graduate Students Association, creating opportunities for graduate students to learn about academic struggles – a narrative excluded from the stories of McMaster’s “scholar-cum-victors.”

The Team

• Manraj Kaur, PhD, Rehab Sciences
• Talena Rambarran, PhD, Chemistry
• Graduate Students Association Faculty Reps

The mind.me program is a collaboration between McMaster and the New Generation Youth Centre (NGen) which is an youth-run and led organization that offers a positive space and programs for youth in the Hamilton community. The objective of this project is to evaluate (pilot test) the impact of mind.me, a new mental health promotion program on the mental health literacy and mental well-being of young adults in the Hamilton community. A secondary objective is to gather feedback from program participants about the program. The mind.me program will use videos and group discussions to talk about mental illness and mental wellness, decrease stigma and focus on strategies for positive mental health.

The Team

• Nosheen Akhtar, Master’s, Occupational Therapy
• Ramanjit Garcha, Master’s, Occupational Therapy

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The goal: To create forums for graduate students to learn and support each other in their personal and professional growth and development.

The Team

• Irena Radisevic, PhD, Humanities
• Carmina Angelica Perez Romero, PhD, Health Sciences