Michael Gallagher The Silhouette After watching La Ronde, McMaster Thespian Company’s latest - and highly sexual - production, you may not be surprised to find out that the play was only performed twice during Arthur Schnitzler’s, the playwrite’s, lifetime. Set in 1890s Vienna, the play contains ten scenes about the moments before and after sexual […]
Alexandra Sproule The Silhouette People tend to grow into the roles that are given to them. Stanley Milgram gave a famous proof of this in his prison experiment. He placed average, mentally healthy students into randomized roles of prisoners and guards and watched them grow into them with alarming and dangerous accuracy, speed and ‘success’ […]
It was a big weekend for the McMaster figure skating squad who had six podium finishes and placed fifth overall in the annual Ontario University Athletics Winter Invitational held on Jan. 27 in London, Ont. The McMaster figure skating team will now continue on in their journey to an OUA Championship as their results from […]
Researchers looking for an alternative planet for habitation are limiting their options, as a study lead by McMaster’s René Heller suggests. Heller’s paper says that scientists who only search for Earth-like planets may be missing out on finding habitable planets that are not like Earth. Heller is a member of the university’s Department of Physics […]
McMaster University has received a total of $3.7 million in research grants, with 19 researchers receiving funds. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council gave their largest sum to Altaf Arain, the Associate Director of McMaster’s School of Geography and Earth Sciences. Arain, who is also the Director of the McMaster Centre for Climate Change, […]
A team of McMaster scientists is enjoying a great start to the new year after solving a genetic code related to an historical cholera outbreak. The team was able to determine the cholera bacteria that caused a widespread outbreak of the diarrheal disease in the 19th century. The researchers from McMaster’s Ancient DNA Centre reconstructed […]
After a successful season on the cross country course, the Marauders running team is back in action on the track. The team laced up their spikes on Jan. 10-11 at the CAN AM meet in Windsor, Ont. and were able to run to some impressive times, especially this early on in the season. The women’s […]
Aurora Coltman Silhouette Intern McMaster will be receiving over $2 million to expand learning services offered to students and to gain insight into educational needs based on recorded project outcomes. The funding was provided by the Government of Ontario’s Productivity and Innovation Fund, a $45 million fund that will be supporting 120 different projects at […]
In previous years, most secondary school students looking to pursue careers in law would not even have McMaster on their shortlist of schools to apply to. Though well known for its strengths in legal philosophy, the Hamilton-based university famed for its scientific innovations did not stand out among a wealth of other options. But acknowledging […]
Tomi Milos Features Editor Although cycling has long been hailed as a formidable mode of transportation for city-dwellers, most Hamiltonians can be reluctant to hop on a bicycle for fear of their safety. But the threat of grievous injury does not seem to be deterring McMaster students from gravitating towards such an affordable means of […]
