In this together Series: Lifting Spirits through Art
By: Hallie Rodney, BHSc (Honours) Class of 2022 Although COVID-19 has made an enormous impact on the daily lives of students, it has also given individuals time to look inwards and reflect on all that they do have. In doing so, many students have found ways to give back to their communities throughout this […]
BHSc Community Newsletter Fall 2020 Issue!
On behalf of the 2020 BHSc Community Newsletter Committee, we are pleased to share with you our Fall 2020 Issue! The Newsletter is available here, https://bhsc.mcmaster.ca/bhscene/newsletter/ We hope you enjoy reading the articles we have featured this year, they capture only a few of the remarkable contributions made by our faculty, students, staff, and alumni! A special thank […]
The Unknown Unknowns of September 2020
Hi everyone – welcome and welcome back to McMaster and BHSc! I’m sure many of you are feeling the way I am about the upcoming school year – a heady mixture of eagerness, excitement, uncertainty, and sometimes, anxiety. On the one hand, I am looking forward to starting classes again: getting back into the rhythms […]
“It’s a snapshot of moments in time.” Photo series by Mac grads highlights experiences of COVID-19 frontline workers
“This article was first published on Daily News. Read the original article.” BY SARAH JANES JULY 30, 2020 Great minds think alike. Even though they were both Mac grads, Arnav Agarwal ‘14 and Rishi Bansal ‘20 hadn’t met – until they both had similar ideas to capture the untold stories of COVID-19 frontline workers. Individually they reached […]
A Tribute to Delsworth Harnish
Student-Centered Learning: Subversive Teachers and Standardized Worlds P.K. Rangachari and Rosalyn Johnson The essays in this volume that pay tribute to an outstanding educator, Delsworth Harnish from McMaster University deal with the problems and prospects of fostering student-centred learning in a standards-based world through subversive teaching. The essays are riffs on a theme mooted by […]
New health sciences course focuses on infectious diseases like COVID-19
Hartley Jafine, left, and Padman Jayaratne are instructors of a new Bachelor of Health Sciences course called Emerging Infectious Diseases. “This article was first published on the Faculty of Health Sciences website Read the original article.” June 8, 2020 PROGRAM UPDATES McMaster University’s Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) program is teaching students about COVID-19 with a new […]
A Message from Assistant Dean Stacey Ritz on Racism and Anti-Racism in BHSc
Hello to everyone in the BHSc Community and beyond: I know we have our BHSc Q&A scheduled for students on Friday, but in light of current events I felt I needed to reach out to all of you before then. We need to talk about racism. First, I want to express my care and concern […]
Dancing to support COVID-19 research
Natasha Verhoeff at her family’s home in Toronto “This article was first published on Daily News. Read the original article.” BY LISE DIEBEL MAY 26, 2020 Keep busy, promote health and wellness, and help COVID-19 research – all during a pandemic? Health sciences student Natasha Verhoeff managed to find a way to do all three when she […]
