People of McMaster celebrates the incredible people who help make McMaster a great place to work, learn, teach and conduct research. Click here for the rest of the series.   Most people would rather be heading home than crawling through a basement late at night looking for a burst pipe. For Nathan Pirocchi, it’s exactly the kind of challenge that reminds him why […]

A last-minute change in plans 15 years ago put Katherine Bujold on the path to becoming the newest Canada Research Chair in McMaster’s Faculty of Science. Bujold thought she’d finish her undergraduate degree and immediately start working as a chemist for a pharmaceutical company in her home province of Quebec. “A career in academia was […]

Growing up, Emily Hodgson envisioned a future as a fighter pilot. Hodgson, a vascular surgery trainee, grew up in a military-adjacent family. Her grandfather and brother both had ties to the military, and she served as an air cadet as a teenager. She spent much of her youth dreaming about a life high in the […]