Art and Science Panel, Pics and Poetry
February 14, 2012
Last week’s Panel Discussion on Stem Cell Culture: Biomedical Research, Popular Culture and Art was a great success with more than 250 guests in attendance. For those who missed it, please have a look at the terrific coverage in the Hamilton Spectator article.
At the close of the panel discussion, McMaster Professor (Emeritus) Patangi Rangachari read a verse from W.H. Auden’s poem After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics — a selection that seemed to be perfect for the occasion:
This passion of our kind
For the process of finding out
Is a fact one can hardly doubt,
But I would rejoice in it more
If I knew more clearly what
We wanted the knowledge for,
Felt certain still that the mind
Is free to know or not.
Art as the Fifth Pillar of Health: Patricia Bovey to Deliver Keynote Lecture
September 17, 2026
Fall 2026 Exhibitions at the McMaster Museum of Art
September 4, 2026
Connected Histories, Research, and Archives—Interview with Nnamdi Nnake
September 1, 2026
What stories can the telegraph tell? More than a century after telegraph lines began to stretch across Nigeria, Connected Histories: The Telegraph in Nigeria invites visitors to take a fresh look at a technology that helped shape modern communications, colonial governance, labour, and everyday life. Drawing on the doctoral research of McMaster University PhD candidate Nnamdi Nnake, the exhibition brings together rare artifacts, archival […]
