McMaster Alumni | McMaster University Holiday Greeting: Looking back on 2022 @McMasterUTV | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 3 hours ago
From small acts of kindness to big breakthroughs, our campus community made us proud this year. McMaster students worked to support the launch of a community fridge; Our researchers started clinical trials on a next-generation inhaled COVID-19 vaccine; and we all got together for the return of in-person milestones, including Welcome Week and convocation ceremonies.
To celebrate the small moments that all add up to make a big impact, we asked our friends at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy to create the world's tiniest Marauder holiday greeting to complete this video. Keep an eye out for those small wins (even if they’re barely noticeable at first).
Thank you for another year of making the world brighter, Marauders—here’s to 2023!
#McMaster
From small acts of kindness to big breakthroughs, our campus community made us proud this year. McMaster students worked to support the launch of a community fridge; Our researchers started clinical trials on a next-generation inhaled COVID-19 vaccine; and we all got together for the return of in-person milestones, including Welcome Week and convocation ceremonies.
To celebrate the small moments that all add up to make a big impact, we asked our friends at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy to create the world's tiniest Marauder holiday greeting to complete this video. Keep an eye out for those small wins (even if they’re barely noticeable at first).
Thank you for another year of making the world brighter, Marauders—here’s to 2023!
#McMaster
![[Archives Alive] The Earthly Paradise: Recent Botanical Acquisitions at McMaster University Library](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mTWQumQLKk0/hqdefault.jpg "[Archives Alive] The Earthly Paradise: Recent Botanical Acquisitions at McMaster University Library
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a dizzying proliferation of new European books on botany. Driven by interrelated sociopolitical, aesthetic, intellectual, and technological developments, the era was a golden age for sumptuous and lavishly illustrated tomes addressing every conceivable plant-related subject — pharmacology, taxonomy, horticulture, and sylviculture among them. In a heady environment rife with innovation, political and religious controversy, and outright plagiarism, creators and collectors collaborated and competed to take the study and appreciation of plants to new heights — and new audiences.
In recent years, McMaster University Library has acquired several significant works in this tradition, including early editions of Gerard’s Herball, John Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum and Paradisi in Sole, Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Natural History, Castore Durante’s Herbario Nuovo, John Evelyn’s Sylva, and a scarce English translation of the Amsterdam Pharmacopoeia.
Join Myron Groover, McMaster’s Archives and Rare Books Librarian, for an intimate look at these stunning artefacts and the contexts in which they were created.
About the speaker:
Myron Groover is McMaster University’s Archives and Rare Books Librarian. He read History at the University of Aberdeen and Library-Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia. His work focuses on collection development, curation, and teaching with archives and rare books. His academic interests include book history, the material culture of text, and the history of ideas.")
