McMaster University

McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, incorporated in 1887 under an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario that merged the Toronto Baptist College with the faculty of theology of Woodstock College, and named after the Canadian senator and banker William McMaster, whose bequest of C$900,000 endowed the new institution.麦克马斯特大学（McMaster University，简称 McMaster 或 Mac）是加拿大安大略省汉密尔顿的公立研究型大学，1887 年依据安大略省议会法案注册成立，由多伦多浸信会学院与伍德斯托克学院神学部合并而成，并以捐赠 90 万加元兴学的加拿大参议员、银行家 William McMaster 命名。

Its main campus covers 152.4 hectares beside the Royal Botanical Gardens at the western end of Lake Ontario, the university runs six faculties, enrols 37,256 students including 31,779 undergraduates as of November 2024, belongs to the U15 group of research-intensive Canadian universities, and places equal 174th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校主校区位于安大略湖西端皇家植物园旁，占地 152.4 公顷，现设六个学院，截至 2024 年 11 月在校学生 37256 人，其中本科生 31779 人，为加拿大研究密集型大学联盟 U15 成员，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 174。

History

• The university grew out of Baptist educational initiatives in central Canada that began in the 1830s, and its direct predecessor, the Toronto Baptist College, was established in 1881, while Woodstock College, whose theology faculty joined the merger, dated from 1857.学校源于 19 世纪 30 年代加拿大中部浸信会推动的办学事业，其直接前身多伦多浸信会学院创设于 1881 年，而并入神学部的伍德斯托克学院则可追溯至 1857 年。

• In 1887 the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College received royal assent, the newly incorporated institution was named McMaster University, and William McMaster, the first president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, was remembered as its founding benefactor.1887 年，《多伦多浸信会学院与伍德斯托克学院合并法案》获御准，新注册机构定名麦克马斯特大学，加拿大商业银行（Canadian Bank of Commerce）首任总裁 William McMaster 成为创校捐资人。

• Also in 1887, William's widow Susan Moulton McMaster conveyed a former family residence to the university for a girls' preparatory school, which reopened as Moulton Ladies' College in 1888 and operated until 1958.同年，William McMaster 的遗孀 Susan Moulton McMaster 将家族旧宅赠予大学开办女子预备学校，1888 年改名莫尔顿女子学院，一直办学至 1958 年。

• Housed in McMaster Hall in Toronto and sponsored by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, the new university taught its first courses in arts and theology in 1890 and conferred its first degrees in 1894.新大学设于多伦多的 McMaster Hall，由安大略与魁北克浸信会联会资助，1890 年开设首批文科与神学课程，1894 年授予首批学位。

• As enrolment grew, McMaster Hall became overcrowded, and in 1909 a student from Hamilton first proposed relocating the university, a suggestion the administration took seriously only from 1911.随着学生增加，McMaster Hall 日趋拥挤，1909 年一名汉密尔顿籍学生首次提出迁校建议，校方直到 1911 年才认真考虑。

• In the 1920s the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce campaigned to bring the university to the city, and the university briefly considered federating with the University of Toronto, as Trinity College and Victoria College had done, before deciding in 1927 to move.20 世纪 20 年代，汉密尔顿商会发起迁校运动，校方一度考虑效仿三一学院与维多利亚学院与多伦多大学合并联邦化，最终于 1927 年决定迁往汉密尔顿。

• The Baptist Convention raised 1.5 million dollars and Hamilton citizens added 500,000 for the move, while campus land was transferred from the Royal Botanical Gardens and building funds came from gifts by graduates.浸信会联会为此募得 150 万加元，汉密尔顿市民另筹 50 万加元，校址土地由皇家植物园划拨，建校资金则来自校友捐赠。

• The first academic session on the new Hamilton campus began in 1930, the same year McMaster sold its Toronto property to the University of Toronto, and McMaster Hall became the home of the Royal Conservatory of Music.1930 年，汉密尔顿新校区迎来首个学期，同年学校将多伦多物业售予多伦多大学，原 McMaster Hall 后成为皇家音乐学院（Royal Conservatory of Music）所在地。

• During the interwar period professional programmes were limited to theology and nursing, and the postwar demand for scientific and technological expertise strained the finances of what was still a Baptist institution.两次世界大战之间，学校的专业课程仅限神学与护理，战后对科技专业人才的需求令这所浸信会背景的学校财政吃紧。

• Because denominational institutions could not receive public funds, the Baptist Convention reorganised the university into two federated colleges in the 1940s, with arts and divinity in University College and science in the newly incorporated Hamilton College of 1948.由于教会学校不能领取公共资金，浸信会联会于 40 年代将大学重组为两个联邦学院：文科与神学归 University College，理科则归 1948 年依《公司法》注册的 Hamilton College。

• The university created the office of president in 1949 and appointed George Gilmour as its first president, the same year it offered its first doctoral programme.1949 年学校设立校长职位，George Gilmour 出任首任校长，同年开设首个博士项目。

• In 1950 the university completed three academic buildings for the sciences, all designed by the local architect William Russell Souter.1950 年，学校建成三座理科教学楼，均由本地建筑师 William Russell Souter 设计。

• The McMaster University Act of 1957 dissolved the two colleges, vested the property in the university and made it a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution, with the Baptist connection continued by the separately chartered McMaster Divinity College.1957 年《麦克马斯特大学法令》解散两个学院，将财产归于大学，使其成为私人特许、公帑资助的非教派机构，浸信会渊源则由另行注册的麦克马斯特神学院（McMaster Divinity College）延续。

• Also in 1957, doctoral programmes were consolidated in a new Faculty of Graduate Studies and construction began on the McMaster Nuclear Reactor, the first university-based research reactor in the Commonwealth when it started up in 1959.同样在 1957 年，博士项目并入新设的研究生院，麦克马斯特核反应堆动工，1959 年投入运行，是英联邦首座大学研究用核反应堆。

• With support from the Ontario government, the university founded its medical school and teaching hospital in 1965 and graduated its first class of physicians in 1972.1965 年，在安大略省政府支持下学校创办医学院与教学医院，1972 年迎来首届医学生毕业。

• In 1968 the university was reorganised into the divisions of arts, science and health sciences, each headed by a vice-president, before the 1976 act replaced them with six faculties led by deans, namely business, engineering, health sciences, humanities, science and social sciences.1968 年学校改组为文科、理科与健康科学三个学部，各设副校长，1976 年法令后改为商学院、工程学院、健康科学学院、人文科学学院、理学院与社会科学学院六个学院，各由院长领导。

• Brandon College in Manitoba was an affiliated institution from 1911 to 1938, funded by the Baptist Union of Western Canada, and the affiliation ended when Brandon became non-denominational.位于曼尼托巴省的布兰登学院 1911 至 1938 年间为学校附属机构，由加拿大西部浸信会联盟资助，1938 年因其转为非教派机构而终止关系。

• After the 1930 move the university petitioned Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh for a coat of arms, granted on 20 October 1930, and its arms and badge were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on 15 October 2006.迁往汉密尔顿后，学校向爱丁堡苏格兰里昂王座法院申请纹章，1930 年 10 月 20 日获准，2006 年 10 月 15 日纹章与徽章在加拿大纹章局注册。

• The present visual identity and logo were approved by the senate in 1997, and the university flag was unveiled on 29 September 2015.现行视觉形象与标志 1997 年获校务委员会通过，校旗于 2015 年 9 月 29 日揭幕。

• On 1 July 2025, civil engineer Susan Tighe took office as McMaster's ninth president and vice-chancellor, the first engineer to hold the presidency.2025 年 7 月 1 日，土木工程师 Susan Tighe 就任学校第九任校长兼副校监，成为首位工程师出身的校长。

Academics

• McMaster is a publicly funded research university and a member of Universities Canada that runs six faculties, three of them founded with the university in 1887, namely humanities, science and social sciences, alongside the DeGroote School of Business of 1952, the Faculty of Engineering of 1958 and the Faculty of Health Sciences of 1974.学校是公费资助的研究型大学、加拿大大学协会成员，设六个学院，其中人文科学学院、理学院与社会科学学院随 1887 年建校而设，另有 1952 年设立的 DeGroote 商学院、1958 年设立的工程学院与 1974 年设立的健康科学学院。

• In the 2023-24 academic year enrolment reached 37,592 students, comprising 32,105 undergraduates and 5,487 graduate students, and as of November 2024 the university reported 31,779 undergraduates and 5,477 postgraduates, or 37,256 students in all.2023–24 学年在校学生达 37592 人，其中本科生 32105 人、研究生 5487 人，截至 2024 年 11 月学校通报本科生 31779 人、研究生 5477 人，合计 37256 人。

• The university employed 1,089 faculty members and 17,141 staff in 2024-25, the largest faculty by undergraduate enrolment being science with 8,319 full-time equivalent students and the smallest humanities with 2,026, while health sciences led in graduate enrolment with 1,144.2024–25 学年学校有教师 1089 人、教职工 17141 人，按本科生规模理学院最大，有全日制等值学生 8319 人，人文科学学院最小，为 2026 人，健康科学学院研究生最多，达 1144 人。

• The Arts and Science programme, created in 1981 as a joint liberal-education offering of the six faculties, enrolled 292 undergraduates in 2023-24, and collaborative programmes with Mohawk College drew about 3,019 students.1981 年创立、由六个学院合办的文理课程（Arts and Science programme）在 2023–24 学年有 292 名本科生，与莫霍克学院（Mohawk College）合办的合作项目约有 3019 名学生。

• Under the McMaster Model, the medical school pioneered problem-based learning in the 1960s, an approach now used by more than 80 per cent of medical schools in the United States, and in 1991 it adopted progress testing through the personal progress index.在麦克马斯特模式下，医学院于 20 世纪 60 年代首创问题导向学习，如今美国逾 80% 的医学院采用此法，1991 年学校又引入进度测试与个人进度指数（personal progress index）。

• The medical school developed the multiple-mini interview in 2001 and the computer-based CASPer test in 2010, both since adopted by medical schools in Canada, the United States and beyond.医学院 2001 年开发多站式迷你面试（multiple-mini interview），2010 年推出计算机化个性抽样评估 CASPer，两者均被加拿大、美国等地医学院采用。

• The Faculty of Health Sciences manages about 130 million dollars of research a year and runs the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, the Population Health Research Institute and a biosafety level 3 laboratory.健康科学学院每年管理约 1.3 亿加元研究经费，下设费尔斯通呼吸健康研究所（Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health）、人口健康研究所（Population Health Research Institute）与生物安全三级实验室。

• The university's brain bank holds a portion of Albert Einstein's brain preserved for medical research, and a McMaster team led by David Sackett and later Gordon Guyatt is credited with establishing the methodology of evidence-based medicine.学校脑库收藏有爱因斯坦的一部分大脑以供医学研究，David Sackett 及后来的 Gordon Guyatt 领导的团队被公认为循证医学方法学的奠基者。

• The Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, created in 1960 and named after Nobel laureate alumnus Bertram Brockhouse, draws 123 faculty members from 13 departments across science, engineering and health sciences.1960 年创立、以诺贝尔奖校友 Bertram Brockhouse 命名的布罗克豪斯材料研究所（Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research）汇集了来自理科、工程与健康科学 13 个学系的 123 名教师。

• Its Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy operates the Titan 80-300 cubed, described as the world's most powerful electron microscope with a magnification of 14 million.其加拿大电子显微镜中心（Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy）拥有号称世界最强电子显微镜的「Titan 80–300 cubed」，放大倍率达 1400 万倍。

• The McMaster Nuclear Reactor, operating since 1959, is the largest university reactor in the Commonwealth and the second largest research reactor in North America, producing about 60 per cent of the world's supply of iodine-125 used to treat prostate cancer.1959 年运行的麦克马斯特核反应堆是英联邦最大的大学反应堆、北美第二大研究反应堆，生产全球约 60% 用于治疗前列腺癌的碘-125。

• In 2024 the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission issued the reactor a new 20-year operating licence, valid until 30 June 2044.2024 年，加拿大核安全委员会向反应堆签发为期 20 年的新运营许可，有效期至 2044 年 6 月 30 日。

• The library system comprises four libraries holding 1,274,265 paper books and 3,689,973 resources in total, with the Mills, Innis and Thode libraries serving the humanities and social sciences, the business school and the sciences and engineering respectively.图书馆系统由四间图书馆组成，共有纸本书 1274265 册、各类资源 3689973 件，Mills 图书馆负责人文与社科，Innis 图书馆服务商学院，Thode 图书馆收藏理工科资料。

• Its William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections holds the Bertrand Russell archives, labour union records and the papers of Canadian writers such as Farley Mowat and Pierre Berton.其 William Ready 档案与研究特藏部藏有伯特兰·罗素档案、工会记录以及法利·莫厄特（Farley Mowat）、皮埃尔·伯顿（Pierre Berton）等加拿大作家的文献。

• McMaster holds exchange agreements with more than 100 universities abroad, and its students received about 145.8 million dollars in Ontario Student Assistance Programme aid in 2022-23.学校与海外 100 多所大学签有交换协议，2022–23 学年学生获得安大略学生援助计划（OSAP）资助约 1.458 亿加元。

• Admission is selective by programme: the university fielded 47,544 applicants in 2023 and admitted about 59 per cent of full-time first-year undergraduates in 2024, while the health sciences programme accepted only 4.5 per cent of some 3,500 annual applicants.各项目录取难度不一：2023 年学校收到 47544 份申请，2024 年全日制一年级本科录取率约 59%，而健康科学项目在每年约 3500 名申请者中仅录取 4.5%。

Campus

• The main campus lies in Hamilton in the Golden Horseshoe along the western end of Lake Ontario, bordered north by the Cootes Paradise marshland, east and west by the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, and south by Main Street West, a major traffic artery.主校区位于安大略湖西端金马蹄地区的汉密尔顿市，北接库茨天堂（Cootes Paradise）沼泽，东西两侧为 Ainslie Wood 与 Westdale 住宅区，南临交通干道 Main Street West。

• Although the campus spans 152.4 hectares, most teaching facilities sit within a core of 12.1 hectares, and the site is divided into the core campus, the north campus with its athletic precinct and the least-developed west campus.校园总面积 152.4 公顷，但大部分教学设施集中在 12.1 公顷的核心范围内，校区分为核心校区、设体育场馆的北校区与开发最少的西校区三部分。

• In 2017 the university owned and managed 58 buildings, the oldest being Hamilton Hall of 1926 and among the newest the Bertrand Russell Archives and Research Centre, opened on 25 June 2018.2017 年学校拥有并管理 58 座建筑，最古老的是 1926 年启用的 Hamilton Hall，最新者包括 2018 年 6 月 25 日启用的伯特兰·罗素档案与研究中心。

• The six original buildings are Collegiate Gothic structures designed by William Lyon Somerville, who also laid out the first campus plan, and they are now flanked by more than fifty buildings raised mainly between the 1940s and 1960s.校园最早的六座建筑为 William Lyon Somerville 设计的学院哥特式楼宇，最初的校园布局亦出自其手，如今其周围矗立着 40 至 60 年代兴建的五十多座建筑。

• The largest facility is the McMaster University Medical Centre, a research hospital with Canada's largest neonatal intensive care unit and its third-largest child and youth mental health unit, connected to the Life Sciences Building and the Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery.最大的设施是麦克马斯特大学医学中心（McMaster University Medical Centre），这座研究型医院拥有全加最大的新生儿重症监护室与第三大儿童青少年心理健康部门，与生命科学大楼及 Michael DeGroote 学习与发现中心（Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery）相连。

• The McMaster Museum of Art, founded in 1967, holds 5,971 works valued at 98.7 million dollars as of 2015, including pieces by Courbet, Monet, Pissarro, Sickert and van Gogh, and draws the highest attendance of any university-affiliated museum in Canada.1967 年创立的麦克马斯特艺术博物馆（McMaster Museum of Art）藏有 5971 件作品，2015 年估值 9870 万加元，包括库尔贝、莫奈、毕沙罗、西克特与梵高的作品，是加拿大参观人数最多的大学附属博物馆，并拥有全国最完整的德国表现主义与魏玛时期版画收藏。

• As of 2026 the university has fourteen smoke-free student residences with room for 4,186 students, the largest being Lincoln Alexander Hall, completed in summer 2026 with 1,365 beds, followed by the Peter George Centre for Living and Learning of 2019 with 500 beds.截至 2026 年，学校有 14 座无烟学生宿舍，可容纳 4186 名学生，最大的是 2026 年夏季竣工、有 1365 个床位的 Lincoln Alexander Hall，其次是 2019 年建成、有 500 个床位的 Peter George 生活与学习中心。

• The McMaster University Student Centre is the hub of student life with a café, study space and the offices of the students union and The Silhouette, and the campus counts more than twenty dining outlets including the vegetarian Bridges Café.麦克马斯特学生中心（McMaster University Student Centre）是学生生活枢纽，设有咖啡馆、自习室以及学生会与《The Silhouette》编辑部，校园内有二十多家餐饮点，包括全素的 Bridges Café。

• Beyond Hamilton, the university runs the Ron Joyce Centre for the business school in Burlington, opened in 2010, regional medical campuses in Kitchener from 2007 and St. Catharines from 2008, and the McMaster Innovation Park, bought in 2005 and home to the United Nations University water network headquarters since 2008.在汉密尔顿之外，学校在伯灵顿设有 2010 年启用的 Ron Joyce 商学院中心，2007 年起在基奇纳、2008 年起在圣凯瑟琳斯设区域医学校区，并于 2005 年购入土地创办麦克马斯特创新园区，联合国大学水环境与健康国际网络总部 2008 年迁入园内。

• Downtown Hamilton hosts the Centre for Continuing Education in the former Bank of Montreal Pavilion at Lloyd D. Jackson Square and the David Braley Health Sciences Centre, opened in May 2015 with six floors and 192,000 square feet of space.汉密尔顿市中心设有继续教育中心，位于 Lloyd D. Jackson 广场原蒙特利尔银行展馆内，另有 2015 年 5 月启用、六层高 19.2 万平方英尺的 David Braley 健康科学中心。

Reputation

• McMaster places equal 174th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, equal 116th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 101-150 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 174，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 116，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 101 至 150 区间。

• In the 2025-26 U.S. News global university rankings it placed 146th in the world and fourth in Canada, and in the 2025 QS edition it ranked 173rd, eighth in Canada.在 2025–26 年《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中位列世界第 146、加拿大第 4，在 2025 年 QS 排名中列第 173、加拿大第 8。

• OpenAlex records 185,822 works by the university that have drawn 21,799,761 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 185822 篇，被引 21799761 次。

• Research Infosource named McMaster Canada's most research-intensive university in 2018, with average sponsored research income of 434,700 dollars per faculty member in 2017, almost double the medical-doctoral average, and its 379.959 million dollars of sponsored research income that year ranked seventh nationally.Research Infosource 2018 年评学校为全国研究密集度最高的大学，2017 年教研人员人均赞助研究收入 434700 加元，接近医博类大学平均水平的两倍，当年 3.79959 亿加元的赞助研究收入居全国第七。

• Three Nobel laureates belong to the university: faculty member Bertram Brockhouse shared the 1994 physics prize for neutron scattering, alumnus Myron Scholes won the 1997 economics prize for the Black-Scholes model, and alumna Donna Strickland shared the 2018 physics prize for laser physics.学校拥有三位诺贝尔奖得主：教师 Bertram Brockhouse 因中子散射研究获 1994 年诺贝尔物理学奖，校友 Myron Scholes 因布莱克-舒尔兹模型获 1997 年诺贝尔经济学奖，校友 Donna Strickland 因激光物理研究获 2018 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Alumnus James Orbinski accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Doctors Without Borders as its president, and alumnus Douglas Coleman, who discovered leptin, received the 2010 Lasker Award.校友 James Orbinski 曾以无国界医生组织主席身份代表该组织领取 1999 年诺贝尔和平奖，发现瘦蛋白的校友 Douglas Coleman 获 2010 年拉斯克奖。

• Maclean's 2025 rankings placed McMaster fourth among medical-doctoral universities in Canada and fifth in its reputation survey, and Newsweek ranked it the fifteenth best university outside the United States in 2011.《麦克林》2025 年排名将学校列为加拿大医博类大学第 4、声誉调查第 5，《新闻周刊》2011 年则评其为美国以外第 15 佳大学。

• In the 2022 QS graduate employability ranking McMaster stood 81st in the world and fourth in Canada, and a 2011 New York Times survey of corporate recruiters placed it 61st worldwide.在 2022 年 QS 毕业生就业能力排名中，学校位列世界第 81、加拿大第 4，《纽约时报》2011 年面向企业高管的调查则将其列为全球第 61。

• Maclean's named McMaster the most innovative university among the fifteen Canadian universities with medical schools for eleven consecutive years, and 34 of its graduates have competed in the Olympic Games.《麦克林》曾连续 11 年将学校评为全国 15 所设有医学院的大学中最具创新能力者，学校毕业生中有 34 人参加过奥运会。

Student life

• The university motto, adopted in 1888, is the Greek of Colossians 1:17, meaning In Christ all things consist, an unusual choice of Greek over Latin or English that the founders made to reach back to the earliest days of the Christian faith.学校校训采用 1888 年启用的希腊文，语出《歌罗西书》1 章 17 节，意为「万有靠基督而立」（In Christ all things consist），创校者弃拉丁文而用希腊文，意在回到基督教信仰的最早期。

• The university colours are maroon, gold and grey, and the athletics teams have been known as the Marauders since 1948, a name chosen in a contest run by the student newspaper The Silhouette.学校代表色为栗色、金色与灰色，校队自 1948 年起以「Marauders」为名，该名字由学生报《The Silhouette》举办的命名比赛选出。

• Competing in the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports, the Marauders have won eleven national and 139 provincial championships since 1961, with the men's water polo team taking 25 conference titles and the wrestling team four national titles.校队参加 U Sports 旗下安大略大学体育协会（Ontario University Athletics）赛事，1961 年以来共获 11 次全国冠军与 139 次省级冠军，男子水球队 25 次夺得分区冠军，摔跤队 4 次夺得全国冠军。

• The Silhouette, in publication since 1929, is the university's oldest student service, the engineering society has published the satire magazine The Plumbline since 1968, and the campus station CFMU-FM at 93.3 FM, on air since 1978, is Canada's second-oldest campus radio station.1929 年创刊的《The Silhouette》是学校历史最悠久的学生服务机构，工程学会自 1968 年起出版讽刺杂志《The Plumbline》，校园电台 CFMU-FM（93.3 FM）1978 年开播，是加拿大历史第二悠久的校园电台。

• The McMaster Artificial Intelligence Society, founded in December 2017, grew past 1,000 members by 2020 and was described as the largest student-run AI club in the world.2017 年 12 月创立的麦克马斯特人工智能学会（Mac AI）到 2020 年已拥有超过 1000 名会员，一度是全球最大的学生运营 AI 社团。

• More than 300 student organisations and clubs are active, and representation runs through the McMaster Students Union for full-time undergraduates, the McMaster Association of Part-Time Students and the Graduate Students Association.全校有 300 多个学生组织与社团，全日制本科生由麦克马斯特学生会（McMaster Students Union）代表，兼读生由麦克马斯特兼读学生协会（MAPS）代表，研究生则由研究生会（GSA）代表。

• Songs played at ceremonies and games include The Alma Mater Song of 1935, Shout for McMaster, recognised as the university fight song, and My Mac of 1982.典礼与赛事上演奏的歌曲包括 1935 年的《The Alma Mater Song》、被定为校队战歌的「Shout for McMaster」以及 1982 年的《My Mac》。

• The university's branding line since 2007 is Learning Without Borders, the ceremonial mace was given by the graduating class of 1900 in 1950, and the engineering faculty's fireball emblem, adopted in 1960, came from the arms of the defunct Hamilton College.学校 2007 年起的品牌口号为「Learning Without Borders」，1950 年 1900 届毕业生捐赠了典礼权杖，工程学院 1960 年采用的火球徽记则源自已解散的 Hamilton College 的纹章。

Notable people

• William McMaster, the founding benefactor, was a Canadian senator and the first president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce whose 1887 bequest of C$900,000 created the university that bears his name.创校捐资人 William McMaster 是加拿大参议员、加拿大商业银行首任总裁，1887 年捐赠 90 万加元催生了以其命名的大学。

• George Gilmour was appointed the university's first president in 1949, when the office was created alongside that of vice-chancellor, a post always held by the incumbent president.1949 年校长职位设立时，George Gilmour 获委任为首任校长，同期设立的副校监一职历来由现任校长兼任。

• Bertram Brockhouse, professor of physics at McMaster from 1962 until his retirement in 1984, received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering neutron scattering techniques for the study of condensed matter.1962 年起任教、1984 年退休的物理学教授 Bertram Brockhouse 因开创用于凝聚态物质研究的中子散射技术，获 1994 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Myron Scholes, a 1962 graduate in economics, shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics for the Black-Scholes model of financial derivatives.1962 届经济学毕业生 Myron Scholes 因创立布莱克-舒尔兹模型获 1997 年诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Donna Strickland, who graduated in engineering physics in 1981, shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for breakthrough inventions in laser physics.1981 届工程物理学毕业生 Donna Strickland 因激光物理领域的突破性发明获 2018 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• James Orbinski, a 1990 Doctor of Medicine graduate, accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize as president of Doctors Without Borders and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2009.1990 届医学博士毕业生 James Orbinski 以无国界医生组织主席身份领取 1999 年诺贝尔和平奖，2009 年获委任加拿大勋章官佐。

• Douglas Coleman, a 1954 chemistry graduate and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, discovered the hormone leptin and won the 2010 Lasker Award.1954 届化学系毕业生、美国国家科学院院士 Douglas Coleman 发现瘦蛋白，获 2010 年拉斯克奖。

• Roberta Bondar, a 1977 medical graduate, became Canada's first woman astronaut and was named a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019.1977 届医学毕业生 Roberta Bondar 成为加拿大首位女性航天员，2019 年获颁加拿大勋章同伴级。

• Tihomir Oreskovic, a 1989 chemistry graduate with a 1991 MBA, served as the eleventh Prime Minister of Croatia.1989 届化学系毕业生、1991 届工商管理硕士 Tihomir Orešković 曾任克罗地亚第 11 任总理。

• Tommy Douglas, who earned his MA in 1933, was the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan and the first leader of the New Democratic Party, while Dalton McGuinty, a 1978 biology graduate, became the twenty-fourth Premier of Ontario.1933 年获文学硕士的 Tommy Douglas 曾任萨斯喀彻温省第 7 任省长与新民主党首任党魁，1978 届生物学毕业生 Dalton McGuinty 则出任安大略省第 24 任省长。

• Stephen Elop, a 1986 graduate in computer engineering and management, was president and chief executive officer of Nokia, and Heather Munroe-Blum, a 1974 graduate, later served as principal of McGill University.1986 届计算机工程与管理学毕业生 Stephen Elop 曾任诺基亚总裁兼首席执行官，1974 届毕业生 Heather Munroe-Blum 后任麦吉尔大学校长。

• Chinese astronomer Guo Xin is among the university's alumni of Chinese origin, as is philosopher Wu Rujun of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.华裔天文学家郭新是学校的校友，香港中文大学哲学家吴汝钧亦与学校有渊源。