McMaster Effective Altruism
1280 Main St W L8S 4L8 Hamilton, ON, Canada

Hey folks! Here at EA Mac, we're looking to grow our leadership team for the coming semester! We are especially interested in lower year students who might help us grow the club! If you are interested, please fill out this from by Feb. 12: https://forms.gle/8gRC4F3nhe4jx1e19 Please message us if you have any questions! :)

Interested in learning about Effective Altruism but not sure where to start? Does a structured reading+discussion group with other students from Mac as well as other schools appeal to you? Missed the deadline to apply for the earlier Stanford fellowship?... Our friends at Effective Altruism MIT are also hosting a fellowship this term with applications due in about two weeks! To apply, please fill out the form below: https://tinyurl.com/EAFellowshipMITCMU

Our friends over at EA Stanford will be hosting an intro-level EA Fellowship again this semester that is open to all! If you are curious about EA or want to deepen your knowledge as well as make new friends, fill out their application here ASAP: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSfqQ4Vie1lj_cCLsa/viewform... There will also be a live info session tomorrow from 3pm-4pm EST: https://www.facebook.com/events/403315624231939/ If you have any questions, do not hesitate to message us!

Hi Everyone! The Effective Altruism Student Summit is coming up this weekend (Oct. 24 and 25) and the deadline for submitting an application is 11:59 pm Pacific Time on Wednesday (tomorrow). The agenda has tons of fascinating talks and plenty of opportunities to meet like-minded people in workshops and meetups. Application Link: https://www.eaglobal.org/events/studentsummit2020/... The application should only take ~10 minutes to complete. The conference will be an opportunity to develop future high impact career plans, further your understanding of EA concepts and top priority cause areas, and concrete actions you can take right now to effectively improve the world. Feel free to send us a message or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions! Hope to see you there :)

Hi everyone! On Wednesday Sept 30, 3pm, we are excited to be co-hosting a talk featuring key leaders in Effective Altruism movement. Prof. William MacAskill, Associate Professor at the Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford, and one of the co-founders of the movement, will present his new introduction to effective altruism. This will be followed by a talk by Habiba Islam from the advising team of 80,000 Hours (https://80000hours.org/), a non-profit researching how ...to do the most good with your career. After the talks, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions in a live Q&A session. The event will last for an hour. Afterwards, McMaster will be hosting a virtual zoom meet-up so you can meet other students and engage in further discussion. We hope to see you there!

As mentioned in our previous post, we'll be collaborating with Stanford EA to host the Arete Fellowship for McMaster students! Below is a link to the information session on Sunday September 20th at 5:00 PM EST. Feel free to reach out to us through messenger if you have any questions! If you'd like to chat with us over zoom, you can book a time here: https://bit.ly/32JJ9sV