May 31, 2020
Richard Saunders has been awarded funding from the Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada to support his new project exploring innovations in resource nationalism policymaking in Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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May 30, 2020
York University Professor Richard Leblanc’s new edition of “The Handbook of Board Governance” seeks to help today’s corporate board leaders reach into the future to prepare for what is coming.
May 28, 2020
Each month, ‘Innovatus,’ a special issue of YFile, explores how York University community members are expanding experiential learning, enhancing the student experience, inspiring innovation in technology-enhanced learning and embracing educational development. This month, the spotlight shines on the Faculty of Education.
May 28, 2020
Two York University professors brought a digital open-access archive of internationally acclaimed scientific research back to a northern community this past fall. During their visit, Faculty of Education Professor Steve Alsop and Faculty of Science Professor Dawn Bazely scheduled a series of public and targeted talks and presentations and meetings with the community to introduce the archive. Their audiences included students in Grades 5 to 9 at the local Duke of Marlborough School.
May 27, 2020
Professor Laura Levin, in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), was awarded a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) in May 2020, as principal investigator for the project “Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices.”
May 27, 2020
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) received a $500,000 donation from Canadian philanthropist, author and business woman Vivienne Poy to create an endowment to support student engagement in Hakka research and scholarship.
May 27, 2020
York University Vice-President of Equity, People and Culture Sheila Cote-Meek answers 10 questions about the book “Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy.” The book will be launched May 28 with a free webinar.
May 24, 2020
A new book focused on the importance of women in the Academy will be virtually launched on Thursday, May 28 with a free webinar. The book, “Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy” (ICI Global 2020) was co-edited by Laurentian University Professor Taima Moeke-Pickering, York University Vice-President of Equity, People and Culture Sheila Cote-Meek and Laurentian University Professor Ann Pegoraro.
May 24, 2020
Despite the ongoing pandemic and the resulting restrictions to school and research facilities, the Lassonde School of Engineering will welcome 57 undergraduate student researchers to its virtual campus for the 6th annual Lassonde Undergraduate Research Awards and Undergraduate Student Research Awards programs.
May 22, 2020
Rachel Silver, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education, has won the 2019-20 Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the Comparative & International Education Society for her paper “Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi.”
