Award-winning filmmaker Ali Kazimi will discuss the issues and questions raised by his new book, Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru, at its launch next week.

Professors Jane Irvine and Debra Pepler of York’s Faculty of Health have recently been named two of the most published women in the field of clinical psychology in Canada.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper offers his congratulations to Professor Georg Zoidl, who is York University’s new Canada Research Chair in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.

York University women’s studies Professor Varpu Lindstrom, who is known as a “memory keeper” in Finnish-Canadian communities, has donated her extensive collection of documents to the archives.

York will launch Breaking the Chains, a web-based educational project using augmented reality features to explore Canada’s Underground Railroad-era heritage.

Professors Oliver Braddick of Oxford University and Janette Atkinson of University College London will deliver the Ian P. Howard Lecture in Vision Science Friday.

Canadian and European scholars, theorists and curators of contemporary art will be in Toronto next week to investigate and debate sculptures created to provoke and to resist easy consumption.

Students in a political science and women’s studies seminar filled gaps in existing Wikipedia articles on Canadian feminist history and generated new content to improve the entries.

Jane Aubin was at the Keele campus on Friday to discuss and receive feedback from York researchers on proposed reforms to the CIHR’s open suite of programs and peer review system.

On May 2, York University’s Faculty of Education will be holding a panel discussion featuring six researchers discussing a central question about the importance of education.