June 13, 2021
York University will host the annual Children, Youth and Performance Conference from June 25 to 27, when researchers, performers, educators, artists, practitioners and community organizers convene online for an exchange of knowledge.
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June 13, 2021
Deep into the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is racing to catch up with a virus spreading and mutating across the globe at an incredible pace. No longer is the collective goal to “flatten the curve” – this time, armed with vaccines, the aim is to break the chain of infection altogether. In part two of this three-part series, YFile investigates vaccine access, equity and rollout.
June 13, 2021
York University has been awarded more than $3.2 million for two projects to prepare students for careers in industries that require inter-disciplinary training and are central to Canada’s economic future: space robotics for exploration and applied biotechnology for environmental sustainability.
June 9, 2021
Charles Hopkins, York’s UNESCO Chair, will be a featured presenter in the Times Higher Education University Impact Forum on Monday, June 14. Hopkins is the only Canadian presenter in an event that features an international cohort of universities.
June 6, 2021
Returning York University Lions wrestler Alexandria Town took home a silver medal for Canada in the 57-kilogram weight class at the 2021 Pan-American Championships in Guatemala.
June 6, 2021
The deadline to submit a notice of intent has been extended to June 11. Full proposals (by invitation only) are now due Aug. 6. The program will provide funding to selected research clusters to support globally leading research excellence that will offer world-class training opportunities for high-calibre personnel.
June 6, 2021
Professors Cristina Delgado Vintimilla (Faculty of Education), Sarah Flicker (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change), Matthew Perras (Lassonde School of Engineering) and Dayna Scott (Osgoode Hall Law School) are the principal investigators on the winning projects.
June 2, 2021
York’s David Phipps part of an international panel reviewing the UK program ‘Research Excellence Framework’ that funds two-billion GBP annually in a research excellence and impact assessment exercise
June 2, 2021
Senior administrators, faculty and students are being encouraged to share their pride in York University through the 2022 Maclean’s national university survey. Results will be published in the annual university rankings report.
June 2, 2021
Amir Rasouli, a recent PhD graduate from Professor John K. Tsotsos’s research group at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University, was awarded the 2020 Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society John Barron Doctoral Dissertation Award.