April 15, 2021
Welcome to the April 2021 edition of ‘Innovatus,’ a special issue of YFile devoted to teaching and learning innovation at York University. It offers compelling and accessible feature-length stories about York University’s commitment to excellence in teaching, learning, internationalization and the student experience.
April 15, 2021
Students in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change are working with the Climate Risk Institute, in partnership with Ontario Professional Planners Institute and Risk Sciences International, on climate change adaptation to extreme weather events and training for professional planners in a win-win experiential education endeavour.
April 15, 2021
Environmental and Urban Change students are engaged in valuable experiential education opportunities designed to give students practical training on precision agriculture, climate change solutions and local sustainable development strategies, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and the Earth Charter as guidelines.
April 14, 2021
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Eric Tucker was quoted in the Toronto Star April 13. Read full story. AI algorithm system predicts low risk of third wave in SA James Orbinski, director of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, and Ali Asgary, professor of disaster and emergency management and associate director of York University’s […]
April 13, 2021
On April 1, the McLaughlin College Union, a new initiative this academic year for McLaughlin College, debated the future of democracy with an outstanding panel of expert speakers. The debate was moderated by James C. Simeon, head of McLaughlin College.
April 13, 2021
An Artificial Intelligence-based algorithm, designed by the University of the Witwatersrand in partnership with York University, iThemba LABS, and the Provincial Government of Gauteng, shows there is a low risk for a third wave of COVID-19 infection in all provinces of South Africa.
April 13, 2021
Jennie Phillips, director of York University’s Digital Global Health and Humanitarianism Lab Researchers, was quoted in CTV News April 10. Read full story. Jewish scholars defend the right to academic freedom on Israel/Palestine Anna Zalick, associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, co-authored an article in The Conversation April 11. Read full […]
April 11, 2021
York alumnus, Justice Michael H. Tulloch, urged McLaughlin College students to use their world-class education from York University to make an impact and change the course of history. Tulloch presented his remarks at the this year’s McLaughlin College Year-End Student Special Event on Thursday, March 25.
April 11, 2021
Soma Chatterjee, associate professor of social work, and Tania Das Gupta, professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies, are the co-editors of “Migration, anti-racism and Indigenous sovereignty in a ‘chronically mobile’ world,” published December 2020.
April 11, 2021
An issue of the “Journal of Concurrent Disorders” that explores the health of frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the work of seven York University faculty members.
