May 6, 2020
Weeks after moving to an online/remote learning model due to COVID-19 and physical distancing orders, students of York University were given an opportunity to ask questions about their academic future, and what it might look like moving forward into the Summer and Fall semesters, during a virtual town hall on April 30.
May 3, 2020
Teresa DuCroix, director, Health, Safety & Employee Well-Being at York University, has issued a message to the community on North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week 2020, which runs May 4 to 10.
May 3, 2020
Emerging and established researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science in the Lassonde School of Engineering were awarded two Innovation Awards and one Graduate Mentorship Award.
April 30, 2020
A mind-blowing project from AMPD immerses human participants in virtual reality (VR) environments where they interact with computers in order to, collectively, build the experience.
April 30, 2020
In an initiative spearheaded by the Dean of Libraries, Joy Kirchner, York University Libraries has created a comprehensive new resource for researchers around the world that is devoted exclusively to COVID-19, and it could not be timelier.
April 29, 2020
Rebecca Boyd, York University’s manager of Intermural Sport, Sport Clubs, Aquatics and First Aid and an international lifesaving sport referee, discusses how swimming lessons can take you farther than the other side of the pool.
April 26, 2020
Galaxies grow large by eating their smaller neighbours, finds an international research team, including York University. Exactly how massive galaxies attain their size is poorly understood, not least because they swell over billions of years. But now through a combination of observation and modelling, researchers, including Leo Alcorn, a York Science Fellow, have found a clue.
April 24, 2020
President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and Vice-Provost Students Lucy Fromowitz will be hosting a Student Virtual Town Hall on Thursday, April 30 for all undergraduate and graduate students in the York community. The event is a chance for students to come together with York University’s senior leaders during these challenging and anxious times to discuss the path ahead.
April 23, 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 Health.
April 23, 2020
Pat Bradley, an associate professor of nursing at the Faculty of Health, has created a meaningful experiential education opportunity for the students in York’s Internationally Educated Nurses program. For her Health and Aging course, Bradley hit upon the idea of pairing inexpensive cardboard Google virtual reality (VR) glasses with videos to provide students with the experience of seeing the world through the eyes of someone who is living with dementia.
