Following the news in of devastation wrought by Cyclone Amphan in her hometown of Kolkata, India, international student Bhabna Banerjee began a GoFundMe campaign to help her community and local food vendors recover.
Read moreAfter a successful pilot test, an international award-winning capstone course will begin its second year at York University. The Cross-Campus Capstone Classroom mobilizes York’s strengths by bringing students from different faculties together into teams focused on solving pressing, real-world challenges.
Read moreYork Cinema & Media Arts will present the third and final instalment of Lockdown Fest Aug. 20 to 23, with a group screening taking place Aug. 21 at 7 p.m. followed by a Q-and-A with the filmmakers.
Read moreTheatre students in an online graduate placement course, Dance 5212, developed by Professor Danielle Robinson with backing from York’s Academic Initiative Fund are each working remotely on projects they have proposed to various cultural and community organizations. They are gaining relevant and worthwhile work experience and are helping create positive change for the placement partners.
Read moreA new virtual festival will showcase the works of York students and alumni created during the pandemic lockdown. York Cinema & Media Arts will present Lockdown Fest, a free selection of films available to view between July 30 and Aug. 2.
Read moreThree students from York University, Megan Schwegel, James Addis and Lance Morrison, were recognized with the Governor General of Canada’s Silver Academic Medals. Recipients are selected based on their academic averages and are enrolled at the undergraduate level.
Read moreEight emerging and four established researchers across the University will join the York Research Chairs program, York University’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs program, which recognizes outstanding researchers. Two of these appointments are renewals.
Read moreFour York University PhD students conducting cutting-edge research have been awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for 2020. From the social impact of climate change in Ghana to the role of vocality in women’s resistance in India, this year’s Vanier Scholars once again show the paradigm-shifting ambition and global impact of York research.
The Cross-Campus Capstone Classroom (C4) Project led by two York University professors has received an international award from Airbus and the Global Engineering Deans Council. The C4 Project involves students from across the University working in interdisciplinary teams to address real-life social challenges.
Read moreProfessor 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.”
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