NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 and York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory is hosting a landing party the same day. The online event will take place from 2:30 to 4 p.m. EST or until after the landing.
Read moreResearchers from York’s Schulich School of Business, the University of Notre Dame and University of New England have published a paper in the “Journal of Marketing” that examines why people under-save, and provides a simple, short and inexpensive intervention that helps them increase their personal savings.
Read moreTwo students from York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering have received the Nascent Co-op/Internship Students of the Year Award.
Read moreStephen Gill, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Communications and Culture at York University, is among the recipients of the 2021 Killam Prizes.
Read more‘Brainstorm,’ a special edition of YFile that publishes once a month, showcases research and innovation at York University. It offers compelling stories about the world-leading work of York University’s academics and researchers across all disciplines and Faculties. ‘Brainstorm’ encompasses both pure and applied research.
Read moreA Glendon scholar’s new and profoundly intradisciplinary book suggests that experimenting with traditional practices from the past could help us grapple with today’s challenging times. He profiles three such practices and investigates the restorative powers therein.
Read moreA York U economist collaborated with an American academic to study the first months of COVID-19 and how the pandemic affected Americans’ earning potential. The findings, as harrowing as they are, will help public policymakers on both sides of the border.
Read moreA business professor and sessional instructor study the reinvigoration of a Toronto hospital and discover the secret(s) of its success from a public management perspective. They determine what this facility, which now specializes in rehabilitation and complex care cases, was doing right from the very start.
Read moreA grad student analyzes antimicrobial resistance and finds some countries handle it better than others. Success is based on disassociating from profit-minded pharmaceutical companies and political agendas – a noteworthy finding for public and global health policymakers.
Read moreProfessor John Moores, York Research Chair in Space Exploration, heads an international team investigating methane on the planet Mars, and produces a white paper that could help to steer the next decade’s activities of major space agencies like NASA. Changemaker, indeed.
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