The holiday season is an opportunity to spend time with loved ones, reflect on the past year, and look forward to the opportunities ahead. In my role as President of York, I have the privilege of witnessing firsthand the impact our university has on Toronto, on Canada, and on the world. The past year has […]
Lassonde School of Engineering professor and Sunnybrook Research Institute scientist Ali Sadeghi-Naini was awarded a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Collaborative Research and Development program to help undertake breakthrough research in the pursuit of developing more precise and effective brain tumour treatment for individual patients. Ali […]
TORONTO, November 6, 2018 – A York University delegation, led by President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton, is on an India mission to strengthen global ties through educational partnerships, early this month. “Through development of partnerships, we hope to have more students from India studying in our classrooms, conducting research in our labs, and participating in […]
York University is part of an international research team that has identified an ice-rich deposit in Mars’ northern plains, which in turn explains a key role of ice in shaping the region. The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) team has been assembled to study targeted basins (Utopia, Acidalia and Arcadia Planitiae) in the northern plains […]
Researchers conduct focus groups with nurses on how to prevent the decline of hospitalized older people. They discover some communications strategies that will be of interest to hospital administrators and health-care practitioners. Individuals 65 years of age and older often have multiple comorbidities – that is, secondary diseases that are related to a primary disease. […]
Research out of York University is the first to explicitly show links between the determinants of oral health and general health. Professor Dennis Raphael, of the School of Health Policy and Management in the Faculty of Health, has published an article in the Journal of Public Health that identifies that oral and general health have common risk […]
The following is a message from York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton: I am delighted to share my 2017-18 President’s Report. Rhonda L. Lenton A celebration of York University’s bold vision, this report links all that we have accomplished this past year through the four pillars on which we are building the University’s future […]
On Thursday, May 17, York University welcomed York Regional Council’s authorization of a $25-million contribution toward the new Markham Centre Campus. The University has approved the $253-million design and build budget with construction set to begin this fall. The new campus will include a collaboration with Seneca College, and is expected to open in fall […]
Through its robot-making and machine-learning proficiency, York University’s profile in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) world is ascending. In March 2018, York University hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition, where high school students’ robots squared off against each other. In May 2018, York will host the 31st Canadian Conference on AI, which is sponsored by Vision: Science […]
CIHR- and NSERC-funded research identifies possible measures to control the mosquito population and the transmission of the West Nile virus in artificial ponds around the GTA. The findings could be used to guide programs in local health units. The West Nile virus is the most widely distributed virus in the world and it is transmitted […]