Since Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society launched in spring 2023, the $318.4-million project has already achieved several milestones pushing forward the project – and York University – as a leader in socially responsible emerging technology. It’s been over a year since President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton and Vice-President Research and Innovation Amir Asif announced that […]
Forging strong relationships beyond geographical boundaries enables the York community to conduct meaningful work that defines the University’s approach to research and innovation: interdisciplinary, collaborative and equitable. Among those leading the way in this is Boateng, a quantitative sociologist and epidemiologist who was recently appointed Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Global Health and Humanitarianism. One […]
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Global Water Academy (UGWA) reached its one-year anniversary on UN World Water Day, March 22, 2024, the same day it hosted a side event panel with York as part of the United Nations (UN) World Water Day in Geneva – Addressing Water for Peace: Water Governance in […]
Led by York University’s Stephen Gaetz, a professor in the Faculty of Education, COH is based out of York and is the largest homelessness-dedicated research institute in Canada, and one of the largest in the world. COH estimates around 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness each year, and roughly 35,000 people experience homelessness on any given night. […]