Ten York-affiliated athletes, and one medical staff member, will travel to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to represent Team Canada in a range of sports including rugby, volleyball, swimming and more.
Zoe M. Savitsky, a doctoral candidate at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, has been selected as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar to pursue work in corporate accountability.
Professor Spiros Pagiatakis received the Canadian Geophysical Union’s J. Tuzo Wilson Medal, which recognizes a scholar’s outstanding contributions to the geosciences and is the highest national honour earned by those in the field.
The Faculty of Science has received funding from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges & Universities to launch a micro-credential in vaccine production at York University’s Markham Campus in 2025.
Recent Faculty of Education PhD graduate Isaac Garcia-Sitton has received two prestigious awards for his doctoral dissertation examining the impact of policies on international students in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has awarded four York U professors this year’s $7,000 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Seed Grants to initiate innovative projects relating to community care, disability rights, health-care systems and impacts of climate change.
VoxCell BioInnovation, a Victoria-based startup and winner of the YSpace Technology Accelerator program’s 2021 Demo Day, won the PITCH competition at this year’s Collision conference, which took place last month in Toronto.
The six individuals are among the 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours which recognizes those who have positively impacted communities across Canada.
Dale Lastman, a leader in corporate and securities law, as well as a major figure in Canadian sports, was awarded an honorary degree during a June 21 convocation ceremony.
York U President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton was announced as the new council Chair for the Council of Ontario Universities. The two-year appointment came into effect on July 1.