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.
The Model European Union (EU), a simulation of the work done by the European governing body, brought 55 students from across the country to York University’s Keele Campus this spring to experience politics and diplomacy in action.
Discover York Academics continues its efforts to help York U researchers spotlight their expertise, with new features that integrate with Faculty website profiles.
As part of the Government of Canada’s Start-up Visa Program, York University’s YSpace entrepreneurship and innovation hub is working with a group of business owners seeking to expand their ventures to Canada.
Professor Kristin Andrews is accelerating research and awareness that consciousness is present in a wider range of animals – including crabs, lobsters and insects – than many believe.
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.
Professors Ali Abdul-Sater and Mark-David Hosale have been awarded nearly half a million dollars combined from the New Frontiers in Research Fund for their projects looking at air pollution from both scientific and artistic perspectives.
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.