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.
An expert in corporate governance who has been influencing public policy for more than three decades, Carol Hansell was awarded an honorary degree during a June 21 convocation ceremony.
Ten York University researchers have been named York Research Chairs as part of an internal program – now in its 11th year – that supports outstanding faculty members as they excel in their wide-ranging fields of study.
Canadian music industry icon Jason “Kardinal Offishall” Harrow accepted his honorary degree from York University at the June 20 convocation ceremony by reciting spoken word poetry infused with his signature hip-hop lyricism.
At the June 19 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies convocation ceremony, award-winning essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul called on graduands to embrace the challenges of current times by actively participating in democracy.
At York University’s June 20 convocation ceremony, an honorary degree was presented to Arnold Auguste, president and publisher of the newspaper Share, which has been serving the Greater Toronto Area’s Black and Caribbean communities since 1978.