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.
Tom Watt, director of Food Services at York U, will join the Fairtrade Canada Board of Governors, where he will lend his voice – and York's – to advance fair trade efforts across the country.
Reeta Roy, president and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation, urged graduands to embrace the full transformational power of education.
In honour of this celebratory day, the Lassonde School of Engineering is spotlighting Zoi Ralli, Stavroula Pantazopoulou and Baoxin Hu – three of the many women at Lassonde who are demonstrating excellence in the field and inspiring future generations.
During hot weather, York University Facilities Services leads with a program that ensures the community stays cool, while helping the University meet its sustainability goals.
Newly appointed Canada Research Chair Jeffrey Schall, and renewed Chairs Gillian Parekh and Joel Zylberberg, will use their positions to advance well-being research and innovation.
York University's Schulich ExecEd is partnering with Skills/Compétences Canada, an organization dedicated to enhancing the involvement of youth in skilled trade and technology careers, to provide leadership training for the next generation of workers.
Eight Lassonde researchers are working to enhance the lithium production supply chain as part of a $1.5-million initiative funded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Faculty of Health professors Matthias Hoben, Tamara Daly and Liane Ginsburg have been awarded $750,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aging (CIHR-IA) to support their study of adult day programs for individuals living with dementia.
York University's efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has resulted in it being among the top 35 universities in the world, according to the prestigious 2024 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.