Following a highly competitive selection process, York University postdoctoral Fellows Chiara Camponeschi and Ashlee Christofferson have been named among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships. Awarded by the Government of Canada, the Banting Fellowship is valued at $70,000 per year for two years and supports postdoctoral researchers who will positively contribute to […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) is introducing iClass (innovative, Collaborative Learning And Student Space), a new eLearning hub that will become operational during the 2023-24 academic year. The technology-enhanced learning spaces that make up the hub will be housed at 117 South Ross Building, thanks to funding from the Ontario government’s Training Equipment […]
Professor Jay Ramasubramanyam LA&PS Professor Jay Ramasubramanyam writes about the ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur, India for The Conversation, and discusses the deafening silence of India’s political elite. Professor Ramasubramanyam contends that the current government in India has been clear and consistent in its apathy towards marginalized and minority communities. While explaining why Manipur has […]
A new certificate program launching this fall through York University’s Department of Humanities answers a request from students to have their coursework in children’s literature recognized. Students in the program, offered by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LAPS), will have the opportunity to complete a cross-disciplinary certificate in children’s literature while completing a major […]
Professor Zachary Spicer This past January, professor Spicer was awarded the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, partnering with UpBeing. UpBeing heavily leverages AI which passively analyses the minimum information required to reconstruct a user’s workday while intermittently querying them about their emotional state, productivity, goals, and goal achievement. UpBeing collects data without burdening users with lengthy data input, making it ideal […]
Ariana Mah first knew she was going to attend York University’s Glendon College during a tour in high school. “I looked around and I decided, ‘This one is my first choice. This is what I’m going to do; this is where I’m going to be,’ ” says Mah, a fifth-year political science major. “It was that […]
Four York University researchers have been awarded 2023 Connection Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for various knowledge mobilization projects, ranging in topic from local Indigenous history education to youth affected by conflict in Africa to corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Connection Grants support events, workshops and outreach activities that often […]
Professor Deanne Williams has introduced experiential education to two summer Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies courses – AP/EN 2140 Drama and AP/EN 3535 Shakespeare – by enabling students to see productions of the plays they are reading and studying. For her first time teaching these courses in the summer, Williams wanted to try something different. […]
Professor Howard Adelman passed away on July 23, 2023. Dr. Adelman was first appointed to the Department of Philosophy at York University in 1966 and remained an active Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar through his many books, articles and public lectures. His studies in philosophy focused on the work of Hegel, which informed his work […]
York University faculty members engaged in research and research creation related to the Philippines, or its diasporas, are invited to submit applications for funding and publication support by Tuesday, July 25. The Philippine Studies Group (PSG) at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is offering up to five minor research grants worth a maximum of […]