Three more York University professors will receive $703,217 in funding for COVID-19 related research to better inform the best way forward, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced. Other York researchers are also co-applicants on another project which will receive $666,667. Announced recently, this new funding follows a previous COVID-19 rapid research funding announced […]
In a new article published in The Conversation on March 22, 2020, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies professors S. Harris Ali and Fuyuki Kurasawa examine the ramifications of misinformation shared through social media during the COVID-19 outbreak. Through investigating the coronavirus-related information vacuum taking shape on various social media platforms, Harris Ali and Kurasawa […]
York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton issues this important COVID-19 announcement to the University community: On Tuesday, March 17, Premier Doug Ford declared an emergency and new public health guidelines were released. To ensure the health and safety of our campus communities and to prevent the risk and spread of COVID-19, we are […]
The following is a message from York University Provost and Vice-President Academic Lisa Philipps to the University community. This message was issued on March 16: To align with the Government of Canada community-based measures and in alignment with decisions made at other Ontario institutions to stop the community-based spread of the virus and stop […]
In a piece published by The Conversation on March 14, 2020, LA&PS Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM) Professor Jack Rozdilsky discusses the gradual progression of multi-national containment strategies in efforts combating the COVID-19 health crisis. Rozdilsky explores the actions being taken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, including the non pharmaceutical interventions and social […]
Former faculty member Theodore “Ted” Olson died at the age of 88 on Feb. 21. Ordained as a minister in 1955, Olson served the First Baptist Church in Wisconsin as assistant minister, and later as minister of the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in the state of New York. He later joined the faculty of York University […]
This event has been cancelled. The demands on policing in Canada have never been greater. Gender and race issues, the globalization of money and money laundering, corruption and cybercrime are all pressing matters. They beg questions about democratic governance, accountability and control of police. Law and Disorder – a symposium to be presented by Osgoode Hall […]
For students in York University’s School of Administrative Studies, March 5 was a night of inspiration and career growth thanks to the alumni from their program. For the second consecutive year, the Connections speed mentoring and networking event was hosted by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Development Team, bringing alumni and […]
This event has been cancelled. A talk on the intersection of big data and childhood will be the focus of the 2020 Alexander F. Chamberlain Lecture, when the Children, Childhood and Youth Program (CCY) at York University presents guest speaker Valerie Steeves. Steeves, a full professor in the Department of Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences […]
Researchers at York University and their team have uncoupled the mystery of how Tuvan throat singers produce what sounds like two different pitches at once – a low rumble and a high whistle-like tone. Fascinated with how this form of throat singing, Khoomei, creates this dual tone, researchers studied members of the Tuvan performing group […]