Four students from the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics’ (DLLL) Japanese Studies Program won top prizes at the 36th Canadian National Japanese Speech Contest (NJSC), after their historic first place wins at the Ontario Japanese Speech Contest. Ava-karie Hislop, Yuna Wong, Alex Sarkozi and Cheryl Leung presented their talks at the national competition and won top prizes which was hosted at […]
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, a professor in the School of Administrative Studies, has published four new books in 2025. One of them, Navigating Complexity: AI and Systems Thinking for Smarter Decisions, looks at how AI-powered tools can simplify decision making for leaders who are dealing with global problems and who need to consider sustainability. In the book, […]
The CoLearn Collaborative Learning Space is a new learning space from LA&PS that will help create active learning and engagement between instructors and teachers.
Several LA&PS members have been honoured as recipients of the King Charles III Coronation Medal. The medal recognizes those who have made a meaningful impact across various sectors, including education, research, public policy and social advocacy.
31 awards were presented to LA&PS students across a number of diverse fields of study, including African Studies, Law & Society, Criminology and more.
Department of English professor Julia Creet discusses how the company 23andMe recently filed for bankruptcy and what this means for its customers’ privacy in a recent article published in The Conversation. Creet, who has studied the family history industry for 20 years, says that 23andMe aimed to circumvent the health care industry to provide consumers […]
School of Public Policy & Administration associate professor Ian Stedman was quoted in a recent CBC article discussing Mark Carney and his personal financial holdings in China. Carney was the chair of Brookfield Asset Management, which opponent Pierre Poilievre claims makes him vulnerable to influence by China since he has stocks worth millions in the […]
On March 6, as Ghana marked 68 years of independence from British colonial rule, the York University Ghanaian community gathered to celebrate not just the nation’s hard-won freedom but also a groundbreaking moment in its history—the election of Her Excellency Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as Ghana's first female vice-president. The event, titled Still We Rise: […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University has once again helped York make significant strides in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 report. The QS World University Rankings, published annually by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), evaluate scholarship across more than 1,700 institutions, segmented into five broad subject areas: Within […]
York University Professor Christina Sharpe has been named a recipient of the 2025 Killam Prize. The prestigious $100,000 prize is awarded annually to just five distinguished Canadian scholars to recognize their sustained research excellence. Sharpe’s work in Black studies, which spans a wide range of disciplines, has been widely recognized both within Canada and internationally. […]