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It’s Not Just: National campaign raises youth awareness about gender-based violence
Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, Marci Ien, met with President Rhonda Lenton and several students to discuss how gender-based violence is impacting Canadian youth.
December 1, 2022 | 2:13 pm
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Teaching youth how to change their world
How do you empower today’s youth to change the dial on climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation? You invite more than 800 students from some 30 Ontario high schools to York Univ
December 1, 2022 | 9:56 am
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Breaking down barriers for Black high school students
York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) have partnered to create a unique high school program to break down barriers to legal education for Black youth.
November 29, 2022 | 12:49 pm
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York University tackles urgent global health threat of antimicrobial resistance
New policy accelerator aims to bridge science and politics with $8.7 million backing from Wellcome Trust An 1800s newspaper comic depicts European political leaders as hospital patients during an infl
November 22, 2022 | 11:00 am
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Groundbreaking for the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University
TORONTO, Nov. 18, 2022 – York University is celebrating the official groundbreaking for the new Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University (GGYU). Thanks to an original gift of $5M – and a ne
November 18, 2022 | 7:53 pm
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Sport marketing expert available on FIFA World Cup 2022 live from Qatar
York University Marketing Instructor Vijay Setlur will be in Doha as an observer and soccer fan TORONTO, November 18, 2022 – Vijay Setlur, a marketing instructor specializing in sport marketing and to
November 18, 2022 | 10:35 am
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Mask-wearing can make it more difficult to recognize masked and unmasked faces of others
Recognizing someone may be more difficult when you are wearing a face mask – even if the person you are looking at is maskless, according to new research from York University.
November 16, 2022 | 9:06 am
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Global spotlight on AI’s impact on health care, law and urban development
Innovative York University conference to focus on how interdisciplinary collaborations can help shape a more just, equitable, healthy and sustainable future
November 8, 2022 | 2:52 pm
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York U researchers’ revamped AI tool makes water dramatically safer in refugee camps
A team of researchers from York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Lassonde School of Engineering have revamped their Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) with multiple inno
November 3, 2022 | 11:00 am
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York U expert: COP27 can help step up global environmental commitments
York U social epidemiologist says COP27 can help step up global environmental commitments. Among other topics, he is available to discuss what pandemic treaty negotiators can learn from international
November 2, 2022 | 3:00 pm