TORONTO, April 25, 2016 – The Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University opened its new Lillian Meighen Wright Centre and EcoCampus today in southern Costa Rica, offering students hands-on experiential learning from deep within a rainforest. The 400-square-metre Lillian Meighen Wright Centre overlooks the Peñas Blancas River from its prime location on York U’s […]
York University is launching its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever with a target of $500 million. Impact: The Campaign for York University celebrates the University’s impact on the world – past, present and future – and acknowledges alumni and major donors whose financial support has contributed to this remarkable success. With record fundraising results achieved […]
Speed is a defining aspect of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and anti-modern. But slowness helps us to register the multiple layers of time, history and motion that constitute our present. The field of art history and criticism has a long-standing, well-considered commitment to theorizing how art relates to slower […]
TORONTO, April 20, 2016 — Who will win the women’s singles tennis title at the 2016 Rio Olympics this August? That’s a question recent York U brain research can help answer. The new study shows that when doing a visual task, neural activity in the frontal cortex initially reflects the visual goal accurately but errors […]
TORONTO, April 18, 2016 – Only when there is a crisis in the Aboriginal community, such as the suicides in Attawapiskat or missing and murdered women, do mainstream media really report on issues there. But even then, the reporting is fairly superficial, says a new report out of York University. “The media really play an […]
April 14, 2016 – An academic-industry partnership led by York University has received a total of $1,650,000 through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Grants Program. The Government of Canada announced funding for the project this morning, part of $21.4 million investment in 13 new […]
TORONTO, April 13, 2016 – York University's School of Continuing Studies will launch Ontario's first comprehensive, cyber security certificate program aligned to the Certified Information Systems Security Professional Common Body of Knowledge (CISSP CBK) this November. The program will help provide qualified security professionals in one of the fastest growing tech fields in the world and […]
TORONTO, April 11, 2016 – In a policy brief released today, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness at York University, in partnership with A Way Home, is calling on the new federal government to invest $16.5 million annually to support communities to plan and implement strategies to end youth homelessness by 2026. There are some 35,000 […]
TORONTO, April 8, 2016 – York University’s Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence officially threw open its doors today marking the beginning of a new kind of learning. The Bergeron Centre, known for its unique architectural design, is heightening the learning experience of students at the Lassonde School of Engineering by fostering creativity and emphasizing a […]
StudentMoveTO, a collaboration between Toronto’s four universities to address student transportation needs, found that students in the GTA are spending too much time commuting to and from classes each day. The findings are the result of a joint survey conducted by the four universities. It is the largest survey of its kind in the region, […]