York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School receives transformative contribution to its No Barriers campaign from alumni working at leading Canadian law firm Davies TORONTO, March 1, 2023 – York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, one of Canada’s leading law firms, jointly announced today a $1.2-million Davies Fellows Award […]
The time is right to work collaboratively to imagine a more just world.
Grammy-winning drummer and educator to offer masterclasses, public performances and workshops geared at mentoring students who will be the future of jazz TORONTO, Feb. 6, 2023 – Following the 65th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles where she picked up her fourth gramophone trophy, acclaimed music composer, producer and educator Terri Lyne Carrington flies to Toronto, […]
The York University community is celebrating an important phase in the construction of its new Markham Campus, as the final structural I-beam was placed – completing the building’s frame.
MARKHAM, ON, Feb. 1, 2023 – Today, President and Vice-Chancellor of York University, Rhonda Lenton, together with dignitaries, University leadership, local community members and philanthropists, marked an important phase in the building of its new Markham Campus with a ‘topping-off ceremony’ and the announcement of a $5-million donation toward capital construction costs from Metropia, presented […]
Why is it that after a visit to the zoo, a four-year-old might remember seeing a lion, a tiger, and a bear, while a 10-year-old might also recall seeing a giraffe, a kangaroo, a pygmy hippo, a Komodo dragon, a ring-tailed lemur, and maybe even a West African dwarf crocodile? New research from York University shows that while older kids have a superior memory, children as young as four show evidence of the sophisticated technique known as ‘temporal clustering,’ when recalling information.
Research projects to advance knowledge in areas ranging from water remediation, management of infectious disease through technological innovation, the effects of climate change on ecosystems and human populations, visual neuroscience, and understanding the pathway from colonial genocide to building just relationships York University is funding groundbreaking research through the Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) program, […]
