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PhD student Kara Hawkins wins CIHR award to diagnose Alzheimer’s early stages

On Saturday, Kara Hawkins stepped forward to receive a $2,500 award recognizing her as the highest-ranking applicant in Canada for a graduate scholarship in the field of aging. She accepted the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aging Recognition Prize in Research in Aging at the annual conference of the Canadian Association on Gerontology in […]

York is hiring an MRI technologist to work in the Neuroimaging Laboratory

Research-related contract positions attached to either York’s research centres or major research projects within the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation are now posted on this site. You can find them in the Research Jobs section. York is currently seeking an MRI technologist to work in the Neuroimaging Laboratory, located in the Sherman Health […]

York welcomes Professor Keith Schneider, new researcher in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

University of Missouri professor and brain researcher Keith Schneider will join York University on July 1 as a professor in the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science & Engineering and as the coordinator of the University’s new Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain research facility. The facility will be located in the new Sherman […]

York psychology prof awarded Sloan Research Fellowship to study episodic memory

York psychology Professor Shayna Rosenbaum has been awarded a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship, which she says will help take her work on episodic memory to a new level, not otherwise possible at this early stage in her career. “The award provides me and my students with the flexibility to continue a line of research that […]

York study finds video gamers are in training for bigger tasks

Playing video games for hours on end may prepare young Billy to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a study from York University has shown. The findings, published online in the journal CORTEX, demonstrate that playing video games reorganizes the brain’s activity and can lead to better control of skilled movements. Alterations to the brain’s […]