Program teaches students how to improve refugee settlement experiences

A York University certificate program aimed at training front-line workers who deal with refugees has graduated its first cohort of students and is already showing promising results.  The Certificate in Refugee & Forced Migration Issues Program, run out of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and the Centre for Refugee Studies, teaches students how […]

Gay men's bilateral brains better at remembering faces: York U study

Gay men can recall familiar faces faster and more accurately than their heterosexual counterparts because, like women, they use both sides of their brains, according to a new study by York University researchers. The study, published in the journal, Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, examined the influence of gender, sexual orientation and whether […]

York students place second in international 2010 University Mars Rover Challenge

York University has a great track record in designing instruments, satellites and other devices for space exploration. This year, York students compeated in the fourth annual University  Rover Challenge, which designs and builds the next generation of Mars rovers. The teams faced off in Utah's Mars Desert Research Station. Last year, York won the competition. […]

High-powered workshop and conference examine international refugee law

York University hosted two major international events in the field of refugee studies, one of its widely recognized areas of research excellence, during the week of May 17 to 20. On May 17, the War Crimes and Refugee Status Research Workshop took place, followed by a welcome reception to launch the York 2010 International Conference […]

York remembers Professor Gordon Shaw, founding business school faculty member

Gordon Shaw, professor emeritus of operations management & information systems and one of 16 founding faculty members of what is now the Schulich School of Business at York University, died peacefully at Toronto East General Hospital on May 7 at age 83. The only son of Emma and Kenneth Shaw of Walkerville, Ont., Gordon Charlton Shaw (left) was […]

Premier marks Nursing Week with a visit to York

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was at York University on Monday to mark the start of National Nursing Week, and chaired a round-table discussion that included undergraduate nursing students and graduate students in the nurse practitioner program. McGuinty, accompanied by York President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and York West MPP Mario Sergio, began his visit with […]

Premier's visit to York University attracts media coverage

Premier Dalton McGuinty's visit to York University's School of Nursing was covered in the North York Mirror May 11: To kick-start National Nursing Week and highlight the province’s announcement to introduce another 14 nurse practitioner-led clinics in Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty dropped in on a group of nursing students at York University Monday, May 10. […]

High-school students get an inside look at science and research at York

On May 6, the Science in Action bus brought 30 high-school students from the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) to the University as part of a tour created to showcase the many opportunities that await these future scientists and entrepreneurs. YORKbiotech, along with the Regional Municipality of York, the Town of Markham and YRDSB organized the tour to […]

Glendon's Bonobo Human Discourse research team to meet US members

A nine-member Glendon research team, including senior scholars Jim Benson and Bill Greaves from the Department of English, is travelling to Des Moines, Iowa, for a four-day interaction with other similar research teams, from April 29 to May 2, to discuss linguistics and bonobo human discourse. The team is engaged in the multi-location, multi-year Bonobo Human Discourse […]

Glendon group builds database of journals that publish undergraduate research

For students applying to graduate studies and, further along the line, to academic or other high-level positions, having publications in learned journals is not just a great asset – it is increasingly a requirement, and it may make the difference between being selected or rejected. But most often, after undergraduate students submit their research papers […]