Seniors receiving hospital care in acute care for elders units have shorter hospital stays, experience fewer declines in physical functioning and are less likely to be discharged to a nursing home than when treated in regular hospital units. This is one of the preliminary findings of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded study led at York. […]
The Victorian Studies Network at York (VSNY) will delve into New Directions in Victorian Research at its third annual symposium this Friday. Faculty and students from English, history, political science, science & technology, and the Scott Library will discuss their current scholarship during the symposium, which will take place Oct. 22, from 10am to 2:45pm, […]
Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature, died Sunday, May 16, from complications related to her illness, at Toronto Western Hospital surrounded by family. Funeral arrangements for Friday are noted at the bottom of this page. Here, York humanities Professor Jody Berland, English Professor Julia Creet and PhD student Elena Basile […]
Over the past 50 years, the York Libraries have grown and changed in lockstep with the University’s expansion and with innovations made possible by the Internet. For students and researchers looking for information, a search of all of York Libraries’ print and electronic resources often meant looking in a number of different places. Added to this conundrum was […]
York University’s Knowledge Mobilization (KM) Unit has released 40 new ResearchSnapshot summaries and opened two new Community Collaboration Stations. The announcement of the new initiatives was made Dec. 2 during an afternoon research forum hosted at the University by the KM Unit. The summaries are available in a searchable online database located on the KM Unit’s […]