York University psychology Professor Jonathan Weiss is one of the co-leads in a research program that was recently awarded $1.8 million over three years from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Health System Research Fund. The program, Health Care Access Research in Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD), aims to enhance the overall health and wellbeing […]
On June 12, 2012, York's Knowledge Mobilization Unit received the Knowledge Economy Network Best Practice Award from the European-based Knowledge Economy Network (KEN). The award, which was part of a group announced by the network was presented during the network's annual forum, which took place June 11 and 12, in Maribor, Slovenia. KEN is an European nonprofit association that […]
The many facets of community engagement will be examined using the law as a lens during a panel presentation at the Osgoode Research Celebration Wednesday, April 4. Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation, and Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, are co-hosting the event, which takes place from 12 to 2pm in Room […]
A Canadian icon of humanitarianism urged Glendon students to “get your boots dirty” by working in a developing country and experiencing what life is like for 80 per cent of humanity, as he delivered Glendon's annual John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture. Right: Dallaire speaks to a standing-room only crowd in Glendon's lecture hall Lieutenant-General Romeo […]
Yesterday was a very good day for future generations of Canadian engineers. During a special event held at York University's Keele campus, President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, chairman of the Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering. [stream provider=youtube flv=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3D3IXewlKqpmM img=x:/img.youtube.com/vi/3IXewlKqpmM/0.jpg embed=false share=false width=400 height=300 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high autostart=false […]
Do workers’ rights still matter? That is one of the hot and timely questions the new Conversations on Work and Labour Speakers’ Series will be addressing throughout the year. The first conversation, “The Future of Public Sector Collective Bargaining,” will take place Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 12:30 to 2pm, 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School, Ignat […]
David Phipps, director of York's Research Services and Knowledge Exchange, has been named the most influential knowledge broker in Canada, according to a report by Knowledge Mobilization Works, a consulting and training company based in Ottawa. The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization 100, a survey run by Knowledge Mobilization Works, asked respondents to rank the biggest influences of their […]
The Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University launched a research partnership this summer that uses the arts to explore violence among youth in Canada and Jamaica. The project, Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence, popularly known as “Project Groundings”, opened […]
Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you’re working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry’s practices? What if you’re drafting government policy on air quality […]
The York Centre for Public Policy and Law (YCPPL) has been chosen by the Government of Canada to organize and lead the first ever Canada-China Industrial Relations & Labour Rights Forum in Beijing. The forum, which focuses on industrial relations, workplace discrimination and human rights issues, will be held today and tomorrow at the Beijing Conference Centre. YCPPL was […]
What does the economic crisis in Europe mean for the future of the European Union? That’s the question York faculty from economics, public policy and history will grapple with at a round table discussion tomorrow. Round table Discussion: The European Union in Crisis? will take place from 2 to 4pm at 305 York Lanes, Keele […]
Declarations by European leaders that multiculturalism is a failure are not applicable to York Region, academics and immigration advocates said, wrote the Aurora Banner, Feb. 18: The dialogue sparked by the leaders mystifies York University City Institute director Roger Keil, himself a newcomer from his native Germany in the 1990s. “I’m puzzled (that) the national […]
Now that the garbage has hit the fan again in Toronto, so to speak, it would have been nice to have seen some serious investigative journalism before an editorial rushing to endorse privatization, wrote Leo Panitch, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science in York’s Faculty of Liberal […]
Imagine the stress of uprooting your family to make a new life in a new country in a new language. For women, adapting can be a very different experience than that of their children. Depending on their resilience and their situation, some adapt better than others. Nazilla Khanlou knows. An immigrant herself, she's been studying […]
What do math and the flu epidemic have in common? Just ask York Department of Mathematics & Statistics Professor Jianhong Wu, who studies disease progression and infection using math. Wu, a Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is leading two prominent Canadian teams on modelling and geo-stimulation of disease spread, and coordinates a […]
Marc Bornstein, senior investigator and head of Child & Family Research at the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development in Washington, DC, will talk about positive parenting Wednesday as part of the Faculty of Health’s LaMarsh Speaker Series. The talk, “Positive Parenting and Positive Development in Children” will take place Wednesday, Nov. 17, […]
York President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri published an op-ed in the Toronto Star Oct. 29 exploring the challenges facing higher education and possible responses: We live in a time of unprecedented change characterized by ever-increasing challenges facing higher education. Evolving cultural and social environments, heightened demands for a postsecondary education, rising costs and expectations surrounding […]
Over the past 25 years, students in the practicum and internship program of the School of Public Policy & Administration (PPA), in York's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, have worked in almost every ministry of the Ontario government, in municipal governments across southern Ontario and in a variety of broader public sector agencies, boards […]
How can we improve the financial literacy of Canadians? It’s a question three York University students were eager to answer when they presented their research findings on May 11 to the federal government’s Task Force on Financial Literacy at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto. The task force is charged with consulting Canadians from […]
Protecting ourselves from backyard mosquito bites may come down to leaving the vacuuming for later, a study from York University shows. Rather than vacuuming the grass clippings out of catch basins before adding treatments to control mosquitoes, municipalities should leave the organic waste in place, the research found. “Catch basins are a permanent source of […]