Y-EMERGE In The Media

2024

June 20, 2024, the book "Sustainable Energy: A Myth or Reality" by Hassan Qudrat-Ullah was published. The book is part of the Springer Series on Sustainable Energy Policy and offers insights for students, researchers, policymakers, and general readers interested in sustainable energy solutions. Read More
June 18, 2024, professor Jack Rozdilsky was interviewed on CityNews 570 Kitchener's "The Mike Farwell Show" to discuss the one-year anniversary of the Titan submersible implosion. Read More
June 14, 2024, fifty-four researchers from York University, including Jianhong Wu, Ali Sadeghi-Naini, and Jane Heffernan, collectively received over $3.3 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Read More
June 12, 2024, Y-EMERGE established a partnership with the Research & Innovation Centre at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-RIC) in Rwanda that will bring AIMS PhD students to York University to pursue their research in mathematical modelling as a tool for addressing climate change. Read More
June 12, 2024, professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah's study, "Creating Investor-Friendly Renewable Energy Policies: Lessons from Malawi's Solar Farm," received coverage on Devdiscourse, the International Development News website. Read More
June 11, 2024, three faculty members, including Professor Roger Keil, a Y-EMERGE member, received honorific professorships. Read More
June 11, 2024, Mark Winfield was quoted in the Globe and Mail regarding the competition between two small communities vying to receive Canada’s inventory of nuclear waste. Read More
June 7, 2024, members of Y-EMERGE published a paper titled "Impact Assessment of Self-Medication on COVID-19 Prevalence in Gauteng, South Africa, Using an Age-Structured Disease Transmission Modelling Framework" in BMC Public Health. Read More
June 5, 2024, Professor Eric Kennedy, co-director of Y-EMERGE, was cited in a CityNews Toronto article titled "‘Absolutely brutal’: Ontario to halt COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program".Read More
June 4, 2024, Tyee referenced York University Professor Mark Winfield in an article, discussing how a hydrogen production deal could potentially aid in revitalizing oceanic dead zones. Read More
May 28, 2024, Dr. Eric B. Kennedy, Associate Professor in Disaster and Emergency Management, was quoted on MSN News discussing the challenges provinces face in hiring firefighting pilots as wildfires burn across Canada. Read More
May 27, 2024, Dr Yvonne Su was quoted in The Guardian article "Starmer's Macho Talk on Asylum Seekers Will Only Lead to More Tragedy. Where is His Humanity?" Read More
May 18, 2024, Professor Afshin Rezaei-Zare, a Y-EMERGE Member, was quoted on cbc.ca in an article titled "The Solar Storm Knocked Out GPS Equipment on Farms – and It Could Happen Again." Read More.
May 18, 2024, Professor Jack Rozdilsky was quoted in Global News in an article titled "Wildfire Evacuations: What to Know in Case You Have to Leave Your Home." Read More
May 11, 2024, Dr. Eric B. Kennedy was quoted in the Seeker, emphasizing the need for communities to move from knowing how to mitigate risk to the rapid and widespread adoption of crucial prevention measures for wildfire readiness. Read More.
May 11, 2024, an op-ed titled "Campus Unrest Today Echoes Student Protests in 1968" by Dr. Jack L. Rozdilsky, Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, was published in the London Free Press. Read More
May 8, 2024, Professors Ali Asgary and Eric Kennedy, Co-Directors of Y-EMERGE, travelled to the Philippines to establish a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the country’s Civil Defense Training Institute (CDTI). Read More
May 8, 2024, Professor Jack Rozdilsky weighed in on the importance of Canada’s national alert system in warning Canadians about emergencies, such as floods and tornadoes, as part of Emergency Preparedness Week. Read more on @CBCNews.
May 8, 2024, Professors Ali Asgary and Eric Kennedy, Co-Directors of Y-EMERGE, have travelled to the Philippines to establish a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the country’s Civil Defense Training Institute (CDTI). Read More
May 8, 2024, York University brings emergency management journal in-house”. The Canadian Journal of Emergency Management, once published independently, has migrated to York Digital Journals (YDJ), and Dr Eric Kennedy is now its new editor-in-chief. Read More
May 7, 2024, Y-EMERGE member Professor Yvonne Su was quoted in The Globe and Mail in an article titled "Federal Program Matching Refugees with Jobs Set to Be Made Permanent." Read More
May 5, 2024, an op-ed co-written by Professors Yvonne Su and her colleagues, titled "Setting the Record Straight on Refugee Claims by International Students," was published in The Conversation. Read More
May 3, 2024, an op-ed titled "History Repeats Itself as Columbia University Cracks Down on Student Protests" by Dr. Jack L. Rozdilsky, Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, was published in The Conversation. Read More
April 19, 2024, Dr. Evalyna Bogdan and her colleagues' paper, "Disaster Awareness and Preparedness Among Older Adults in Canada Regarding Floods, Wildfires, and Earthquakes," was published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. Read More
April 19, 2024, Professor Yvonne Su and her colleague have published their latest paper, "Empty Pantries: The Death of Survival Myths Among Typhoon Haiyan Survivors in Resettlement Sites during COVID-19," in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Read More
April 18, 2024, Professor Jimmy Huang and his colleagues recently their latest paper, "A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation for Large Language Models." Published in the LJ Library Journal. Read More
April 9, 2024, In a recently published paper, Professor Usman Khan and Rahma Khalid proposed a promising new model for flood susceptibility mapping (FSM) that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML) methods. Read More
April 8, 2024, Dr. Ali Asgary, Dr. Jianhong Wu, Dr. Jude Kong, and Dr. James Orbinski, members of Y-EMERGE, published their paper titled "The Determinants of Under-Estimation of COVID-19 Cases Across Africa" on SSRN. Read More
April 8, 2024: Professor Mark Winfield was quoted in Hakai Magazine, discussing the potential of green hydrogen production to revive oceanic dead zones. Read More
April 6, 2024: Professor Mark Winfield was cited on CTVNews discussing a Federal minister's statement regarding nuclear power's role in the expansion of renewable energy. Read More
April 3, 2024: An op-ed titled 'Niagara pre-emptively declares a state of emergency in anticipation of massive solar eclipse crowds.' by Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky was published in the Conversation. Read More
April 1, 2024, Professor Eric Kennedy and his colleagues released a paper titled "Examining Human Behavior in Wildfire Evacuations" in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Read More
April 1, 2024:Op-Ed Co-Written by Professor Mark Winfield Warns of 'Nuclear Dinosaurs' in New Brunswick and Ontario Amid Impending 'Jurassic' Partnership, as Published in EnergyMix. Read More
March 31, 2024: As featured in The Globe and Mail, Professor Nirupama Agrawal, a Y-EMERGE member, supports Niagara's pre-emptive emergency declaration ahead of the solar eclipse. Read More
March 31, 2024: Professor Wu and his colleagues' paper titled 'An Advanced Deep Learning Framework for Simulating Information Propagation Dynamics' has been published on SSRN. Read More
March 29, 2024, marked the publication of a paper by Dr. Ali Asgary and his colleagues. The paper, titled "A novel flood/water extraction index (FWEI) for identifying water and flooded areas using Sentinel-2 visible and near-infrared spectral bands," appeared in the Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment journal. Read More
March 28, 2024: Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky's recent article, 'A Human, Environmental, and Economic Emergency Response to the Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse,' was published in The Conversation. Read More
March 26, 2024: Professor Cary Wu, a member of Y-EMERGE, published an article on PHYS.ORG News investigating why women are cited less frequently than men. The article delves into various approaches, explanations, and implications. Read More
March 19, 2024: Professor Wu, a Distinguished Research Professor at York University's Faculty of Science, was highlighted in a professional feature in the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics publication DSWeb Magazine. Read More
March 19, 2024: The Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council website published an interview with Professor Stephen Gaetz, a Y-EMERGE member, about the state of homelessness in Canada and his related research. Read More
March 13, 2024: Mark Winfield, a member of Y-EMERGE and professor at York University, was cited in CBC News. Read More
March 10, 2024: An op-ed by York University Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky was published in the Conversation. Read More
March 6, 2024: York Academics, including Dr. Jianhong Wu, a University Distinguished Research Professor, is recognized among the top two percent of researchers. Read More
March 4, 2024: Professor Jane Heffernan, co-director of the Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling, was quoted in the National Post. Read More
March 4, 2024: York University Professor Yvonne Su Affirms: Mutual Aid is a Lifeline, as Quoted in Chatelaine. Read More
On March 2, 2024, a paper authored by Professor Ali Asgary and his colleagues, titled "A Survey of the Use of Modeling, Simulation, Visualization, and Mapping in Public Health Emergency Operations Centers during the COVID-19 Pandemic," was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Read More
February 24, 2024: Professor Yvonne Su has been invited to the University of Oxford to give a presentation on climate mitigation. Read More
February 20, 2024: The Y-EMERGE Member, Professor Iain Moyles, was recognized with the Excellence in Graduate Mentorship Award. Read More
February 6, 2024: Mark Winfield, Professor of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Publishes Op-Ed in The Globe and Mail. Read More
February 12, 2024: Professor Jimmy Huang, a Y-EMERGE member, co-authors a groundbreaking study on Dependent Task Scheduling Using Parallel Deep Neural Networks in Mobile Edge Computing. Read More
February 1, 2024, Professor Mark Winfield, Co-Chair of the Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) at York University, was quoted in the Energy Mix. Read More
January 24, 2024: YEMERGE Director Professor Jianhong Wu, along with five other York faculty members, were elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Read More
January 27, 2024: Dr. Yvonne Su Sheds Light on the Perils of Sinking Pacific Islands in Her New Article: 'Dangerous Shoals and Rescue Efforts. Read More
January 24, 2023: Professor Jack Rozdilsky, an associate professor of disaster and emergency management, wrote in The Conversation about what the Doomsday Clock’s new setting means. Read More
January 24, 2024: Dr. Yvonne, YEMERGE member, Explores: The Australia-Tuvalu deal shows why we need a global framework for climate relocations. Read More
January 20, 2024: Dr. Cary Wu's Study on Political Polarization and the Dynamics between Actual Income and Perceived Income Inequality in the United States, 1987 to 2021, was published in the American Sociological Association Journal. Read More
January 19, 2024: In a recent interview with the National Post, Ehsanullah Amiri talked with Professor Jack Rozdilsky, an associate professor at York University and a member of Y-EMERGE. Read More
January 18, 2024: York postdoctoral fellow Martin Grunnill and an academic-industrial collaborative team, including YEMERGE director Dr. Jianhong Wu, paper on Modelling disease mitigation at mass gatherings: A case study of COVID-19 at the 2022 FIFA World Cup was published. Read More
January 18, 2024: FIFA World Cup ends with a win for Argentina and COVID-19, new research finds. Read More
January 12, 2024: Y-EMERGE Luminary, Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, achieves a remarkable publishing feat: Unveiling Three Groundbreaking Books in the Past November: Spanning Systems Thinking, Supply Chain Mastery, and Sustainable Development. Read More
January 8, 2024: YEMERGE Associate Director Dr. Eric Kennedy Discusses York University's Global Campuses and Future Changemakers. Read More

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December 16, 2022 - Professor Eric B. Kennedy, the Associated Director of Y-EMERGE, appointed member of the Ontario Public Health Emergencies Science Advisory Committee (OPHESAC)
December 16, 2022 - Professor Jianhong Wu, inducted as Fellow to Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Also, early in July, Professor Wu was inducted to a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Read more here.
December 14, 2022 - York University Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah edits a book that explores how COVID-19 has changed business supply chain
November 14, 2022 - Y-EMERGE Member Jack L. Rozdilsky was featured in Yahoo! News Canada Nov. 14.
November 9, 2022 - Canada's 'Don’t Call Me Resilient' podcast features Y-EMERGE member Yvonne Su. Here is the link to listen and the article to read more.

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