Details Opportunity Name Call for Proposals 2024 Agency Kids Brain Health Network Value Innovation Program – Up to $100K/yearImplementation Program – Up to $200K/year Indirect Costs TBD Duration Up to 2 years Deadlines Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review 12-02-2024 Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review 12-09-2024 Final application and fully signed […]
Media release from September 19, 2024 Several studies have looked at lake ice quantity and its duration, but there is little research on the quality of the ice which directly corresponds to how safe it is to venture out on. Ice may look safe for a game of pick-up hockey on the lake, but as […]
Congratulations to Scott D. Tanner (BSc ’76, PhD ’80) for receiving a York University Alumni Award in the Outstanding Achievement category. The York U Alumni Awards recognize outstanding alumni who have achieved the extraordinary and are working to right the future by creating positive change in their fields. The Outstanding Achievement category is reserved for […]
Congratulations to Faculty of Science researchers Bill Kim and Logan Donaldson for receiving new infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), which supports institutions in attracting top talent and acquiring the state-of-the-art tools and equipment necessary to enable their innovative work. Chemistry Professor Kim received $100,000 for […]
York University’s Faculty of Science is welcoming five new full-time, permanent faculty members this year. “The Faculty of Science has hired fantastic new faculty members that will contribute to enhancing our Faculty’s academic excellence, diversity, and research and teaching capacity,” says Faculty of Science Dean Rui Wang. “I look forward to working with our outstanding […]
Courtesy of News@York A long-time York University professor will join the Ivy League this fall, having been awarded a prestigious visiting professorship at Yale University. Dawn Bazely, a University Professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, has been named this year’s recipient of the 2024-25 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Visiting Professorship, the foundation’s top […]
Congratulations to Biology Professor Elizabeth Clare for being elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Induction to the RSC is one of the country’s highest honours in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The RSC College recognizes the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership; members of the […]
This summer, 12 Chinese students completed an intensive, three-week program at York University called Jumpstart Your Future: A Career Bootcamp for Undergrads. A collaborative effort between York U’s Asian Business & Management Program (ABMP) and the Faculty of Science, the summer program embodied the University’s commitment to a multidisciplinary educational approach. It brought together students […]
Media Release from September 5, 2024 York’s Newton tree descendant was the first in Ontario to take root and blossom. It’s now joined by two more seedlings. A thunk to the head, so the myth goes, planted the seed for Sir Isaac Newton’s law of gravity, and while the law bore fruit – Gravity Day […]
At York University’s Faculty of Science’s annual Science Summer 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference, students competed and received awards in recognition of oral and poster presentations on summer projects that covered topics like dark matter, mathematical disease modelling, antibiotic resistance and beyond. More than 40 students conducting summer research in York’s Faculties of Science, Environmental & […]