TORONTO, September 16, 2013 – Researchers at York University have been awarded more than $5.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The grants, part of over $ 107 million in funding and awards recently announced in the Insight Development Grants and Insight Grants Competition, will support York research that improves […]
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Statement from York University President Mamdouh Shoukri on Professor John Greyson
September 16, 2013 -- We at York University wish to express our profound concern about the continued detention in Cairo, Egypt of John Greyson, an associate professor at York University and director of York’s graduate program in film, and Tarek Loubani, an emergency medicine physician and professor from London, Ontario. Greyson and Loubani have been […]
Osgoode Students Learn Role of Public Service in a Legal Career
TORONTO, September 12, 2013 – A group of 150 student volunteers from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School will be fanning out throughout Toronto starting in October to provide critically important, free legal services to low-income individuals and community organizations. For the next six months, the Osgoode students – under the watchful eyes of supervising […]
Melittologist milestone marked as York U researcher identifies world’s 20,000th bee species
September 11, 2013 – An article published this month by York University researcher Sheila Dumesh describes 21 new kinds of bees, pushing the world’s total known bee species past the 20,000 mark. The article, “Revision of the rare Mesoamerican bee genus Mexalictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) with the description of 21 new species”, published in the journal […]
Land|Slide: Possible Futures
3 weeks, 30+ artists, a landscape in transition TORONTO, Sept. 6, 2013 − From the creative curatorial team behind The Leona Drive Project and the Museum for the End of the World comes Land|Slide: Possible Futures, a large-scale art intervention responding to a world in transition – where past, present and future collide. Over thirty […]
Regular exercise benefits better energy distribution in muscle: York U study
Toronto, Sept. 4, 2013 – Add workouts to your daily routine to become a more energetic person and a better performer of your day-to-day activities, York University muscle health researchers say. “Our recent study shows that exercise leads to expansion of the mitochondrial network and, as a result, energy is distributed to muscle in a […]
York Administrator nominated as finalist for prestigious SSHRC Impact Award
August 30, 2013 – York University administrator David Phipps, executive director of Research and Innovation Services and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, has been nominated by York University and selected by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as one of three finalists for the prestigious SSHRC Impact Award, […]
