TORONTO, April 28, 2016 — York University has joined forces with Markham Village BIA to bring Science Rendezvous, Canada’s largest celebration of science, to the Markham Farmers' Market on Saturday, May 7. Science Rendezvous is an all-day festival that takes science out of the lab and onto the streets. Thirty cities across Canada, including various […]
York scientists partner with industry on $1.7 M grant for drug development
TORONTO, April 27, 2016 – There is currently a major bottleneck in the development of biopharmaceuticals – drugs manufactured from biological sources – but York U researchers in partnership with Canadian pharmaceutical companies have received more than $1.7 million to speed things along. The funding, from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada […]
Early citizen scientists collected rare ice data, confirm warming since industrial revolution
TORONTO, April 26, 2016 – In 1442, Shinto priests in Japan began keeping records of the freeze dates of a nearby lake, while in 1693 Finnish merchants started recording breakup dates on a local river. Together they create the oldest inland water ice records in human history and mark the first inklings of climate change, […]
York U’s new Centre and EcoCampus offer hands-on education in a Costa Rican rainforest
TORONTO, April 25, 2016 – The Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University opened its new Lillian Meighen Wright Centre and EcoCampus today in southern Costa Rica, offering students hands-on experiential learning from deep within a rainforest. The 400-square-metre Lillian Meighen Wright Centre overlooks the Peñas Blancas River from its prime location on York U’s […]
York University launches historic fundraising campaign
York University is launching its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever with a target of $500 million. Impact: The Campaign for York University celebrates the University’s impact on the world – past, present and future – and acknowledges alumni and major donors whose financial support has contributed to this remarkable success. With record fundraising results achieved […]
The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Summer Institute explores Slowness, Not Sedation
Speed is a defining aspect of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and anti-modern. But slowness helps us to register the multiple layers of time, history and motion that constitute our present. The field of art history and criticism has a long-standing, well-considered commitment to theorizing how art relates to slower […]
Conference explores African faith-based activism in Canada and the Western World
In what ways have African religious movements shaped or affected Western states and society and what are the implications for theories on the relationship between the Global North and the Global South? That will be the core question underpinning a scholarly conference at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School on Friday, April 29, 2016 that […]
