Toronto,ON, Thursday, May 17, 2018 – Today, York University welcomed York Regional Council’s authorization of a $25 million contribution toward the new Markham Centre Campus. The University has approved the $253 million design and build budget with construction set to begin this fall. The new campus will include a collaboration with Seneca College, and is expected […]
York U experts available for comment on provincial election
TORONTO, Tuesday, May 15, 2018 – York University experts are available to comment on various issues related to the provincial election and party platforms. Dennis Pilon, professor of political science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, can comment on political strategy, media and citizen engagement, democratization and electoral reform, as well as […]
Study: Minority children develop implicit racial bias in early childhood
Key to combating racial bias may be changing social environment TORONTO, May 14, 2018 – New research from York University suggests that minority children as young as six years old show an implicit pro-White racial bias when exposed to images of both White and Black children. But how ingrained these biases become and whether they persist […]
York University professor awarded Killam Research Fellowship to study girls’ roles in early English theatre
TORONTO, May 8, 2018 ─ York University professor Deanne Williams has been awarded a 2018 Killam Research Fellowship by the Canada Council for the Arts, to undertake the first ever study devoted to the history of the girl actor from the Middle Ages to the English Revolution. The Canada Council for the Arts announced the […]
York U researcher identifies 15 new species of stealthy cuckoo bees
One of the new cuckoo bees is named after Sir David Attenborough TORONTO, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 – Cuckoo bees sneakily lay their eggs in the nests of other bee species, after which their newly hatched prodigies kill the host egg or larva, and then feed on the stored pollen. The host, a solitary bee, […]
York University urges all Ontario MPPs to support immediate back-to-work legislation
TORONTO, ON, Saturday, May 5, 2018 – Following more than six months of bargaining to reach a negotiated agreement with CUPE 3903, and now more than nine weeks into a strike, York University’s President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton has asked the provincial government to take immediate legislative action today. Yesterday, the Hon. Mitzie Hunter, […]
York U space technology team to participate in new Canadian Space Agency initiative
TORONTO, ON Friday May 4, 2018— Today, at an event hosted by the University of Manitoba, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jennifer Sidey unveiled the research teams selected to take part in the CSA Canadian CubeSat Project. A total of 15 teams from across Canada have been selected to participate in the initiative, including a […]
