What really happened on Canoe Lake nearly 100 years ago? A new book by a York University instructor about the sudden and mysterious death of Canadian icon and painter Tom Thomson untangles myths from facts and offers a refreshing perspective. Drunken fights, lovers’ quarrels, German saboteurs and murder are part of the lore around Thomson’s […]
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Role-playing alien game to promote deep learning in new course, says York U instructor
TORONTO, May 4, 2016 – Having students role play characters in a multi-player, online science fiction game is one way to increase their critical thinking skills. That’s the idea behind a new course starting May 9 at York University that has students choosing their own game adventure. The first-year course – Reasoning about Morality and […]
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 […]
