TORONTO, February 25, 2016 – York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri applauds the Ontario government for its commitment to improving access to post-secondary education in this year’s Ontario budget. In presenting his 2016 provincial budget, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced the government will create a new upfront grant, the Ontario Student Grant, starting […]
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York U gains six new Canada Research Chairs and two renewed Canada Research Chairs
York University welcomes the appointment of six new Canada Research Chairs and two renewed Canada Research Chairs. Tier 1 CRCs will receive $1.4 million over seven years and Tier 2 CRCs will receive $500,000 over 5 years. The CRC is part of a package of CRC appointments announced by The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science […]
Greenland ice sheet interior slowed, thickened over last 9,000 years, say York U and Texas researchers
York University and University of Texas create map of past ice sheet movement TORONTO, February 4, 2016 – Scientists have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has flowed over time, revealing that ice in the interior is now moving more slowly toward the edges than it has, on average, over […]
Practice makes perfect, York U brain study confirms
TORONTO, January 29, 2015 — ‘Practice makes perfect’ may be a cliché but a new brain study out of York U affirms this age old theory. In this study, Faculty of Health researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ballet dancers to measure the long-term effects of learning. “We wanted to study how […]
Media coverage of epidemics can slow rate of disease
Toronto, January 28, 2016 – The media can play a large role in helping to slow the spread of the disease during an epidemic, say researchers from York University in Toronto and Shaanxi Normal University in China. They found that mass media coverage during an epidemic had an impact on changing people’s behaviour. In a […]
Young Muslim women from slums impact India’s globalization: York U study
TORONTO, January 20, 2015 — Muslim women and girls living in the slums of Kolkota are at the forefront of India’s globalization process says York University researcher Kabita Chakraborty in her new book, launched Tuesday. In her book, Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Youth Culture (published by Routledge), Chakraborty explores how they contribute […]
Neutral result charges up antimatter research
TORONTO, January 20, 2016 – Scientists of the international ALPHA Collaboration have once again pushed the boundaries of antimatter research with their latest breakthrough studying the properties of antihydrogen. Published today in the prestigious journal Nature, the collaboration’s result improved the measurement of the charge of antihydrogen, essentially zero, by a factor of 20. Their […]
