By fostering a community of changemakers, YSpace supports York University’s mission for local and global impact. As YSpace celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2023, we took stock of some of YSpace’s biggest milestones so far. YSpace champions Black entrepreneurship through Black Entrepreneurship Alliance In summer 2021, the federal government invested close to $3 million for […]
Now in its second year, the program supports critical research that can advance York’s contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). “As the world continues to address urgent global challenges such as climate change, global health crises and political polarization, and their impact on people and the planet, it is critical now […]
The book, titled Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia, was co-written with York alumnus David Rossiter, a professor at Western Washington University. Wood and Rossiter’s book reframes the issue of land claims as historical attempts by the Crown in B.C. to acquire Indigenous territory. In a Q&A with graduate student researcher […]
What does the right to housing mean in Canadian law? That’s one of the fundamental issues that Osgoode Professor Estair Van Wagner wrestles with in her research and teaching around the often controversial areas of property law and natural resources law. Along with her work on homelessness and public space, Van Wagner also focuses her […]
Every year, the Research Office at Glendon - York University’s bilingual campus - hosts a three-day event that aims to showcasethe research achievements of its community through conferences, book launches, student exhibits, presentations, awards, and more. Below are some highlights from this year’s Glendon Research Festival: Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact (CRLCC) […]
The two women were abducted as children in the 1990s, forced into marriages, and held captive for years by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group in Uganda. Amony was wearing the green skirt the day she was freed from LRA captivity. Ododo Wa – “our stories” in the Acholi language – features artwork, […]
The seed of “The Heights” began in 2020, when the Duke Heights Business Improvement Area (BIA) put out a public call for professional Canadian artists to propose a landmark public artwork that would bring back and reassert the Finch-Keele community after years of construction in the area preparing for the forthcoming Light Rail Transit (LRT) […]
With Dr. Istvan Mucsi of University Health Network, James will lead a team that was among six that received a collective $1 million from Medicine by Design (MBD), a strategic hub for regenerative medicine research at the University of Toronto. The project sprung from a series of workshops organized by MBD’s Convergent Working Group, which […]
A York University mathematician has received nearly half a million dollars from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) to better predict and assess future outbreaks of mpox and other zoonotic threats (infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans). Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the […]
“I cycled in Europe where cycling is a big part of the transportation system, and people are really comfortable with that,” she says. “But when I came to Canada, it was sometimes scary, because I needed to share the street with cars, and some of the car-driving behaviour was not really appropriate for sharing the […]