She credits it with helping her gain confidence and collaborative skills, which is why she’s been deeply engaged in researching how sports can create positive change in the lives of marginalized people around the world. That interest has taken her as far afield as Uganda - where, for her PhD work - she evaluated how […]
Launched last fall, OneWATER sent delegates to the United Nations in New York within its first few months of operating, where its members headlined a panel at the UN Water Conference. During the conference, OneWater announced its researchers will play a key role in the delivery of the Water Academy – a collaborative education program […]
The findings are contained in an article published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. The research was conducted by Kanagaretnam together with: Gerald Lobo, the Arthur Andersen Chair of Accounting at the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business; Lim Chee Yeow, an associate professor at the School of Accountancy at Singapore […]
The new funding will support the Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation and the IP Innovation Clinic at York University to enhance its intellectual property and commercialization services to York researchers and their partners, particularly for increasing research outputs related to artificial intelligence, automotive and medical technology. “With IPON’s financial backing, we will be […]
A massive seven-year interdisciplinary research initiative led by York University – backed by substantial federal research funding — is setting out to tame the unruly world of AI and other disruptive technologies, so humans can benefit equitably from advances in a machine-driven world. Along with marvellous innovations in medicine, education and entertainment, rapidly emerging technological […]
For Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lassonde School of Engineering, conducting research on the fairness of AI in healthcare and imaging diagnostics is personal. While working on research in developing optimization algorithms, Seyyed-Kalantari’s life was derailed by a medical misdiagnosis that took two years to […]
In 2019, YSpace – York’s pan-university entrepreneur and innovation hub - decided to change that with the launch of ELLA, Ontario’s first accelerator program focused on supporting women-led product and service-based businesses. Now, with $3 million in support from the federal government’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy program, ELLA is going nationwide, setting up localized hubs and […]
Appointments York U’s Board of Governors appoints Kathleen Taylor as Chancellor Kathleen Taylor began her three-year term as York’s 14th Chancellor on January 1, 2023. An accomplished York alumna and business executive, Chancellor Taylor holds a Master of Business Administration from Schulich School of Business and a Juris Doctor (JD) from Osgoode Hall Law School. […]
The program is funded by the innovation arm of the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation at York. It runs from January to April and provides graduate students and postdoctoral Fellows support and assistance to develop their academic research into a commercially viable product. The Fellows receive $7,500 as stipend, with a quarter of […]
York’s community of researchers, scholars and innovators are leading the charge in areas that will create sustainable, innovative and equitable approaches for a better future. 1. Indigenous Futurities Faculty: Ashley Day, School of Kinesiology & Health ScienceFunding: SSHRC Decolonizing physical educationIt wasn’t until she worked as a physical education teacher that Ashley Day realized that […]