Meet Sonya Morson, Glendon Academic Excellence Scholarship recipient

Sonya is a fourth-year student in the Honours Trilingual iBSc in Biology at Glendon, but also a disabled and mature student. She is a second-generation Italian-Canadian, a musician, an athlete, a hopeful activist, and an incredibly curious individual, who keeps herself occupied with a wide variety of interests. After graduating from her specialist arts high […]

York University’s Glendon College leads conversation about the future of Arctic security

A panel of experts debate how to best prepare for the profound changes that lie ahead in the North As the region risks becoming the new frontline for confrontation between global powers, the Glendon Global Debates return this month to examine the impact on the economic and social life of the people who call the […]

Susan Pond, Recently Appointed Director of the Glendon School of Public & International Affairs (GSPIA), Awarded as Senior Fellow by NATO Security Force Assistance Centre of Excellence (SFA COE)

We are honoured to announce that Susan Pond, Director of the Glendon School of Public & International Affairs, has been awarded as Senior Fellow by NATO SFA COE in recognition of the special relationship developed with the Centre in supporting its strategy and related products for the NATO Alliance and Partners.  Senior fellow is an […]

Student Wins $700 Prize for Outstanding Academic Essay

This $700 Michael Drache 'Big History, Big Ideas' Prize recognises a student with an outstanding, investigative academic essay or digital project which focuses on the theme(s) of inequality, racism, social activism, LGBTQ activism, climate crisis, indigeneity, or global capitalism. Professor Dr. Jack Cécillon nominated Zipporah Davis paper “The Nk’Mip Winery: From Victims of Colonization to […]

Upskill digital storytelling through new course at Glendon

By Elaine Smith Raiman Dilag, director of information technology services (ITS) at York University’s Glendon College, and his team are working to ensure their students have access to the most current technology to enhance their storytelling capabilities. They will make this possible through an Academic Innovation Fund grant that allowed them to create a new eight-week extracurricular […]

New resource to support the use of more gender-inclusive French

The Glendon Translation Services team, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion at York University, is releasing a new resource to support the use of more gender-inclusive French. This one-page guide offers 4 simple strategies to encourage the whole community to incorporate new ways of thinking into their daily lives.  We […]

York leads research initiative to explore populism in Canada

By Ashley Goodfellow Craig, editor, YFile York University will lead a new initiative that aims to increase understanding of the impacts of populism on Canadian politics. Launched Sept. 27 at York’s Glendon Campus, the Observatory of Populism in Canada is a first-of-its-kind research endeavour that will work to generate, support and highlight empirical and theoretical research on populism’s […]

Desjardins Group funding helps expand entrepreneurial programs at York

A new gift from Desjardins to York University’s Innovation York will expand two critical accelerator programs that provide training and support in entrepreneurship and help promote innovation. The funding will continue both Desjardins and York’s commitment to fostering positive change for diverse local communities and uniquely global perspectives. The gift supports two initiatives at York, […]

Engaging Critically with the Intersection of Blackness, Womanhood and Islam in Canadian and Nordic Society: An Interview with Professor Jan Mendes  

Interview by Xaneva Elorriaga George Jan Mendes is an Assistant Professor of gender and sexuality studies with the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Mendes holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University, Canada (2019). From 2019 - 2022 Mendes was a postdoctoral fellow in studies of gender and race with […]

The Planetary Health Advocacy Framework and the Importance of Dialogue

Written by Liliana Antonshyn and Alyssa Ramos, Research Apprenticeship Programme students at Glendon College, York University On March 29th, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research held a collective discussion, led by Carol Devine and Yasmin Al-Sahili. Devine is a Community Scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute working on a framework for Planetary Health Advocacy. Al-Sahili worked on the […]