We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Douglas Proctor to the role of assistant vice-president global engagement and partnerships and senior international officer at York University starting Jan. 1, 2026.Douglas Proctor comes to us from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, where he has served since 2021 as pro vice-chancellor (global engagement). With more than […]
Two new research collaborations led by the Humanitarian Water Engineering (HWE) Lab at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research aim to improve health outcomes in crisis-affected communities in Uganda through local partnerships and innovative water-focused interventions.Syed Imran Ali, Director of the HWE Lab and Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute, and his team recently […]
Congolese politician-turned-businessman Eugene Serufuli had a vision that all of his children would attend university abroad, living together and looking out for each other as they earned a degree that would set them up for life. Dating back to 2018, eight of his nine children have travelled the 10,000 kilometres to Canada from the Democratic […]
York alumni Paulina Lau (BSc '81, mathematics) and Hian Siang Chan (BA '80, economics) have pledged an additional $1 million to sustain and expand the Paulina Lau Scholars Program, empowering the University to extend funding for students seeking experiential learning opportunities on the global stage. The new gift builds on the family’s earlier donation, which first launched the program in […]
Two major initiatives aimed at supporting Asian Canadian communities will launch this month at York University through the Asian Business and Management Program (ABMP). A unit of the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), ABMP provides professional development and management training to officials and professionals from across Asia. It also offers career experience programs for Asian students studying at […]
York University will offer funding from the highly competitive Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships (QES) program to students and researchers from York, as well as partner universities in Costa Rica, Ghana and the Philippines to tackle issues at the intersection of climate change and human population displacement. The highly competitive QES program was […]
By Alex Huls A research initiative led by York University is building lasting partnerships and resources to support community-driven autonomy strategies across Central America and the Caribbean. In 2024, Prilly Bicknell-Hersco sat on the shaded porch of a house on Colombia’s San Andrés Archipelago, surrounded by seven Raizal women, an Afro-Caribbean ethnic group native to the region. […]
Connecting online is a great way to foster international academic partnerships, yet there’s nothing like meeting in person to add richness and depth to a relationship. So says Amir Asif, York’s vice-president research and innovation, whose recent visits to universities in Germany and France exemplify how meeting in person promotes international collaboration. “Meeting in person allows […]
By Deirdre Kelly In the lush hills of Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica, York University’s Las Nubes EcoCampus shows how education can cross borders. At its centre is Casita Azul, a modest one-room library that serves as a hub for cultural exchange, community empowerment and collaboration. Recently, Casita Azul received a donation from Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA […]
Connecting online has become a great way to kick off academic partnerships in recent years, yet there’s nothing like meeting in person to add richness and depth to a relationship. So says Amir Asif, York’s Vice President of Research and Innovation, who led a delegation in September 2024 to several universities in both Germany and […]