The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) wrapped up on Dec. 12, with more than 50,000 delegates who descended upon Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for the annual international climate summit. Among the delegates was York University’s Angele Alook, an assistant professor in te School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, and her […]
By Elaine Smith As an international, research university committed to high-quality education and driving positive change, York’s top priority is to enhance research impact and the global fluency of our students through partnerships around the world. Rhonda Lenton, York University’s president and vice-chancellor, and Professor Andrew Maxwell, Bergeron Chair in Technology Entrepreneurship at the Lassonde School of […]
After graduating from York this spring, Tegan Hadisi, the daughter of Iranian refugees, will apply what she learned at the University to further study and assist migrants, contributing to a better future for them. Hadisi’s academic pursuit of refugee studies is inspired, in part, by personal experience. She was born stateless in Turkey, after her parents […]
Ahmad Firas Khalid embodies York’s prioritization of advancing the University’s global engagement. Khalid, a medical doctor and newly hired assistant professor in the School of Global Health, has the global outlook and fluency one would expect of a person born in Jordan and raised in the United Arab Emirates, who attended medical school in the Caribbean, worked […]
Four young women who are the recipients of the Daughters for Life Scholarships reflect on their journey to York University and how their studies are positioning them to be future changemakers. By Elaine Smith After his teenaged daughters were killed during an Israeli air strike in 2009, Palestinian-Canadian physician and peace activist Izzeldin Abuelaish (LLD Hons. '15) […]
York International is hosting a conference to reimagine approaches to higher education in an age of uncertainty. The conference will take place Jan. 20 to 22 and is free to attend Engaging, informed international education experts to kickstart each day – that’s what attendees to the upcoming Sustainable & Inclusive Internationalization Virtual Conference can expect […]