Three York University scholars received this year’s Governor General's Gold Medals, which recognize the outstanding scholastic achievements of graduate students in Canada. The 2025 recipients are Bianca Bondi, Laurence Butet-Roch and Vladimir Kanic. The Governor General's Academic Medals are considered the highest honour earned by exemplary Canadian scholars throughout every level of academia. This year’s […]
In a world defined by rapid change and global challenges, the call for bold, compassionate, and visionary leadership has never been louder. At York University, we are proud to see our alumni stepping up to meet that call—not someday, but now. York’s Top 30 Alumni Under 30 program celebrates exceptional young leaders who are using […]
The supervisory relationship is the beating heart of graduate research pedagogy: a partnership that will shape a graduate student’s academic trajectory, the research they undertake and the knowledge they produce, their future career prospects and their lived experience of graduate school. The right supervisor can make all the difference to a struggling master’s or doctoral […]
Justin Kerr is part of one of the world’s largest collaborative scientific experiments. The third-year PhD candidate at York University's Faculty of Graduate Studies is contributing to the ATLAS experiment, where physicists are studying what the universe is made of, and how it works. The LHC is a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets, cooled to […]
York University philosophy Professor Kristin Andrews is creating the kind of graduate student experience she would have liked in her grad school days. It was a different time back in 1992 when Andrews started her master’s of arts in philosophy. Professors tended not to have close contact with their students. There were none of the […]
Laura Levin sets the table with rich feasts for her graduate students on so many levels. Sometimes it’s an actual dinner, a salon-style dinner, to bring grad students together and help them relax into their roles. Sometimes it’s a cross-cultural dinner that brings together researchers, activists and artists from across the Americas to dine and […]
A pan-University initiative designed to enhance the quality of graduate supervision is underway at York. The Graduate Supervision Support Hub (GSSHub), funded by a three-year Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) grant, is designed to foster strong supervisory relationships that benefit both students and faculty. The GSSHub is driven by the Principles for Graduate Supervision at Ontario […]
Ten graduate students from York University have received the prestigious Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence for the 2025–26 academic year. Valued at $17,500, the scholarship supports top AI master’s students and strengthens Ontario’s AI talent pipeline. Recipients gain access to networking opportunities, industry connections, and the Vector Digital Talent Hub. York students join peers from […]
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. A […]
Graduate health students demonstrating creativity, rigour and real-world impact across diverse areas of health research have been recognized as recipients of this year’s Health Graduate Research Awards. Graduate students from across the Faculty of Health are advancing critical research across a range of health-related disciplines, and had the opportunity to showcase their completed and in-progress […]