Well-being Week offers York graduate students an opportunity to pause, reflect and connect while highlighting wellness resources available throughout their studies. Graduate studies can involve balancing coursework, research, deadlines and life outside the University. Well-being Week at York University, taking place Oct. 5 to 9, 2026, offers students an opportunity to reflect on six dimensions […]
Lassonde PhD student Shane Ackerley will present Making Space: Signals and Noise at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2026. Drawing on his research with York University’s Nanosatellite Research Laboratory, the interactive installation invites visitors to explore how technology, movement and shared signals shape the way we observe and understand space. In one installation, visitors step into a […]
The Collaboratory Space on the second floor of Scott Library is usually a quiet place in early September. On September 8th, it was anything but. More than 350 incoming graduate students attended GRAD@YorkU, the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) social fair for students starting a master's or doctoral degree this fall. Over the lunch hour, the […]
With generative AI becoming more common in classrooms, four York University disability-in-education scholars explored whether ChatGPT-generated stories about children with disabilities contained bias. What they found was not the overt discrimination some might expect. This raised a question that Katherine Barron, Ryan B. Collis, Aaron J. Richmond and Ellouise Van Berkel, former and current York […]
Two York University alumni are among the 2026 recipients of awards from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their meaningful contributions to equity, social justice and women’s and gender studies. Perry received her MA (’92) and PhD (’98) from York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. She is the recipient of this […]
Eva Peisachovich, associate professor and graduate program director in the Faculty of Health’s School of Nursing, is leading a team of researchers that are using augmented reality (AR) to reimagine how health care providers learn to care for people living with dementia. After two decades as a registered nurse in geriatrics, medical-surgical nursing and high-acuity […]
More than four decades after helping document Black experiences in Appalachia, York University Professor Emeritus Wilburn Hayden Jr. is part of an award-winning effort to expand that conversation, this time alongside a contributor from the next generation: his son and York alum Donovan Hayden. The pair are part of a writing and editing team to […]
York University welcomed eight new members to its Board of Governors over the spring and summer, strengthening the Board’s role in guiding York’s continued growth and development. The new members bring diverse expertise spanning business, technology, law, health and student leadership. “York University is fortunate to welcome such a talented and diverse group of leaders […]
What began as a project to manage a growing number of funding inquires has transformed into a new service model that expands support for graduate students at York University. The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) recently launched an AI-powered graduate funding virtual assistant that connects students and staff with information in seconds. Navi provides students […]
Barriers facing Deaf, DeafBlind, blind and partially sighted (DDBBPS) people are well known within those communities, but can be overlooked in health-equity research. A new study by York University PhD candidate Sammy Jo Johnson aims to address that gap by documenting challenges the DDBBPS community faces within the health care system. At York University, Johnson’s […]