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 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 […]
Academic publishing isn’t usually a family affair, but a York University professor and her alumna daughter have proven to be an exception with a book that explores women who exist outside rigid patriarchal norms. When Casey O’Reilly-Conlin earned her master’s degree from York University’s Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change in 2019, her major research […]
York University graduate student Andrea Aternali has received the 2025 Top Science Poster Award by the Canadian Pain Society for her research examining how phantom limb pain affects the lives of individuals with limb loss. Aternali’s research, selected from more than 160 submissions, shows that phantom limb pain—a condition in which pain is perceived in […]
A summer school program hosted by York University’s Muscle Health Research Centre is preparing Canada’s next generation of researchers in the field of neuromuscular disease. The two-day program equips 32 graduate students and post-doctoral fellow trainees with critical tools to enhance their research capabilities and professional networks, laying a foundation for more effective research collaboration […]
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 (EMBA) students at […]