How York University approaches research, teaching, learning, student thriving and its relationships both at the University and with the broader community is at the centre of the University’s new academic plan. The newly launched 2026-30 University Academic Plan (UAP) offers a set of shared principles to guide academic planning, decision-making and institutional priorities across the […]
Throughout his academic journey, Wahid Khan, York University course director and PhD student has worked to ensure students from diverse backgrounds see themselves reflected in physical and health education. His commitment to equitable and culturally responsive teaching and learning – a defining focus of his work as course director and instructor at the Faculty of […]
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 […]
Employees with autism may bring valuable perspectives to the workplace, but whether those capabilities are recognized can depend on the systems and environments around them, according to research by York University-affiliated father-and-son collaborators Lorne Hartman and Braxton Hartman. “They need to think about whether their existing systems help or get in the way,” adds Braxton, […]
A prolific year of student-led Mars research supervised by York University Professor Isaac Smith reflects more than academic productivity. It highlights an approach built on giving graduate students the freedom to pursue their own ideas. Through this approach, Smith's students have collectively advanced understanding of some of the most significant unknowns surrounding ice on Mars, […]
A new study by postdoctoral researcher Briann Dorin illustrates how agricultural landscapes can support wild bees, and continues the conservation science research legacy of the late Professor Sheila Colla. When Dorin was a doctoral student in the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change and began discussing potential PhD research projects with Colla, her supervisor and […]
Five members of the York community were honoured during Spring Convocation with the University's most prestigious awards in teaching and research: President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards and Distinguished Research Professor. Wahid Khan, a course director in the Faculty of Education and a doctoral student in Kinesiology and Health Sciences, was selected for his commitment to creating […]
York University alumna Randa Qashoa’s journey from the Lassonde School of Engineering to a career advancing space technology highlights the growing impact of women in shaping the future of engineering. Today, Qashoa (BEng ’21, PhD ’25) is a systems engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, where she works on the assembly, integration and testing of quantum communication […]
At the York University Psychology Clinic, however, researchers and graduate students are working from a different premise: that understanding a child means understanding the family around them. Heather Prime, a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Faculty of Health, is leading that effort with a team of graduate students. PhD candidate Gillian Shoychet’s doctoral […]
When Rick Powless learned that Health Sciences North in Sudbury launched its first Indigenous hospital menu, he felt a shift happen. The third-year doctoral student at York University's Faculty of Education is a Red Seal-certified Indigenous chef, an Ontario College of Teachers-certified educator and a member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Oneida Nation of the Thames, […]