Assistant Professor Nicole Ventura and Interim KHS Chair and Associate Professor, Teaching, Nicolette Richardson are transforming anatomy education through virtual dissection tools and synthetic cadavers, giving students more flexible, accessible ways to build essential knowledge and prepare for careers in health care. Full coverage of this story can be found in YFile.
Assistant Professor Amanda De Lisio in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science was mentioned in Pride Source article 2026 Pride Reads for Every Shelf.
The Governor General's Academic Medals are the highest honour given to outstanding Canadian post-secondary scholars. This year’s awardees represent the University’s dedication to supporting students in achieving academic success. Nicolas Cheng After completing his undergraduate degree in kinesiology at York, Cheng is now among this year’s Faculty of Health graduate students earning a MSc in the program. […]
Ontario’s OHIP+ program, introduced in 2018 to provide free prescription medications for people under 25, was designed to improve access to care. Recent research led by York University associate professor Antony Chum alongside postdoctoral researchers Peiya Cao and Yihong Bai, as well as PhD student Kristine Ienciu suggests the policy had an additional benefit: it helped prevent some youth […]
Associate Professor Ali Abdul-Sater, in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science is co-lead on a new study published in the journal Environment International reporting chemicals released from tires can transform into complex mixtures in the atmosphere that may pose previously unrecognized risks to human respiratory health. Dr. Abdul-Sater has teamed up with researchers from Environment and Climate Change […]
The question of what causes muscle breakdown and how the brain and body respond during intense exercise, is published in new research on central fatigue, a study from the School of Kinesiology and Health Science led by student Alireza Vaziri, supervised by Dr. Arthur Cheng, and co‑authored with Faculty of Health researcher Dr. Michael Paris. Further information is […]
Dr. Jonathan Michaels in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science is the recipient of the Brain Star Award. Dr. Michaels is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University. His research program focuses on how the brain controls movement, integrating large-scale neural recordings, behavioural studies, and artificial neural […]
Students in the BUT HSE program (Health, Safety and Environment) took part in a practical training session at the firefighters’ rescue center in Corti, Corsica. The session was led by Dr. Olivier Birot, Professor of Physiology in the School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences within the Faculty of Health at York University. The training focused on understanding […]
The Canadian Nutrition Society Annual Conference 2026 took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia. MSc student (soon to be PhD student) Nicholas Cheng was chosen as 1 of 8 finalists (MSc and PhD lumped together) for the Graduate Student Oral Presentation competition. Cheng gave a stellar presentation and won 1st place! Top student presentation at the conference! Students Emily Fraschetti […]
First-year Master’s student, Kimiko Taniishi in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science won the 3-Minute Thesis competition at the 2026 Bodies of Knowledge conference, held at the University of Toronto.