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Professor awarded funding for project on Black settlers in Canada
January 13, 2026
Desirée de Jesús, assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies, has been awarded funding for the digital media community-engaged project, From Archive to Imagination: Building Canada’s Future with Black Histories, through the Black Research Seed Fund. This ...
Anthropology professor to participate in new Teaching Fellows Program
January 9, 2026
A new Teaching Fellows Program has been launched by the Office of the Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning. The program will empower faculty members across York University to investigate pedagogical issues across various disciplines. Participating faculty members will focus on exploring challenges, creating new strategies ...
Outstanding LA&PS alumni appointed to the Order of Canada
January 9, 2026
Two alumni from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) have been appointed to the Order of Canada. A total of 80 appointments of the award were announced on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, nine of which were from ...
Professor Denise Rousseau delivers 2026 Monica Belcourt HR Talk on self-promises
January 8, 2026
The School of Human Resource Management was honoured to host Denise Rousseau as part of the 2026 Monica Belcourt HR Talks series. Rousseau, the H.J. Heinz II University professor of Organizational Behaviour and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, visited ...
Professor from School of Administrative Studies publishes new book about decision sciences
January 6, 2026
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, professor in the School of Administrative Studies (SAS), has published a new book titled A Treatise on Dynamic Decision Making. The book investigates how decisions are made, looking at cognitive, behavioral and collaborative factors, and investigating models like reinforcement ...
HRM professor Duygu Biricik Gulseren visits Osaka University of Economics for Research and Teaching Exchange
December 23, 2025
Duygu Biricik Gulseren, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, recently visited the Osaka University of Economics as Dr. Tae Funakoshi’s guest. The visit focused on research exchange, and teaching and learning from Japanese perspectives on disability inclusion in organizational contexts. As part of the ...
English professor earns Honourable Mention in Book Prize
December 18, 2025
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, co-authored by Jean-Thomas Tremblay, associate professor in the Department of English, received an Honourable Mention in the 2025 Book Prize competition held by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present ...
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