Sport stars like Simone Biles, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Katie Ledecky dazzled fans at the recent Paris Olympic Games with their performances. But off the pitch, many athletes also used the Olympics to draw attention to deeply entrenched inequities and challenges facing girls and women in sport, such as body confidence and support for athletes with small children. A new initiative, Sport Your Period, is […]
York’s Newton tree descendant was the first in Ontario to take root and blossom. It’s now joined by two more seedlings. A thunk to the head, so the myth goes, planted the seed for Sir Isaac Newton’s law of gravity, and while the law bore fruit – Gravity Day is now celebrated every Sept. 8 […]
York experts comment on political activism, interference, Ozempic advertising being everywhere, biometric monitoring in the workplace, and more.
The world is facing unparalleled changes in climatic conditions and drastic loss of biological diversity, putting humanity at risk. The breakdown of the earth’s climate and the rapid loss of wildlife are intertwined, yet response by governments to these crises currently fails to recognize the deep connections between them. There have been calls for a joint approach to […]
With students returning to the classroom next week, experts from York University’s Faculty of Education are available to talk about how public education is increasingly relying on private dollars and how to help kids tackle math anxiety.
As Chicago hosts the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the eyes of the world will be on the city. In the best-case scenario for the Democratic Party, the political convention will not be overtaken by divisive issues inside the convention hall or outside on the streets. Given the recent political violence with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — […]
Can TikTok help lead the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign to victory in the United States presidential election the way Twitter, now X, was believed to have helped Donald Trump in 2016? Is Harris’s so-called brat summer enough to sustain her momentum into four more years of a Democratic-led America? With under 100 days left to election day in November, […]
Former Prof Bill Westcott is remembered by students and staff, a York expert's op-ed on the DNC, Indigenous womanhood in poetry, and more.
York University Professor Nick Mulé is leading the first national study addressing poverty in 2SLGBTQ+ communities as director of the 2SLGBTQ+ Poverty in Canada Project.
York faculty members comment on $18.4 million in bonuses being paid out by CBC, Kamala Harris’s brat summer, and the diet of bats in Belize.