If you are a researcher or an administrator of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canada Research Chair (CRC) or Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant, there are a number of upcoming important deadlines. Research Accounting is planning its process for financial […]
What is the true face of 19th-century French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire? That is what York French studies Professor Melvin Zimmerman delves into in his upcoming book Baudelaire & Co., being launched next Tuesday. Baudelaire has been defined as anti Jean-Jacques Rousseau and pro Blaise Pascal, but Zimmerman says the truth is more complicated. […]
The Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) at York University is accepting nominations for volunteers to serve on its executive board. Nominations are open to students, staff and faculty and are due by March 3. IRIS promotes practical sustainability solutions that encompass environmental, social and economic considerations at local, regional and global scales. Operating as a […]
$1.4 million interdisciplinary project includes filmmakers, vision scientists, psychologists and industry partners Filmmakers, vision scientists and psychologists at York University have secured over $1.4 million to fund the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a two-year academic-industry partnership that will expand capacity for 3-D film production in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Ontario. "The […]
Golda Koschitzky, York benefactor and honorary degree recipient, has died. She was 102. On Nov. 5, 1999, York presented the philanthropist and Jewish education innovator with an honorary doctor of laws. Over 90 years old at the time, she had supported the establishment of a professorship then a Chair in Jewish Teacher Education at York through […]
Lewis Molot, a professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, has received more than $265,000 over three years from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The award will fund Molot’s experiment to assess the effect of sulphate levels on several impacts associated with excessive fertilization of lakes. The study will be […]
After accepting an invitation from the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, Dr. Alain Beaudet, president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), made his first visit to York University on Jan. 19. During the visit, Beaudet met with a strong and diverse group of York researchers and conducted a town hall meeting. The […]
On Friday, York University announced it is working with Nottawasaga Futures and the South Simcoe Economic Alliance to create the South Simcoe Green Economy Transition Centre for innovative research and training in Innisfil's New Town Hall. The centre, open to the public, will provide local businesses, governments, non-profit organizations and residents with free tools for […]
Carla Lipsig-Mummé, professor of work and labour studies in York's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and research fellow in York’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability, has received $1 million over six years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Right: Carla Lipsig-Mummé The award will fund an international project to study […]
A series of films, concerts, workshops, artist talks and community events will usher in Black History Month this February, under the title Performing Diaspora 2010: Celebrating Black History Month through Expressive Culture – Afro Diasporic Women in Focus. Produced by York's Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Performing Diaspora 2010 is designed to serve as a catalyst […]
York University officially opened the Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC), the first of its kind in Canada, at 10:30 today. “This centre is unique in that we’re zeroing in on skeletal muscle and its relationship to health, with a strong focus on what exercise can do,” says Professor David Hood, the centre’s founding director. “We’re looking for new discoveries […]
York University has been awarded a grant to establish a European Union Centre of Excellence(EUCE). Recognized for the excellence, breadth and depth of its European Union (EU) studies and scholarly activities, York will receive funding of $480,000 over three years to integrate the University’s existing research, teaching, outreach and networking activities on Europe and the […]
York particle physicist Sampa Bhadra (below right) has already figured out how she intends to spend her next sabbatical leave when it comes in 2013 – she's hoping to visit British Columbia so she can spend some quality time at a subatomic research facility that’s larger than two city blocks and houses the biggest cyclotron […]
More than 200 people, many of them senior educators, members of the community and representatives of government agencies, joined with York faculty and students in celebrating the launch of the Faculty of Education’s first Organized Research Unit (ORU), the York Centre for Education & Community (YCEC), on Oct. 22. The successful event was held at […]
John Tsotsos, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Science & Engineering, has been named the winner of the York University President’s Research Excellence Award. The award, introduced during York’s 50th year, recognizes outstanding research achievement and significant contributions to advance the University’s international reputation for research excellence. Distinguished […]
Nominations are now being accepted for the title of Distinguished Research Professor, to be conferred at the spring or fall 2010 convocation. The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded for life and evolves into a Distinguished Research Professorship Emeritus on retirement. All of York’s Distinguished Research Professors are encouraged to continue their involvement in […]
November is York’s first Research Month Tuesdays in November will never be the same if the organizers of York University’s first Research Month have their way. They have put together an exciting month of events, interactive research displays and images that document and celebrate just some of the research conducted at York University. The interactive displays, and […]
Nominations are now being accepted for the title of Distinguished Research Professor, to be conferred at the spring or fall 2010 convocation. The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded for life and evolves into a Distinguished Research Professorship Emeritus on retirement. All of York’s Distinguished Research Professors are encouraged to continue their involvement in […]
York Professor Roger Keil has recently been appointed director of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES) at York for the 2009-2010 academic year. Keil is looking forward to the challenge and says one of his main duties as director will be to develop the centre’s strategic plan, and with that the amount of […]
The federal government has renewed a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Law, Communication & Culture at York enabling Professor Rosemary Coombe of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies to advance her research in the field of socio-legal studies. As a Tier 1 CRC, Coombe will receive $1.4 million over seven years. The CRC is part of […]