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Tweaks to radio transmitters could prevent deadly songbird entanglement

Researchers warn others in the scientific community that tracking ground-nesting grassland birds using radio transmitters – a common practice – can result in the bird’s entanglement, particularly for fledglings. The two biologists make suggestions for alterations to the apparatus to prevent this.

Good for patients, good for health-care system: A better way to schedule

York-led research determines a better approach to scheduling, which leads to improved profits, higher practitioner utilization and decreased wait times. Practitioners, policy-makers and hospital administrators will be interested in this highly applicable research.

York U program will prepare students for smart infrastructure sector and more

NSERC funding will improve training in Internet-of-Things applications TORONTO, July 16, 2018 ­­– A new program at York University will train students in leading technologies that enable almost anything with an embedded sensor – from the smallest personal accessory to the largest city infrastructure – to connect to the Internet. Professor Marin Litoiu The Natural Sciences […]

Lassonde professor receives grant to develop breakthrough medical device

Lassonde School of Engineering Professor Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh has received an ENGAGE NSERC grant that will fund a research project in partnership with Medella Health to develop a High-Density Parallel Drug Tests platform using a standard microelectronic technology, also called Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS). Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh Current drug test protocols rely on laborious, time consuming and costly conventional cell […]