YRDSB recognizes ABEL program director Janet Murphy for service to education

Teaching with technology is a good thing, and no one knows it better than Janet Murphy. The York Region District School Board (YRDSB) has awarded Murphy, director of York’s Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) on applied research program in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, an Outstanding Service Award. Under Murphy’s leadership, ABEL’s team […]

York's digital media, vision and computer science expertise driving inaugural 3D conference

The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, a one-of-a-kind gathering of experts in stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment, takes place in Toronto June 11 to 14. Major figures from the USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Canada will convene at TIFF Bell Lightbox to address and analyze the latest developments in the field. The first of its […]

Three-way legal philosophy partnership between Osgoode, York and McMaster promises new research collaborations

Yorks's Osgoode Hall Law School and the departments of philosophy at York and McMaster University have recently joined forces to facilitate academic collaborations in the field of legal philosophy. The Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership (OLPP), which celebrates its founding with a launch reception on Friday, May 13 in the Great Hall of McMaster’s University Club, is the […]

York University becomes 17th member of MaRS Innovation

York University has become the latest member of MaRS Innovation, the commercialization agent for many leading Toronto-based universities, hospitals and research institutes. “York has become one of Canada’s fastest-growing centres for research and innovation,” said Stan Shapson (right), vice-president research & innovation at York University. “We typically get 10 to 20 discovery disclosures a year. […]

Southlake Regional Health Centre and York University bring science and health care together at May 9 Open House

How can Blackberry smartphones be used to reduce health risks? And what can head injuries teach us about how to rehabilitate our bodies? Physicians and clinicians from Southlake Regional Health Centre, and researchers from York University, will speak at an open house Monday about how they are working together – in the hospital and in […]

York's youth homelessness report covered by Canadian Press and QMI Agency

A York University report is calling for reform in the approach used to deal with youth homelessness, emphasizing the potential role that family members can still play in supporting youngsters in need, wrote The Canadian Press April 14 (via the Record.com): The report said it's estimated that roughly 65,000 young people are homeless or living […]

Professors Gaetz and Winland: Family largely ignored in Canada's response to homeless youth crisis

The role of family in ending youth homelessness is largely ignored in Canada, according to a report released yesterday by York University, though there is evidence that family reconnection works in Australia and the United Kingdom and in one exceptional program in Toronto. Some 65,000 young people are homeless or at risk of homelessness across […]

CIHR-funded nursing study finds specialized senior care delivers best hospital outcomes

Seniors receiving hospital care in acute care for elders units have shorter hospital stays, experience fewer declines in physical functioning and are less likely to be discharged to a nursing home than when treated in regular hospital units. This is one of the preliminary findings of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded study led at York. […]

Forum brings academics, hospital researchers, government and community groups together seeking better systems to help youth at risk

Youth at risk fail at school, have mental health issues and get in trouble with the law. Would they be better served if all three systems – education, mental health and justice – worked together? That question animated discussion at a recent forum organized by the York Centre for Education and Community (YCEC). Sponsored by […]

Yonge Street covers Professor Nancy Nicol's SSHRC-funded global gender identity discrimination project

Toronto helped lead the world in its embrace of diversity when the first same-sex couple to be legally married in North America was wed here in 2003. That local tradition of re-examining legal attitudes to gender issues will carry on as York University Professor Nancy Nicol [Faculty of Fine Arts] has received $1 million in […]