It may not be the fountain of youth, but researchers at York University have discovered that regular exercise can effectively turn back the clock for aging skeletal muscle. The study, “Molecular basis for an attenuated mitochondrial adaptive plasticity in aged skeletal muscle,” was recently published in the journal Aging. The results indicate that the elderly are […]
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare young Billy to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a study from York University has shown. The findings, published online in the journal CORTEX, demonstrate that playing video games reorganizes the brain’s activity and can lead to better control of skilled movements. Alterations to the brain’s […]
The Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL), under the auspices of the Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society at York's Osgoode Hall Law School, has officially been launched, bringing together an unusual mix of the academic and creative, and adding a complex and layered perspective to discussions about cities. CURL provides an innovative and visual approach to discussions involving globalization and […]
Scientists at the new Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions (CRBI) at York University, which officially opens today, aim to make discoveries that will impact global health care and the treatment of diseases. Understanding the foundation of key interactions at the molecular level is the research focus at the new centre, which will be housed in York's Faculty of Science & Engineering. […]
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 […]
York University researchers have identified a cell-signalling process that stimulates blood vessel growth and may help break the cycle of diabetes by making it easier for patients to exercise. Professor Tara Haas (right) and colleagues in York’s Muscle Health Research Centre studied stimuli that can cause blood vessels in muscle to grow. Their research aims […]
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 […]
York Professor K.W. Michael Siu has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honour a Canadian scholar can achieve in the arts, humanities and sciences. This year’s new Fellows will be inducted at a ceremony to be held Nov. 28 in Gatineau, Que. A specialist in mass spectrometry whose work […]
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 […]
On Aug. 12, Kathy Young led 69 Arctic hydrologists, oceanographers and observers from every circumpolar nation on an expedition to Baffin Island. As chief delegate of the invitation-only 17th International Northern Research Basins Symposium & Workshop, the Arctic hydrologist and York geography professor had been planning this seven-day conference for two years. Veteran scientists, their graduate […]
Key findings of the Phoenix-Mars mission’s Canadian science team, led by York University, have been published in the journal Science. The report, published on Friday, summarizes the scientific findings of the mission, which was conducted last summer on the planet Mars. During the five-month mission, which concluded in November 2008, the team’s laser instrument detected […]
The rags-to-riches immigrant stories Canada has been bred on don’t work anymore, say the two professors who led the project that will be released today, wrote the Toronto Star June 18. Luin Goldring, sociology professor in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and Patricia Landolt of the Centre for Urban and Community […]
The phenomenon of American-born children who spend their infancy in China has been known for years to social workers, who say it is widespread and worrying, reported The New York Times July 24: About 8,000 Chinese-born women gave birth in New York last year, so the number of children at risk is substantial, according to […]