York Professor Emeritus Victor S. MacKinnon, who retired from active teaching in the Department of Administrative Studies in Atkinson College in 1994, has died. Left: Victor S. MacKinnon in 1969 Professor MacKinnon died in the early morning hours of March 9 in Augusta, Maine. An accomplished academic and administrator, Prof. MacKinnon's successful tenure at Atkinson included […]
Simon Black, a PhD student in political science and a resident of the City Institute at York University, wrote an op-ed for the Toronto Star yesterday on why governments don't think the welfare system is broken. His commentary was published in advance of the Ontario budget, which will be delivered this afternoon. That welfare is […]
A new book co-edited by York Professors Norene Pupo and Mark Thomas will receive its official launch Thursday, March 25 at a special reception from 3 to 5pm in 626 York Research Tower. Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century is a collection of original essays investigating the social, political and economic […]
York researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism Two teams led by York University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, […]
A lunchtime panel featuring presentations by York researchers and urban planning professionals will wrap up two recent research projects tomorrow – "In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability", based out of the City Institute at York University (City), and geography Professor Lucia Lo's "Infrastructure in York Region: A GIS Analysis of Human Services". The panel discussion, […]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has appointed retired Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to review documents related to the Afghan detainee issue demanded by Parliament, wrote Reg Whitaker, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, in the Toronto Star March 19. An independent review, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson stated, “will […]
Latin American Artists in Toronto: Immigrants and Artists at Work, the second CERIS seminar on issues related to immigrants and the arts, will feature three panellists. The seminar will take place Tuesday, March 23, from 12:30 to 2pm, in the fifth floor Conference Centre of the York Research Tower, Keele campus. York environmental studies Professor Deborah Barndt, co-ordinator […]
It’s been a year of research-intensive events and activities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and one of the most notable initiatives has been the Research Matters series. It attempts to answer the question: “Why does research matter?” In particular, it focuses on the ways in which LA&PS researchers – both faculty […]
Alan Middleton, professor of marketing in the Schulich School of Business, appeared on BNN on March 10 to talk about Tim Hortons' and McDonald's branding struggle to own the branding market. McDonald's is giving away free coffee, while Tim Hortons' Roll Up The Rim To Win campaign is in full throttle. Which company is winning […]
This week, the Globe & Mail's 2010 Campus Research report has focused on several of York's researchers and research-related programs. On March 9, the Globe published an article on the impact social sciences and humanities research has on economic growth. The story was part of its special report on university research and also appeared in […]
Interest in China is strong, and scholars and students alike continue to be intrigued by the country, whether viewing it through the lens of the past two or 2,000 years. That intrigue proved evident on Thursday, Jan. 28, when a record 110 people crowded into a room in York Lanes for the Faculty of Liberal Arts […]
Over the last decade, the concept of human rights has taken on increasing complexity in nations around the world, in large part because of the way it is viewed. There are times when to acknowledge the rights of one individual or group directly affects the access to human rights of another. Such competing human rights […]
The Osgoode-York Working Paper Series in Policy Research publishes research that has been presented as part of the Osgoode-York Seminar Series in Policy Research, although authors who have not presented their work in the seminar series may still submit papers for consideration, provided that they relate to public policy themes, more broadly. With the assistance […]
York's Faculty of Education will host its annual research forum on technology in education today, from 2 to 4pm in 280N York Lanes. Professor Jennifer Jenson (right) will present "Baroque Baroque Revolution: High Culture Gets Game". In today’s “super-saturated, socially networked, Second Life, massively multiplayer, online, keyed-in, content generating, 2.0, ‘glocal’” culture, the world of Baroque music, […]
$11.5 million interdisciplinary project includes computer scientists, vision scientists, designers, artists and social scientists at York, OCAD and U of T, with 14 industry partners How do you look at millions of genomic patterns and see the diagnostic implications? How do you assimilate satellite data to better predict and visualize the effects of global warming, […]
Due to what is sometimes called the CNN effect – the rapid transmission of images and news – the media can have a huge impact on global aid response to a disaster. The most dramatic images of suffering attract the most funds and push other, more protracted emergencies, off the radar. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami […]
York political science Professor Leah Vosko, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets in her new book, Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment, being launched tomorrow. The book looks at how over the last few decades there has been much discussion […]
Despite decades of feminism and co-parenting and men grappling with diaper changes and night feedings, moms are often by default or tradition the ones who end up having the sex talk, wrote the Toronto Star Feb. 19. Often it’s because they are the parent who spends the most time with the children. “Often if there […]
The Globe & Mail ran an urban renewal feature today on the transformation of Surrey, viewed in the past as Vancouver's ‘ugly sister', into Canada's fastest-growing suburb. Part of its success, Lisa Rochon writes, is Surrey's emphasis on innovative design. Rochon's article quotes Roger Keil, professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, director of the […]
Researchers at York University and the University of Victoria in British Columbia have taken the latest research in mental health and worked with teachers, as well as mental-health-system users and service providers, to create an online curriculum easily used by teachers and grasped by high-school students. Caring Minds: Youth, Mental Health & Community helps young people […]