Professor Laurence Packer, professor of biology in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke to Bob McDonald, host of CBC's Quirks & Quarks on June 26 about his research on international bee populations. He is the author of Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them. […]
Professor David McNally, professor of political science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, speaks to CBC News about Black Bloc protest groups and their participation in the protest movement and Toronto's G20 summit on June 27, 2010. The clip runs 4:30 and is available on CBC's website. Republished courtesy of YFile– York […]
Ron Atkey, lawyer and adjunct professor of national security law in York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, spoke about who has security jurisdiction at the G8 and G20 summits, on CBC Radio’s “The Current” June 22. You can listen to his interview on The Current's Website. The interview appears in the show's first part. Professor Atkey's […]
Differences in the way Torontonians speak English may have more to do with how people express their ethnic identity than with any problems they are having learning to speak Canadian English perfectly, a study from York University suggests. Michol Hoffman and James Walker, professors of sociolinguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics in York's […]
Wendy Taylor, Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics and physics professor in York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke with Bob McDonald about the DZero Experiment on CBC Radios’ “Quirks & Quarks” May 29. The interview is available on CBC's Web site. Taylor and other York University researchers played a key role in a […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury was interviewed on The National by CBC broadcaster Colleen Jones about the sex lives of birds May 12. Stutchbury, a Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology, published The Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds in April 2010. It explains how […]
Molly Ladd-Taylor, York history professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and co-editor of the anthology Women Health and Nation: Canada and the United States Since 1945, discussed the impact of the birth control pill since it came on the market 50 years ago,on CBC Radio’s “Metro Morning" in Toronto May 5. […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury was interviewed on CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks on May 1 about her new book, The Bird Detective. Her interview with Bob McDonald is available for download on CBC's Web site. In The Bird Detective, Stutchbury roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social lives of birds, and details the […]
Stuart Shanker, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Health and director of the Milton & Ethel Harris Research Initiative, was featured on "The Hurried Infant," an audio documentary that ran on CBC's Ideas program April 22 and 23, 2010. The message? Mozart, and indeed any classical music will stimulate the […]
Joel Lexchin, professor in York’s School of Health Policy & Management in the Faculty of Health, spoke to BNN on April 14 about the Ontario government’s latest plan to reduce the cost of generic drugs and whether the plan should benefit drug manufacturers, pharmacies, or people paying for drug prescriptions. Lexchin, has worked as an […]