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Psychology students' blog aims to make trauma research accessible

Psychology students' blog aims to make trauma research accessible

How people cope with traumatic events varies widely between individuals, and the impact on a family can be long lasting and devastating. Now there is a new resource coming out of York University for people seeking information on what to do when faced with the effects of trauma. Released today, The Trauma and Attachment Report […]

Professor Katherine Knight's documentary on Wanda Koop to open Reel Artists Film Festival

Professor Katherine Knight's documentary on Wanda Koop to open Reel Artists Film Festival

York visual arts Professor Katherine Knight’s documentary film about influential Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop in some ways mirrors the style found in Koop’s paintings: full of colour and precise, playing with the idea of glancing and observation, and entering into a world where the real and the abstract co-exist. The world premiere of the 52-minute […]

York study of parents and loss receives international attention

York study of parents and loss receives international attention

One of the toughest challenges a parent faces when a child dies is to learn how to parent the surviving children, and the task begins immediately, according to York University psychology Professor Stephen Fleming, wrote the Times of India and other newspapers and websites in the US and South Asia Feb. 16: From the moment […]

How do you keep parenting after one child dies? Professor Stephen Fleming's guide for counsellors

How do you keep parenting after one child dies? Professor Stephen Fleming's guide for counsellors

One of the toughest challenges a parent faces when a child dies is to learn how to parent the surviving children – and the task begins immediately, according to York University psychology Professor Stephen Fleming. From the moment their child dies, parents are faced with the two extremes of loss and life – the suffocating […]

Nature of Things documentary on Toronto's raccoons features York researchers

Nature of Things documentary on Toronto's raccoons features York researchers

We all know they’re out there, prying open garbage cans, scurrying across fences and maybe even bunking under your deck, wrote the Toronto Star Feb. 10: But urban raccoons – who look just like their country cousins but live very different lives – are rarely studied, leaving humans in the dark about what the nocturnal […]

On Valentine's Day, Professor David Reid says give to your relationship to get results

On Valentine's Day, Professor David Reid says give to your relationship to get results

The best gift you can give your partner this Valentine’s Day isn’t flowers or chocolate, but rather the experience of the relationship they desire, according to a York University psychologist. “In order to have a successful relationship, you really need to be able to give of yourself – to go outside your own needs, wants […]

York psychologist studies the 'spacing effect' in teaching

York psychologist studies the 'spacing effect' in teaching

In the late 1800s, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus set out to memorize hundreds of nonsense syllables and discovered it was more efficient to space out his study sessions than to try to learn long lists in one sitting [wrote The Globe and Mail Feb. 7]: Hundreds of studies carried out since have established the power […]

Are best friends bad for your kid? Professor Debra Pepler on best friends and bullying

Are best friends bad for your kid? Professor Debra Pepler on best friends and bullying

Some schools are discouraging close friendships in the hopes of preventing bullying, wrote Diane Peters in TodaysParent.com Jan. 26: It’s not that concerned educators are “out to get” best friends. But they are trying to nudge close pals apart a little bit, so that they don’t become too insular. Twosomes can turn into threesomes, and […]

CFI awards York researchers $274,000 in funding

CFI awards York researchers $274,000 in funding

Funding will support three projects in biology, kinesiology and psychology The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded York University $274,689 in infrastructure funding to support the research of three York professors. Olivier Birot, professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Science in York's Faculty of Health and a member of the Muscle Health Research […]

NSERC awards over $1 million to York-led research partnerships

NSERC awards over $1 million to York-led research partnerships

Funding supports projects in 3D film and personalized cancer diagnosis over three years Two York-led industry-academic partnerships have received a total of $1,237,136 through the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada's (NSERC) Strategic Projects Grants program. Sergey Krylov, professor in the Faculty of Science & Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry, has received […]