Professor Derek Wilson receives Early Researcher Award from province

Chemistry Professor Derek Wilson has been awarded $100,000 in funding under the Ontario government’s Early Researcher Awards program.   York West MPP Mario Sergio made the announcement Tuesday. York University’s research investment of $50,000 will match the funds for the award.  The Early Researcher Awards program helps promising, recently appointed Ontario researchers build research teams of […]

Professor Amro Zayed explores the genetic basis of honey bee behaviour

What makes a worker bee a good worker? The answer may be both nature and nurture, says York  Professor Amro Zayed, who is studying the genetic basis of honey bee behaviour to create better bee colonies. “A colony lives or dies by how well the workers perform, and there is a tremendous amount of variation,” […]

Faculty of Science & Engineering's research awards honour three professors

The work of three researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering (FSE) was honoured during the FSE Honours & Awards night on Nov. 18. The evening saw the presentation of the faculty's inaugural internal research awards to chemistry Professor Dasantila Golemi-Kotra, recipient of the 2010 Early Researcher Award; biology Professor Chun Peng, recipient of the 2010 […]

Math prof receives grant to study West Nile virus and global warming

York math Professor Huaiping Zhu is working on understanding why there are outbreaks of the West Nile virus some years and not others. What goes into the mix – temperature, precipitation, mosquito population – to trigger the exact conditions needed for the virus to thrive? Knowing the answer could help in the development of mosquito […]