The two winners of the 2010 Michael Baptista Essay Prize for outstanding scholarly papers on topics of relevance in the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies have been announced. At the undergraduate level, international studies student Margaret Bancerz won for her essay “Counter-Hegemony and ALBA: The Answer to the FTAA”, while at the graduate level, […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) will be accepting applications for three awards offered in the winter 2011 term – the Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award, the YCAR Language Award and the Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Fellowship. The application deadline for all three awards is 4pm on Monday, Feb. 14. There is one Vivienne […]
Can 3D images be made to look more realistic? York University vision researchers have discovered how a to keep our eyes on the prize, so to speak. In order to see 3D images properly, our left and right eyes have to view separate images. Because 3D display technology isn’t perfect, there are times when images […]
Rappers Kardinal Offishall and Saukrates, singer Jully Black, video director Lil’ X and deejay collective Baby Blue Soundcrew may not be familiar names to Torontonians over the age of 40, but anyone born after 1969 who loves hip hop and R & B is aware of these artists’ foundational roles in Canada’s urban music culture, […]
Most people think of slavery as a thing of the past. But that’s a misconception, says York PhD history candidate Karlee Sapoznik of the newly formed Alliance Against Modern Slavery (AAMS). Human trafficking alone is a $32 billion annual industry today and, at any given time, there are up to 27 million slaves around the world – the majority of […]
A few months ago, I was introduced to Helen Papagiannis, an artist, designer and researcher working with the emerging technology Augmented Reality (AR), wrote Rob Rothfarb in Museum Virtual Worlds Jan. 10 in a published interview with the student in the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture: Papagiannis: “I began experimenting with AR […]
Theatre @ York will perform the 2005 off-Broadway hit, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, an imaginary retrial of the man who betrayed Jesus, beginning Sunday. Paul Muir directs fellow students from York’s Master of Fine Arts Theatre Program in this fast-paced, edgy courtroom “dramedy” by Stephen Adly Guirgis presented in the Joseph G. Green Studio […]
The Daily Planet featured the robotics collaboration between York Professor Michael Jenkin and McGill University Professor Gregory Dudek on January 14, 2011.They are the co-creaters of AQUA, a small submersible robot that swims using paddle legs and carries cameras and position sensors that relay information back to the screen of the tablet computer via an […]
Psychology researchers in York’s Faculty of Health, PhD student Gregory Knoll (MA ’07) and Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor, along with Professor Wendy Josephson of the University of Winnipeg, will provide three days of training to youth outreach workers and supervisors this month as part of a growing program. Stages of Change training will involve […]
Research from York University is revealing which regions in the brain “fire up” when we suppress an automatic behaviour, such as the urge to look at other people as we enter an elevator. A York study, published recently in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to track brain activity […]