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Donation will help fund research into dancing and Parkinson's disease

Posted on 18 December 2012

York neuroscience Professor Joseph DeSouza of the Faculty of Health received a $20,000 donation last week to support his research looking into brain activity in dance and its therapeutic applications for people suffering with Parkinson’s disease. Peter Cipriano, president and representative of the Irpinia Club, was at York to present the cheque Thursday. Cipriano has donated […]

Research Jobs: Centre for Vision Research seeking MRI analyst

Posted on 5 April 2011

The Centre for Vision Research is seeking an MRI analyst to work in the Neuroimaging Laboratory, located in the Sherman Health Sciences Research Centre. More details, including salary, deadlines and how to apply, are available in the Research Jobs section. Please note that only resumes submitted through the described process will be considered. The posting […]

Can you teach a robot to swim and walk? Daily Planet covers the AQUA robot

Posted on 18 January 2011

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 […]

President's video highlights best of 2010, including Sherman Centre opening

Posted on 18 January 2011

A new video from York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri offers a welcome back message to students returning for the winter term. Building on the success of his fall welcome message, the president offers a recap of the major milestones and news events of the past term. In the high-definition video filmed in the Learning Commons at […]

Centre for Vision Research study pinpoints part of brain that suppresses automatic responses

Posted on 5 January 2011

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 […]

Professor Michael Jenkin's AQUA robot gets four flippers and a clever brain

Posted on 8 December 2010

A team of researchers from York University has helped created a robot with the smarts to think for itself as it swims underwater, wrote Metro (Canada) Dec. 7: The team, led by Michael Jenkin, a computer science professor in York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering, is working together with teams from McGill University and Dalhousie […]

PhD student Kara Hawkins wins CIHR award to diagnose Alzheimer's early stages

Posted on 6 December 2010

On Saturday, Kara Hawkins stepped forward to receive a $2,500 award recognizing her as the highest-ranking applicant in Canada for a graduate scholarship in the field of aging. She accepted the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aging Recognition Prize in Research in Aging at the annual conference of the Canadian Association on Gerontology in […]

Professor Fran Wilkinson discusses research on vision and migraine headaches November 11

Posted on 10 November 2010

York psychology Professor Fran Wilkinson will talk about her visual neuroscience research, including the connection between vision and migraine headaches, tomorrow as part of the Faculty Research Profile Series. “From Cats Eyes to Headaches: Adventures in Neuroscience” will take place Thursday, Nov. 11, from 2 to 3:30pm at 214 Calumet College, Keele campus. RSVP by […]

Professor Jennifer Steeves in Centre for Vision Research finds face blindness sufferers better at recognizing voices

Posted on 22 October 2010

People who can no longer recognize faces compensate with heightened voice recognition abilities, says a York University study, which also finds that our brains may identify people and things on separate neurological planes. The study, recently published in the journal Neuropsychologia looked at a rare disorder called prosopagnosia, in which the ability to visually identify […]

Dream of exploring shipwrecks? Check out Professor Michael Jenkin's wireless controller and underwater robot

Posted on 1 October 2010

A waterproof controller designed and built by York University researchers is allowing an underwater robot to go “wireless” in a unique way. AQUA, an amphibious, otter-like robot, is small and nimble, with flippers rather than propellers, designed for intricate data collection from shipwrecks and reefs. The robot, a joint project of York, McGill and Dalhousie […]