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On April 19, 2024,
Dr. Evalyna Bogdan and her colleagues' paper, "Disaster Awareness and Preparedness Among Older Adults in Canada Regarding Floods, Wildfires, and Earthquakes," was published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. Read More
On April 18, 2024:
Professor Jimmy Huang and his colleagues recently their latest paper, "A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation for Large Language Models." Published in the LJ Library Journal. Read More
April 9, 2024:
In a recently published paper, Professor Usman Khan and Rahma Khalid proposed a promising new model for flood susceptibility mapping (FSM) that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML) methods. Read More
April 8, 2024:
Dr. Ali Asgary, Dr. Jianhong Wu, Dr. Jude Kong, and Dr. James Orbinski, members of Y-EMERGE, published their paper titled "The Determinants of Under-Estimation of COVID-19 Cases Across Africa" on SSRN. Read More
April 8, 2024:
Professor Mark Winfield was quoted in Hakai Magazine, discussing the potential of green hydrogen production to revive oceanic dead zones. Read More
April 6, 2024:
Professor Mark Winfield was cited on CTVNews discussing a Federal minister's statement regarding nuclear power's role in the expansion of renewable energy. Read More
Archived News
2024
- April 3, 2024: An op-ed titled 'Niagara pre-emptively declares a state of emergency in anticipation of massive solar eclipse crowds.' by Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky was published in the Conversation. Read More
- April 1, 2024, Professor Eric Kennedy and his colleagues released a paper titled "Examining Human Behavior in Wildfire Evacuations" in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Read More
- April 1, 2024:Op-Ed Co-Written by Professor Mark Winfield Warns of 'Nuclear Dinosaurs' in New Brunswick and Ontario Amid Impending 'Jurassic' Partnership, as Published in EnergyMix. Read More
- March 31, 2024: As featured in The Globe and Mail, Professor Nirupama Agrawal, a Y-EMERGE member, supports Niagara's pre-emptive emergency declaration ahead of the solar eclipse. Read More
- March 31, 2024: Professor Wu and his colleagues' paper titled 'An Advanced Deep Learning Framework for Simulating Information Propagation Dynamics' has been published on SSRN. Read More
- March 29, 2024, marked the publication of a paper by Dr. Ali Asgary and his colleagues. The paper, titled "A novel flood/water extraction index (FWEI) for identifying water and flooded areas using Sentinel-2 visible and near-infrared spectral bands," appeared in the Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment journal. Read More
- March 28, 2024: Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky's recent article, 'A Human, Environmental, and Economic Emergency Response to the Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse,' was published in The Conversation. Read More
- March 26, 2024: Professor Cary Wu, a member of Y-EMERGE, published an article on PHYS.ORG News investigating why women are cited less frequently than men. The article delves into various approaches, explanations, and implications. Read More
- March 19, 2024: Professor Wu, a Distinguished Research Professor at York University's Faculty of Science, was highlighted in a professional feature in the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics publication DSWeb Magazine. Read More
- March 19, 2024: The Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council website published an interview with Professor Stephen Gaetz, a Y-EMERGE member, about the state of homelessness in Canada and his related research. Read More
- March 13, 2024: Mark Winfield, a member of Y-EMERGE and professor at York University, was cited in CBC News. Read More
- March 10, 2024: An op-ed by York University Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky was published in the Conversation. Read More
- March 6, 2024: York Academics, including Dr. Jianhong Wu, a University Distinguished Research Professor, is recognized among the top two percent of researchers. Read More
- March 4, 2024: Professor Jane Heffernan, co-director of the Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling, was quoted in the National Post. Read More
- March 4, 2024: York University Professor Yvonne Su Affirms: Mutual Aid is a Lifeline, as Quoted in Chatelaine. Read More
- On March 2, 2024, a paper authored by Professor Ali Asgary and his colleagues, titled "A Survey of the Use of Modeling, Simulation, Visualization, and Mapping in Public Health Emergency Operations Centers during the COVID-19 Pandemic," was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Read More
- February 24, 2024: Professor Yvonne Su has been invited to the University of Oxford to give a presentation on climate mitigation. Read More
- February 20, 2024: The Y-EMERGE Member, Professor Iain Moyles, was recognized with the Excellence in Graduate Mentorship Award. Read More
- February 6, 2024: Mark Winfield, Professor of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Publishes Op-Ed in The Globe and Mail. Read More
- February 12, 2024: Professor Jimmy Huang, a Y-EMERGE member, co-authors a groundbreaking study on Dependent Task Scheduling Using Parallel Deep Neural Networks in Mobile Edge Computing. Read More
- February 1, 2024, Professor Mark Winfield, Co-Chair of the Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) at York University, was quoted in the Energy Mix. Read More
- January 24, 2024: YEMERGE Director Professor Jianhong Wu, along with five other York faculty members, were elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Read More
- January 27, 2024: Dr. Yvonne Su Sheds Light on the Perils of Sinking Pacific Islands in Her New Article: 'Dangerous Shoals and Rescue Efforts. Read More
- January 24, 2023: Professor Jack Rozdilsky, an associate professor of disaster and emergency management, wrote in The Conversation about what the Doomsday Clock’s new setting means. Read More
- January 24, 2024: Dr. Yvonne, YEMERGE member, Explores: The Australia-Tuvalu deal shows why we need a global framework for climate relocations. Read More
- January 20, 2024: Dr. Cary Wu's Study on Political Polarization and the Dynamics between Actual Income and Perceived Income Inequality in the United States, 1987 to 2021, was published in the American Sociological Association Journal. Read More
- January 19, 2024: In a recent interview with the National Post, Ehsanullah Amiri talked with Professor Jack Rozdilsky, an associate professor at York University and a member of Y-EMERGE. Read More
- January 18, 2024: York postdoctoral fellow Martin Grunnill and an academic-industrial collaborative team, including YEMERGE director Dr. Jianhong Wu, paper on Modelling disease mitigation at mass gatherings: A case study of COVID-19 at the 2022 FIFA World Cup was published. Read More
- January 18, 2024: FIFA World Cup ends with a win for Argentina and COVID-19, new research finds. Read More
- January 12, 2024: Y-EMERGE Luminary, Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, achieves a remarkable publishing feat: Unveiling Three Groundbreaking Books in the Past November: Spanning Systems Thinking, Supply Chain Mastery, and Sustainable Development. Read More
- January 8, 2024: YEMERGE Associate Director Dr. Eric Kennedy Discusses York University's Global Campuses and Future Changemakers. Read More
2023
- September 6, 2023-A new time-varying coefficient regression approach for analyzing infectious disease data by Juxin Liu, Brandon Bellows, X. Joan Hu, Jianhong Wu, Zhou Zhou, Chris Soteros & Lin Wang
- September 5, 2023-Postcolonial riskscapes: risk, trust, and the community-based response to Ebola virus disease in Liberia by Jarrett Rose, S. Harris Ali, Kathryn Wells & Mosoka Fallah
- September 1, 2023-Covid, Contagion and Comparative Urban Research By Roger Keil
- August 29, 2023-CHESTERMERE GRAPPLES WITH WILDFIRE MISINFORMATION.UNRAVELING FACT FROM FICTION, Y-EMERGE Associate Director, Eric Kennedy was quoted in the Chestermere Anchor Aug. 29
- August 28, 2023-Ownership in the Hands of Accountability at Brightsquid A Case Study and a Developer Survey by Umme Ayman Koana∗, Francis Chew•, Chris Carlson•, Maleknaz Nayebi∗
- August 25, 2023-Fear, falsehoods and conspiracy theories ignite amid Canada's wildfires-Y-EMERGE Associate Director Eric Kennedy was quoted in CP24 Aug. 25.
- August 24, 2023- Modeling and analyzing an opinion network dynamics considering the environmental factor- Fulian Yin 1,2 , Jinxia Wang 2 , Xinyi Jiang 2 , Yanjing Huang 2 , Qianyi Yang 2 , Jianhong Wu
- August 23, 2023- The Impossible Fight to Stop Canada’s Wildfires-York University Professor Ali Asgary was quoted in Wired Aug. 23.
- August 23, 2023- Genetic characterization and phylogenetic relationships of Phyllodistomum parasites in Indian subcontinent: insights from freshwater fish and shrimp hosts by Kirti Choudhary, Shailendra Ray, Nirupama Agrawal & Shokoofeh Shamsi
- August 23, 2023- Canada's emergency alert system has been busy with wildfires and extreme weather. Here's how it works-Professor Jack Rozdilsky was quoted in CBC News Aug. 23.
- August 21, 2023- High-Resolution Regional Climate Projections for Ontario and the Canadian Great Lakes Basins-WRITTEN BYJinliang Liu, Huaiping Zhu, Ziwang Deng and Chris Charron
- August 20, 2023- When Storm Sewers Can’t Cope, ‘Sponge Cities’ Help Absorb the Overflow-Professor Usman Khan was quoted in the Energy Mix Aug. 20.
- August 19, 2023- Building a novel self-iterative clinical pharmacist intervention model in psychiatric hospital: application and evaluation-Jianhong Wu, Linghe Qiu, Xiaoyan Huang , Qin Zhou, Yuan Shen
- August 14, 2023- Flooding is a problem. The 'sponge city' could be the solution-Professor Usman Khan was quoted in CBC News Aug. 14
- August 9, 2023- Canadians are unprepared for natural hazards. Here’s what we can do about it-An op-ed by York University Professor Evalyna Bogdan was published in the Conversation on Aug. 9.
- August 8, 2023- Thermal Analysis of Power Transformers Under Geomagnetically Induced Current-Milad Akbari; Afshin Rezaei-Zare
- August 8, 2023- Leveraging an epidemic–economic mathematical model to assess human responses to COVID-19 policies and disease progression by Wisdom S. Avusuglo, Nicola Bragazzi, Ali Asgary, James Orbinski, Jianhong Wu &
- Jude Dzevela Kong
- August 7, 2023- Modelling the Effects of Wolbachia-Carrying Male Augmentation and Mating Competition on the Control Of Dengue Fever by Huaiping Zhu, Xianghong Zhang, Xianning Liu, Yazhi Li, &
- Qiyong Liu
- August 6, 2023- Epidemic dynamics with time-varying transmission risk reveal the role of disease stage-dependent infectiousness by Ao Li, Jianhong Wu, & Seyed M. Moghadas
- August 5, 2023- Modelling the transmission and control of COVID-19 in Yangzhou city with the implementation of Zero-COVID policy by Juan Li , Wendi Bao , Xianghong Zhang , Yongzhong Song , Zhigui Lin , Huaiping Zhu
- August 3, 2023- Pandemic urbanism: Infectious diseases on a planet of cities, by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, and Roger Keil
- August 2, 2023- Yellowknife's emergency plans lacks details, needs testing, says emergency preparedness expert: Y-EMERGE Member Nirupama Agrawal was quoted in CBC News Aug. 2.
- August 2, 2023- Renewable firm aims to be Hamilton’s first ‘green hydrogen’ maker on the bayfront. Y-EMERGE Member Mark Winfield was quoted in the St. Catharines Standard Aug. 2.
- July 31, 2023- How might climate change impact water safety and boil water advisories in Canada? Recent work of Dr. Usman T. Khan along with Sara Moghaddam-Ghadimi Audrey Tam, and Stephanie L. Gora
- July 31, 2023- Modeling the impact of a high-uptake bivalent booster scenario on the COVID-19 burden and healthcare costs in New York City by Abhishek Pandey a g, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick a b g, Seyed M. Moghadas c g, Thomas N. Vilches a c g, Charles Ko d, Ashwin
- Vasan e f, Alison P. Galvani a
- July 22, 2023- Bayelsa panel fingers IOCs, regulators in state’s oil pollution tragedyYork Y-EMERGE Member Anna Zalik was mentioned in Punch Nigeria July 22
- July 20, 2023- Coordinating-Ontarios-Poultry-Industrys-Response-to-Infectious-Disease-through-Preparedness-and-Prevention-By-Maggy-Watson
- July 19, 2023- Will Ontario's ‘clean’ battery storage be powered by a fossil fuel?Mark Winfield, Y-EMERGE Member at York University, was quoted in Corporate Knights
- July 18, 2023- New Lassonde facility explores how climate impacts infrastructure
- July 16, 2023- INSIDE THE VILLAGE: When forest fires rage out of control Eric Kennedy, a professor of disaster and emergency management at York University, was quoted in Innisfil
- July 15, 2023- Survey studies emotional toll of disasters two years after Barrie tornado-Jennifer Spinney, an assistant professor in disaster and emergency management at York University, was quoted in CTV News July 15
- July 15, 2023- BARRIE TORNADO RECOVERY PROJECT: TWO YEARS AFTER THE STORM Research by Jennifer Spinney
- July 13, 2023- Jennifer Spinney, the Y-EMERGE member, was featured in Barrie 360 on July 13.
- July 12, 2023- EXCLUSIVE: Big Batteries Likely Powered by High-Emitting Gas Under Ontario Grid Plan
- July 12, 2023- Ontario’s Energy Expansion Goes Heavy on Nuclear
- July 10, 2023- 'A place where people come together': York University students developing climate solutions at Penetanguishene ecology garden
- July 8, 2023 - Child Protection Services and Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Findings of the 2019 National Youth Homelessness Survey in Canada
- July 7, 2023- 10 Years Since the Toronto Flood of 2013
- July 6, 2023 - A combination of social, organizational and technical factors caused the Titan's implosion
- July 4, 2023 - Climate Change Adaptation Program
- July 4, 2023 - ‘A Preoccupation With Failure.’ Why the Titan Submersible Was Doomed From the Start
- July 4, 2023 - Multiple warnings about Titan submersible were ignored
- June 30, 2023 - Fifteen York University researchers have been named new York Research Chairs (YRC), an internal program that mirrors the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program which recognizes world-leading researchers in a variety of fields.
- June 21, 2023 - Titanic submersible 'catastrophic implosion': questions remain about the costs and ethics of rescuing tourist expeditions
- June 20, 2023 - Professor Cary Wu Earns Sociology Research Award
- April 5, 2023 - Congratulations to Professor Roger Keil for being named a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)!
- March 16, 2023 - Fire and Floods in Our Own Backyard: Examining Climate Change Displacement and Internal Migration in Canada, a lecture by Professor Yvonne Su
- March 13, 2023 - Yahoo!News feature 'Fearmongering about people fleeing disasters is a dangerous and faulty narrative' by Prof. Yvonne Su
- February 16, 2023 - Prof. David Baumken discusses 'Forward Looking Climate Change Vulnerability and Resiliency Planning in the Electricity Sector'
- January 19, 2023 - Professor Jason Von Meding of the University of Florida presents the 'Rethinking Vulnerability'
2022
- December 16, 2022 - Professor Eric B. Kennedy, the Associated Director of Y-EMERGE, appointed member of the Ontario Public Health Emergencies Science Advisory Committee (OPHESAC)
- December 16, 2022 - Professor Jianhong Wu, inducted as Fellow to Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Also, early in July, Professor Wu was inducted to a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Read more here.
- December 14, 2022 - York University Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah edits a book that explores how COVID-19 has changed business supply chain
- November 14, 2022 - Y-EMERGE Member Jack L. Rozdilsky was featured in Yahoo! News Canada Nov. 14.
- November 9, 2022 - Canada's 'Don’t Call Me Resilient' podcast features Y-EMERGE member Yvonne Su. Here is the link to listen and the article to read more.