Media release from November 17, 2021 Wild bees have a critical role to play in climate change resilience, which makes finding out why they are declining more important. As a winner of this year’s NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, York University Associate Professor Sandra Rehan is tackling this issue through her work in bee genomics, […]
Media release from November 16, 2021 Observational data shows air pollution in India decreased drastically in the first COVID-19 lockdown when emissions from vehicles naturally declined, but York University researchers say those numbers only tell part of the story – blue skies and an absence of visible smog can be deceiving and hide pollutants that […]
Story by Deirdre Kelly in Fall 2021 York University Magazine A newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Science & Technology Studies, Jesse Rogerson (PhD ’16) is an astrophysicist who believes in bringing science back down to earth. His astrophysical area of expertise is quasars – supermassive black holes at the centres of very […]
See media release from October 21, 2021 Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere are warming six times faster since 1992 than any other time period in the last 100 years, research led by York University has found. Lake Superior, the most northern of the Great Lakes which straddles the Canada/United States border, is one of the […]
The Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling (CCDM) based at York University was one of the co-organizers of a virtual symposium on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases that took place Sept. 14 to 18. The event drew an international cohort of more than 300 researchers, public health experts and students. The CCDM 2021 China-Canada Symposium on […]
Supported by a York Science Scholars Award (YSSA), 19 top first-year students participated in their first summer research experience as a university student this year. The YSSA program provides awards of $10,000 to high-achieving, passionate science students entering the Faculty of Science. Half of the award is an entrance scholarship and the other half pays […]
Biology Professor Tamara Kelly has been appointed as the Faculty of Science’s inaugural Pedagogical Innovation Chair in Science Education (PICSE), effective Sept 1, 2021, for a term of three years. In her role as Chair, Dr. Kelly will support the celebration and recognition of pedagogical excellence within the Faculty and lead pedagogical innovation efforts in […]
Researcher Don Davies, who will be starting a postdoctoral fellowship in the Faculty of Science, is among four inaugural recipients of York’s new Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black and Indigenous Scholars. This two-year award, valued at $70,000 per year, seeks to address underrepresentation in many disciplines and fields by providing Black and Indigenous scholars with […]
Obesity is a significant factor in increasing rates of disease globally with the number of deaths related to a high body mass index (BMI) more than doubled from 1990 to 2017, say York University researchers.
Researchers in the Faculty of Science at York University have been helping shed new light on the COVID-19 pandemic by applying for research grants and publishing new studies that will help inform public health policy makers in Canada and abroad.