Scientists receive provincial funding in support of innovative research projects

Congratulations to Faculty of Science researchers Deborah Harris, Ozzy Mermut and Amro Zayed, who have received a total of nearly $500K from the Ontario Research Fund in support of their innovative research projects related to neutrinos, biophotonics, and honey bees, respectively. They were among 18 faculty members at York University to receive research funds in […]

York scientists among world’s top two per cent of researchers

Twenty-six Faculty of Science researchers, including current and emeriti, are among the top two per cent most cited researchers worldwide, according to data compiled by a team at Stanford University. The impact of a researcher’s work isn’t measured solely by its findings, but by how it inspires – and advances – the work of others. […]

Faculty of Science innovates with assist from AIF

Making chemistry courses and labs more engaging and accessing science lab spaces – regardless of physical ability – are becoming easier to accomplish, thanks to Faculty of Science initiatives sponsored by Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) grants. In the Department of Chemistry, Tihana Mirkovic, an assistant professor, and Hovig Kouyoumdjian, an associate professor who is also […]

One Health Modelling Network for Emerging Infections hosts annual meeting and lab opening ceremony

The One Health Modelling Network for Emerging Infections, Canada's pioneering national modelling network on One Health, and the Centre of Disease Modelling (CDM) hosted their hybrid Annual Meeting 2023-2024 on February 20-21, 2024, at the inaugural CDM OMNI-RÉUNIS Lab located at York University. The event served as a platform to disseminate the collective work, research […]

Professor Mark Bayfield receives $900K from CIHR to study RNA-binding protein function in gene expression

Congratulations to Professor Mark Bayfield, Department of Biology, for receiving more than $920,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for the project “Regulation of gene expression by the La and La-related proteins.” He was one of five researchers at York to receive funding in the latest CIHR Project Grants competition – a program […]

Faculty of Science ceremony honours students and faculty members for academic, teaching and research excellence

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, the Faculty of Science hosted its annual Honours & Awards Ceremony to celebrate its students, instructors and researchers for their achievements and service. More than 200 people attended the event, held in the Second Student Centre, including students and their family members and supporters, faculty members and staff. A keynote […]

Physics professor shares machine learning knowledge with academic community

With the recent advances in machine learning techniques, Joel Zylberberg, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at York University, decided it would be useful to science students to understand these methods, so he developed a graduate course to share his knowledge. His course, Deep Learning for Physicists, made its debut in […]

Amro Zayed earns award for postdoctoral mentorship excellence

Congratulations to Faculty of Science Professor Amro Zayed, who was one of two faculty members honoured by the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) with the Postdoctoral Supervisor Award during an FGS council meeting on Dec. 7. The award is presented annually to a faculty member in any department and program at York who demonstrates exemplary […]

Professor wins Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award

Bill Kim, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has received the 2023 Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award to support his cutting-edge biological chemistry and genome editing research program. While point mutations in DNA, caused by replication errors or environmental damage, are found in clinical samples from cancer patients, the role of most mutations in […]

Researchers help unravel brain processes involved in vision

Media Release from November 21, 2023 Faced with images that break the expected pattern, like a do not enter sign where a stop sign is expected, how does the brain react and learn compared to being shown images which match what was predicted? That was the question a team, including York University, set out to […]