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The British Academy – Knowledge Frontiers Programme

Details Opportunity Name Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects Programme Agency The British Academy Value Up to £300,000 Indirect Costs Eligible at 25% Duration 24 months Deadlines Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review 10-18-2023 Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review 10-25-2023 Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review 10-30-2023, […]

Two Science students receive Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award

Congratulations to Faculty of Science students Arman Sadr and Mustafa Abdulkadhim for receiving Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Awards, which recognize students whose leadership has contributed to the growth, development and vitality of York University. Sadr, a BSc student in the biomedical science program, has been involved with Bethune College since his first year at […]

Breathe deeply: York U leads atmospheric scientists in analyzing city's air pollution

Media release from August 3, 2023 As Toronto gets hotter, muggier and wildfire smoke increasingly wafts through the atmosphere, researchers at York University are leading a team of atmospheric scientists in testing the city’s air pollution from their rooftop Air Quality Research Station for six weeks this summer. Preliminary results show the negative impacts on […]

York research team in search of a local graduate student to study algal blooms in Indigenous waters

Biophysicist Ozzy Mermut in the Faculty of Science was awarded a grant from York’s Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) program to develop her team’s new photon counting technology to study algal blooms in Indigenous lakes of Tkaronto and Six Nations. The project team, which also includes Professors William Pietro and Sylvie Morin (Chemistry) and Adjunct […]

NRCan Climate Change Adaptation Program

Details Opportunity Name Climate Change Adaptation Program (2022-2027) Agency Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Valu See the Applicant Guide Indirect Costs Eligible at 15% Duration Based on the scope of the work (Must be between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2026) Deadlines Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review 09-08-2023 Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc […]

Crohn's and Colitis Canada IBD Research Awards

Details Opportunity Name Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in IBD AwardWomen in IBD Research Award Agency Crohn's and Colitis Canada Value Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in IBD Award – $20,000Women in IBD Research Award – $20,000 Indirect Costs Ineligible Duration N/A Deadlines Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review 06-28-2024 Application and fully signed […]

CIHR Team Grant – Lung Health

Details Opportunity Name Team Grant – Lung Health Agency Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Value Up to $3,500,000 Indirect Costs Ineligible Duration Up to 5 years Deadlines Notify faculty and SIRI of intention to apply  10-10-2023 Application due to SIRI for full review 10-25-2023 Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review 11-09-2023 Final […]

More algal blooms likely in Lake Erie as deep-water oxygen levels continue to drop

Media release from July 25, 2023 York University researchers take novel approach to look at history of deep-water oxygen in Lake Erie through insect larvae in lake sediment over last 150 years. Researchers at York University went searching for the fossilized remains of small insect larvae called chironomids, found in sediment in Lake Erie, to […]

2024 Breast Cancer Screening and Detection Grants

Details Opportunity Name 2024 Breast Cancer Screening and Detection Grants Agency Breast Cancer Canada Value $100,000 + Up to $50,000 of in-kind donations Indirect Costs TBD Duration TBD Deadlines Letter of Intent (LOI) due at ORS for mandatory review  07-28-2023 LOI due at agency  07-31-2023 Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review 09-15-2023 Application and […]

York astrophysicists take step forward in computer simulations of cosmology

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and the cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths of space. First results of their “MillenniumTNG” project are published in a series of 10 articles in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The […]