Spotlight

"Canada stands out as the only G7 country that is doing little to regulate tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook," writes York Professor Kean Birch in Policy Options

Faculty of Education Associate Professor Sue Winton wrote an article in The Conversation about a vertical school in Toronto and the questions it raises on public-private education

Patrick Alcedo, Chair of the Department of Dance in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, was featured in The Manila Times for receiving the 2021 Pamana ng Pilipino Award

Challenging traditional narratives, Osgoode Assistant Professor Saptarishi Bandopadhyay's new book All Is Well looks at "disaster management" as a historical process that produces both catastrophes and political authorities

Osgoode Professor Dayna Scott, Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic Chair, spoke to TVO about the Indigenous community's role in who will decide the future of the Ring of Fire

Jack Rozdilsky, an associate professor of disaster and emergency management in the School of Administrative Studies, contributes to The Conversation about Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act

Professor Michael Riddell in the Faculty of Health has collaborated on a new study published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism that documents the preclinical journey of a drug with encouraging proof of effectiveness

Professor Steven Hoffman discusses whether more rigorous studies are needed to determine the best restrictions in the midst of the Omicron variant in the journal Nature

Kate Tilleczek, an expert in youth and the digital age at York University, talks to CBC News about how to address dangerous TikTok challenges.

MSc candidate Charlie West examines permafrost thaw slumping in lakes in the Mackenzie Delta region

A new article by York University Professor Emeritus Paul Axelrod in the "Canadian Journal of Higher Education" takes a deep look at academic freedom in the Canadian university sector.

A short story written by Professor Lucia Gagliese about a healthcare worker coping with COVID-19 and quarantine stresses was selected for inclusion in The Best Canadian Stories 2021, one of the most prestigious Canadian short fiction publications

Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell talks to the Globe and Mail about how to make getting the COVID-19 vaccine for kids as pain-free as possible

Associate Professor Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh and postdoctoral Fellow Saghi Forouhi have published a book titled Emerging CMOS Capacitive Sensors for Biomedical Applications: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Professor Bonita Lawrence speaks to TVOntario about how Indigenous and Black communities can work together and be better allies to each other