Spotlight

Schulich Associate Professor Winny Shen talks to Global News about why the pandemic is impacting more women than men in the workforce, and how some women are more disadvantaged than others

Professor Emeritus Allan Carswell celebrates launch of new book "Lasting Lessons Beyond the Classroom" and donates copies to participants – past, current and future – of Lassonde's Helen Carswell STEAM Program

Assistant Professor Amrita Daftary is a guest speaker at an event to mark International Women’s Day titled "A Gender-Sensitive & Equitable Response to End TB" on March 8

Associate Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein will deliver the Big Thinking of the Hill Lecture, titled "Canada's hidden cooperative system: The legacy of the Banker Ladies," on March 9

Professor Steven Hoffman has been invited to serve on the Inter-American Dialogue's Health Task Force which aims to examine the COVID-19 response and recovery in the Western Hemisphere

York University Professor Richard Leblanc discusses the resignation of CPPIB CEO Mark Machin and the ethics of jumping the queue to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on BNN

Associate Professor B.W. Powe talks about poetry, media, memory, inspiration, writing, reading and grief during the pandemic in an interview with Gerry Fialka of MESS (Media Ecology Soul Salon) 

Assistant Professor Gerald Bareebe was interviewed on TVO's The Agenda to discuss how Uganda is coping 50 years after Idi Amin

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Marina Freire-Gormaly discusses the link between ventilation and COVID-19 spread on CTV News

Professor Michael Riddell will be a presenter at Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of Insulin: Diabetes Research and Innovation in the Making on Feb. 25

Researchers at York's social exergy + energy lab, led by EUC Associate Professor Christina Hoicka, write about their new research on diffusion of low-carbon innovations in a blog post for Smart Prosperity Institute.

Osgoode Professor Pina D'Agostino, an expert in intellectual property (IP) law, writes in The Hill Times (see p. 23) about the potential of IP Osgoode's new chatbot 'Isaac Pewton' to transform innovation

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Assistant Professor Sirvan Karimi has written article for The Conversation on the institutional, political, financial and administrative constraints related to adopting a Universal Basic Income

SAS Professor Richard Leblanc comments on the FP Investigation that finds at least 68 Canadian companies have continued to pay out billions in dividends to their shareholders while receiving government aid

Cameron Graham, professor of accounting, interviews York's 2020 Governor General's Gold Medal award winners in an episode of Podcast or Perish, a podcast on academic research