Spotlight

FES Professor Catriona Sandilands celebrates the launch of her book Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times Nov. 4 with an event at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom

Social media often leaves young women feeling badly about their bodies. Prof. Jennifer Mills' health study explains why.

Biology Professor Christopher Lortie was invited to Stanford Business to deliver a seminar on the synthesis science of meetings, which was part of a workshop titled "Meeting Moonshot to Explore the Future Directions of Meetings in Business and in Academia"

Professor Richard Leblanc is interviewed in the Toronto Star about the Hudson's Bay in "Eye-popping losses, a failed European expansion and a bid to go private - can Hudson's Bay survive?"

Faculty of Science biology Professor Nikolaus Troje, in an op-ed penned for the journal Perception, considers the importance of virtual reality in studying perception

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) provides financing for public and private infrastructure projects for Asia. Professor Gregory Chin talks to the Mercator Institute for China Studies podcast about the AIIB, potential for new members and China's priorities.

Osgoode PhD candidate Ghuna Bdiwi, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen, has been appointed to the United Nations-facilitated Constitutional Committee for Syria, a 150-member committee that will rewrite the constitution of Syria

Urban Hero Awards honours Joseph Smith, a doctoral candidate in humanities, for helping raise youth into good adults

York U social science Professor Sarah Rotz says the trend of a small number of larger farms producing more of the food we eat is likely to continue

Have we failed in our sustainability goals? Learn more during the Annual Dr. David V.J. Bell Lecture featuring York alumnus Bruce Lourie (MES '87), Oct. 22.

Health Professor Oghenowede Eyawo publishes research investigating risk of myocardial infarction among people living with HIV

There has been no movement to make alterations to the structure in migrant worker program, says Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Fay Faraday, weighing in on Mexican workers' struggle in Canadian farms

Canada is still in the bottom third among international countries when it comes to bullying says bullying expert and Faculty of Health Professor Debra Pepler

The latest Grad Life podcast interviews York graduate student Helen Claire Andrus about the pedagogical and community-building potential of radio, which is used to spread information to rural farmers in Ethiopia.

Afraid of needles? Rebecca Pillai Riddell, associate vice-president research and a professor in the Faculty of Health, explains why watching a parent is one of the ways phobias are learned