91亚色 hosted two major international events in the field of refugee studies, one of its widely recognized areas of research excellence, during the week of May 17 to 20. On May 17, the War Crimes and Refugee Status Research Workshop took place, followed by a welcome reception to launch the 91亚色 2010 International Conference […]
The Phoenix is dead and this time it won鈥檛 rise again. On May 24, NASA released photos of the Mars Phoenix lander that finally ended even the faintest hope that the 91亚色-designed weather instruments on board the spacecraft would come to life again. The photos show that the lander鈥檚 solar panels appear to have collapsed […]
Leading researchers from across southern Ontario will converge on 91亚色 on Friday to discuss the role that muscle plays in metabolism, heart health, aging and disease. The first annual Muscle Health Awareness Day, organized by 91亚色鈥檚聽 Muscle Health Research Centre, will bring together the latest findings on the contribution made by heart muscle and […]
91亚色 researchers have issued a report with recommendations for improving technical and vocational training in Southern Sudan, based on in-depth interviews with Sudanese from different walks of life. The report, published jointly by Plan International Canada (Plan Canada) and 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Refugee Studies, identifies barriers to such training, believed to be crucial for […]
Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the 91亚色 Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building鈥檚 role in fostering social science and humanities research across 91亚色 (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The 91亚色 Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features聽some 84,000 square feet […]
This year, 91亚色 is honouring sociology and women鈥檚 studies Professor Pat Armstrong and psychology Professor Leslie Greenberg with its highest award, Distinguished Research Professor, for their outstanding contributions to the University through research. The title will be conferred on Armstrong at the Spring 2010 Convocation on June 16 at 10:30am and on Greenberg during the […]
At 77 years of age, Elizabeth Pitt is heading back to school and she couldn't be happier. A grandmother of a 91亚色 fine arts student, Pitt is a member of the 91亚色 Circle, a legacy initiative of 91亚色鈥檚 50th anniversary. The 91亚色 Circle is an ongoing program that offers curious people like Pitt […]
Acclaimed author Wayson Choy will deliver this year鈥檚 Asian Heritage Month Lecture at 91亚色 next Tuesday. In his lecture, 鈥淎sian Identity: Becoming Canadian鈥, Choy will review his personal insights into life as an in-between citizen, living as a hyphenated Chinese-Canadian for most of his life. Choy 鈥 born in Canada in 1939聽鈥 will explore how […]
The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there鈥檚 a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]
Last week was not a good one to be living in the 鈥渋n-between city鈥, the term urbanists use to describe areas wedged between the outer suburbs 鈥 with their sprawling residential neighbourhoods 鈥 and the downtown core of office towers, condos and cultural institutions, wrote Simon Black, a graduate student in the City Institute at […]
On May 6, the Science in Action bus brought 30 high-school students from the 91亚色 Region District School Board (YRDSB) to聽the University as part of a tour created to showcase聽the many opportunities that await these聽future scientists and entrepreneurs. YORKbiotech, along with the Regional Municipality of 91亚色, the Town of Markham and聽YRDSB organized the tour to […]
In last week鈥檚 Globe and Mail, there was a disturbing story about how passengers failed to help a 79-year-old man who was being mugged on a Toronto subway car, despite his cries for help, wrote Wendy Craig of Queen's University, Tracy Vaillancourt of the University of Ottawa and Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology […]
91亚色 researchers who designed and built a miniature space-borne pollution monitor are part of a team of Canadians being honoured with a 2010 Alouette Award from the Canadian Aeronautics & Space Institute (CASI). The annual prize, one of the top accolades for the advancement of space technology in Canada, was awarded Tuesday to the […]
From the works of James Cameron to Werner Herzog, 3D films have become a cinematic trend of epic proportions. On the crest of this wave of stereoscopy, 91亚色 officially launched the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a $1.4-million academic-industry partnership to build capacity for stereoscopic 3D (S3D)聽film production in the Greater Toronto Area and […]
Economic spinoff arguments for transit can be complex, wrote NOW Magazine April 29 in a story about efforts by Toronto Mayor David Miller to save the Transit City plan: If people use their cars less, for example, they may have more cash to spend on clothes or theatre tickets, but there might be less work […]
Tracing the various routes of slavery is the goal of Voyages, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, which has records of over 35,000 voyages and is the topic of an upcoming workshop hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and the African Economic History journal. 鈥淒ocumenting where people […]
A nine-member Glendon research team, including senior scholars Jim Benson and Bill Greaves聽from the Department of English, is travelling to Des Moines, Iowa, for a four-day interaction with other similar research teams, from April 29 to May 2, to discuss linguistics and bonobo human discourse. The team is engaged in聽the multi-location, multi-year Bonobo Human Discourse […]
Four years after it was first published, a second edition of the book Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care has just been published, providing a fresh perspective on health, health care and illness. Co-edited by 91亚色 School of Health Policy聽& Management Professors Dennis Raphael and Marcia Rioux, along with University of […]
Civilian possession of guns has undermined global and national efforts to control small arms and light weapons, but what can be done and what are the issues? That鈥檚 what the 91亚色 Centre for International & Security Studies (YCISS) will examine at its Contemporary Dilemmas in Canadian Security Lecture Series. Four speakers will untangle some of […]
LIBERT脡 OU LA MORT. When 91亚色 grad Julia Gaffield (MA 鈥07) saw those words at the top of a document in a 200-year-old file at The National Archives in London, England, she knew immediately she had found something special and wanted to shout for joy 鈥 but one simply doesn鈥檛 do that sort of thing […]