Faculty of Science Archives | Research & Innovation /research/tag/faculty-of-science/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:03:02 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 91亚色 professor and postdoc present big data research at Parliament Hill /research/2016/05/31/york-professor-and-postdoc-present-big-data-research-at-parliament-hill-2/ Tue, 31 May 2016 08:00:00 +0000 /researchdev/2016/05/31/york-professor-and-postdoc-present-big-data-research-at-parliament-hill-2/ Faculty of Science mathematics Professor Jianhong Wu and Postdoctoral Fellow Yawen Xu were invited to participate in the Research Matters Parliament Hill Pop-Up Research Park, which took place May 18. Wu and Xu presented research from a collaborative project led by several scientists at 91亚色. In addition to Wu and Xu, the project involves […]

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]]> Faculty of Science mathematics Professor Jianhong Wu and Postdoctoral Fellow Yawen Xu were invited to participate in the Research Matters Parliament Hill Pop-Up Research Park, which took place May 18.

Professor Jianhong Wu explains his research to visitors attending the Research Matters event in Ottawa

Professor Jianhong Wu explains his research to visitors attending the Research Matters event in Ottawa

Wu and Xu presented research from a collaborative project led by several scientists at 91亚色. In addition to Wu and Xu, the project involves Professors Aijun An in the Lassonde School of Engineering, Paul Ritvo in the Faculty of Health, and Peter Tsasis in the Faculties of Health and Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. The research was conducted in collaboration with Manifold Data Mining Inc. and several hospitals.

The project explores the Canadian Community Health Survey to identify statistically significant variables that influence the classification of an individual鈥檚 current health status and sentiment. The team will use these variables to build predictive models for informing behaviour changes that can lead to management of chronic diseases, improved wellness and quality of life. The project aims to advance both population and individualized healthcare in Canada.

鈥淭he purpose of the Pop-Up Research Park, organized by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), was to provide MPs, political staff, and senior government officials an opportunity to engage with Ontario university research teams and learn more about how their research is impacting Ontarians,鈥 said Celia Haig Brown, associate vice-president research at 91亚色. 鈥淚t was a great opportunity to showcase 91亚色鈥檚 leading role in working with industrial and hospital partners to mine big health data to inform healthy living.鈥

鈥淐OU provided a good platform to demonstrate the important role of data science in the integration of information and knowledge gained through research funded by the tri-councils to inform policy and action,鈥 said Wu. 鈥淚 was excited to be a part of sharing data scientists鈥 perspectives and progress at the Hill.鈥

Wu is the Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Tier 1) and the director of the Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Xu is a postdoctoral fellow in statistics jointly supervised An, Wu, and Zhen Mei at Manifold Data Mining Inc.聽 She is funded by an NSERC Collaborative Research Development grant and by BRAIN.

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]]> 91亚色 space scientists reflect on the last flight of Atlantis, the end of NASA鈥檚 space shuttle program and what the future holds /research/2011/07/21/york-space-scientists-reflect-on-the-last-flight-of-atlantis-the-end-of-nasas-space-shuttle-program-and-what-the-future-holds-2/ Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:00:00 +0000 /researchdev/2011/07/21/york-space-scientists-reflect-on-the-last-flight-of-atlantis-the-end-of-nasas-space-shuttle-program-and-what-the-future-holds-2/ 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering in the Faculty of Science & Engineering has a long history聽with NASA鈥檚 shuttle program. A new video highlights significant milestones in this history and includes reflections from a number of the University鈥檚 space scientists. Here are Professor Emeritus of Space Science Gordon Shepherd, Professor of […]

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]]> 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering in the Faculty of Science & Engineering has a long history聽with NASA鈥檚 shuttle program. A new video highlights significant milestones in this history and includes reflections from a number of the University鈥檚 space scientists.

Here are Professor Emeritus of Space Science Gordon Shepherd, Professor of Space Science Ian McDade and Project Scientist Brian Solheim聽speaking about聽the space shuttle program, what it聽has meant for their research and the future.

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The space shuttle Atlantis landed this morning聽at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis lifted off July 8 on the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis carried a crew of four and the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module containing supplies and spare parts for the space station.

The STS-135 astronauts flying the final mission are: commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim.

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