Have you ever wanted to make a DNA banana necklace, watch a robot chasing light or attempt to walk on water? Asked 91ÑÇÉ«Region.com May 2: Science Rendezvous, Ontario’s largest public science festival, returns to Markham Village next Saturday, with the goal of making science more accessible. “This is bringing science to the community as opposed […]
Members of Markham council will go on a trade mission to Israel to participate in the Israel Life Science Industry Biomed conference in Tel Aviv, May 20 to 29, wrote 91ÑÇÉ«Region.com March 17: The May business mission is a partnership between the Town of Markham, the Regional Municipality of 91ÑÇÉ«, 91ÑÇÉ« and Miller Thomson […]
If collaboration across industry, academic and public sectors is key to bridging Canada’s innovation gap, how do you make university research more accessible to the people and organizations who need this expertise? 91ÑÇÉ« has answered this challenge by launching Innovation 91ÑÇÉ« (IY). Strategically located in 91ÑÇÉ« Region, IY is the public face and conduit […]
91ÑÇÉ« environmental studies Professor Mark Winfield of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, who sits on a provincial smart growth advisory panel and studies urban sustainability, said the Star’s analysis – the first of its kind – raises important questions about how the 2006 Places to Grow plan is playing out, wrote the Toronto Star […]
Researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at 91ÑÇÉ« have been awarded over $10 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The grants, part of $190.5 million in funding and awards invested across the country, will support over 220 innovative 91ÑÇÉ« research projects to improve Canadians’ quality of life while […]
The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But 91ÑÇÉ« environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there’s a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]
On May 6, the Science in Action bus brought 30 high-school students from the 91ÑÇÉ« Region District School Board (YRDSB) to the University as part of a tour created to showcase the many opportunities that await these future scientists and entrepreneurs. YORKbiotech, along with the Regional Municipality of 91ÑÇÉ«, the Town of Markham and YRDSB organized the tour to […]
The 91ÑÇÉ« Leadership Roundtable event series connects senior business executives and community leaders in 91ÑÇÉ« Region with 91ÑÇÉ«'s researchers and senior administrators. Through the roundtable format, participants identify and generate ways to build upon their scientific and social innovation while sharing resources by forming research partnerships. 91ÑÇÉ«Region.com covered the most recent event May 6: […]
A carnival atmosphere will prevail as 91ÑÇÉ« researchers take science to Main Street Markham's Farmers' Market as part of the third annual Science Rendezvous May 8. 91ÑÇÉ« Science Rendezvous buskers and researchers will share the wonder of science on the street and at booths Saturday at the season opening of the food, arts and crafts market in Markham's downtown from 10am to […]
Stan Shapson, 91ÑÇÉ«'s vice-president research & innovation, recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law on developing strong public/private sector collaborations to create innovation. With the challenge of a changing external context for research in Canada — both a shifting economic and social […]
What do you get when you match an inventor with a business student? Among many things, you get a commercialization plan for a new product or discovery that could potentially transform health care. That was the case in YORKbiotech's sanofi pasteur Healthcare and Biotechnology Venture Challenge 2009 competition, which matched students enrolled in the MBA Program in 91ÑÇÉ«'s Schulich School of Business with inventors […]