Explore health, environmental studies and science based-research at a celebration highlighting Healthy Individuals, Healthy Communities and Global Health. The celebration is being co-hosted by three of 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculties and Glendon College, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation Friday, March 7. The event will highlight the research of five 91ÑÇÉ« scholars, […]
After eight months of consultation with the community, as well as internal and external research partners, the 91ÑÇÉ« Senate has unanimously approved the University’s new strategic research plan, "Building on Strength". “91ÑÇɫ’s new strategic research plan commits to building research on our strengths and provides a strong aspirational vision for the development and recognition of 91ÑÇɫ’s […]
More than 200 local high school science students visited 91ÑÇɫ’s Keele campus this fall to attend a lecture delivered by two award-winning scientists as part of the Gairdner Foundation High School Outreach Program. Accompanied by their teachers, the students listened to two leading scientists discuss their research, potential discoveries and why they chose a career in science. This […]
University Professor Emeritus Ronald Pearlman of 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Science & Engineering has been named president of the prestigious Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the Advancement of Science. Pearlman, currently first-vice-president of the RCI, is the director of 91ÑÇɫ’s Core Molecular Biology/DNA Sequencing Facility and former dean and associate dean of 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Graduate […]
The 91ÑÇÉ« Rover Team – just call them YURTs – maintained their record of excellence at the international University Rover Challenge (URC) on the weekend, finishing in second place to a team from Poland in the hot deserts of Utah. (CBC also covered the team's success). Above: Members of the 91ÑÇÉ« Rover Team […]
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 […]
Research Month celebrates the achievements and diversity of 91ÑÇɫ’s research community. Throughout November, the Vari Hall Rotunda will play host to displays and demonstrations featuring our faculty and graduate researchers. Drop by between 10 am and 2 pm each Wednesday to learn what 91ÑÇÉ«'s researchers are doing. The Research Month index on 91ÑÇÉ«'s Research […]
Considered to be one of the world’s leading historians of science, University of California, San Diego history and science studies Professor Naomi Oreskes will be at 91ÑÇÉ« today to deliver a special lecture at 12:30pm in 320 Bethune College (The Delaney Gallery) on 91ÑÇɫ’s Keele campus. Left: Naomi Oreskes Oreskes, who is an adjunct professor of […]
Originally the site of some of 91ÑÇɫ’s most memorable hockey moments and reputed to have the best arena ice in the province, the former 91ÑÇÉ« Ice Arena, known as the Ice Palace, is now home to a new kind of dream team. The Keele campus building's transformation from a hockey rink into an innovative new health science research centre […]
91ÑÇÉ« has been an associate member of the TRIUMF consortium since September 2008. Located in British Columbia, it is Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics. Seven of 91ÑÇÉ«'s researchers in the Faculty of Science & Engineering's Experimental High Energy Physics group are active members of the consortium and its research projects. On […]
91ÑÇÉ« has a great track record in designing instruments, satellites and other devices for space exploration. This year, 91ÑÇÉ« students compeated in the fourth annual University Rover Challenge, which designs and builds the next generation of Mars rovers. The teams faced off in Utah's Mars Desert Research Station. Last year, 91ÑÇÉ« won the competition. […]
91ÑÇÉ« researchers have played a key role in a new finding that may help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter in our universe. The DZero collaboration of scientists at the United States Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) submitted a finding to the journal Physical Review D, reporting significant differences between matter […]
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 […]
In a May 8 review of Professor Bridget Stutchbury's new non-fiction book, The Bird Detective, The Globe & Mail compared it to Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood. Stutchbury is a Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology in 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Science & Engineering: In […]
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 […]
A nine-member Glendon research team, including senior scholars Jim Benson and Bill Greaves 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 the multi-location, multi-year Bonobo Human Discourse […]
Why do birds divorce? What makes them cheat on their spouses? Why might couples favour one offspring over another? A new book by a 91ÑÇÉ« professor delves into these and other aspects of the secret lives of birds. In The Bird Detective, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social […]
