The聽Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS)聽is celebrating the fourth annual聽Dean鈥檚 Award for Research Excellence (DARE)聽by recognizing 54 students for their research achievements. This year鈥檚 DARE recipients produced meaningful work across all disciplines offered in LA&PS. Over the summer, each student played an integral role in coordinating projects that added valuable scholarly inquiry to […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) is pleased to announce the launch of its聽Student Numeracy Assistance Centre at Keele (SNACK).聽This new centre will provide students in relevant LA&PS courses with extensive numeracy support in mathematics, statistics and Microsoft Excel. SNACK was developed to provide a broad spectrum of numeracy support to students […]
The Risk and Insurance Studies Centre (RISC) is holding a Student Research Competition (SRC) and is inviting mathematics students from across the globe, especially those at the undergraduate and master鈥檚 level, to participate. Students interested in taking part in the competition are asked to submit solutions to their聽three mathematical problems聽by聽Oct. 15. The authors of the […]
Three undergraduate student changemakers, who are active participants in governance at 快播视频, are the recipients of the Robert Everett Exceptional Leadership Award in Student Governance. Receiving the prestigious award are Student Senators Issa Abdi Jamaa, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Muhammad Shahmir Masood, (LA&PS); and Dael Vasquez, Glendon College. All of this year鈥檚 nominees […]
A year-end musical theatre production can be as important to the heart and soul of a high school as its season-opening football game or senior prom. So when the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year and began robbing students of some of their most formative experiences, drama educators scrambled to keep the curtains from closing. Karen […]
Collaborating with students from Ecuador on a class project was an eye-opening experience for Danielle Legerman, a fourth-year student in 快播视频鈥檚 Children, Childhood and Youth Studies (CCY) program and president of the new United Future Teachers鈥 Association. 鈥淚t was the first opportunity I had for globally networked learning (GNL) in university and it was exciting,鈥 said Legerman. […]
Eleven 快播视频 students were recently honoured with the Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award, which recognizes students鈥 leadership at the University and their contributions to the growth, development and vitality of the York community. Now in its ninth year, the award was created in honour of Robert J. Tiffin, who served as 快播视频鈥檚 […]
A Lassonde student's paper was selected from more than 3,600 papers as a "best student paper" finalist at a major international conference hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). At the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Saghar Bagheri, was selected out of over 3600 submissions as a […]
Nine athletes with connections to 快播视频 are taking part in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. (The games were postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) Competing are Jason Ho-Shue (Badminton), Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes (Beach Volleyball), Shady El Nahas (Judo), Brittany Crew (Shot Put), Pierce Lepage (Decathlon), Bismark Boateng and Khamica Bingham (Track & Field), and Arthur Szwarc (Indoor Volleyball). Alumna Andrea Prieur, a certified athletic therapist, […]
Joey Vander Kooi聽has worked as the facilities co-ordinator in 快播视频鈥檚 School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design since completing his undergraduate degree at McMaster University four years ago. But his workday is far from over when he clocks out of his nine-to-five. When he鈥檚 not spending his evening hours taking courses in York鈥檚 […]
Two 快播视频 PhD students dedicated to the advancement of trailblazing research have been awarded 2021 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. Valued at $50,000 per year for up to three years, this prestigious scholarship is presented by the Government of Canada to support doctoral students who are conducting world-class research. The scholarship recipients embody all of […]
Three undergraduate students at 快播视频 have been awarded the Governor General鈥檚 Silver Medal. The medal recognizes the outstanding scholastic achievements of undergraduate students in Canada. Receiving the medals are changemakers聽Alina Kuimova,聽Amirarsalan Rahimian聽and聽Katelyn Conferido. Alina Kuimova is graduating with a Specialized Bilingual B.A. (Hons.) in linguistics and language studies, which she completed in three languages: English, […]
Each year, a top graduating student from the Lassonde School of Engineering at 快播视频 is awarded the Bergeron Medal by the Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology (BEST) program. The award goes to a student who demonstrated outstanding entrepreneurial achievement. The 2021 recipient of the Bergeron Medal is electrical engineering graduating student Olga Klushina, who […]
After serving 快播视频 during the 2020-21 academic year as executive public service in residence,聽Rory O鈥機onnor has offered insight and advice to students working toward careers in government. O'Connor joined the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & […]
快播视频鈥檚 Schulich School of Business and BentallGreenOak (BGO), a global real estate investment management advisor, announced on June 10 the establishment of a new scholarship to enable pathways for Black, Indigenous, and female students to study and pursue a career in the commercial real estate industry. The Gary Whitelaw Strength in Diversity Award commits […]
In May, the Lassonde School of Engineering welcomed 62 undergraduate student researchers for the seventh annual Lassonde Undergraduate Research Awards (LURA) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC USRA) programs. The students will be working on various research projects alongside Lassonde faculty members for the duration of the […]
Cristina Wood, a PhD candidate in 快播视频's Department of History,聽has been awarded the prestigious Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship, presented by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, which recognizes top doctoral students in Canada and abroad in the fields of humanities and social sciences. This is the first time since 2016 that a York student has been […]
In early April, nine groups of students from the Lassonde School of Engineering and the Schulich School of Business at 快播视频 pitched their business ideas as part of the Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology (BEST) Certificate鈥檚 Entrepreneurship and Technology Ventures course (ENTR 4500). Each group presented their original ideas to a panel of […]
Usman Khan, assistant professor in Civil Engineering, and Everett Snieder, a PhD candidate in Khan's lab, are working on machine learning techniques to predict when floods may occur, one of the best methods to mitigate flood-related damage and costs. Snieder was the project leader on a study published in 2019 that developed models using artificial neural […]
快播视频's Schulich School of Business has announced two new fellowship opportunities:聽Access to Success聽and聽Reaching Out MBA. The Access to Success Organization is a not-for-profit that supports the development of future leaders with disabilities. This merit-based fellowship celebrates outstanding students who have demonstrated excellence in academic, professional or extracurricular areas. 鈥淲e are thrilled to welcome the Schulich School […]