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With a bold vision to create the foremost community-based doctor education in Canada, Premier Ford has announced that York’s new School of Medicine is slated to open in 2028. More details:
#ONPse
#Onpoli
#CdnPse
#YorkU
York is committed to upholding & promoting the values of respect, equity, diversity, & inclusion across our campuses. There was a recent communication between an instructor & a student that does not reflect those values.
Our statement:
Varatha Shanmuganathan, the oldest person to graduate with a master's degree from
@yorkuniversity
, advises future generations of students to be global thinkers
#YorkUConvo
@YorkUAlumni
Today, we are doing our part to help frontline healthcare workers.
@YorkUHealth
’s School of Nursing is donating vital PPE to
@MackenzieHealth
. In total, 3200 N95 masks, 6,200 pairs of medical gloves, and 1 ventilator will be provided to ensure we beat
#Covid19
.
Two new
@CRC_CRC
appointments and two renewals for
#YorkU
— CRCs will undertake new research into "re-righting" and "re-writing" Indigenous history of North America and investigating Black life in Canada
#CanadaSupportsScience
#onpse
Bee researcher
@YorkUScience
Prof Sandra Rehan
@sanrehan
won this year’s prestigious
@NSERC_CRSNG
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
#NSERC_Prizes
for her research on why wild bees are declining using bee genomics, molecular ecology & behavioural genetics
*WEATHER ALERT* As of 5:30 AM,
#YorkU
is closed and all university operations suspended. Classes scheduled for today are cancelled and exams postponed.
Read more:
Anti-Black racism in schools:
@YorkUeducation
Prof. Carl James is helping parents of Black children navigate Ontario’s school system thanks to a series of new information sheets
#OntEd
York is committed to upholding & promoting the values of respect, equity, diversity, & inclusion across our campuses. Please see our updated response about the recent serious issue re: communication from an instructor.
*WEATHER ALERT* As of 5:30 AM,
#YorkU
is closed and all university operations suspended. Classes scheduled for today are cancelled and exams postponed.
Read more here (fixed broken link):
Our
#YUbettertogether
community has mobilized again to donate critical PPE. York provided another 3000 N95 masks to
@MackenzieHealth
. 49,000 medical gloves to
@HRHospital
and 1000 more to Bethany Lodge. Read more about our efforts to fight
#COVID19
York University is moving forward with a new Markham Centre Campus to accommodate up to 4,200 students. The doors will open in Fall of 2023
#YorkUMarkham
ALERT: Keele & Glendon Campuses will be closed as of 2:30 pm today due to severe weather. Classes cancelled & exams will be rescheduled. Updates about the evening will be posted by 5pm. More info:
“Cisgender-biased gender affirmative medical assessments are regrettable,” says
@yorkulaps
Prof
@Kinnon_Ross
, lead author of a new study
@Els_SocialScien
on Canada’s stringent eligibility screenings to prevent “regret” or detransition.
Theatre Prof
@MichaelGreyeyes
@YorkuAMPD
will play the character of Rainbird in Universal-Blumhouse-Weed Road Pictures’ adaptation of
@StephenKing
's novel Firestarter. In the original 1884 movie,
#Oscar
winner George C. Scott played the role via
@YahooEnt
#YorkU
is pleased to announce a new $1.2m donation from
@RBC
Future Launch, supporting the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora. Read more:
#CdnPSE
#HigherEd
Researchers
@YorkUScience
discover how to make Lithium-ion batteries more environmentally friendly while retaining performance, stability and storage capacity
How do we talk to kids about the
#coronavirus
? Assistant Prof. Vidya Shah
@YorkUeducation
tells
@BTtoronto
it’s important to explain how easily fear, panic and misinformation can lead to discrimination against Chinese classmates
An international team led by
@YorkUScience
Prof Jude Kong
@dzevela
receives $7.25M from
@IDRC_CRDI
to help tackle emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases using AI and big data in collaboration with low- and middle-income countries in the Global South
December skies are often cloudy, but if they are clear come the early evening of the 21st, the public can watch the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn at a live online event
@yorkobservatory
via
@CBCNews
TONIGHT: What happens when the Universe ends? Astrophysicist Katie Mack
@AstroKatie
will discuss scenarios in her talk, Death of a Universe,
@YorkUScience
@FWiP_YorkU
on Feb. 27
Students living in residence got a special surprise this weekend. Thanks to our team of “Easter bunnies” who took the extra safety precautions and made it happen. 🐣🐰
Read more:
#YUbettertogether
What's the buzz?
@YorkUScience
Prof Sandra Rehan has a new carpenter bee named after her, Ceratina rehanae. Dedicated to
@sanrehan
for her life's work establishing small carpenter bees as a model system for behavioural genomics & biodiversity conservation
Twin sisters Erran and Caitlin Lee at
@YorkuHealth
both played on the same varsity hockey team for
#YorkU
, took many
@YorkUKINE
classes together and today graduated from their mom's alma mater
"This is an incredible journey," says 87-year-old Varatha Shanmuganathan, who becomes the oldest person to earn a graduate degree
@yorkuniversity
, sharing her campus experience with
@metromorning
.
What are
#Ontario
teachers doing that they're not paid for?
@YorkUeducation
Assistant Prof.
@VidyaShah6
says depending on the level of poverty in the area, some teachers are paying for hats, coats, gloves or socks for their students via
@globalnews
For his 1st announcement since becoming Minister of Education,
@Sflecce
is at
#YorkU
to speak with
@ShadNetwork
students to announce
#STEM
focus in Grade 10 career studies.
Are current exercise guidelines sufficient for those with Type 1
#diabetes
? New joint study with
@YorkUHealth
@McMasterU
found active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications.
@ChrisPerryYork
explains why
#York
's
@YorkULAPS
Prof Christina Sharpe
@hystericalblkns
named to shortlist for $75K Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for her book Ordinary Notes, which explores questions of loss and the shapes of Black life
via
@globeandmail
Diversity in higher education: Breaking down institutional norms as an Indigenous woman is like "banging your head against the brick wall," says York's VP of Equity, People & Culture
@SheilaCoteMeek
during a recent
#IGIGlobal
webinar for her co-edited book
#York
's
@YorkULAPS
Prof Christina Sharpe
@hystericalblkns
named to shortlist for $75K Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for her book Ordinary Notes, which explores questions of loss and the shapes of Black life
via
@globeandmail
#AntiBlackness
among Brown People:
@YorkUeducation
Assistant Prof
@VidyaShah6
says brown people are chameleons because “we shift towards Blackness when it’s cool” but “shift right back to whiteness when we need to maintain access.”
via
@ShreeParadkar
How can the under-representation of women and minorities in
#STEM
be reversed?
@YorkUScience
Professor
@dawnbazely
is available to speak about
#WomensDay
and teaching students to edit Wikipedia to include more women biographies to reduce the gender gap
NEWS:
#Congressh
2023 will be hosted
@yorkuniversity
. The largest academic conference in
#Canada
hosts thousands of scholars, grad students & practitioners every year.
@YorkULAPS
award-winning humanities Prof. Andrea Davis will be the Academic Convenor
Congratulations to Professor Debra Pepler
@YorkUHealth
for being named an Officer of the Order of Canada for her innovative, community-based research on social issues involving children and youth, changing the way psychologists study bullying via
@CBCNews
“People often think honeybees are the only important bee and thus think they are helping by having hives. In Canada, the most important pollinators are native bees and flies, not honeybees,” says
@YorkuEUC
Prof Sheila Colla
@SaveWildBees
via
@PtboExaminer