Canada’s most powerful women include York alumni, former faculty

York University alumni are among this year’s winners of the Women Executive Network’s (WXN) Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards, celebrating leadership and impact across diverse fields. Read the full story here on YFile: https://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/10/31/canadas-most-powerful-women-include-york-alumni-former-faculty

On the cancellation and rebirth of “Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine”

Read the full story on artforum.com: https://www.artforum.com/columns/andil-gosine-tannon-reckling-slant-1234736959/

York-led study highlights heightened pandemic risk in city outskirts 

Read on YFile: https://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/10/15/york-led-study-highlights-heightened-pandemic-risk-in-city-outskirts/

Ilan Kapoor among Royal Society of Canada’s Class of 2025 

Read on YFile: https://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/09/10/ilan-kapoor-among-royal-society-of-canadas-class-of-2025/

York earns WWF-Canada’s Living Campus certification for second year

By Alex Huls September 5, 2025 For the second consecutive year, World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) has recognized York with its Living Campus certification, highlighting the University’s ongoing commitment to environmental leadership and sustainability. The Living Campus designation celebrates post-secondary institutions for their leadership in conservation and environmental stewardship, while encouraging community involvement through education

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York seed grants empower Black scholars to lead transformative research

By Kelly Ninh | August 15, 2025 York University is supporting a dynamic range of research led by Black faculty members whose projects aim to reshape scholarship across disciplines. Nine researchers across four Faculties have received more than $223,000 in funding through the University’s Black Research Seed Fund, backing work that challenges systemic barriers, centres

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Queer art faces widespread museum censorship, curators say

By Dan Allen | August 13, 2025 Across the country, exhibitions with LGBTQ art and themes are being altered, postponed or outright canceled under Trump 2.0. From left: “Trans Forming Liberty” by Amy Sherald; Marinna Shareef with Andil Gosine’s “God of Whimsy”; and “Stitched to You” by Sola Olulode. Kelvin Bulluck; / Paul Petro Contemporary Art;

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York University hosts leadership education events for students, educators across Canada

By Alex Huls | August 1, 2025 Through a collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC), York University’s Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) is now home to national leadership programs that empower students and educators to drive community change. AKFC is a non-profit international development organization and part of the global Aga Khan Development

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Earth Overshoot Day arrives early with the flow of trade playing a large role

By Sandra McLean | July 22, 2025 TORONTO, July 22, 2025 – Earth Overshoot Day (July 24) is more than a week early this year resulting from humanity’s growing ecological footprint amid trade wars and tariffs, which play a potential role in the ecological footprint of Canada and many others, says Eric Miller, director of the Ecological Footprint

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Farming methods threaten wild bumblebees, York study finds

By Ashley Goodfellow Craig July 25, 2025 Wild bumblebees across Canada face significant threats linked to agricultural methods, a new study out of York University finds.  Published in Conservation Science and Practice, the study examines how Canadian agricultural practices contribute to disease spillover from managed pollinator bees – used to support crop production – to wild bumblebees.  Led

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