Description Students become immersed in either supporting a current faculty member’s environmental research or a large independent course-based project. Faculty members are encouraged to act as research mentors and supervisors by formulating connections to green sector networks and community partners. This will aid students seeking post-graduate research in areas including climate change analysis, conservation and
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Description Students become immersed in applying environmentally principled theoretical concepts with laboratory experiments. These labs may take place in York University’s woodlots, parks, river sheds, green roofs, or conservation areas. Students apply these methods to gain insight into environmental change while engaging with faculty members and peers. Examples Examples Include: Faculty Involvement EUC faculty members
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Description Students engage in environmentally principled design challenges that aim at addressing real-world pressing issues. This experience type further aims at deepening students’ understanding of environmental processes by engaging with EUC faculty members, external partners and other students. Examples Examples include designing: Faculty Involvement EUC faculty members serve as mentors, helping students navigate technical and
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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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Professor Andil Gosine’s work in the Caribbean began at the start of his career. As an academic, Gosine wanted to investigate the issues of sexuality rights, especially as they impacted LGBTQ2S+ communities within the Caribbean. Gosine’s efforts to advance sexuality rights had a groundbreaking impact, with him leading the charge in organizing the first major
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Author by Alex Huls | Originally posted on YFile. Gerald Carrothers, a visionary academic and founding dean of what is now the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, passed away on April 20, just short of his 100th birthday. An architect by training, Carrothers held a PhD in economics and regional planning from the Massachusetts
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MES student and artist, Sabrina Rose Capista showcased her research-creation project, Let Us Rot in EUC’s 31st Eco Arts Festival from March 17-28, 2025 as part of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Over the course of her time in the MES program, Sabrina has been studying mycology, death and rebirth in spiritual traditions, and
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by Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva and Steven Lum In late 2024, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 212 giving the provincial government significant control over municipal bike lanes. The law requires municipalities to ask the province for its approval to install bike lanes if they would remove a lane for other vehicular traffic. The legislation also allows for
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by Peri Dworatzek, MES, PhD student and Partnership Coordinator for the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab Fall 2024 marked the release of the first Ontario municipal Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity dataset. This data presents a one-year snapshot of local levels of consumption [ecological footprint] and natural resource regeneration [biocapacity]. All the data is publicly available
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