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Research News & Events
Gone, with the Wind
The case of the missing quasar gas clouds has been solved by a worldwide team of astronomers, and the answer is blowin' in the wind. Astronomers Nurten Filiz Ak and Niel Brandt of the Pennsylvania State University led the team, which announced their results in a paper published in today's issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The paper describes 19 distant quasars in which giant clouds of gas seemed to disappear in...
08 Nov 2012 Research News & Events
Read moreThe University recruits a new Canada Research Chair and gains a renewed Canada Research Chair
York University welcomes the appointment of Christian Haas as its new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Arctic Sea Ice Geophysics and the renewal of a CRC in the History of Modern China for Joshua Fogel. As Tier 1 CRCs, Haas and Fogel will each receive $1.4 million over seven years. The CRC is part of a package of CRC appointments announced Oct. 12, by Gary Goodyear, minister of state (Science and...
08 Nov 2012 Research News & Events
Read moreYork researcher receives Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award
Arturo Orellana, professor of chemistry in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, is the recipient of a $60,000 Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Chemistry, awarded in the amount of $20,000 per year over three years. “On behalf of the York research community, I would like to congratulate Professor Arturo Orellana on his receipt of the Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award,” said Robert Haché, York’s vice-president research & innovation. “This...
08 Nov 2012 Research News & Events
Read moreYork University program has students submit spit samples for DNA tests
York professor Logan Donaldson compares his spit sample for a DNA test with student Harjot Singh Deol. The test traces a person’s ancestry as well as risk of developing various ailments. Alyshah Hasham Staff Reporter Fifty first-year York University students gathered in a lab to have…
Prof. Mark Bayfield receives $60,000 grant from the J.P. Bickell Foundation
Mark Bayfield, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the J.P. Bickell Foundation. The grant will support his research on La protein function in Hepatitis C viral infection.As one of the cell’s key regulators, the La antigen plays a key…
Prof receives $60,000 Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Chemistry
Arturo Orellana, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, is the recipient of a $60,000 Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Chemistry, awarded in the amount of $20,000 per year over three years.Professor Orellana’s research concerns the development of innovative metal-catalyzed chemical reactions for organic synthesis.…
Changing water chemistry leaves plankton defenseless
Imagine that the players on your favourite football team were smaller than their opponents, and had to play without helmets or pads. Left defenseless, they would become easy prey for other teams. Similarly, changes in Canadian lake water chemistry have left small water organisms known as…
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