Within our Faculty of Science and Engineering several Organized Research Units (ORU) exist where specialized research areas are being explored.

Center for Research in Earth and Space Science (CRESS)

The Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science (CRESS) serves to enhance and facilitate collaborative, interdisciplinary research on topics including astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, geodynamics, remote sensing, geomatics, space engineering, the space environment and robotics. It draws its members from the Departments of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science and Engineering, and Mathematics and Statistics. In all of these areas, CRESS is engaged in observations from space, from balloons and aircraft, and from the ground, as well as in data analysis and modelling. It has extensive collaborations both nationally and internationally and works closely with industry and government departments as well as the Canadian Space Agency.

Director: Jim Whiteway
Address: 249 Petrie Science Building
Telephone: (416)736-2100 x 22310 (Voicemail)
Fax: 416.736.5626
Email: whiteway@yorku.ca
Web site: www.cress.yorku.ca

Center for Research on Biomolecular Interactions (CRBI)

The CRBI brings together researchers from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology, within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at York University, whose common interest lies with furthering our understanding of (i) the mechanistic details of how biomolecules interact with one another, (ii) the relationship between biomolecular interactions and cellular processes and (iii) how biomolecular interactions can be used for diagnosing and treating diseases.

Director: Sergey Krylov
Address: 340 Petrie Science and Engineering Building
Email: skrylov@yorku.ca

The Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC)

The Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC) is comprised of York scientists, working within the Departments of Chemistry and Earth and Space Science and Engineering. Research in the Centre includes laboratory, field and computer imulation studies that further our fundamental understanding of chemical processes in the atmosphere. Issues of interest include urban and regional oxidation, aerosol formation, stratospheric ozone, acid precipitation, airborne toxic chemicals, global atmospheric change and arctic pollution.

Director: Robert McLaren
Address: 006 Steacie Science and Engineering Building
Telephone: 416.736.5410
Fax: 416.736.5411
Email: cac@yorku.ca
Web site: http://www.cac.yorku.ca/

Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry (CRMS)

The Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry (CRMS) promotes mutually beneficial research collaboration in mass spectrometry both within and outside York University. Mass spectrometry is a very powerful analytical process that is used to identify unknown compounds, to quantify known compounds, and to elucidate the structure and chemical properties of molecules.

Director: K.W. Michael Siu
Address: 238 Chemistry Building
Telephone: 416.736.2100 Extension 77860
Fax: 416.736.5936
Email: kwmsiu@yorku.ca
Web site: http://www.chem.yorku.ca/CRMS/

University based centers:

The Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) provides a centralized and focused research emphasis on the importance of skeletal muscle to the overall health and well-being of Canadians. Skeletal muscle, 40 per cent of a human's body mass, is a unique and large tissue that significantly contributes to an individual's metabolism, locomotion, and overall quality of life.

Based in the Faculty of Health, the MHRC facilitates the integrated study of muscle biology in the broadest terms, including muscle development, disease, metabolism, blood supply, injury and regeneration, and adaptation to acute and chronic exercise. Approaches used by faculty and graduate students for the study of muscle include molecular, cellular and whole-body techniques.

The MHRC is the Faculty of Health’s first research centre dedicated to biomedical health science research.

Director: David Hood
Address: 342 Farqhuarson Bldg
Email: dhood@yorku.ca
Web site: www.yorku.ca/mhrc

The York Centre for Vision Research is an international leader in interdisciplinary studies of vision, ranging from clinical applications, studies of human perception, brain sciences, visual biometrics, and computational vision, to helpful tools for the visually-impaired, visually-guided computer interfaces for the hearing impaired, and visually-guided robots for the physically disabled.

Director: Hugh Wilson
Address: 0009 Computer Science Building
Telephone: 416.736.5659
Fax: 416.736.5857
Email:cvr@yorku.ca
Web site: www.cvr.yorku.ca

The York Institute for Health Research (YIHR) promotes interdisciplinary health research. Comprised of faculty from law and the social, health and environmental sciences, YIHR is based upon the assumption that health depends upon many interacting variables - social, political, economic, cultural and historical - and that without attention to these variables, efforts at intervention are likely to fail.

Director: Marcia Rioux
Address: 5021 TEL Building
Telephone: 416.736.5941
Fax: 416.736.5986
Email: yihr@yorku.ca
Web site: www.yorku.ca/yihr

The Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) is an interdisciplinary university-wide institute that is the focal point for sustainability-related research activities by all ten faculties. IRIS brings together and supports York academics and researchers to work across disciplines and collaborate with partners in Canada and internationally.