York University,also known as YorkU or simply YU,is a public research university in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university,and it has approximately 55,700 students,7,000 faculty and staff,and over 325,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties,including the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,Faculty of Science,Lassonde School of Engineering,Schulich School of Business,Osgoode Hall Law School,Glendon College,Faculty of Education,Faculty of Health,Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change,Faculty of Graduate Studies,School of the Arts,Media,Performance and Design,and 28 research centres.
The University of Toronto Scarborough,also known as U of T Scarborough or UTSC,is one of the three campuses that make up the tri-campus system of the University of Toronto. Located in the Scarborough district,Toronto,Ontario,Canada,the campus is set upon suburban parkland next to Highland Creek. It was established in 1964 as Scarborough College,a constituent college of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The college expanded following its designation as an autonomic division of the university in 1972 and gradually became an independent institution. It ranks last in enrolment size among the three University of Toronto campuses,the other two being the St. George campus in Downtown Toronto and the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Veronica Jane Strong-Boag is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of women and children in Canada. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia,where she was Professor of Women's History and the founding Director of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.
Shana O. Kelley is a scientist and Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology and was previously part of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Medicine. Kelley's research includes the development of new technologies for clinical diagnostics and drug delivery. In 2023,she was chosen as president of Chicago's new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
Tamil Canadians,or Canadian Tamils,are Canadians of Tamil ethno-linguistic origin. Much of Canada's Tamil diaspora from India and Sri Lanka then majority consist of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who sought to flee the ethnic tensions during the Sri Lankan Civil War between the 1970s and 2000s,while economic Tamil migrants also originate from India,Singapore and other parts of South Asia.
Denis W. Stairs is professor emeritus in political science at Dalhousie University.
Kathy Martin is a Canadian ornithologist who is an expert on arctic and alpine grouse and ptarmigan,and on tree cavity-nesting vertebrates. She is a professor in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia and was a senior research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Pat Armstrong is a Canadian sociologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Armstrong has served as a Chair for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Health Services and Nursing Research and the Department of Sociology at York University.
Mary Ng is a Canadian politician serving as Minister of International Trade,Export Promotion,Small Business and Economic Development since 2018. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada,she has been the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Markham—Thornhill since a by-election on April 3,2017.
Sylvia Beth Bashevkin,is Canadian academic and writer known for her research in the field of women and politics.
Jennifer McKelvie is a Canadian politician and geoscientist who has served as the deputy mayor of Toronto since November 16,2022,representing Scarborough. McKelvie has represented Ward 25 Scarborough—Rouge Park on the Toronto City Council since 2018.
Marla B. Sokolowski is a University Professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Sokolowski is a scientist whose work is widely considered to be groundbreaking,foundational for a variety of fields,and instrumental in refutations of genetic determinism,and has,according to the Royal Society of Canada,"permanently changed the way we frame questions about individual differences in behaviour". Sokolowski's comprehensive study of the fruit fly and other animal systems,including humans,has shaped fundamental concepts in behavioural evolution,plasticity,and genetic pleiotropy. Specifically,Sokolowski is best known for her discovery of the foraging gene. Sokolowski was the 2020 recipient of the Flavelle Medal. Sokolowski is only one of two women to ever win the award- the other being Margaret Newton in 1948.
Leah F. Vosko is a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair at York University. Her research interests are focused on political economy,labour rights,gender studies,migration,and citizenship. In 2015,she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Irena Creed is a Canadian hydrologist. She is currently the vice-principal for research and innovation at University of Toronto Scarborough. She was the associate vice-president for research at the University of Saskatchewan,and the executive director of and a professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability. Creed continues to study the impacts of global climate change on ecosystem functions and services,specifically focusing on the hydrology of freshwater catchments.
Grace Skogstad is a Canadian political scientist and professor at the University of Toronto. and a cross-appointed affiliate faculty in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Valerie Joyce Korinek is a Canadian historian. She is a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focuses on Queer studies and communities.
Laura Huey is a Canadian criminologist specialising in the study of public policing,victimization,missing persons and mental health issues in criminal justice.
Catharine Isobel Whiteside,CM,FRCPC,FCAHS is a Canadian physician and medical researcher. She is Director,Strategic Partnerships of Diabetes Action Canada and Chair of the board of the Banting Research Foundation. Whiteside is the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Jamaal Michael Anthony Myers is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) since August 11,2023. Myers has represented Ward 23 Scarborough North on Toronto City Council since November 15,2023. Before entering politics,he worked as a corporate lawyer.
J. Stewart Aitchison FRSC is a Scottish scientist and researcher in the area of photonics. Aitchson is known for his work on nonlinear optics. He is professor in the University of Toronto's Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Aitchson was made an IEEE fellow in 2019.
