TORONTO, October 3, 2012 – Jennifer Keesmaat, newly-appointed chief planner for the City of Toronto, will speak at York University on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 about what is next for planning practice, particularly in Canada’s largest city. As head of the City Planning Division, Keesmaat will lead a number of significant projects, including the five-year […]
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York researchers receive more than $9.7 million in SSHRC funding
TORONTO, October 2, 2012 – Researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at York University have been awarded more than $9.7 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The grants, part of over $200 million in funding and awards recently announced, will support York research that improves the quality of life […]
York University professor awarded Trudeau Fellowship prize
TORONTO, October 2, 2012 – York University professor Janine Marchessault has been awarded the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship prize from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. “York University was proud to learn that professor Janine Marchessault was awarded the Trudeau Fellowship prize,” says Mamdouh Shoukri, President and Vice-Chancellor. “The Trudeau Fellowship is an incredible honour bestowed upon […]
Three exceptional lawyers to serve as Osgoode’s inaugural McMurtry Fellows
TORONTO, October 2, 2012 – Lorne Sossin, Dean of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, today announced the three inaugural recipients of the Law School’s McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellowship. Raj Anand, a partner at WeirFoulds LLP in Toronto, Joseph Arvay, Q.C. of Arvay Finlay Barristers in Vancouver, and Fay Faraday, a sole practitioner in Toronto, […]
Conference on Responsible Investment at York University Oct. 1-3
Academics to deliver 60 papers at the UN backed PRI-CBERN Academic Conference 2012 TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2012 – More than 150 academics and mainstream investors from around the world will gather at the Schulich School of Business at York University on October 1 to 3 to discuss the evolution of responsible investment. In its fifth […]
Transit forum at York U will focus on getting students to school
TORONTO, September 27, 2012 – Politicians, planners, transit chiefs and post-secondary leaders will meet at York University on Friday to discuss how to provide an efficient, comprehensive transit and transportation system for the more than 300,000 students, instructors and staff at post-secondary institutions in Southern Ontario. The action-oriented Going to School forum on transit will […]
Perfectionist pressure means poorer health for women with fibromyalgia: York U study
TORONTO, Sept. 25, 2012 – Women suffering from fibromyalgia who exhibit perfectionist traits tend to have poorer health than their non-perfectionist peers, according to new research out of York University. The study, published by the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, is based on a sampling of 489 women diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a condition that predominantly affects […]
