TORONTO, May 25, 2010 -- Leading researchers from across southern Ontario will converge on York University on Friday to discuss the role that muscle plays in metabolism, heart health, aging and disease. The first annual Muscle Health Awareness Day, organized by York’s Muscle Health Research Centre, will bring together the latest findings on the contribution made […]
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York U report identifies barriers to development in Sudan
TORONTO, May 20, 2010 -- York University researchers have issued a report with recommendations for improving technical and vocational training in Southern Sudan, based on in-depth interviews with Sudanese from different walks of life. The report, published jointly by Plan International Canada (Plan Canada) and York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, identifies barriers to such training, […]
York U researchers uncover new clue in antimatter mystery
TORONTO, May 20, 2010 -- York University researchers have played a key role in a new finding that may help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter in our universe. The DZero collaboration of scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory submitted a finding to the journal Physical Review D, reporting […]
York U Artist "Augments your Reality" with The Amazing Cinemagician at the Ontario Science Centre
TORONTO, May 20, 2010 -- Experience cutting-edge technological wizardry that blurs the line between art, design and science in The Amazing Cinemagician: New Media Meets Victorian Magic, opening May 28 at the Ontario Science Centre’s Idea Gallery. The exhibition features two interactive installations by new media artist and York University PhD student Helen Papagiannis […]
Author Wayson Choy to deliver Asian Heritage Month Lecture
TORONTO, May 19, 2010 -- Acclaimed author Wayson Choy will deliver this year’s Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York next Tuesday. In his lecture, “Asian Identity: Becoming Canadian,” Choy will speak about life as an in-between citizen, living as a hyphenated Chinese-Canadian for most of his life. Choy – born in Canada in 1939 – will […]
Film Theorist Mary Ann Doane addresses “Where is the Medium?” in York University’s Joan and Martin Goldfarb Summer Institute
TORONTO, May 17, 2010 -- Eminent American cinema and media scholar Mary Ann Doane gives four free public lectures in the Norman Jewison Series as the concluding segment of Where is the Medium?, the 2010 Joan and Martin Goldfarb Summer Institute in Visual Arts and Film at York University. The George Hazard Croker Professor of […]
Economic fallout and social activism top agenda at Marxism conference: York U
TORONTO, May 12, 2010 -- The effects of the global economic crisis on poor and working class people around the world will be the focus of the Historical Materialism 2010 conference at York University this week. The annual conference, associated with the leading English-language journal of critical Marxist research, will draw hundreds of scholars […]
