TORONTO, March 26, 2010 -- Toronto’s hottest new designers showcase their work in the York/Sheridan Design Grad Show 2010, the graduation exhibition of the class of 2010 of the York/Sheridan Joint Program in Design (YSDN). The outstanding work of this year’s 106 graduates will be on display April 18-21 at the Fermenting Cellar in Toronto's […]
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York University welcomes Ontario’s postsecondary education investment
Provincial budget emphasizes value of higher education TORONTO, March 25, 2010 -- York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri is applauding the Ontario government for its recognition of, and investment in, the province’s postsecondary education sector as a major economic driver of ideas, products and jobs. In presenting his 2010 provincial budget, Ontario Finance […]
Yvonne Rainer Immersion showcases trailblazing choreographer and filmmaker
York University’s Joan and Martin Goldfarb Summer Institute celebrates Rainer's extraordinary five decades in dance and film TORONTO, March 24, 2010 -- Where is the Medium?, the 2010 Joan and Martin Goldfarb Summer Institute in York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, kicks off April 6 with a day-long celebration of the work of trailblazing dance […]
York U students to be inducted into new chapter of Golden Key Society
TORONTO, March 24, 2010 -- More than 800 York University students will be inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society, at the York chapter’s inaugural ceremony on Friday, March 26 at 7pm. The York University chapter is the newest in Canada, and will be one of the largest nationally. The Golden […]
York University powers down, gears up for Earth Hour
TORONTO, March 23, 2010 -- York University is ramping up its efforts to switch off, power down and further ongoing campus sustainability initiatives in the lead-up to Earth Hour 2010. On Wednesday, March 24, York’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) and Ecologically Conscious Organization (ECO) will host the university’s first annual Earth […]
York leads all Canadian universities in SSHRC’s largest awards
York researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism TORONTO, March 23, 2010 -- Two teams led by York University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners […]
Glendon inaugurates Centre for Global Challenges with Nobel Laureate
TORONTO, March 17, 2010 -- Glendon College will launch its new Centre for Global Challenges with an inaugural conference about the economic crisis, featuring Nobel Prize winner George Akerlof. What were the real causes of the economic crisis? What are the consequences? And why weren’t economists able to predict it? Akerlof and other top […]
