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Augmented reality project tells story in new way: York U

Future Cinemas Lab devoted to creative and entertainment possibilities of technology TORONTO, October 3, 2007 -- Digital technology and a technique known as augmented reality are being used at York University to transform a classic German play about a controversial murder trial into an interactive musical, with the audience in charge of the order of the […]

Osgoode Wins CBIE Excellence Award for “Outstanding” Aboriginal Law Program

The Intensive Program in Aboriginal Lands, Resources & Governments at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School has won a 2007 Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) Excellence Award for “Outstanding Program” in recognition of “high quality and highly creative programming in international education.”   Founded in 1966, CBIE is an association of some 200 universities, […]

New masters program in disaster management

TORONTO, Sept. 25, 2007 -- A new masters program at York University recognizes what terrorist attacks and tsunamis have demonstrated clearly: disasters are seldom simple.  The Master of Arts in Disaster and Emergency Management program at York, which began earlier this month, is the only graduate program of its kind in Ontario. Undergraduate-level courses such as York’s […]

Two suspects in Vanier Residence assaults appear in court

September 24, 2007   Two men facing 11 charges each in connection with sexual assaults at York’s Vanier Residence on Sept. 7 appeared in court Sept. 24. The court imposed a publication ban on the proceedings.   Toronto Police Service say two suspects committed two sexual assaults and attempted a third assault in the early morning […]

Sexual Assault Update: Second arrest

TORONTO, September 22, 2007 --  On Friday, 21 September 2007, Toronto Police Service received information that led investigators to identify and arrest the second of two men wanted for the sexual assaults that occurred at York University on Friday 7 September 2007.    The TPS provided the following information about the arrested man:   Justin David […]

Arrest made in sexual assaults case

Sexual Assault Update On Thursday, 20 September 2007, Toronto Police Service issued an announcement that one man had been arrested in connection with the sexual assaults reported at York University on September 7th.   The TPS release provided the following information about the arrested man:   Daniel Katsnelson, age 25 of Thornhill, is charged with: […]