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Friday March 11, 2005        As Chair of the Board of Governors of York University, I am pleased to announce that the recently-promised independent review of the sale of lands by York University to Tribute Homes in March 2002 will be undertaken by The Honourable Edward Saunders Q.C.  Since his retirement from the bench in 1997, Mr. […]

TORONTO, March 11, 2005 -- Two York University researchers have received $405,895 in funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for their ground-breaking studies in chemistry and health care. Dasantila Golemi-Kotra, of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, will receive $211,543 to support her research in the areas of bacterial and […]

TORONTO, March 10, 2005 -- York University professors Thomas Klassen and John Dwyer have some advice for would-be job applicants – in an interview, pretend you’re on a first date. “You wouldn’t reveal everything about yourself on a first date, would you? You’d listen as much as you’d talk, and you’d want to do everything to […]

York U prof hails budget for national strategy to deal with problem TORONTO, March 8, 2005 -- York University biology professor Norman Yan is applauding the federal government’s recent announcement of $85 million in new funds to develop a national strategy on invasive species. “This major financial commitment shows that the study of invasive species […]

TORONTO, March 8, 2005 -- York University professor Desmond Ellis is set to release a study that can be used to predict and assess the risk of violence against women who leave their partners, and the threats that children of these families face. Ellis, a senior scholar at York's LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence […]

Study projects $105.7 million in benefits from new sports complex TORONTO, March 7, 2005 -- The Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) recently retained Deloitte & Touche LLP to conduct a high-level economic impact study concerning all aspects of the FIFA World Youth Championship Canada 2007, including the construction of the York University Stadium. The review measured the […]

                      Will speak on “The New International Security Environment"                     TORONTO, March 4, 2005 – William J. Perry will give a public lecture at York's Glendon campus on "The New International Security Environment" at 7:30pm on Monday, March 7. Perry is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment at the Institute […]