TORONTO, January 20, 2004 -- York University and Seneca College of Applied Arts today opened the most technologically advanced teaching facility in Ontario at a ceremony on York’s Keele Campus. The $88 million Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Building features wireless communications, multi-media lecture halls and computer laboratories that will be used by 4,000 York and […]
News
York U. students promote understanding on Middle East
TORONTO, January 19, 2004 -- In what’s being called a first on North American campuses, students at York University have joined together to promote peace and understanding in campus debates about the Middle East. For their first event “Peace is Possible”, members of Shalom-Salam@York invited noted scholar and former diplomat Michael Bell who will speak […]
Composer Peter Zaparinuk commemorated at York University with Memorial Concert
TORONTO, January 15, 2004 -- Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico and saxophonist David Mott will headline a midday concert commemorating the late Canadian composer Peter Zaparinuk at York University on January 21. Both performers are professors in York’s Music Department and leading lights of the Canadian music scene, recognized nationally for their outstanding artistry as interpreters of […]
Dezsö J. Horváth named International Business School Dean of the Year
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN & TORONTO, ONTARIO, January 15, 2004 -- The Academy of International Business (AIB) today announced that Dezsö J. Horváth, Dean of the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, was named 2004 Dean of the Year. It is the first time that a Canadian has been named a recipient of the […]
York U. Hellenic studies chair delivers inaugural lecture on Greek social history
TORONTO, January 14, 2004 -- York University history professor Thomas Gallant will deliver a public lecture inaugurating the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in Modern Greek History, Friday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. His lecture, Toward a Social History of the Greeks, will examine the challenges that confront historians attempting to write a social history of Greek […]
York University Recognizes Student Government Election Results
TORONTO, January 14, 2004 -- Following extensive consultations, York University has decided to recognize the results of the November 2003 York Federation of Students (YFS) election. Effective immediately, the University will work with the winners of the November election, which include candidates who ran on the "Progress Not Politics" slate and won 27 out of […]
York U. and Seneca College to officially open TEL Building
TORONTO – Wednesday, January 14, 2004 – Ontario’s newest, most technologically advanced education building will be officially opened at York University on Tuesday, January 20, 2004. The $88-million, 345,00-square-foot Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Building, a joint-project by York University and Seneca College of Applied Arts, was built with funding from the Province of Ontario, York, […]
