TORONTO, February 14, 2002 -- Douglas Crawford, Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience at York University, and his team of researchers have discovered that the midbrain site known as the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (INC) is responsible for controlling the neck muscles that maintain head posture. Moreover, Crawford and his team determined that an imbalance between the […]
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Glendon Theatre hosts Canadian premiere of Swiss play Aimée & Jaguar
TORONTO, February 12, 2002 -- Glendon Theatre at York University presents the Canadian premiere of the Swiss play Aimée and Jaguar on Mar.11-12, based on the true story of the tragic love between Elisabeth Wust, a Nazi officer’s wife in 1940s Berlin, and Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish lesbian who was sent to her death at Bergen-Belsen. […]
Federal support for census research will give scholars a window on the hidden histories of ordinary Canadians
TORONTO, February 8, 2002 -- A national project to build census-based profiles revealing the untold history of ordinary Canadians has won $5.2 million in start-up funding from the federal government’s Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). It is one of the largest social science projects ever funded by CFI. York University will be the site of a […]
Wine connoisseurs raise funds for York U. rainforest conservation program
TORONTO, February 5, 2002 -- Wine connoisseurs gathering tomorrow at the Vaughan Estate on the grounds of Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre will be bidding on a stunning array of fine European and American wines being sold at auction to raise funds for research and conservation projects at York University’s Las Nubes Rainforest in […]
York U. conference provides future teachers anti-racism, Holocaust education tools
TORONTO, February 4, 2002 -- York University will host "The Future of Memory" an international conference examining the changing contexts for Holocaust and anti-racism education, Saturday, Feb. 9 and Sunday, Feb. 10. The conference is part of a wider initiative by York’s Centre for Jewish Studies and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES) […]
York U. conference examines poverty, insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean
TORONTO, February 4, 2002 -- The question of whether Canada can have an independent foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere given increased economic and military integration with the United States post September 11 will be discussed at York University during a conference on "Latin America and the Caribbean after September 11: Poverty, Crisis, and Insecurity", to […]
Peacekeeping or Gatekeeping? York U. conference examines Canadian foreign and security policy post September 11
TORONTO, January 31, 2002 -- The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon signalled sweeping changes to Canada’s own domestic and international security policies, ranging from the Canadian government’s anti-terrorism legislation to sending Canadian combat-ready troops into Afghanistan. To offer insight into these changes and how they represent a shift away from traditionally […]