TORONTO, January 31, 2002 -- Leading Inuit and First Nations artists, critics, teachers and curators will be featured in a public lecture series starting February 6 and running through April in the Visual Arts Department at York University. Inuit and First Nations Cultures: Contemporary Perspectives will include talks by filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn of […]
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Country’s top civil servant to speak at York University’s Glendon College
TORONTO, January 29, 2002 -- Canada’s highest-ranking civil servant, Mel Cappe, clerk of the Privy Council, will give a public lecture on Friday, Feb. 1 on career opportunities in the public service. The event will take place at 11 a.m. in the Senate Chamber of York Hall, York University’s Glendon College campus, 2275 Bayview Ave. The […]
Distinguished Robarts Lecture Series 2002: Canadians leading the way in new theories to manage globalization
TORONTO, January 29, 2002 -- As the top financial policy-makers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations gather in Ottawa next week to discuss the global economy, leading Canadian scholars are advancing new theories to manage the dramatic social and economic changes wrought by globalization. They will discuss their work in the Distinguished Robarts Lecture […]
Physics Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle visits York University
TORONTO, January 28, 2002 -- Joint winner of the Nobel Prize in physics Wolfgang Ketterle will be at York University on Tuesday, Feb. 5, hosted by York's department of physics and astronomy. Ketterle, Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman were the first scientists to discover a new state of matter called the Bose-Einstein condensate […]
Symposium at York U. examines debate over stem cell research
TORONTO, January 24, 2002 – Stem cell research holds promise for treating a number of illnesses, including cancers, auto‑immune disorders, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, but it has also opened a pandora’s box of ethical issues, including the use of embryonic and fetal tissue and the potential for human cloning. Both the emerging medical benefits that […]
Jesuit priest gives talk at York U. on reconciling concepts of God with ET
TORONTO, January 16, 2002 -- Christopher J. Corbally, a Jesuit priest and vice director of the Vatican Observatory, will give a talk at York University, Discovering ET, Discovering God, Friday, January 18, at 2 p.m. Corbally will examine whether Judaeo-Christian notions of God need to change when scientists encounter extraterrestrial life -- whether it be the […]
York Business & Professional Alliance: Bank of Montreal chief economist Tim O’Neill gauges economic slump
TORONTO, January 16, 2002 -- While rising unemployment has prompted Canada’s central bank to lower its key interest rate for the 10th consecutive time, Bank of Montreal Executive Vice-President and Chief Economist Tim O’Neill predicts the current slump will be short and shallow. O’Neill will present his views on the potential for economic recovery in North […]
