TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2013 – Israeli human rights activist Hagai El-Ad, New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Craig Scott and Cara Faith Zwibel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) will discuss “Minorities and the State in Canada and Israel” on Monday, September 23, 2013 from 9 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. in the Helliwell Centre […]
Suburban Revolution? York U hosts international conference bringing urban fringe to centre stage
TORONTO, September 19, 2013 – More than half the world’s population lives in cities and much of what counts as urbanization is actually suburbanization, from the wealthy gated communities of Southern California, to the high rise-dominated suburbs of Europe and Canada, the exploding outskirts of Indian and Chinese cities, and the slums and squatter settlements […]
Distinguished Indian Jurist to Visit Osgoode Hall Law School
TORONTO, September 18, 2013 – The Honourable Justice Dalveer Bhandari – one of India’s most distinguished jurists – will visit York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School from September 22 to 26. Bhandari is a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, President of the India International Law Foundation and a former […]
York researchers receive more than $5.5 million in SSHRC funding
TORONTO, September 16, 2013 – Researchers at York University have been awarded more than $5.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The grants, part of over $ 107 million in funding and awards recently announced in the Insight Development Grants and Insight Grants Competition, will support York research that improves […]
Statement from York University President Mamdouh Shoukri on Professor John Greyson
September 16, 2013 -- We at York University wish to express our profound concern about the continued detention in Cairo, Egypt of John Greyson, an associate professor at York University and director of York’s graduate program in film, and Tarek Loubani, an emergency medicine physician and professor from London, Ontario. Greyson and Loubani have been […]
Osgoode Students Learn Role of Public Service in a Legal Career
TORONTO, September 12, 2013 – A group of 150 student volunteers from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School will be fanning out throughout Toronto starting in October to provide critically important, free legal services to low-income individuals and community organizations. For the next six months, the Osgoode students – under the watchful eyes of supervising […]
Melittologist milestone marked as York U researcher identifies world’s 20,000th bee species
September 11, 2013 – An article published this month by York University researcher Sheila Dumesh describes 21 new kinds of bees, pushing the world’s total known bee species past the 20,000 mark. The article, “Revision of the rare Mesoamerican bee genus Mexalictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) with the description of 21 new species”, published in the journal […]
