TORONTO, Wednesday March 9, 2011 − Award-winning author Charles Foran will speak at York University Thursday about Mordecai Richler’s life and his views on Quebec separatists and nationalists. Winner of the 2011 Charles Taylor prize for literary non-fiction for his biography of Richler, Foran had full and exclusive access to family letters and the private […]
York U symposium will examine risk and repercussions of major oil spill in Canada
TORONTO, March 8, 2011 − York University will host a symposium Thursday about the risk of a major oil spill in Canada, the environmental and ethical issues related to an event on the scale of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the need to prepare for such an emergency. The symposium − Oil: Slick Suits […]
The York Dance Ensemble gets Out of Line
Toronto, March 4, 2011 − The York Dance Ensemble (YDE), the spirited young repertory company of York University’s Department of Dance, gets off on the right foot with Out of Line, an exhilarating collection of dances about coming of age. The throes of young love and the mischievous thrills of going against the grain are […]
Researchers from York U and around the world to discuss future of multiculturalism
TORONTO, March 4, 2011 – Researchers from York and from universities and centres in Canada, the U.S., Denmark, Holland and Hungary will discuss prospects for multiculturalism in Canada and abroad on Monday, March 7, during a one-day conference at York's Keele campus. Hosted by York’s European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE), “The Maturing of the […]
York U International Women's Day concert will shine spotlight on Aboriginal singer
TORONTO, March 3, 2011 − York University will celebrate International Women’s Day this year with a concert featuring the Aboriginal hand drumming and soulful vocals of medicine song woman Brenda MacIntyre. A singer-songwriter, inspirational speaker and healer, MacIntyre will perform Monday, on the eve of International Women’s Day (March 8), as part of the Voices […]
Theatre @ York presents The Witch of Edmonton
TORONTO, March 2, 2011 − Theatre @ York’s season finale is the Jacobean drama The Witch of Edmonton, running March 20 to 26 in the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre at York University. Penned by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621, the play was based on an actual person and supposedly […]
York U researchers uncovering how ovarian cancer resists chemotherapy
TORONTO, March 2, 2011 – York University researchers have zeroed in on a genetic process that may allow ovarian cancer to resist chemotherapy. Researchers in the university’s Faculty of Science & Engineering studied a tiny strand of our genetic makeup known as a MicroRNA, involved in the regulation of gene expression. Cancer occurs when gene […]
