TORONTO, March 17, 2010 -- Glendon College will launch its new Centre for Global Challenges with an inaugural conference about the economic crisis, featuring Nobel Prize winner George Akerlof. What were the real causes of the economic crisis? What are the consequences? And why weren’t economists able to predict it? Akerlof and other top […]
York leads all Canadian universities in SSHRC’s largest awards
York researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism TORONTO, March 23, 2010 -- Two teams led by York University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners […]
York University powers down, gears up for Earth Hour
TORONTO, March 23, 2010 -- York University is ramping up its efforts to switch off, power down and further ongoing campus sustainability initiatives in the lead-up to Earth Hour 2010. On Wednesday, March 24, York’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) and Ecologically Conscious Organization (ECO) will host the university’s first annual Earth […]
FAIR Canada and Hennick Centre host Conference on Fiduciary Standard for Financial Advisors
TORONTO, March 22, 2010 -- Financial and legal experts will discuss the investment advisor-client relationship at an upcoming conference co-hosted by the Canadian Foundation for the Advancement of Investor Rights (FAIR Canada) and York University’s Hennick Centre for Business and Law. The conference, entitled “The Fiduciary Standard and Beyond: Rethinking the Financial Advisor-Client Relationship,” will […]
Spring 2010
Award-winning York U space science featured in North York Mirror: Read Premier McGuinty meets with York nursing students: Read York U report on Canada's deteriorating quality of life featured on Canoe.ca: Read Prof. Ellen Bialystok talks to CBC Metro Morning about her Killam Prize winning research on bilingualism and the brain: Listen Prof. Bridget Stutchbury’s […]
“The Making of Boole”: Christian Giroux & Daniel Young Artists-in-Residence in York U’s Digital Sculpture Lab
TORONTO, March 19, 2010 -- Toronto art-making duo Christian Giroux and Daniel Young (CGDY) have been working in York University’s digital sculpture lab over the past few months as artists-in-residence in the Department of Visual Arts. They will present an overview of their work in a free public lecture titled The Making of Boole, Wed. […]
Professor calls for answers from Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan
TORONTO, March 16, 2010 -- Professor Craig Scott of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University has written to the pre-prorogation Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan. The letter from Scott asks a number of questions including whether Canada has been sending Afghan detainees to the Afghan authorities while knowing that torture is among […]
