TORONTO, April 7, 2006 -- York University health researchers have joined forces with other leading academics to publish a critical examination of health and health care in Canada, released earlier this week. The book is the first to consider the health of Canadians and the organization of the health care system from four distinct perspectives: […]

TORONTO, April 6, 2006 -- Award-winning Canadian director Julia Kwan will present her film Eve & the Fire Horse on Monday, April 10 as part of The Independents, a monthly series of screenings and discussions on independent Canadian cinema presented by York University’s Department of Film.   The only Canadian film in the history of the […]

TORONTO, April 5, 2006 -- Nelson Cheng, a second-year student, is enjoying the ultimate martini cocktail experience. He is now in Italy representing Canada in a prestigious international glass design competition. The student in the York/Sheridan Joint Program in Design recently took the top prize in the Canadian leg of the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass […]

TORONTO, April 5, 2006 --  York University students won almost half of the top prizes at the 17th Annual National Japanese Speech Contest held on campus on Sunday. The contest drew linguistic competitors from universities from across Canada. York students garnered four of the 10 top prizes at the nationals.   John Baig, a first-year […]

New finding clocks speed at which subatomic particle transforms from matter to antimatter TORONTO, March 30, 2006 -- A York University professor and a team of researchers have uncovered an important clue in one of the great mysteries of science: what happened to the antimatter that was created at the birth of the universe? Dr. Wendy […]

TORONTO, March 30, 2006 -- The York University student who has won Miss Universe Canada will be speaking about the importance of self-esteem and self-confidence to school children during her term.   Alice Panikian, a second-year student at York University, was selected as Miss Universe Canada 2006 last week. When she was a child, she was […]

TORONTO, March 30, 2006 -- Theatre Glendon will present its annual bilingual showcase of student theatre from April 4-8, 2006, at York University’s Glendon College campus. The Fridge Festival will feature work produced, directed, performed and penned by York University students. This year’s annual Fridge marks twenty years of provocative student theatre that began as […]