TORONTO, February 27, 2004 - York University celebrates dance with The Independent Project, an inter-generational showcase featuring both established and emerging artists. The grace and physicality of the dancers will be spotlighted March 3-5 in Strate Studio, Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University. “The dancers are the magic,” says artistic director Darcey Callison who […]

Applications are invited for the position of Director of the Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC) in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science at York University for a term of three to five years (negotiable), to begin July 1, 2004. CAC is engaged in interdisciplinary and collaborative research in the area of atmospheric chemistry broadly […]

TORONTO, February 26, 2004 -- Athletes helping children around the world will be the focus of the keynote address at the 6th Annual Sport Business Conference being held this weekend at York University. The 2004 conference theme is "The Globalization of Sport."Sarah Clappison, spokesperson for Right to Play, an athletes’ group committed to improving the lives […]

TORONTO, Thursday, February 26, 2004 -- York University’s Black Student Alliance will celebrate Black History Month by holding an International Black Student Conference and gala social event March 5-7 at the Keele Campus. Titled "Black Voices 2004," the event will include workshops, plenary sessions and performances culminating in a gala dinner and dance, YUBSA’s fifth annual […]

TORONTO, February 25, 2004 --  In the lead up to November’s Presidential elections, U.S. President George W. Bush is urging Congress to promptly pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.   The following York University professors are available to comment on what promised to be a highly charged and divisive political debate south of the […]

TORONTO, February 24, 2004 — art@suite500, a collaborative project of York University’s Graduate Program in Visual Arts and the Schulich School of Business, opens February 28 at Schulich’s downtown campus, the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre in the TD Centre. Now in its eighth year, art@suite500 is an annual juried exhibition featuring recent works by […]

TORONTO, February 24, 2004 -- Two of North America’s foremost constitutional law experts  – one an American, the other a Canadian – will discuss recent developments in relation to same-sex marriage in both countries on Thursday, February 26.   Peter W. Hogg, former Dean of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School and lead counsel for the […]