TORONTO, April 19, 2001 -- Ian Jarvis, Executive Vice-President of VESTAR, Inc. (a professional service firm specializing in facility and infrastructure solutions), will deliver a talk entitled A Business View of the Sustainable Future, the final lecture in the President's Task Force on Sustainability Speaker Series, at York University, Monday, April 23, 12:30 - 2 […]
York Fine Arts Faculty Receives $3.75-Million Gift: Recent Major Donations Total $13.25 Million
TORONTO, April 18, 2001 -- York University President Lorna R. Marsden and Chair of the Board of Governors Marshall Cohen are pleased to announce that philanthropists Martin and Joan Goldfarb have made a $3.75-million donation to benefit the university’s Faculty of Fine Arts. The gift consists of a monetary contribution as well as a significant […]
York University Experts on the Harris Government’s Spring Throne Speech
TORONTO, April 18, 2001 -- With the Ontario Legislature set to resume for the spring session, Premier Mike Harris’s Conservatives have hinted at what Ontarians should expect to see in tomorrow’s throne speech -- an attempt to counter the growing perception that the Common Sense Revolution is adrift. Highlights will likely include: major accountability initiatives […]
York U Spotlights World Music
TORONTO, April 16, 2001 -- York University’s Music Department puts world music in the spotlight on Wednesday, April 25 with a pair of concerts featuring the instruments and traditions of a variety of global cultures. Produced by York ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Rob Simms, the performances will showcase some of the dozen ensembles in the department’s […]
"The Transformers of 2001": Visual Arts Open House at York University
TORONTO, April 16, 2001 -- Graduating students of York University’s Visual Arts Department will showcase their work in an Open House April 26 and 27. The Transformers of 2001 exhibition will feature painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, drawing, digital images, time-based new media, installation and performance works, print media and video. Fourth-year artists in the […]
York U. Inaugural Lecture for the Packer Endowment in Social Justice: Former CAW Director Sam Gindin on the global terrain of social justice
TORONTO, April 12, 2001 -- Sam Gindin will deliver the Inaugural Lecture for the Packer Endowment in Social Justice at York University, Tuesday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. Gindin, the former Research Director and Assistant to the President of the Canadian Automobile Workers union, will discuss the significance of the Seattle protests for placing "anti-capitalism" […]
York Centre for Refugee Studies: Scholars flag early warning signs in Nigeria of potential African refugee crisis
TORONTO, April 11, 2001 -- Two years into the democratic, civilian government of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, scholars and human rights activists fear the international community is too complacent to recognize early signs of unrest in the country that could lead to a larger conflict and an African refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale. To […]
