TORONTO, September 12, 2013 – A group of 150 student volunteers from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School will be fanning out throughout Toronto starting in October to provide critically important, free legal services to low-income individuals and community organizations. For the next six months, the Osgoode students – under the watchful eyes of supervising […]
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Melittologist milestone marked as York U researcher identifies world’s 20,000th bee species
September 11, 2013 – An article published this month by York University researcher Sheila Dumesh describes 21 new kinds of bees, pushing the world’s total known bee species past the 20,000 mark. The article, “Revision of the rare Mesoamerican bee genus Mexalictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) with the description of 21 new species”, published in the journal […]
York Administrator nominated as finalist for prestigious SSHRC Impact Award
August 30, 2013 – York University administrator David Phipps, executive director of Research and Innovation Services and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, has been nominated by York University and selected by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as one of three finalists for the prestigious SSHRC Impact Award, […]
New agreement makes it easy for York and Ryerson students to sign up for courses at either university using online system
TORONTO, August 13, 2013 – York University and Ryerson University have teamed up to launch an online platform that gives students a quick and easy way to enroll in degree credit courses at either institution. The Ryerson-York Exchange provides students with a diverse list of about 40 courses that have been pre-approved for credit transfer -- […]
York U prof to launch first comprehensive digital archive of memorial tattoos
TORONTO, August 12, 2013 – Death leaves an indelible mark on the hearts of those left behind, and an increasing number of individuals are choosing to make that loss visible by commissioning tattoos honouring their deceased loved ones. York University sociology Professor Deborah Davidson, along with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, plans to capture these […]
Nanning Cantonese Opera Troupe performs Toronto premiere of The Painted Skin at York University
TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2013 – The Department of Theatre in York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts is hosting the Toronto premiere and only Ontario performance of the Nanning Cantonese Opera Troupe’s production of The Painted Skin, a haunting story of seduction written by Chua Soo Pong and composed by Zhuang Hui Xuan. This new chamber […]
York U / U of T researchers part of international team that caught neutrinos 'in the act'
TORONTO, July 19, 2013 – Today TRIUMF, a Canadian laboratory for nuclear and particle physics that works in partnership with York University and University of Toronto, announced a new breakthrough in understanding neutrinos – nature’s most elusive particles. The international Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) collaboration designed an experiment to investigate how neutrinos change from one […]
