Ylife gives way to the new YFile website
As of Jan. 31, 2012, Ylife has been discontinued, but news and information about York University is available at the new YFile website. It includes a moving carousel of top stories, more highlighted events, video and photo galleries, and a series of social media features, as well as the full list of daily news stories that will remain easily accessible for several days. The new YFile news site can be found at http://yfile.news.yorku.ca...
Dance program hosts Toronto Dance Theatre and Pteros Tactics
Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT), one of Canada’s pre-eminent contemporary dance companies, was this month’s artists-in-residence with York dance program. Led by its artistic director and York dance alumnus Christopher House (BFA Spec. Hon. ’79), TDT conducted classes and workshops with...
Vanier College Productions to perform The Drowsy Chaperone
Tony award-winning Canadian musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, will hit the stage next month as part of Vanier College Productions’ 40th Anniversary Season. The Drowsy Chaperone, with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and book by Bob Martin...
Celebrate Research Month this February
Research Month this February will celebrate the achievements and diversity of York University’s research community. Every Wednesday throughout the month, Vari Hall Rotunda will play host to displays and demonstrations featuring the University’s faculty and graduate researchers. Drop by to...
The new YFile: still tweaking
The new YFile, announced on Jan. 19, is nearly ready. We’ve listened to your feedback and we’re still working on some items. Meanwhile, we continue to welcome your feedback on the new site, which is being updated daily. See it here. You can send...
New video series features students sharing tips on academic skills
There’s something different about a new video series designed by two York librarians and aimed at sharpening students’ academic learning skills. Advice does not come from instructors and librarians, it comes from first-year students who have often learned how to study, research and write...
Arts writer and critic to deliver the Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Arts
Art critic, theorist, curator and educator Patricia Phillips of the Rhode Island School of Design is the featured speaker for the 2012 Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Arts. She will deliver her talk, “(un)Public: A Case for Collateral Art”, Wednesday, Feb....
Climate change researcher to discuss controversial report
What about that climate change? Madhav Khandekar, a former research scientist with Environment Canada, will discuss the controversial findings of Climate Change Reconsidered, a recent report by the Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change...
Printmaker Kei Hayano taught visual arts at York
Keiichi (Kei) Hayano, professor emeritus in York’s Faculty of Fine Arts, died unexpectedly in Toronto on Dec. 25. He was 81. Professor Hayano was a printmaker whose works were exhibited and are represented in private and corporate collections in Canada,...
Leading scholar on economic discrimination to speak at York
A leading authority on economic discrimination and minority legal feminism, Regina Austin, will speak at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School as the Barbara Betcherman Distinguished Visitor next week. Austin is the William A. Schnader Professor of Law at the University...
York conference declares, Bullying Stops Now!
Teachers and experts who study bullying will meet Monday to discuss the latest research, best practices and legal issues related to bullying, as well as the proposed Accepting Schools Act for Ontario. The Bullying Stops Now! Conference, hosted by York...
Meet this year’s crop of top undergrads in the latest YorkU
Inside the latest issue of YorkU magazine, which hits the stands today, are the annual profiles of eight undergraduates, the top academic achievers in their Faculties after second year. Previously they made the cover of YorkU’s old December campus issue, but this...
Police ask for help in voyeurism investigation
York Security Services and the Toronto Police Service (TPS) are requesting assistance from the York community with the investigation of an act of voyeurism. On Jan. 24 at 9:10pm York Security Services responded to a report of a male suspect...
Weight loss a losing battle without team approach
Publicly funded weight-loss clinics, armed with experts who can address everything from behaviour modification to proper nutrition, would help solve Canada’s obesity epidemic, according to a York University study. “With 59 per cent of the Canadian public overweight, and 23 per...
Contribution to psychotherapy garners professor major US award
York psychology Professor Leslie Greenberg, a pioneer of Emotion-Focused Therapy, has been chosen as the winner of the 2012 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research...
VP Students Rob Tiffin to retire on June 30
President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri yesterday issued this message to the York community: It is with mixed emotions that I wish to advise you that Vice-President Students Rob Tiffin has decided to retire. Rob informed me of his decision late...
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