York University’s Portuguese & Luso-Brasilian Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS) has announced Wendy Roza as the recipient of the Portuguese Gives You Wings award, sponsored by Azores Airlines. This award aims to recognize academic excellence in an elementary Portuguese language class (POR1000). Roza excelled in Portuguese 1000, earning a final […]
The names of two more students from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) will be added to the awards display wall in the Vari Hall Rotunda in celebration of the fifth annual Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award. From multiple Faculties at York, the ten York University students receiving the award were honoured […]
Anthony (Tony) Richmond, professor emeritus at York University and one of the founders of York’s Department of Sociology, died on March 28 at the age of 91. A memorial service has taken place and his ashes will be scattered at his wife’s home in Anglesey, North Wales. Richmond was born in Ilford, England. At […]
Rhonda Lenton, vice-president academic and provost, issues the following announcement to the York University community: I am pleased to inform members of the York University community of the appointment of Ms. Lucy Fromowitz as Vice-Provost Students; her appointment will take effect July 1, 2017. We are delighted that Ms. Fromowitz will be returning to […]
A team of students from York University’s School of Administrative Studies (SAS) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies brought home a third-place win from the 8th annual Fast Pace to the Case (FPC) Competition. The team of fourth-year bachelor of commerce students – Shahir Kazemi, Alamgir Khandwala, Shivansh Jani and Yuqing Zhao […]
A team of four York University students earned a second-place finish at the second annual CivicSpark Undergraduate Public Policy Competition. CivicSpark is a University of Toronto organization dedicated to empowering a new generation of city builders by providing a non-partisan platform for students to develop creative solutions to real problems in the Greater Toronto Hamilton […]
Nine York University students were among the 338 young women to attend Equal Voice Canada’s historic Daughters of the Vote initiative in the House of Commons on International Women’s Day (March 8). The young women were representatives for each of Canada’s federal ridings, and made Canadian history by taking their seats in the House with […]
Three students enrolled in the Business & Society (BUSO) course SOSC 4046: The Social Economy Practicum received a Community Award for their excellent experiential education work in the Jane-Finch community. Sherika Alexis-Brown, Allison Nephew and Kayathiri Ambalavnar were honoured by Member of Parliament Judy Sgro, representing Humberside-Blackcreek, for generating revenue for the Firgrove Community […]
Rhonda Lenton, vice-president academic and provost, has issued the following announcement to the York University community: I am pleased to inform members of the Faculty of Graduate Studies that Professor Fahim Quadir has agreed to take on the role of Interim Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Interim Associate Vice-President Graduate. President Shoukri […]
A four-part community conversation series designed to engage the local community on topics of emotional well-being will continue on April 18 with “Moving Towards Resilience: An Interactive Workshop with Les DanceSours.” The series, developed and facilitated by York University’s School of Social Work, Access Alliance, the Black Creek Community Collaborative and the York University TD […]