Long-serving York University Professor Emeritus Orest Subtelny passed away in Toronto on Sunday, July 24. Subtelny joined the Department of History in 1982 to take up a position that was in part funded by the Canadian Ukrainian community. Throughout his York career until his retirement in 2015, he was cross-appointed to the Department of […]
Guided by York University Professor Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano, who is chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LAPS), 21 students from across the University are experiencing the trip of a lifetime in Italy this summer. The group is in Florence, Italy as part […]
Maria João Dodman, professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, has published a creative book of short narratives that explore the notion of hybrid identity, of living between worlds and the (re) invention of a 10th Island a […]
Ramsay Cook, a distinguished member of the Department of History from 1969-96 and then professor emeritus, died on July 14 in Toronto. Born in Alameda, Sask., Prof. Cook began his academic career by completing his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1954. He then went on to Queen’s University to […]
An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Jimmy Huang, professor of information technology, launched its 2016 summer series of collaborative training and research activities to prepare professors, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students in managing large-scale emergencies. ADERSIM – Computational Approaches in Advanced Disaster Emergency and Rapid Response Simulations – is supported by the Natural […]
York University partnered with India’s Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University in New Delhi to host the second Global Dialogue on Ethics and Internationalizing Higher Education. The first dialogue was held at JMI in November 2015, where debates centred around neo-liberalism, internationalization of the curricula, and the complexities of North-South partnerships. The June 8 event […]
A team of researchers from across Canada, including health Professor Tamara Daly and sociology professor Pat Armstrong, has received $2 million to study quality of life of seniors living in residential long-term care settings, their caregivers and supporters. “Seniors – Adding Life To Years” (SALTY) is a four-year research project that will evaluate promising programs, […]
Three individuals at York University who have demonstrated exceptional and innovative teaching methods will be honoured with the annual President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards (PUWTA) during Spring Convocation ceremonies. Award recipients Kabita Chakraborty, Krista Hunt and Matthew Strang were selected by the Senate Committee on Awards for their significant contribution to enhancing the quality of […]
When York University President and Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri called undergrad Sayjon Ariyarathnam, the fourth-year BA student was surprised — he wasn’t expecting to receive congratulations for earning the highly prestigious Murray G. Ross Award. The award is the highest honour given to a graduating undergradate student at York, and recognizes both academic distinction and notable contributions […]
The Reflexive Initiative: On the Grounds and Prospects of Analytic Theorizing (Routledge, 2016) is a new book edited by Stanley Raffel and Barry Sandywell as part of the Routledge Advances in Sociology Series. The essays collected in the volume stem from a conference held at Edinburgh University in 2014 to celebrate the 40th anniversary […]