Graduate students Aytak Akbari-Dibavar and Jesse Thistle in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies have been awarded the Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship, a prestigious distinction presented by the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. It is the first time since 2008 that a York graduate student has been chosen for the scholarship, which recognizes the […]
Professor emerita, senior scholar and 2011 Trudeau Fellow, Haideh Moghissi, was invited to offer a three-day intensive course on Iran’s role in the Middle East, for professors of International Relations at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de Mexico in Mexico City. The intensive took place May 23 to 26. Moghissi is professor emerita of […]
York University students studying in Korea this 2016 summer term are returning home with a unique international outlook. On June 5, students enrolled in a third-year Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) political science course completed studies in Seoul, South Korea, where they lived for four weeks. As part of their study […]
Student success was recently recognized at the annual Social Science & Communication Studies Awards Ceremony, where 43 students were honoured for their dedication and commitment, as well as for their inspiring work both in and out of the classroom. Held Nov. 19 at the Underground Restaurant, award recipients, professors, support staff, friends and family […]
Mary El’Bably knows first-hand the joys and financial struggles of juggling motherhood and student life. She raised her daughter while working on her undergraduate (BA Spec. Hons. ’12) and master’s degrees (MA 2014) in Sociology. She is currently a financial adviser at TD Bank and is set to begin the law program at Osgoode Hall […]
Appearing at regular intervals in YFile, Open Your Mind is a series of articles offering insight into the different ways York University faculty champion fresh ways of thinking in teaching and research excellence. Their approach, grounded in a desire to seek the unexpected, is charting a new course for future generations. Today, the spotlight […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has re-launched its annual writing competition for 2016 with a new name: the LA&PS Writing Prize. The competition formerly known as the LA&PS Essay Award began in 1986, and was first created by Tom Traves, former dean of the Faculty of Arts. As its name […]
York Professor Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Chair of the Department of Philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of cognitive science, captured the attention of students from Rishikul Vidyapeeth, a school near New Delhi, India, with his live lecture delivered from Toronto via Skype on May 3. The lecture, titled “The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence,” offered […]
York University students are living in Seoul, South Korea, during part of this summer term to study the country’s rapid change over the last five decades. These students are enrolled in the third-year political science course, “South Korea: The Politics of Compressed Modernity”, one of the 11 summer study abroad courses offered through the […]
Having students role play characters in a multi-player, online science fiction game is one way to increase their critical thinking skills. That’s the idea behind a new course starting May 9 at York University that has students choosing their own game adventure. The first-year course – Reasoning about Morality and Values: Critical Thinking Skills […]