Former Prof Bill Westcott is remembered by students and staff, a York expert’s op-ed on the DNC, Indigenous womanhood in poetry, and more.
York faculty members comment on $18.4 million in bonuses being paid out by CBC, Kamala Harris’s brat summer, and the diet of bats in Belize.
York faculty members comment on the Venezuelan presidential election, bees and pollinators, the movie Twisters, keeping seagulls from nesting on a TTC facility, and more.
Vying for gold today, York University alumni Melissa Humana-Paredes will take on world No. 1 Brazilian beach volleyball duo Ana Patricia Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa.
York alumnae Melissa Humaña-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson compete for gold in Paris today, a first for beach volleyball for Canada, cheered on by Humaña-Paredes’ father, three-time Olympic coach and York Professor Hernán Humaña who teaches a course on the history of the Olympics and is available for comment to media. Also this week in Paris, breaking makes its debut at the Games, Olympians get sick with bacterial infection and organizers revise the closing ceremony of the Games this Sunday after a controversial opening. York experts are available to comment on this and more.
While the Olympics are a show of international friendship and athletic excellence, they are also about politics and diplomacy, tourism, social change and spectacle, and sometimes even espionage. York experts are available to give comment to media on everything from nationalism in sport and why the economic pressures on athletes are getting even worse, to branding and tourism opportunities, the evolution of women’s basketball in Canada and how large sporting events intersect with sex tourism and displacement of low-income people, and more.
TORONTO, February 21, 2018 – The XXIII Olympic Winter Games continue this week in PyeongChang, with athletes taking part in 15 sport disciplines and the greatest number of women’s and mixed events in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. York University has a number of Faculty of Health experts who are available to speak […]
