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More York experts available for Olympics commentary

Posted on 9 August 2024

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.

York experts have got you covered for Paris Olympics

Posted on 26 July 2024

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.  

York U’s interdisciplinary capstone team receives award for innovative teaching

Posted on 9 June 2023

The D2L Innovation Award honours the leadership team for its innovative approach to promoting student-centred teaching and learning in post-secondary education York University’s Cross Campus Capstone Course (C4) program, which bridges the gap between classroom education and hands-on problem solving through interdisciplinary experiential education, has won a major award for innovation in teaching. This is […]

Concert to celebrate Canadian Jewish composers spanning 115 years

Posted on 22 March 2023

TORONTO, March 22, 2023 – York University’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and the Department of Music will present a chamber music recital on Thursday at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Keele Campus. This free recital will celebrate Canadian Jewish composers spanning 115 years as part of the performance and lecture series “Sound and Sense: Jewish Music @ […]