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Relationship agreement ensures Indigenous priorities are included in future of health care

York University and the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council sign an agreement towards advancing equitable health care as a foundation of the new School of Medicine TORONTO, Sept. 12, 2024 – In a spirit of fostering healing and reconciliation, York University and the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council (IPHCC) signed a relationship agreement today at […]

York U physicist, Newton apple-tree guardian, available for comment ahead of Gravity Day

York University’s Newton apple tree has had a storied existence, with lineage that is thought to go back to Sir Isaac Newton’s original discovery of gravity in the 1600s and the apple tree that infamously played muse to the physicist — even if the story about the apple falling on his head isn’t exactly how it really went down. 

More York experts available for Olympics commentary

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.

Celebrating success of bridging program graduates

A celebratory event will honour the many internationally educated professionals who recently participated in York’s program that helps newcomers to overcome barriers in their career path