In the space of one week, the Schulich Graduate Business Council and graduate students at the Schulich School of Business collected more than double last year's amount of food for the North York Harvest Food Bank.
University Professor Ron Owston has been appointed interim dean of the Faculty of Education for an 18-month term.
Applications for the role of master of McLaughlin College are due Feb. 1. College masters play an important role in enhancing the student experience.
In April 2013, the Ottawa Police Service will begin tracking racial data during traffic stops in an effort to ensure "bias-free policing." A team of researchers from York University will analyze the data, reported Metro Ottawa.
The York University Bookstore has made several changes, including facilitating online shopping, a textbook rental program, buying and selling used textbooks and offering Scholar Dollars through the YU Card rewards program.
A study led by York psychology Professor Kari Hoffman found that the brain takes visual information, and codes and categorizes it using precisely synchronized electrical pulses in the brain's rhythms to let us know what we're looking at.
Osgoode Hall Law School staff Mary Barbieri, Lielle Gonsalves and Jody-Ann Rowe-Butler, and Professors Tom Johnson, Kent McNeil and Bruce Ryder, were honoured Dec. 7 for their dedication and commitment to the school.
York's newest college proudly hoisted its banner in the Senate Chamber, where it will be displayed along with banners from each of the University's colleges.
At an open forum on Nov. 26, York Vice-President Research and Innovation Robert Hache presented the six draft themes arising out of the pan-University community consultations on the new plan.
The synopsis of the 426th meeting of the Senate of York University is now available.