December 16, 2019
Using analytics in healthcare is a vital paradigm to enhance patient health outcomes and service performance. York Associate Professor Christo El Morr shared insight on this topic during the eighth annual Summit of Data Analytics for Healthcare on Dec. 4.
December 16, 2019
A fellowship program supporting undergraduate students at Glendon Campus launched for the second year on Nov. 7 through the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. There are nine Fellows for the 2019-20 academic year.
December 13, 2019
York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton has issued a message to the York University community on the appointment of JJ McMurtry as dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. He has accepted a 4.5-year term commencing Jan. 1, 2020.
December 11, 2019
Associate Professor Karen Bridget Murray was an invited speaker at a juried workshop at King’s College in London, England. Murray’s talk was part of a two-day interdisciplinary workshop aimed at building an international research network that focuses on the ways that race and biomedicine are mobilized beyond the lab in the 21st century.
December 11, 2019
Professor Emeritus of theatre Don Rubin, an original faculty member of York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, hosted an international conference for the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship at the world-famous Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Conn. this past fall.
December 11, 2019
Twelve students from across the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies were recognized as winners of the annual prize during an event on Nov. 27. The students were honored for their outstanding work by Associate Dean (Students) Peter Avery during a recognition ceremony.
December 9, 2019
Collette Murray has been awarded the 2019 Community Arts Award by Toronto Arts Foundation’s Neighbourhood Arts Network. The $10,000 award celebrates an individual that has made a contribution in Toronto by working with, in and for communities, while creating access and inclusion to arts and culture.
December 9, 2019
Glendon students from the Master’s in Public and International Affairs program participated in two discussions led by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York City this fall.
December 9, 2019
Justice Beverley McLachlin, the longest serving chief justice in the history of the Supreme Court of Canada, delivered this year’s McLaughlin College Annual Public Policy Lecture. The topic for her lecture was “The Role of the Constitutional Court in a Modern Democracy.”
December 4, 2019
A bright light in Canadian cinema and screenwriting has gone out with the death of York University film production, screenwriting and cinema studies Professor Amnon Buchbinder. The prolific filmmaker and professor died on Nov. 30 at the age of 61.
