Starting Monday, March 16, YFile will reduce its publishing schedule. The newsletter will publish on Mondays and Thursdays each week. This reduced schedule will continue until the completion of precautions related to limiting the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Read moreGlendon College’s translation team travelled to Quebec March 6 to 8 to compete in the 15th annual Translation Games, the largest inter-university translation competition in Canada. The team returned home with a second-place finish, which is Glendon’s best performance ever.
Read moreEducation students participated in a carousel activity with industry experts to learn about community mental health and wellness resources available to schools and students. The activity was another example of experiential education and hands-on learning in York University’s Faculty of Education.
Read moreSherena Hussain, assistant professor at Schulich’s Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure and academic director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program, has been nominated for the 2020 Women Infrastructure Network (WIN) Emerging Leader Award.
Read moreLaw and Disorder, a symposium on Saturday, March 14 to be presented by Osgoode Hall Law School’s Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security in honour of its founding director, the late Professor Margaret Beare, will discuss the challenges of policing and governance in a globalizing world.
Read moreThe York Science Communicator in Residence program, based in the Faculty of Science, is once again open for applications for its fourth year of the program. The deadline to apply is April 20.
Read moreStudent Accessibility Services is hosting its second annual end-of-year celebration that honours staff, faculty and students. This year’s celebration will take place on Thursday, March 26, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the second-floor conference facility in the Second Student Centre on York University’s Keele Campus.
Read moreStudents from York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering hosted the Elle Hacks competition at the Keele Campus on Jan. 31. The annual three-day event is the largest student-run hackathon created entirely for women and non-binary individuals of all experience levels.
Read moreFormer faculty member Theodore “Ted” Olson died at the age of 88 on Feb. 21. He was an ordained minister, and was a professor of social sciences at York University.
Read moreA talk on the intersection of big data and childhood will be the focus of the 2020 Alexander F. Chamberlain Lecture on March 17, when the Children, Childhood and Youth Program at York University presents guest speaker Valerie Steeves.
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