York neuroscience Professor Joseph DeSouza recently received a $20,000 donation to help fund his new research linking dance to improved motor skills in Parkinson’s sufferers, reported Radio Canada International.
Scientists from York University are travelling to Sao Paulo this month to meet with Brazilian researchers to collaborate about disease control, reported the North York Mirror.
At a special ceremony Wednesday at Queen’s Park, York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri will receive the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest official honour, reported the Toronto Sun.
NDP MP Olivia Chow (Trinity-Spadina) came to York University Thursday to talk about her “new” plan to tackle the city’s hot transit file, reported the Toronto Star.
The Idle No More movement has been successful in raising public awareness about issues facing First Nations people, York Professor Rachel Gorman said in the Waterloo Region Record.
The government allows for a maximum $20,000 withdrawal for education at an accredited college or university under its Lifelong Learning Plan. “It’s really good for people who want to go back to school to withdraw, [people who are] maybe between jobs – transitioning – and want to go on to an advanced degree,” said Schulich instructor Jamie Golombek in CBC News.
“Cutting aboriginal people out of the decision-making process around land use is an unacceptable change to the already strained alliance that this country was built on,” wrote York geography Professor Bruce Erickson in the Toronto Star.
A Canadian law firm donated $150,000 to help create a new hands-on business law internship program for Osgoode Hall Law School students, reported the York Guardian.
Ashni Raythatha was facing endless possibilities for her career when she spotted Procter & Gamble’s Sales/Customer Business Development Summer Internship listing, which described a different kind of role than the sales job stereotype she had come to expect, reported TalentEgg.
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday hears a case that will likely clarify when lawyers can act against former clients in unrelated matters, but Alan Hutchinson, Distinguished Research Professor at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, believes the choices may not be as clear cut as some might think.