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Snow route parking restrictions begin Nov. 15 on Keele Campus
Commencing Nov. 15, snow route restrictions will go into effect along Passy Crescent, Assiniboine Road, Ottawa Road and other signed areas across the Keele Campus.
Parking in these areas will not be permitted between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 7 a.m., regardless of the weather conditions, the presence of pay machines in the area or the use of the Honk Mobile app. Snow clearing during winter months will be performed during the restricted hours. The restrictions will stay in place from Nov. 15 through to March 2022.
Vehicles parked during the restricted times will be tagged and/or towed.
For more information, contact Parking & Transportation Services at parking@yorku.ca.
The Fall 2021 Graduation Celebration will take place online, Nov. 2
York University’s newest graduates will be recognized during a virtual Graduation Celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 2.
The event, which will take place online with specific times for each faculty, has been created in place of traditional convocation ceremonies due to the ongoing public health concerns resulting from COVID-19. When it is safe to do so, graduates from the Class of 2021 will be honoured at an in-person convocation.
Planning has been focused on incorporating as many elements of the traditional convocation as is possible in a virtual event. Included in the Graduation Celebration will be the Honour Song and the national anthem, along with recorded remarks from York University Chancellor Gregory Sobora, President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and Faculty deans. During the virtual event, graduands will experience the ceremonial conferral of degrees. Their names will be read along with a personal graduation slide that lists their name, degree, program, and any academic honours. These videos will be played via livestream on YouTube Premieres, and the full schedule is available on the Convocation website.
Graduands were offered the opportunity to pick up their Convocation packages (which included a special Graduation Celebration box) on campus during Grad Days, which took place during the Fall Reading Week in October. In addition to picking up their package including their diploma, graduands were also able to take photos with two guests against a special Convocation backdrop. Graduands who were unable to attend Grad Days, will receive their special Graduation Celebration box by courier. Each personalized Graduation Celebration box was packed with care by York University staff and contains the student’s diploma, cap and tassel, a convocation program and some other special items to help them celebrate.
York University is also offering a suite of digital assets, including Zoom backgrounds, GIF stickers and Augmented Reality filters. Graduates can also listen to or submit songs for the York University Class of 2021 Spotify playlist. All of the digital assets can be found on the main Convocation website.
Passings: Professor Emerita Doris Nicholls
Doris Nicholls (née McEwen), professor emerita of biology in the Faculty of Science, died peacefully on Aug. 17 at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, to the strains of The Glen Miller Band’s “In The Mood.” She was 94.
One half of a scientific power couple, Professor Nicholls was predeceased by her adored husband of 56 years, Ralph Nicholls, O.C., who was a York University Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of physics and the founder of the Centre for Research on Earth and Space Science.
Born in Bayfield, she was a brilliant student, earning many awards, scholarships, bursaries and accolades throughout her academic career. This brilliance continued as she advanced scholastically and earned an incredible four degrees at Western University – Bachelor of Science, Master of Science (both in Botany), MD cum laude with two gold medals and a PhD in Biochemistry. These designations are impressive now but a truly incredible feat for a woman during those early days of academia and research.
In 1965, the Nicholls were together recruited by the burgeoning York University to help establish the new university, to teach and to conduct research, which they continued to do well into the 2000s. As Professor Emerita of biology at York University, Professor Nicholls taught and mentored many graduate students throughout the years. She was regarded as a quiet, very intelligent and caring professor who was available always for her students. That was her work persona but those who were fortunate enough to know Professor Nicholls outside those academia walls, knew her as an incredibly intelligent, shiny and bubbly spitfire, able to recall a litany of facts on many subjects as well names and places with a ferocity that was unparalleled. She was a gracious host, excellent cook and baker – which she continued to do, preparing her three meals from scratch every day until her last days.
“I arrived as a new faculty member in the Department of Biology in summer 1968, three years after Doris joined the department and the Faculty as a pioneering woman. She was one of the first colleagues who I met on arrival and she was very warm and welcoming to me. This warmth and welcoming attitude were constants of my and other’s interactions with Doris over the years. She was a biochemist and along with the late Bob Allen in chemistry, was the face and core of biochemistry teaching and research at the time,” said University Professor Emeritus Ron Pearlman. “The late Dave Logan and I joined the biology department soon thereafter to expand this core group that with time, developed into a core strength of biochemistry, cell and molecular biology in the Faculty. Doris was a pleasant and interactive colleague who in her quiet but important way made strong contributions in the early years and subsequently to the development of the molecular biosciences at York. It was a pleasure for me to work with and interact with her over many years. I have certainly missed her since her retirement and although she visited periodically, she did not have a strong presence in the department since her retirement. We should all thank her and recognize her contributions in the development of the department, particularly in the molecular biosciences, as well as her other interests such as nature and wildlife preservation.”
“When I arrived at York University in 1968 I was surprised to find that a leading physics professor from my former graduate school [Western University] and his wife were now at York University. A few years later, the embryo Chemistry Department was moved from Farquharson to the new physics building (Petrie) where I was assigned a lab, unwittingly, directly above one of Ralph Nicholls’ labs. One day, he called me to task for having a water leakage in my lab, which was endangering his expensive devices. I fixed it and apologized. His annoyance waned and he explained how he met his wife when her lab overflowed in the same way!” said Clive Holloway, professor emeritus of chemistry.
Though her physical health had been declining over the past couple of years, her brilliance and zest for life did not wane. To the end, Professor Nicholls remained compassionate, fun loving and caring with an infectious laugh that seemed too big for her tiny frame.
As per her wishes, no funeral service will occur. In her memory, donations in her honour may be made to any of her favorite charities, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Ontario Nature, Canadian Wildlife Federation, Salvation Army.
Chantal Gibson to read from debut poetry collection at Nov. 9 Canadian Writers in Person
If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which continues Nov. 9 with a reading from Chantal Gibson’s debut poetry collection, How She Read (Caitlin Press, 2019).
The series gives attendees an opportunity to get up close and personal with 11 authors who will present their work and answer questions. Canadian Writers in Person is a for-credit course for students and a free-admission event for members of the public. All readings take place at 7 p.m. on select Tuesday evenings via Zoom. Links for each reading can be found here.
Gibson is an award-winning writer, artist and educator living on the unceded, traditional, ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her work confronts colonialism head on, imagining the BIPOC voices silenced in the spaces and omissions left by systemic cultural and institutional erasure. Recipient of the prestigious 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Gibson teaches writing and visual communication in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University.
How She Read, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history, art, media and pop culture, Gibson’s sassy semiotics highlight the depth and duration of the imperialist ideas embedded in everyday things, from storybooks to coloured pencils, from paintings to postage stamps. A mediation on motherhood and daughterhood, belonging, loss and recovery, the collection weaves the voices of Black women, past and present.
This year’s Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series lineup consists of a unique selection of emerging and established Canadian writers whose writing explores a broad range of topics and geographical and cultural landscapes. Featuring seasoned and emerging poets and fiction writers, the series highlights Canada’s ever-growing pool of literary talent.
Other readings scheduled in this series are:
- Nov. 23: Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire (HarperCollins Canada)
- Dec. 7: Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty, Land-Water-Sky /Ndè–Tı–Yat’a (Fernwood Publishing)
2022
- Jan. 18: Thomas King, Sufferance (HarperCollins Canada)
- Feb. 1: Zsuzsi Gartner, The Beguiling (Penguin Random House Canada)
- Feb. 22: Rebecca Salazar, sulphurtongue (Penguin Random House Canada)
- March 8: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic (Penguin Random House)
- March 22: Louise B. Halfe/Sky Dancer, Burning in This Midnight Dream (Brick Books)
Canadian Writers in Person is a course offered in the Culture and Expression program in the Department of Humanities in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. For more information on the series, visit yorku.ca/laps/canwrite, or email Professor Gail Vanstone at gailv@yorku.ca or Professor Leslie Sanders at leslie@yorku.ca.
Bike Share comes to York University
Bike share station on York University’s Keele campus.
York University is partnering with Bike Share Toronto and is the first post-secondary institution in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to bring Bike Share onto its campuses.
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Dear colleagues,
York University is pleased to announce a partnership with Bike Share Toronto. York is the first post-secondary institution in the GTA to bring Bike Share Toronto onto its campuses. This exciting partnership brings a healthy, fun and affordable way to get around the campuses and the city.
The University partnered with the City of Toronto to install three Bike Share stations on the Keele and Glendon campuses. Located on the north and south sides of the York University Subway Station on the Keele Campus, and inside the main entrance of the Glendon Campus, these bikes provide an additional and sustainable mode of transportation while further enhancing York’s relationship with the City of Toronto. In addition, there are also Bike Share stations located on Sentinel Road at The Pond Road and at Murray Ross Parkway.
The program provides community members with 24-7 convenient access to bikes and a variety of payment options. Users of the Bike Share program can pay for use of the bikes on a per-ride basis at $3.25 for 30 minutes, purchase multi-day passes or, as members of the York community, take advantage of one of two annual corporate membership programs. Members benefit from the corporate plan by getting 20 per cent off the regular membership price. Bikes rented at a York station can be returned either on campus or at any of the 625 Bike Share stations across Toronto.
The University understands and embraces partnerships – Working in Partnership is one of the six priorities for action identified in the University Academic Plan 2020-25, helping the University to gain vital insights toward creating positive change for our students, our campuses and our broader communities.
The Bike Share program supports York’s efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 – Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable. In addition, this program helps to uphold the University’s commitment to sustainable transportation and reduce carbon emissions on York’s campuses, as the University works toward its goal of carbon neutrality on or before 2049.
To learn more about Bike Share Toronto at York, please visit the University’s Bike Share website.
Thank you and happy riding,
Anthony Barbisan
Executive Director, Ancillary Services Department
Division of Finance and Administration
Nicole Arsenault
Program Director, Sustainability
Division of Finance and Administration
L’Université York accueille Bike Share Toronto sur ses campus
Cher collègues,
L’Université York est heureuse d’annoncer un partenariat avec Bike Share Toronto. York est le premier établissement postsecondaire de la région du Grand Toronto à accueillir Bike Share Toronto sur ses campus. Ce partenariat offre un moyen sain, amusant et abordable de se déplacer sur les campus et dans la ville.
L’Université s’est associée à la Ville de Toronto pour installer trois stations Bike Share sur les campus Keele et Glendon. Situées sur les côtés nord et sud de la station de métro York University sur le campus Keele et près de l’entrée principale du campus Glendon, ces stations de vélos offrent un mode de transport supplémentaire et durable tout en renforçant la relation entre l’Université York et la Ville de Toronto. D’autres stations Bike Share sont situées sur Sentinel Road (à la hauteur de The Pond Road) et sur Murray Ross Parkway.
Le programme Bike Share offre aux membres de la communauté un accès pratique aux vélos en tout temps, ainsi que diverses options de paiement. Les utilisateurs du programme peuvent payer à l’usage (3,25 $ pour 30 minutes), acheter des abonnements de plusieurs jours ou, en tant que membres de la communauté de York, profiter de l’un des deux plans d’abonnement collectif. Les membres du plan d’abonnement collectif obtiennent une réduction de 20 % par rapport au prix normal. Les vélos loués à York peuvent être rendus soit sur les campus, soit à l’une des 625 stations de Toronto.
L’Université reconnaît l’importance de tels partenariats et les encourage. Travailler en partenariat est d’ailleurs l’une des six priorités d’intervention inscrites au Plan académique de l’Université 2020-2025, ce qui lui permet d’acquérir des connaissances essentielles afin de créer des changements positifs pour ses étudiants et étudiantes, ses campus et ses communautés.
Le programme Bike Share soutient les efforts de York pour faire avancer l’objectif 11 de développement durable des Nations Unies : Faire en sorte que les villes et les établissements humains soient ouverts à tous, sûrs, résilients et durables. De plus, ce programme contribue au respect de l’engagement de York envers le transport durable et la réduction des émissions de carbone sur les campus, alors que l’Université s’efforce d’atteindre son objectif de neutralité carbone en 2049 ou plus tôt.
Pour en savoir plus sur Bike Share Toronto à York, veuillez visiter notre site Web.
Merci et bon vélo!
Anthony Barbisan
Directeur principal
Département des services auxiliaires
Division des finances et de l’administration
Nicole Arsenault
Directrice des programmes de durabilité
Division des finances et de l’administration
Catch a rising star at CineSiege, Nov. 19
The School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design’s film festival, CineSiege, is an annual juried selection of short films chosen by Department of Cinema & Media Arts alumni and leading practitioners in film and media culture.
Now in its 19th year, CineSiege celebrates rising stars in cinema with an online celebration taking place Nov. 19. The screening and festivities are open to the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), University community members and film lovers alike. The event starts at 7 p.m.
CineSiege features a juried selection of short films chosen by Department of Cinema & Media Arts alumni and leading practitioners in film and media culture. The films are selected from a shortlist compiled by AMPD professors and faculty. The shortlist is composed of nominated films selected from 200 films produced by students from all levels of the department’s undergraduate programs that were created in 2021. The nominated films include fiction, documentary and alternative works.
Nada El-Omari, Hugh Gibson, Avrïl Jacobson and Jared Raab are the 2021 CineSiege festival jurors.
CineSiege is made possible through the generous support of founding sponsor Cinespace Film Studios, as well as the Mirkopoulos family for their outstanding contributions to AMPD, its students and the larger film community.
Nominees
Year I and Year II Nominees
Year I and Year II films will compete within their year and category, with outstanding features selected by film production faculty.
Year I Nominees
30 Days by Michael Speciale and Maya Danou
My Girl, Skelly by Abraham David
The Well of Fortune by Daniella Castillo
Year II Nominees
Category: Documentary
Borkenkäfer by Nicolas Flood
Kadıköy by Arca Arseven
Sayed Cima by Yassin Nour
Category: Fiction
Anachronism by Brayden McQueen
Standby by Adelaide Berardi
Like There’s No Tomorrow by Natalia Morales Caceres
Category: Alternative
Unspoken Space by Jacob Robert
Sonder by Brayden McQueen
DK Ultra by Samuel Forsyth
Year III and Year IV Nominees
An external jury of filmmakers, producers, critics, programmers and alumni will select the winners in the following categories amongst all Year III and Year IV films – the best fiction film, alternative project and documentary, as well as outstanding director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, sound designer and production designer.
Category: Documentary
Encrucijadas (Crossroads) by Rosa Urias
Metal on Ice by Brendon Kenney
My Girls by Desiree Falcao
On the Horizon by Bailey Johnson
Perfect Timing by Marissa Wheler
Talks of Faith by Melissa Affrunti
Trial of the Great Forger by Yehor Vozniuk
Category: Alternative
the Affirmations of Anywhere by Cole James
Empty Spaces where you’ve been by Kendra Howden
Fellow Travellers by Brian Alonso Ojeda
I’d rather miss out on a Tuesday by Stefano Terrana
Meander by Dous’R, aka Ferdous S. Rahman
Now They’re Just Lines by Siyao Guo
She/Pronouns by Rowan Elliot
Category: Fiction
ALIEN COP by Will Sheppard and Hayden Gallagher
Bookie by Sebastian Vives
Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness by Nicolas Collier
Coming by Honestly by Paul Villenave
Cuckoo by Rebecca Fadoju
A Date by Farhiya Ahmed
Going Up Standing Still by Carly Balestreri
In Other News by Ivan Oussa
Sugar by Dylan Posgate
To view last year’s nominees and winners, as well as other student films, check out AMPD’s YorkFlix – a hub of student creativity.
York U in the news: social murder, French-language rights and more
Austerity and its link to ‘social murder’
An op-ed co-written by York University Professor Dennis Raphael and York University PhD candidates Stella Medvedyuk and Piara Govender was published in the Hamilton Spectator Oct. 27. Read full story.
French-language rights: Law societies’ duty to francophone litigants | Agnès Whitfield
An op-ed by York University Professor Agnès Whitfield was published in the Lawyer’s Daily Oct. 28. Read full story.
Rogers family drama: These are the key players as court hearing approaches
York University Professor Richard Leblanc was quoted in Global News Oct. 28. Read full story.
Toronto mayor defends role in Rogers family trust amid boardroom drama
York University Professor Richard Leblanc was quoted in Global News Oct. 27. Read full story.
York University student wins bronze medal at IFIA best invention awards 2021
York University student Erfan Nouraee was quoted in the Richmond Hill Liberal Oct. 28. Read full story.
The ‘nastiest problem’ of your lifelong expenses: Face it sooner than later
York University Professor Moshe Arye Milevsky was quoted in the Ottawa Sun Oct. 28. Read full story.
First Nation calls on auditor general to investigate Ontario’s spending on Ring of Fire mineral development
York University Professor Dayna Scott was quoted in CBC News Oct. 28. Read full story.
Judge restores citizenship of woman from China who used fraudulent marriage to flee homophobic parents
York University alumna Cecille Xu was profiled in the North Bay Nugget Oct. 27. Read full story.
MoD unveils mural calling for action on climate change
York University alumna Amy Shackleton was quoted in the Welland Tribune Oct. 28. Read full story.
Portrait of the artist: Amy Shackleton – an exploration of humanity and the environment
York University alumna Amy Shackleton was profiled in Yahoo! News Oct. 28. Read full story.
Barrie native chooses water over sand in hopes of fulfilling Olympic dream
York University student Rian Lenarduzzi was profiled on BarrieToday.com Oct. 27. Read full story.
Polar bear diet, hunting habits can be indicators of climate change: study
York University Professor Gregory Thiemann was quoted on CTVNews.ca Oct. 27. Read full story.
Climate change is shifting polar bears’ Arctic menu, research shows
York University PhD candidate Melissa Galicia was quoted on ArsTechnica.com Oct. 28. Read full story.
Anti-trafficking laws doing more harm than good for migrant sex workers, report says
Osgoode Hall Law School PhD student Vincent Wong was quoted in the Lawyer’s Daily Oct. 27. Read full story.
Pohjoisen pallonpuoliskon järvet menettävät jääpeitettään nopeasti – Erityisen voimakasta lämpeneminen oli Suomen ja Ruotsin järvissä
York University Professor Sapna Sharma was quoted in Helsingin Sanomat Oct. 27. Read full story.
The ethics of artificial intelligence
Osgoode Hall Law School Adjunct Professor Maura R. Grossman was interviewed on TechXplore.com Oct. 27. Read full story.
Martin and Kevin
York University alumnus Martin Kuwawi was profiled on ttc.ca Oct. 27. Read full story.
Un comité consultatif pour remédier à la baisse d’inscriptions au campus Glendon
York University spokesperson Yanni Dagonas was quoted in Le Devoir Oct. 28. Read full story.
Rookie MP Leslyn Lewis gets attention for the wrong reasons
Osgoode Hall Law School alumna Leslyn Lewis was mentioned in the Niagara Falls Review Oct. 27. Read full story.
Trying to decide which business school is best for you? Here’s what you need to know
York University’s Schulich School of Business was mentioned in the Globe and Mail Oct. 27. Read full story.
Carleton Ravens soccer players connect for goal of the year candidate
York University was mentioned in CBC News Oct. 28. Read full story.
Celia Haig-Brown
Celia Haig-Brown
Professor Celia Haig-Brown talks to the CBC about her book, Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School, and how it was at first dismissed by an editor 33 years ago
Canadian Writers in Person features Rebecca Salazar, Feb. 15
If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which continues Feb. 15 with a reading from Rebecca Salazar’s debut poetry collection, sulphurtongue (Penguin Random House Canada, 2021).
The series gives attendees an opportunity to get up close and personal with 11 authors who will present their work and answer questions. Canadian Writers in Person is a for-credit course for students and a free-admission event for members of the public. All readings take place at 7 p.m. on select Tuesday evenings via Zoom. Links for each reading can be found here.
Salazar is a writer, editor and community organizer currently living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. The author of poetry chapbooks the knife you need to justify the wound (Rahila’s Ghost) and Guzzle (Anstruther), she also edits for The Fiddlehead and Plenitude magazines.
A finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, sulphurtongue asks how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Doppelgängers, Catholic saints and polyamorists alike pass on unusual inheritances. Deeply entangled in relations both emotional and ecological, this poetry collection confronts the stories we tell about gender, queerness, race, religion, illness and trauma, seeking new forms of care for a changing world.
This year’s Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series lineup consists of a unique selection of emerging and established Canadian writers whose writing explores a broad range of topics and geographical and cultural landscapes. Featuring seasoned and emerging poets and fiction writers, the series highlights Canada’s ever-growing pool of literary talent.
Other readings scheduled in this series are:
- March 8: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic (Penguin Random House)
- March 22: Louise B. Halfe/Sky Dancer, Burning in This Midnight Dream (Brick Books)
Canadian Writers in Person is a course offered in the Culture & Expression program in the Department of Humanities in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. For more information on the series, visit yorku.ca/laps/canwrite, or email Professor Gail Vanstone at gailv@yorku.ca or Professor Leslie Sanders at leslie@yorku.ca.