News Archive

Keep informed and learn what's new in LA&PS.
Please note: our online news archive is not comprehensive; these news items are just a taste of the many profiles, comments and stories about the Faculty and our community members that are featured in York publications and in the media.
For access to our entire news database, e-mail lapscoms@yorku.ca.
Top 10 News Items
- Motherhood after 40: How old is too old? Professor Andrea O'Reilly comments –Toronto Star
- Professor Daniel Drache on TVO's The Debate: Is Canada Governable panel discussion – TVO
- Professor David Doorey's Workplace Law Blog now available as a free iTunes application – iTunes
- Professor David Dewitt appointed vice-president of programs at CIGI –YFile
- LA&PS Strategic Framework endorsed by Faculty Council –YFile
- Steve Mason one of six Canada Research Chairs renewed at York –YFile
- New program to train tomorrow's leaders in emergency management – YFile
- Karolyn Smardz Frost and Nadia Habib make top 10 in TVO Best Lecturer Competition – YFile
- Monica Belcourt receives top HR award from the Human Resources Professional Association – YFile
- Professor Carla Lipsig-Mummé receives $1 million from SSHRC for climate change project – YFile
- Professor Coombe receives $1.4-million renewal on Canada Research Chair – YFile
- Rishma Dunlop awarded a Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair – YFile
- New graduate program trains tomorrow's leaders in corporate responsibility – YFile
- IT and business bridging programs announced for internationally educated professionals – YFile
Dean's Office News
- Dean Singer participates in green paper forum – YFile
- Dean Singer helps pay tribute to York's generous donors – YFile
- New Faculty arrives on time thanks to transition teamwork - YFile
- Five LA&PS associate deans announced - YFile
- Founding dean appointed for LA&PS - YFile
- LA&PS makes its public debut - YFile
- Centre for Student Success aids advising - YFile
Strategic Planning News
Research & Teaching News
- Women's Studies Professor Bettina Bradbury launches new book: Wife to Widow – YFile
- Professor Marin Litoiu wins awards for cloud computing – YFile
- Professor Sheila Cavanagh's new book examines archaic attitudes toward bathrooms – YFile
- Professor Alan Durston receives Aurora Prize for research on indigenous language – YFile
- Professors Bettina Bradbury & Marc Stein honoured for excellence in graduate teaching – YFile
- Four LA&PS professors elected to the Royal Society of–Canada – YFile
- Andrea O'Reilly: the woman who put mothering on the map – CityNews.ca
- Prof. Gill behind prestigious Helsinki Discussions on global governance – YFile
- Profs publish new book exploring historical perspectives of Yiddish Language Conference –YFile
- Three scholars with close ties to York sweep Medieval Academy of America awards –YFile
- Steve Mason one of six Canada Research Chairs renewed at York –YFile
Program News
- New Certificate Program in Health Services Financial Management – Yorku.ca
- Creative writing professor travels to India to lecture and share research with scholars – YFile
- Portuguese program hosts symposium bringing together novelists of Portuguese heritage – YFile
- Science & Technology program hosts Trent history prof – YFile
- Chinese language program hosts award-winning author for York University China Day – YFile
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- New program to train tomorrow's leaders in emergency management – YFile
- Historian's TV airs video about York's History Department – YFile
- IMPAC Dublin nominee to read from her award-winning novel The Outlander – YFile
- Dept. of French Studies sells crêpes in support of Haiti – YFile
- History Department featured on Historians TV: Making History Relevant – American Historical Association
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award nominee to read as part of the Creative Writing program – YFile
- Science & Technology program organizes speaker on science and indigenous tradition – YFile
- English Department to host Dracula expert Elizabeth Miller – YFile
- New program for internationally educated professionals – metronews.ca
- Business & Society program launches new certificate in Books and Co-operative Management – YFile
- History department organizes conference that kicks in with a broad look at soccer – YFile
- Annual Humanities York-Noor Lecture Series to present two talks this year – YFile
- Susan Musgrave gives quirky talk to Creative Writing program – YFile
- University of Havana professor pays a visit to the Japanese Language program – YFile
- Creative Writing program to host writer Susan Musgrave – YFile
- Creative Writing program hosts award-winning poet and essayist – YFile
- Business & Society symposium looks at sustainable purchasing policies – YFile
- New graduate program trains tomorrow's leaders in corporate responsibility – YFile
- IT and business bridging programs announced for internationally educated professionals - YFile
Student News
- Graduate student Simon Black suggests we remix urban education – Toronto Star
- Graduating students win alumni association awards at GRADitude event – YFile
- History student leads a Jane's Walk along Black Creek – YFile
- High school students work with York students on four experiential education projects – YFile
- Two students win Michael Baptista Essay Prize – YFile
- Hard work pays off as HR students head to national competition – YFile
- Edward Fenner to give a reading of his play The Telsa Chronicles – YFile
- LA&PS students use Reading Week to get sweaty for Habitat for Humanity – YFile
- Undergraduate research showcased at history conference organized by student association – YFile
- Olympic torchbearer a LA&PS student and cancer survivor – YFile
- LA&PS student helping to lay the path for Global Zero on nuclear weapons – YFile
- Employers have high praise for York students at 2010 Career Fair – YFile
- Students and alumni to get career savvy at conference – YFile
- Debaters fare well at Winter Carnival in Montreal – YFile
- South Simcoe Economic Alliance benefits from student expertise – YFile
- LA&PS students dominate North American public anthropology contest – YFile
- Trust fund established for the family of LA&PS student Konstantins Bondarevs – YFile
- Student wins trip for two in a song about losing the connection with outmoded cellphone – YFile
- Orphaned children talk to students about their lives in Kenya and learn about university – YFile
- Top students in communication studies and social science celebrated at reception – YFile
- Graduate students receive Susan Mann Dissertation Scholarships – YFile
- Geography grad students host regional conference – YFile
- Panel of student researchers tackles the issue of H1N1 – YFile
- PhD student to read at International Festival of Authors – YFile
- PhD student goes from poet to filmmaker and makes her first festival appearance – YFile
- More medals captured at Canada Summer Games - YFile
- Tyrone Halstead wins silver medal at Canada Summer Games - YFile
- Sociology student earns scholarship - The Brampton Guardian
- LA&PS graduate students win 2009 YCAR awards - YFile
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Alumni News (includes Arts/Atkinson)
- York grad discovers Haiti's long-lost Declaration of Independence – YFile
- Alumni Connections Conference stresses giving and passion as key to success – YFile
- Award-winning alum reads at Glendon – YFile
- Three alumni and prof make CBC Literary Awards short list – YFile
- Alumnus asks the ultimate career question: for love or money? – Alumni Matters
- Poet and alumnus Kevin Connolly to read from collection Revolver – YFile
- English alumna credits York for nurturing her literary career and life in Canada – YFile
- English alumnus hits the brakes on a dream career – The New York Times
- Alumna Susan Weinstein's new book examines the way stress affects pets – Northumberland News
- Alumnus bridges art and disability on stage through his production CP Salon – YFile
- Philosophy alum helps build snowboarding hills - and character – YFile
- Alumnus Jian Ghomeshi talks about value of a liberal arts degree at Bryden awards – YFile
- York Bryden Alumni Awards announced – YFile
- Nino Ricci to speak at conference on cosmopolitan realities of contemporary cities – YFile
- Alumna Kim Echlin makes the Giller Prize short list – YFile
- Writing pays off for two alumni on the Giller Prize long list – YFile
- Alumna founds Canada's first and only philanthropic brokerage firm - The Calgary Herald
- Jennifer Corriero helps youth network for global change - Reader's Digest
- Creative writing alumnus takes his characters online - The Brampton Guardian
- Derek Lett receives PPA Alumni Recognition Award - YFile
Additional Community News
- Public memorial for Professor Emeritus Arthur Siegal May 11 – YFile
- Workshop discusses 35,000-record Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database – YFile
- Risky business: York symposium looks at risk and accountability – YFile
- School of Social Work hosts annual symposium on research and social change – YFile
- Master wanted to head up New College – YFile
- University honours long-standing faculty – YFile
- Provost releases revised white paper on York's future – YFile
- Toronto mayoral candidate speaks at York – YFile
- Annual criminology lecture looks at survelliance and closed-circuit TV – YFile
- Traumatology, a new poetry collection by Priscila Uppal, launches Wednesday – YFile
- Sociology prof to participate in panel examining challenges faced by immigrant artists – YFile
- Canadian Writers in Person Series hosts Elizabeth Hay – YFile
- Grad program in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics to examine new directions in language policy – YFile
- Political Science prof gives keynote speech at Model United Nations Conference – YFile
- LA&PS profs part of policy dialogue examining the issue of competing human rights – YFile
- Wolinsky Lectures explore Jewish perspective on environmental challenges – YFile
- Federal Court Justice Luc Martineau to discuss the impacts of courts on public policy – YFile
- Canadians can't take prosperity for granted, said Bob Rae at MPPALSA event – YFile
- Graduate of Social & Political Thought named professor of the year – YFile
- English prof and Canadian Writer in Person admits his main character is smarter than he is – YFile
- Smardz Frost to give plenary address at conference for York teaching assistants – YFile
- Professor Uppal is poet-in-residence during Olympic and Paralympic Games – YFile
- Award-winning York authors read from their latest works – YFile
- Writer and cultural commentator delivers lecture on DIY writing – YFile
- Revolutionary Traveller, prof's memoir, will launch Feb 10 – YFile
- Lots of LA&PS activities and community members part of U50 celebrations – YFile
- The Prophetic Paradigm in the Qur'an to be explored as part of York-Noor series – YFile
- Mothering & Poverty theme of latest issue of motherhood journal – YFile
- Conference to look at the future of Canadian security studies – YFile
- Critically acclaimed author Lawrence Hill reads fromThe Book of Negroes – YFile
- Conference takes a critical look at multiculturalism in Brazil, Canada and the United States – YFile
- Fan of Robbie Burns? Colleges celebrate the Scottish poet on his birthday – YFile
- We all have within us a narrative tradition we can access, says Aboriginal writer – YFile
- Guyanese-born Canadian poet will read from her latest collection on January 21 – YFile
- Flag will fly at half-mast on January 15 in honour of Professor David Sealy – YFile
- The Avie Bennett Historica Chair panel on soccer scores big – YFile
- Canadian Writers in Person series hosts writer and filmmaker David Bermozgis – YFile
- Professor David Sealy, a gifted scholar in the Law & Society program, passes away – YFile
- Former course instructor returns to York to read from her latest book The Other Sister – YFile
- Vico lecturer Nancy Fraser explores the global economy in a different light – YFile
- Flag at half-mast in honour of Humanities Professor Frank Zingrone – YFile
- Prof. Eduardo Canel named one of 10 most influential Hispanic Canadians – YFile
- Canadian Writers in Person celebrates 10 years with its biggest fan – YFile
- English prof's African tour with spouse yields many adventures – YFile
- Canadian Writers in Person celebrates 10 years by launching a digital archive – YFile
- LA&PS retired faculty and staff thanked for their service – YFile
- Professor Paul Lovejoy part of celebrations of many firsts for Tubman Institute – YFile
- Humanities Professor Bernie Lightman a featured guest in documentary on Darwin – YFile
- John Hopkins professor to speak at John S. Saul seminar – YFile
- Poet Jan Zwicky comes to York as part of the Canadian Writers in Person series – YFile
- Members of LA&PS community help get observer status at UN conference – YFile
- LA&PS talent teams up to create art to help fund Canadian athletes – YFile
- Canadian Writers in Person lecture series kicks off with Anthony De Sa – YFile
- French poetry conference draws award-winning authors – YFile
- Atkinson Students' Association presents cheque for LA&PS student aid at mentoring event – YFile
- Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series showcases CanLit talent – YFile
- Administrative Studies professor to moderate positive space discussion on Inclusion Day – YFile
- Photographs by Susan Foster, Dept. of Sociology, on show at festival – YFile
- NY University Prof looks at global economy and labour at Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture – YFile
- Latest issue of Studio, edited by Prof. Dunlop, now available online – YFile
- Sociology professor's documentary chosen as gala opener of Sikh film festival – YFile
- Daniel Drache to chair panel at U50 conference on challenges to multiculturalism – YFile
- LA&PS poets and storytellers at this year's Words Alive Literary Festival – YFile
- Patrick Gray launches new book of poetry – Northumberland Today
- Faculty and students part of genealogy conference in Buxton – YFile
- George Fallis deplores economic justifications for universities - The New York Times
- Former humanities chair to run Victoria art college - Times Colonist
- Faculty and staff publish books through the Bookstore's print-on-demand service - YFile



