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Amy Hu knows all about the value of financial aid. She is pursuing a psychology degree, serves as a York student senator and helped found the Pre Law Society. Her financial assistance provides her with full tuition for up to four years, and she says it has made all of the difference. Without it, she would have had to take fewer course and be a lot less involved on campus. Now a new provincial program will help more students like Hu – to the tune of $4 million a year for York.

Calling all potential international interns
The York International Internship Program is a unique program that enables students to gain international and cross-cultural work experience through internships in Canada and in regions such as Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia.

World No. 1 ranking for
Schulich School of Business
The Economist Intelligence Unit, the business research and intelligence arm of Britain's The Economist magazine, has ranked the Schulich School of Business at York University number one in the world in open enrolment executive education programs.

Indie filmmaker screens award-winning flick
Filmmaker, writer, activist and York University film Professor John Greyson will present his acclaimed feature film, Proteus, at York Thursday.

Student wins elite competition in derivative trading
Tingmin (Tim) Chen, an MBA student specializing in financial engineering at the Schulich School of Business, racked up a total of $459,560 in virtual profits, giving him top spot overall in an elite North American competition that measures skill in derivative trading.

Blood donor clinic to benefit 1,000 patients
One thousand people will receive the gift of life, thanks to the enthusiastic response by York students to the Canadian Blood Services call for donors.

Pepler takes anti-bullying
message into the classroom
Bullying can be stopped. That’s the message York Professor Debra Pepler, an internationally renowned expert on bullying, delivered to local school children as part of National Bullying Awareness Week. Pepler spoke to students at Ursula Franklin Academy in Toronto, and also reached students in Aurora thanks to York's ABEL videoconferencing technology.

Dance showcase stretches minds and bodies
York University’s young dance artists take to the stage Thursday through Saturday in York Dances! Offering 12 original works, this annual showcase is co-directed by award-winning choreographer and York dance Professor Carol Anderson and Charmaine Headley, a graduate student in the Dance Program.

Researcher finds clues to enhance therapy for worriers
Preparing worriers for psychotherapy before it starts may help them stick with the treatment and learn how to manage their anxiety, says York Professor Henny Westra.

Five alums feted at Bryden awards dinner
An evening of performance, celebration and heartfelt speeches marked the 2005 Bryden Alumni Awards dinner, held Nov. 10 at the Design Exchange. York played host to 200 proud alumni and friends as the University honoured five graduates.

Faculty of Education honours outstanding grads
Alumnus Nigel Bates (BEd ‘81), travelled from Buffalo, NY, to share in the festivities at York's Faculty of Education's first annual Alumni Awards Dinner. The event attracted Faculty of Education grads from the past three decades who renewed acquaintances and struck up new friendships.

York professor appointed to Oxford
to lecture on ancient English books
James P. Carley, distinguished research professor in the English Department of York’s Faculty of Arts, has been appointed Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, for 2005-2006.

Grad Compton wins Governor General's award for poetry
Poet and York alumna Anne Compton has won a 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry for her book Processional. Compton received an MA from York in 1971 and taught with poet Eli Mandel in a Canadian Studies course at Atkinson from 1974 to 1976.

Lions roared into baseball finals
The York University Lions capped a successful season when they travelled to Cape Breton to play against the Cape Breton University Capers in the finals of The Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association.

Record attendance at Glendon's 2005 Fall Campus Day
Torrential rain and thunderstorms did not deter visitors to Glendon’s Fall Campus Day. In spite of the inclement weather, Glendon experienced record attendance as future students accompanied by their parents came to the campus.

Professor wins prestigious theatre book award
The Association of Canadian Theatre Research has presented the 2005 Ann Saddlemyer Award to York Professor Kym Bird for her book, Redressing the Past: The Politics of Early, English-Canadian Women's Drama, 1880-1920.