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York welcomes President-designate Mamdouh Shoukri

It was standing room only as hundreds of people from the York community turned out to welcome President-designate Mamdouh Shoukri during a meet-and-greet reception hosted by York President & Vice-Chancellor Lorna R. Marsden on Feb. 20. "Being selected as the next president of York University is an absolute honour for me," said Shoukri. "I have been attracted to York University for many reasons. However, one of the most important reasons is that I feel very strongly about many of the values that are embodied in the culture of York University."

Students learn leadership skills at retreat
Fifty-five York student leaders honed their leadership skills during a three-day retreat organized by the University’s centre for Student Community & Leadership Development. Students from every Faculty and every level participated in the event held at Orillia's Geneva Park.

ASAY holds fifth annual Aboriginal
Awareness Days & Pow Wow
The Aboriginal Students' Association at York is hosting its fifth Annual Aboriginal Awareness Days & Pow Wow, from Thursday, March 1 to Saturday, March 3, at York's Keele campus. The theme of this year's event is "Honouring Our Women".

Women’s Lions head to national hoop finals
The York Lions women’s basketball team claimed the Ontario University Athletics East title a a trip to St. John's, Nfld. for the national finals with a 65-41 win over the Queen's Golden Gaels at York's Tait McKenzie Centre on Saturday.

Get discount tickets and a free bus ride to Sunday's final
Sport York has announced a special discounted rate for York students planning to attend the Ontario University Athletics Women’s Basketball Championship on Sunday, March 4, at 8pm between the sixth-ranked York Lions and the third-ranked McMaster Marauders in Hamilton.

Track & field team sends 16 athletes to nationals
At the Ontario University Athletics Track & Field Championships over the weekend, the Lions men’s track & field team finished third overall, while the women's track & field squad recorded a fifth-place finish. Sixteen Lions qualified for the national finals in Montreal, March 8-10.

Fight AIDS and other diseases on your idle PC
Join the York team on the World Community Grid and you can help researchers find answers that will help combat disease. Making your idle PC available to them increases the computational power needed to fight AIDS and neuro-muscular disease.

Glendon marketing students help local riding program for disabled
A third-year marketing class at Glendon is about to apply its lessons to boost the profile of an organization that provides therapeutic horseback riding to children and adults with physical and psychological disabilities.

On at Vanier until Thursday: a book lover's dream
Professor Carole Carpenter, master of York’s Vanier College, can tell a lot about a book by its cover – and its donor as she collects books for the 4th Annual Vanier College Book Sale, which begins today and runs until March 1.

Eco Art & Media Festival runs to March 4
York's Faculty of Environmental Studies, along with other partners, presents the 13th annual Eco Art and Media Festival, Feb. 28 to March 4, at locations within York's Keele campus and downtown Toronto. This year's theme is

Teacher candidates to lead a conference on the environment
Forty-six teacher candidates from York's Faculty of Education will meet with 140 gifted junior and intermediate students on Feb. 27 at York's teacher education site at Barrie's Georgian College, for a remarkable conference titled Earthlings Without Borders.

Young Trudeau and his times
are explored at Glendon
Anyone interested in the Canadian history and politics of the past four decades will have specific associations with the names of Monique and Max Nemni – associations with Quebec's "Quiet Revolution"', the fight against separatism, the magazine Cité libre and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada’s 15th prime minister.

New software helps York journals publish online
York-affiliated journals, including York's first student newspaper, Glendon's Pro Tem, are being made available online thanks to new user-friendly software that is part of an $11.5-million Canada Foundation for Innovation project to promote Canadian research.

Speaker looks at judicial reform in unjust regimes
The McLaughlin College series of Winter-term talks continues this week with a presentation by Carl Baar, one of the world’s leading experts on judicial administration, titled Judicial Reform in Unjust Regimes.

Ontario announces funding for bilingual education
York’s Glendon College took centre stage on Feb. 19 when the Province of Ontario made it the setting for a funding announcement related to French-language education at the postsecondary level.

Celia Franca founded national ballet company
Celia Franca, founder of the National Ballet of Canada and a York University honorary doctorate recipient, has died. She was 85. Members of York's Department of Dance recall her contributions to Canadian dance.

A book to help empower young Black Canadians
This February, as Black History Month celebrations take place across North America, York alumna Dawn Williams was busy spreading the word about her recently published second edition of Who's Who in Black Canada.

Alliance of culture and commerce celebrates visual artists
Collaboration between York’s centres of culture and commerce has turned the ART@suite 500 exhibition into an 11-year success. On Feb. 10, York's Graduate Program in Visual Arts and the Schulich School of Business hosted the opening reception of the annual exhibiton at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre.

York professor offers insight into Chinese New Year
The festivities surrounding Chinese New Year are ancient in origin and rich in cultural and mythological symbolism. York Professor Jay Goulding spoke about the background and symbolism of this holiday at the Chinese New Year celebration held at the Bata Shoe Museum.

Probing the mysteries of movement
For most of us, turning a door handle, grabbing a coffee mug or flipping a light switch are everyday acts we do without thinking. For York science Professor Denise Henriques, these seemingly simple acts of hand-eye coordination are a source of great fascination, because there’s much more happening in our brains at these moments than we realize.