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Schulich students clean up
at regional entrepreneurs competition

Joseph Moncada and Lawrence Krimker of York's Schulich School of Business are the 2008 Ontario Student Entrepreneur Champions in a competiton organized by Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship, a national charitable organization that strives to teach and ignite young Canadians to create brighter futures for themselves. After winning their local contest, the two have a chance to compete at the national level.

York starts work on medical school proposal
Dr. Peter Walker, the former dean of medicine at the University of Ottawa, has been named a special adviser to York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri to generate a comprehensive proposal toward establishing a medical school at York.

Study shows bumblebees are declining in number and variety
One of the bumblebees that was most common in Southern Ontario when today’s baby boomers were teenagers has all but disappeared, a York University study has found. The study provides the first quantitative evidence of the decline of bumblebees in North America by comparing recent bumblebee numbers with statistics gathered in the early 1970s in Ontario.

'Odd-its' team takes top prize in accounting video competition
A five-person team, known as "The Odd-Its" from York's Schulich School of Business, is the grand prize winner of Ernst & Young's Reel Influence video competition, designed to promote professional services (principally accounting).

Creating a special space for students in Accolade East
Mellow notes of jazz music filled the air at the dedication ceremony for the new Martin Family Lounge in the Accolade East Building on March 28. A trio of student-musicians – pianist, guitarist and stand-up bassist – from the Faculty of Fine Arts played for the assembled guests.

Osgoode honours its first librarian
It’s not easy being a librarian when you don’t have a library. Yet that’s the predicament Osgoode’s founding law librarian Balfour Halévy, for whom the law library’s Special Collections were recently named, faced in 1967.

Professor named director of women's health network
Osgoode Professor Dayna Scott has been appointed director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, a Centre of Excellence established through funding by Health Canada and located at York.

Pioneering handbook offers insight into jealousy
Jealousy will soon be the subject of a global first with the development of a comprehensive new handbook, co-edited by York University psychology Professor Maria Legerstee, which will be devoted to this most fundamental of human emotions.

Prof uses art to explore media machinations
What started as simple teenage curiosity for York Professor Marc Couroux, about how the media framed the Iran-Contra hearings on a daily basis, has grown into a fascination with the inner workings of the media and his latest project, titled The Memory Hole: Four American Suicides.

Renowned French sociologist to speak at Glendon colloquium
Renowned French sociologist Alain Touraine will be the honorary president and keynote speaker at Glendon's international colloquium at York, titled "Canada and the Americas: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Transculturality", on April 24 and 25 in Glendon Hall's Ballroom on the Glendon campus.

Engage with Atkinson researchers
On Monday, April 28, the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies will showcase some of the innovative and collaborative research its faculty members are involved in at the inaugural Engaging Research Celebration. The celebration will focus on the value of knowledge mobilization and exchange.

Space and beyond: Science Rendezvous at York
York University will throw open the doors of its space science and engineering facilities to hundreds of future astronauts on Saturday, May 10. York is participating in Science Rendezvous, a new full-day event that is free and open to the public.

Sport Hall of Fame inductees announced
The 2008 inductees to the York University Sport Hall of Fame include five former interuniversity athletes, who will be inducted on Thursday, May 29. This year's inductees include players from York's men's hockey, women's basketball, men's volleyball and field hockey teams, as well as a gymnast.

Visual artists demonstrate mastery over their craft
This spring, thesis exhibitions by MFA students in York’s Department of Visual Arts are all over the map, both literally and figuratively, in the best possible ways. Eleven different shows, spanning a wide range of media and conceptual approaches, are featured in galleries downtown and on campus throughout April and May.

Fulbright chair visits York to talk about Canada-US relations
York’s Fulbright Chair Nora Faires, a professor of history and gender/women's studies at Western Michigan University, will discuss Canada-US relations and migration at a public talk on Thursday, April 24.