YorkU men's soccer team take home second OUA title and named CIS national champs

GO LIONS GO! The good news keep coming this month for the York Lions men's soccer team! Visit the yFile articles below to learn more about their recent wins, including a second-straight OUA championship title and a CIS national championship title. Lions crowned CIS national men’s soccer champions York Lions win second straight OUA soccer championship

"Tentanda Via" inspires York grad to take her career from marketing exec to public office

Each year, thousands of York students graduate from a diverse range of academic degree programs and intent on pursuing their unique personal and professional journeys. It’s no wonder then that we find many of the University’s more than 275,000 alumni living extraordinary journeys in more than 170 countries around the world—and sometimes, we’re lucky enough […]

Grads deliver valuable career advice to current students at FES mentoring event

For graduates of the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES), as well as the larger York cohort, the completion of one’s academic studies is met with both celebration and anxiety. The entrance into the “job market,” often sardonically referred to as the “real world” by students, can feel like limbo. Last Tuesday afternoon, FES hosted the […]

Landmark donation supports environmental sustainability at York University

Longtime University advocates James and Joanne Love have donated a landmark $2.5 million in support of environmental sustainability at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) and the Lassonde School of Engineering. The gift was announced before more than 70 guests at a Nov. 5 reception held in the Kaneff Tower on York’s Keele campus. […]

Times Higher Ed rankings place York U in Canada’s top four in social sciences, arts & humanities

York University has ranked among the top four universities in Canada and in the top 100 universities in the world in the Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities categories in the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings published earlier this month. “The dramatic overall improvement in York’s ranking is a result of the tremendous […]

Schulich rakes in honours for investment banking, responsible business and the Executive MBA program

The Schulich School of Business at York University is no stranger to accolades, having been consistently named one of the top business schools, both nationally and internationally. And over the past month, the recognition of Schulich's elite business education does not seem to be slowing down. See below for some of Schulich's recent honours: Schulich […]

John Tory and Bonnie Crombie lead the pack of victorious York alumni in Oct. 27 municipal elections

Southwestern Ontario's Oct. 27 municipal elections proved to be a big night for York University grads across the board. With showdowns happening across the Toronto, York, Durham, Hamilton/Peel/Halton and Niagara regions, a total of 15 York alumni ended up victorious in a number of positions. Leading the pack of victorious York grads was Toronto mayor-elect […]

New batch of grads welcomed into York's alumni family at Fall Convocation 2014

According to Canadian comedian and TV personality Rick Mercer, a successful and happy future starts with tossing away your plans - or at least that's what he told a group of graduating York students at this year's Fall Convocation celebration. “I know for a fact that for many of you to get here you had to […]

Remembering Nobby Wirkowski, CFL legend and founder of York's football program

On Wednesday, Oct. 22, York University Sport & Recreation announced the death of Norbert “Nobby” Wirkowski, former Canadian Football League quarterback and the founder of the York football program and a long-time administrator. Wirkowski, or “Nobby” as he was best known, was hired by York in 1967 to start the University’s football team and the […]

York grads create first-ever scholarship in Tamil studies

A York alumni couple has made history by establishing the first-ever graduate award in Tamil studies in memory of a pioneer and leader of the Tamil community in Canada. Harini Sivalingam (LLB ’05) and husband Gary Anandasangaree (LLB ’05), lawyers and graduates of Osgoode Hall Law School, created the N. Sivalingam Award in Tamil Studies […]