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York remembers Professor Emeritus Rudy Grant, specialist in African political economy

Posted on 21 June 2010

York Professor Emeritus Rudolph (Rudy) Grant, a specialist in African political economy, died on Monday, June 14, at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He was 79. One of several Guyanese faculty at York University, Prof. Grant played an important role in fostering links between Guyana and the University. In 1996, Prof. Grant was one of several […]

York Research Tower: Creating a new model for research collaboration

Posted on 20 May 2010

Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the York Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building’s role in fostering social science and humanities research across York University (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The York Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features some 84,000 square feet […]

York grad and alumna discovers Haiti's long-lost Declaration of Independence

Posted on 19 April 2010

LIBERTÉ OU LA MORT. When York grad Julia Gaffield (MA ’07) saw those words at the top of a document in a 200-year-old file at The National Archives in London, England, she knew immediately she had found something special and wanted to shout for joy – but one simply doesn’t do that sort of thing […]

CERIS and CERLAC to host seminar on challenges faced by immigrant artists

Posted on 22 March 2010

Latin American Artists in Toronto: Immigrants and Artists at Work, the second CERIS seminar on issues related to immigrants and the arts, will feature three panellists. The seminar will take place Tuesday, March 23, from 12:30 to 2pm, in the fifth floor Conference Centre of the York Research Tower, Keele campus. York environmental studies Professor Deborah Barndt, co-ordinator […]