York Professor Margaret Sinclair, co-director of the York/Seneca Institute for Math, Science & Technology Education and a professor in York’s Faculty of Education, died of cancer Feb. 21 at her home in Toronto. She was 62. For 15 years, prior to earning her doctorate, Prof. Sinclair worked as a teacher and vice-principal with the Toronto Catholic District School Board. During […]
York is mourning the loss of Professor Lisa Wolford Wylam, who died suddenly on Sunday, Oct. 9 while visiting family in Knoxville, Tennessee. The University flag will fly at half-mast in her honour from 9am today until 1pm on tomorrow. Left: Lisa Wolford Wylam Prof. Wylam came to York from Bowling Green State University in 2006, […]
Douglas Drysdale Davidson, a film editor, television producer and director who taught film at York for 30 years, died April 3 at his home in Toronto. He was 82. A memorial service will be held today in the A.W. Miles Chapel at the Humphrey Funeral Home, 1403 Bayview Ave., at 11am. York has lowered the flag […]
University Professor Emeritus John Tupper (Jack) Saywell, noted Canadian historian and a member of the Founders Society of York University, has died. Prof. Saywell, or "Jack" as most knew him, died on April 20 in Toronto. He was 82. Known as the "kid from Cowichan Lake, British Columbia", Prof. Saywell arrived at the University of […]
A memorial for York University Professor David Franklin Noble, who died in Toronto on Dec. 27 following complications of pneumonia, will be held on Saturday. Prof. Noble was 65. The memorial will take place March 26, at 4pm, at the Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil St., in Toronto. The York University flag will be lowered to half-mast Friday afternoon […]
Professor Emeritus Richard Storr, a historian who was briefly York's acting president, died earlier this week at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto following a brief illness. Prof. Storr was born and educated in the United States, receiving a PhD from Harvard University in 1949. After teaching at various American colleges, he accepted a position at the […]
Professor Emeritus Delmar McCormack Smyth, dean of Atkinson College from 1963 to 1969 and past director of the Centre for Continuing Education at York University, died peacefully at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton on Feb. 21. He was 88. Prof. McCormack Smyth, or simply “Mac” as he was known to his family, colleagues and friends, was […]
York University Professor David Franklin Noble has died following complications of pneumonia. Prof. Noble died on Monday, Dec. 27 in Toronto. He was 65. A critical historian of technology, science and education, Prof. Noble was perhaps best known for his book Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. Most recently, he published Beyond the Promised […]
Harold Kaplan, professor emeritus of political science and former dean of York’s Faculty of Arts, died on June 22 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie. He was 74. Kaplan joined the University in 1962 and served as acting chair of political science at the Glendon campus from 1964 to 1965. After his first sabbatical […]
Professor Gina Feldberg, a faculty member in the Health & Society Program in the Department of Social Science in York's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, died on Saturday, July 10, after a long illness. She was 54 years old. Prof. Feldberg made a significant mark at York University. She spent a decade at Harvard, first as […]
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 Professor Emeritus Jacques Cotnam, one of the founding fathers of the University's French Studies Program, died in Quebec City on Saturday, June 5. He was 68. Left: Jacques Cotnam In 1964, as a young academic, Prof. Cotnam came to York University and was the first French Canadian to be appointed to its academy. Over the course of his […]
York English Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, who died May 16, has received the 2009 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English Section) posthumously for her most recent book, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry, co-edited with poet Di Brandt. The award is given annually by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) […]
Professor Emeritus Jerome (Jerry) Durlak, a mentor to many generations of York students in numerous programs, died on Friday, May 21, in Toronto. For more than 50 years, Prof. Durlak worked on applied research and development projects internationally. He introduced innovations ranging from hybrid corn in Costa Rica to agricultural television programs in Guatemala and […]
Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature, died Sunday, May 16, from complications related to her illness, at Toronto Western Hospital surrounded by family. Funeral arrangements for Friday are noted at the bottom of this page. Here, York humanities Professor Jody Berland, English Professor Julia Creet and PhD student Elena Basile […]
Gordon Shaw, professor emeritus of operations management & information systems and one of 16 founding faculty members of what is now the Schulich School of Business at York University, died peacefully at Toronto East General Hospital on May 7 at age 83. The only son of Emma and Kenneth Shaw of Walkerville, Ont., Gordon Charlton Shaw (left) was […]
Professor Emeritus Arthur Siegel of the Communication Studies Program in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) died on Wednesday, April 7, in Toronto. A leading scholar in the field of politics and media communications policy in Canada, Prof. Siegel was instrumental in shaping York University’s Communication Studies Program, which has grown to become a full-fledged […]
York Professor Emeritus Victor S. MacKinnon, who retired from active teaching in the Department of Administrative Studies in Atkinson College in 1994, has died. Left: Victor S. MacKinnon in 1969 Professor MacKinnon died in the early morning hours of March 9 in Augusta, Maine. An accomplished academic and administrator, Prof. MacKinnon's successful tenure at Atkinson included […]
Michael Pollard, a chemistry professor in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, died suddenly of an aneurysm on Saturday, Feb. 27, in Toronto. He was just 36. Left: Professor Michael M. Pollard In Prof. Pollard's honour, York's flag will be lowered to half-mast at sunrise on Friday, March 5, until sunset on Saturday, March 6. Although he was […]
Glendon psychology Professor Evelyne Corcos, a respected member of the York University community, has died. Professor Corcos, died on Wednesday, July 8 at the Toronto Western Hospital. Right: Evelyne Corcos A lifelong educator, Professor Corcos was an inspiration to faculty and students alike and was a dynamic and imaginative researcher. In 2005, she pioneered the use […]