Calumet College is now accepting books for its annual book sale

Calumet College is looking for donations of books for the second annual Calumet book sale. Donations can be dropped off at the Calumet main office.

Poet Karen Solie brings 'home' to York

For poet Karen Solie, growing up in a small town in southwest Saskatchewan inspired her. Solie was at York University on Oct. 16 to read from her award-winning poetry collection Pigeon for the Canadian Writers in Person series.

York men's soccer Lions eliminate Laurier Golden Hawks in quarter final match

Defender Shaun MacDonald scored the lone goal to lead the York University Lions men's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over the Wilfrid Laurier University Golden Hawks in an OUA quarter final match on Sunday night.

Librarian awarded fellowship to explore the role of Sunday schools in spreading literacy

Scott McLaren, associate librarian of humanities and religion, has been awarded a prestigious Botein Fellowship by the American Antiquarian Society to research the role Upper Canadian Sunday schools played in spreading literacy.

Hennick Centre for Business & Law honours corporate leader

Osgoode graduate Moya Greene, CEO of the Royal Mail Group, will receive the 2012 Hennick Centre Medal for Career Achievement Nov. 9.

Building a real estate career

One of two top-ranked undergraduate candidates at York's Schulich School of Business and winner of a $10,000 scholarship from Commercial Real Estate Women, Amanda Acchione, dreams of being an entrepreneur in the real estate sector, wrote the Finanacial Post Oct. 29.

Special lecture looks at the important role of fundamental research in advancing discoveries

Professor Helmut Schwarz, president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, will reflect on the importance of publicly financed, fundamental research, in a special lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

Patrick Monahan leaves York to become deputy attorney general of Ontario

Rhonda Lenton, vice-provost academic, will assume the position of vice-president academic and provost for the balance of the term -- until June 30, 2014.

University of Oxford social anthropologist to give Asia Lecture

Xiang Biao of the University of Oxford will talk about the intermediary trap, international labour recruitment, transnational governance and state-citizen relations in China at the YCAR hosted lecture.

When employers police your private life

Online opinions can go viral and, in Amanda Todd's case, play a tragic role in the end of a life. Labour legislation may be a solution for dealing with cases like these, but such a move would stir debate over an individual's right to free speech, employment law expert David Doorey told Maclean's.