York celebrates leaders in arts, culture and law

Thirteen exceptional people, including a journalist, an athlete, a champion of arts and culture and a human rights activist will receive honorary degrees at York.

Register now for children's tennis camp at Glendon

The Glendon Athletic Club offers lessons, a daily swim and lunch, plus extended care, at nine one-week tennis camps this summer for kids aged six to 14 years.

New online procurement system will streamline purchasing

A new electronic purchasing system will reduce the number of steps needed to complete a transaction.

Broadcaster Nora Young to deliver keynote at ABEL's summer institute

CBC Broadcaster Nora Young opens Advance Broadband Enabled Learning Summer Institute, Aug. 21 & 22, with a keynote talk about shifts in information gathering, social media and web 2.0.

Archives the new home for memoir on race relations

Author Gerald Archambeau has donated a collection of his works documenting Canadian race relations in the 1950s and 1960s to York's Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections.

JPs need law degrees, Liberal says

In a Toronto Star article published May 31, York Professor Ian Greene, an expert in the Charter of Rights & Freedoms, said a Liberal backbencher's private member's bill requiring new justices of the peace to have worked as lawyers for at least five years is long overdue.

Top three male tennis players expected to compete in Toronto

No. 1 world ranked singles player Novak Djokovic, World ranked No. 2 Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer of Switzerland ranked No. 3, are expected to vie for the cup.

Holey, Moley! Great progress on the subway to York University

The tunnel-boring machines Holey and Moley, and Yorkie and Torkie, are now making their way toward the Keele and Finch area extraction shafts.

Gifted: Work by 37 Ontario artists on exhibit at Archives of Ontario

Thirty-nine dynamic and contemporary works by members of the Ontario Society of Artists are now on display in the Helen McClung Exhibit Area at the Archives of Ontario.

Two York profs make 2010 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize shortlist

Christopher Armstrong, a York history professor emeritus, H.V. Nelles, a distinguished research professor emeritus at York, and UBC Professor Matthew Evenden, are nominated for the prize for their book The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow.