Osgoode wins the 2012 Cassels Brock Cup moot

The team of 20 first-year law students won the coveted cup with a victory over a rival team from the University of Toronto.

Culture lovers will delight in new Fine Arts books and projects

Books and projects from the Faculty of Fine Arts cover a diverse array of topics, from Korean nationalism to contemporary notions of gender identity and human beauty.

York students earn honours at Ontario Japanese Speech contest

Some seven York students brought home prizes for speeches they wrote and delivered in Japanese at an annual competition in Toronto.

Annual pow wow brightens Vari Hall Rotunda

The theme of this year's 10th Annual Aboriginal Awareness Days & Pow Wow "Knowledge in Sharing Stories" encouraged participants to tell tales.

Q and A: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

Professor Kathryn Denning is interviewed by Wired.com about how we think we might communicate with aliens and what those thoughts say about us.

Invitation for Comments: Candidate for Master of McLaughlin College

The search committee for the new master of McLaughlin College invites the University community to send written comments regarding the candidacy of Professor Lorne Foster.

Three students awarded Michael Baptista Essay Prize

Caren Weisbart and Charis Kamphuis took the graduate-level prize for best essay dealing with Latin American and Caribbean studies, while Rolando Aguilera won at the undergraduate level.

Grad student explores role of local knowledge in environmental decisions

While in Thailand, York geography PhD candidate Vanessa Lamb saw first-hand whether or not environmental knowledge played into the decision-making processes of a hydropower project.

Hiring looks up on Toronto's Bay Street

Joseph Palumbo, executive director of the Career Development Centre at York's Schulich School of Business, spoke to the National Post about job prospects for grads.

Chinese delegation at York to learn about campus planning

The delegation wanted to see how campus services, operations and programs, as well as campus planning, design, beautifying and building management, worked at York.