York University provides a number of bursaries to assist Graduate Students in financial need. Students wishing to be considered for available bursaries at York University must complete a Student Financial Profile (SFP). The on-line SFP for the Summer 2012 application cycle will be available from May 1, 2012 until the deadline of May 31, 2012. [...]

Great judges change the way we see the law, says Allan Hutchinson, associate vice-president graduate and dean of York’s Faculty of Graduate Studies. In his new book, Laughing at the Gods; Great Judges and How They Made the Common Law, Hutchinson highlights the work of eight judges he calls “game changers”. Laughing at the Gods [...]

York University’s Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies invites submissions for Dynamic Resistances: Complicating, Screwing & Perpetuating Structures in our World A Graduate Conference taking place at York University September 14th – 15th, 2012 Proposal Deadline: June 15th, 2012 Resistance is a term and concept widely employed and deployed in feminist thinking and [...]

Six graduate students from York’s Graduate Program in History are currently conducting archival research at the Sierra Leone Public Archives in Sierra Leone to help preserve endangered documents and repatriate historical material to the country. Augustin D’Almeida Master’s degree candidates Myles Ali, Chantelle Flowers and Shoshawnah Ross Lautenschlager, along with PhD candidates Katrina Keefer, Jeffrey Gunn [...]

A partnership between York University’s LaMarsh Centre for Child & Youth Research and the Canadian Crime Victim Foundation (CCVF) will provide much-needed training in trauma counselling for psychology graduate students. Through a $50,000 donation from the CCVF over two years, 28 clinical-developmental students at York will receive training toward certification in trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy [...]

Consultations with the York community about the role of a new teaching and learning support centre have yielded rich results. In September 2011, the dynamic process to revision the University’s existing Centre for the Support of Teaching (CST) was launched by Sue Vail, York’s associate vice-president teaching & learning. Sue Vail “This initiative represents the [...]

Collaborative network building should be a key component of the entrepreneur’s toolkit, particularly for individuals focused on advancing technologies and creating companies from the earliest stages of academic discovery, posits Michael May, CEO of the Canadian Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine. May will make the case to support this position on Wednesday, May 9 [...]

Credit Union Central of Saskatchewan is pleased to sponsor the Norm Bromberger Research Bursary to be awarded in support of research relating to co-operatives and/or credit unions This bursary has been established in recognition of the outstanding contributions made by Norm Bromberger to the development of credit unions and co-operatives in Saskatchewan and across Canada. Bromberger was Research Director and [...]

The prestigious Governor General’s Gold Medal may be awarded to either a Master’s or Doctoral candidate who will be receiving his/her degree at the Spring Convocation ceremony in June 2012, or who received his/her degree in Fall 2011. Award Level: Master’s or Doctoral Award Value: A gold medal Renewable: This award is non-renewable Domestic/VISA: Both [...]

The snow has gone and with it, any disguise that hid the litter and garbage that’s collected in bushes and green spaces. As part of its annual spring clean up prior to Earth Day, everyone in the University community is challenged to help out for just 20 minutes on April 20 to collect all the litter and make a difference. The [...]