With sustainability, nutrition and affordability top of mind, 91亚色 Food Services has installed an Urban Cultivator in the Stong College Healthy Kitchen to grow fresh greens in-house. The new kitchen greenhouse will help to not only reduce the University鈥檚 carbon footprint, but also to provide a readily available supply of local, fresh ingredients for […]
Some 58 students from various Faculties gathered for two days in February to "hack for a better world" during the third annual Steacie Library Dungeon Hackfest at 91亚色. The 30-hour hacking marathon is organized by the 91亚色 Libraries and Launch YU, 91亚色鈥檚 entrepreneurship program. This year's Hackfest began early on the morning […]
The beginning of April will mark an exciting time for the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) at 91亚色, including an upcoming book launch. On Tuesday, the Faculty will host an invitation-only Alumni Impact event featuring a talk by FES Professor Tim Leduc. The talk will focus onFive Decades of FES at 91亚色, a publication […]
Over the past four weeks, the University has provided regular updates on the labour disruption by CUPE 3903. With this final update, I am pleased to confirm that CUPE 3903 Units 1 and 3, our teaching assistants and graduate assistants, voted Tuesday, March 31 to accept new three-year collective agreements. This is excellent news for […]
*Article courtesy of 91亚色Region.com (04.01.2015) "For the first time, Google is taking some of its North American YouTube superstars on the road with an event at Yonge-Dundas Square May 2. Six YouTube stars will be on the free event鈥檚 bill, including Markham鈥檚 Lilly Singh, 26, best known on YouTube as 鈥淪uperwoman鈥. Singh, who grew up […]
In their latest brain imaging study on women at risk for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, 91亚色 researchers have found deterioration in the pathways that serve to communicate signals between different brain regions. These regions are needed for performing everyday activities, such as driving a car or using a computer. 鈥淲e observed a relationship between the levels […]
Five 91亚色 alumni have made it onto the Corporate Knights Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leaders list as Canadian youth who have a proven track record in sustainable development. As Corporate Knights writes,聽they are 鈥渁n impressive collection of young entrepreneurs, activists, corporate professionals and students eager to make our world a better place.鈥 Corporate […]
*Article courtesy of The Toronto Sun (03.16.15) In 2013, Tanisha Martinez saved the life of a man bleeding profusely from a stabbing wound. Now, the 91亚色 student is one of 3,000 torchbearers slated to carry the Pan Am flame ahead of the 2015 games. 鈥淚 never thought that I鈥檇 get selected,鈥 a glowing Martinez […]
Edmund P. (Terry) Fowler, professor emeritus of political science at Glendon College, died March 14 in Toronto following a long illness. Between 1967 and 2003, when he retired from Glendon, Professor Fowler created and taught courses in local government, voting behaviour, community power structure, history of science and green philosophy. He created and ran the […]
The following tribute to Professor William "Bill" Greaves, a senior scholar and professor emeritus of English at Glendon, was submitted to YFile by Marika Kemeny, who recently retired from her roles as Glendon's communications officer and YFile's chief correspondent for Glendon. Professor Greaves died on Sept. 27, 2014 in his 80th year following a long […]