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Anne Sullivan, who will be joining the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) as an assistant professor in January 2025, has been named a 2024 Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) Fellow. Established in 2017, the HEVGA Fello ...

Janine Marchessault, a York University professor and York Research Chair in Media Arts and Community Engagement who recently received a prestigious Killam Prize, is building alliances between institutional and community-led media archives from around t ...

The Ella Fitzgerald Foundation has generously renewed its endowment to the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) with an additional $20,000 for the prestigious Ella Fitzgerald Scholarship. This scholarship is open to AMPD students ...

Professor Patrick Alcedo’s Summer 2024 course, Philippine Folk Dance and Culture, immersed the students in the world of Philippine dance for three weeks, bringing them into contact with students and faculty from five universities, as well as a national ...

Zahra Saleki, an alumna from York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) has recently won the prestigious “Catherine Bratty Award for Best of Art Fair” at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. “This recognition validates the co ...

Fifteen York University researchers have been named new York Research Chairs (YRC), an internal program that mirrors the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program which recognizes world-leading researchers in a variety of fields.

Canadian music industry icon Jason “Kardinal Offishall” Harrow accepted his honorary degree from York University at the June 20 convocation ceremony by reciting spoken word poetry – infused with his signature hip-hop lyricism – to graduands of the Facu ...

Robinson received the award in recognition of her ability to create an interdisciplinary learning environment where students from diverse academic backgrounds can work collaboratively and approach problems from contrasting directions. That ability has, ...