A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
The four academic departments included in what is known as "Cluster One" are Computer Science, the Law School, the School of Management and the Theatre, Film and Television (TFTV) department. The beginning of work on these departments as well as the Hub building is part of Phase One of the development of the Heslington East Campus.
In his speech, Cantor emphasised the importance of the university's new developments, stressing that they were the "most important since 1963".
The Hub has been specifically designed to act as a nucleus for Cluster One, encompassing both state-of-the-art teaching facilities as well new enterprise facilities, social spaces, research groups and knowledge-transfer companies.
Reiterating the key principles which lie at the heart of the Heslington East project, the head of the York Law School highlighted the symbolic value of the architecture. He stressed the need for innovation, interdisciplinary discourse and legal clinics: "A world-class building for a world-class Law School."
The head of the School of Management similarly characterised the ground breaking as a "milestone" for this relatively new department. The head of the Computer Science department shared this enthusiasm, seeing the Hes East campus as an opportunity to "integrate activities" rather than being spread out over five buildings on the current campus.
In an interview with The Yorker, Elizabeth Heaps, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Estates and Strategic Projects, said that the construction work was going "brilliantly well" and that the new Goodricke College would be finished on time. She explained that well-lit pedestrian and cycle paths would link the two campuses and that it "would feel less far".
However, there will be no catering facilities in October 2009 for the new Goodricke students.
Regarding the sustainable development projects, Heaps suggested that the university would surpass the 10% renewable energy mark set by the City of York Council. The university is hoping to get "up to 20% renewable energy over all the university".
This will first be achieved with a centralised onsite biomass boiler. Heaps stressed the university's desire for a "wholly-networked combined heat and power" system which would allow for other renewable sources of energy to be essentially plugged into the system as technology transfer develops and opportunities arise (e.g. wind power).
YUSU President Tom Scott visited the Heslington East site earlier this term, and in a blog on the YUSU website he said: "It's going to change the face of this university, and I'm just a little disappointed that I'm not going to be around to see it finished."
For more information on the Heslington East development, click here.
Once Hes East is completed are all York students still going to have to graduate in the bed-wettingly ghastly concrete architecural catastrophe that is central hall?
No catering, no shop, no bar, no transport. It'll be like a leper colony, at least until phase 1 is complete. :(
This place sounds worse than Eden's Court!
If you have a concern about it, feel free to email the university and express those concerns - it can't hurt! 
Is that the official method of YUSU campaigning now Jason!
#2 "It'll be like a leper colony, at least until phase 1 is complete. :("
So, a bit like Halifax then?
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