Media Releases
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Symposium celebrates 50 years of industrial engineering in Canada
TORONTO, ON - Alumni, faculty and current students will gather together on Saturday September 24, 2011 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Canada’s oldest industrial engineering program, which was established at the University of Toronto in 1961. In a series of discussions, panelists will talk about the impact of industrial engineering on a number of fields including health care, finance and academia. Each panel talk includes prominent alumni from U of T’s industrial engineering program. Participants include: • Som Seif…
University of Toronto partners with community museum to provide hands-on learning for students
TORONTO, ON –Documenting local Aboriginal settlement history, designing exhibits and archiving artefacts are just some of the hands-on learning opportunities that students in the Faculty of Information’s Masters of Museum Studies program will experience this academic year under a new partnership between the University of Toronto and a community museum in east-end Toronto. The Cabbagetown Regent Park Community Museum is a grassroots, not-for-profit organization that collects, preserves and displays the history of Cabbagetown and Regent Park from the late 1700s/early1900s…
Vote compass launches in Ontario
TORONTO, ON - Starting today, people will be able to log onto Vote Compass to find out how their views compare with those of the political parties in the upcoming provincial election. Vote Compass invites users to respond to a series of questions on political issues and provides a personal assessment in which their responses are compared to those of the political parties. “This is primarily an educational tool with the objective of stimulating discussion on issues and promoting voter…
U of T‑led research improves performance of next-generation solar cell technology
TORONTO, ON – Researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have created the most efficient colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell ever. The discovery is reported in the latest issue of Nature Materials. Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductors that capture light and convert it into electrical energy. Because of their small scale, the dots can be sprayed onto flexible surfaces, including plastics. This enables…
Law in Action Within Schools’ newest partner, Osgoode Hall Law School, allows program to expand to three more high schools
TORONTO, ON – Law in Action Within Schools, an innovative law and justice-themed education and mentoring program, will announce a new partnership with York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School on September 20, 2011, that allows LAWS to expand its initiative to include three additional high schools in low-income Toronto neighbourhoods. LAWS’ programming will expand to include students at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, Westview Centennial Secondary School and Danforth Collegiate & Technical Institute. Current partner schools include Central Technical School, Harbord…
University of Toronto ranked third among schools outside U.S.A.
TORONTO, ON - The University of Toronto is one of the top three schools in the world outside the United States – behind only the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford – in one of the latest releases of the 2011 rankings season. The Newsweek College Rankings Report 2011 includes four Canadian universities among what it calls “the best halls of higher learning outside America’s borders”. The University of British Columbia ranked eighth in the Newsweek report, McGill University…
Researchers discover a switch that controls stem cell pluripotency
TORONTO, ON — Scientists have found a control switch that regulates stem cell “pluripotency,” the capacity of stem cells to develop into any type of cell in the human body. The discovery reveals that pluripotency is regulated by a single event in a process called alternative splicing. Alternative splicing allows one gene to generate many different genetic messages and protein products. The researchers found that in genetic messages of a gene called FOXP1, the switch was active in embryonic stem…
John A. Tory Fellowship established at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
TORONTO, ON – A fellowship in memory of John A. Tory has been established at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management with an $180,000 commitment from Thomson Reuters. The annual fellowship will provide a $40,000 award to a Full-Time MBA student. The recipient will also have the opportunity to participate in a competitive 10-week paid internship in the Summer Associates Program at Thomson Reuters prior to their last year of study. “John Tory was an optimist who believed…
Press Conference: Toronto Waterfront
TORONTO WATERFRONT The Cities Centre at the University of Toronto in collaboration with a large number of groups and individuals in city planning, architecture, design and related fields will release an open letter to City Councillors to urge rejection of the proposal supported by the Mayor regarding the Port Lands. Thursday (tomorrow), September 15, 2011 1:30-2:30pm The Toronto Reference Library Novella Room, 2nd Floor 789 Yonge St. Present will be the principal authors of the letter, including Paul Bedford (former…
U of T to give awards for sexual diversity promotion
TORONTO, ON - The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, located at University College, University of Toronto, is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2011 Bonham Centre Awards: Linda Schuyler, co-creator and producer of the Degrassi television series, and Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter for the 2008 movie Milk. The awards will be presented at a reception to be held on September 27th, 2011, at Croft Chapter House, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, Toronto, at…