Media Releases
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C. to speak on middle-income access to justice issue, Feb. 10, 2011
TORONTO, ON - The University of Toronto Faculty of Law will host the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Thursday, February 10, 2011, as part of its Middle Income Access to Civil Justice Initiative. Madam Chief Justice McLachlin will speak on this issue at 5 pm. She will be introduced by The Honourable Attorney General of Ontario Chris Bentley. While many lower income earners can draw on government-supported legal aid, middle-class Canadians…
Rotman Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Risk magazine
TORONTO, ON – A professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has received a lifetime achievement award from Risk, one of the world’s leading financial risk management magazines. The award for John Hull, the Maple Financial Group Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the Rotman School, was announced in the magazine’s January issue. Prof. Hull is widely known among both practitioners and academics for research and textbooks on risk and derivatives. Recently his research has been…
Speedy generic approval may not benefit consumers as much as expected, Rotman model shows
TORONTO, ON – Faster approval times for generic drugs will get them into consumers’ hands quicker, but may not make the price any better, a pricing and marketing researcher has found. A mathematical model created by Andrew Ching shows that fewer firms enter the marketplace because the chances of getting there first and commanding the best profits are dramatically smaller when drug approval times are shorter. Ching is an associate professor of marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School…
New book: Wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals
TORONTO, ON - University of Toronto Art Centre curator and Museum Studies lecturer, Dr. Matthew Brower, compellingly investigates the way wildlife photography at the beginning of the 20th century changed our perception of animals, in his new book Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography. Dr. Brower will give a brief overview of his book at a launch on February 15, followed by a reception. Media are invited and encouraged to attend. In Developing Animals, Dr. Brower looks back at…
Philanthropist donates $12 million to Mississauga Health Sciences Complex
Toronto, ON - Philanthropist Terrence Donnelly has donated $12 million to the University of Toronto to support students and help construct a new Health Sciences Complex at U of T Mississauga. The gift is the largest donation ever made to the Mississauga campus. Donnelly’s gift will support the construction of the building that will house the Mississauga Academy of Medicine and support medical students through bursaries and scholarships. The facility will be named the Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex. Donnelly,…
University of Toronto anthropologists discover earliest cemetery in Middle East
TORONTO, ON – Anthropologists at the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge have discovered the oldest cemetery in the Middle East at a site in northern Jordan. The cemetery includes graves containing human remains buried alongside those of a red fox, suggesting that the animal was possibly kept as a pet by humans long before dogs ever were. The 16,500-year-old site at 'Uyun al-Hammam was discovered in 2000 by an expedition led by University of Toronto professor Edward…
University of Toronto exhibition to celebrate the Bible
TORONTO, ON – To help mark the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James Version of the Bible, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto is launching a new exhibit entitled, Great and Manifold: A Celebration of the Bible in English. The exhibition, on display from Feb. 8 to May 11 2011, commemorates the influence of the King James Bible and celebrates the Bible in its many and varied forms. The exhibition is…
Brain can learn to overcome sleep apnea: U of T scientist
TORONTO, ON – New research from the University of Toronto could provide some restful nights for the 18 million North Americans who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea. In a recent study that appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists from the University demonstrated that repeated obstruction of the airways requires release of the brain chemical noradrenaline. The release of this chemical helps the brain learn to breathe more effectively and purposefully. “What we showed is that repeated disruption of normal…
Muslim and Jewish students building a culture of mutual respect
TORONTO, ON – Muslim and Jewish students will come together to make lunch for the homeless on Wednesday, February 2 as part of a new initiative to make interfaith cooperation between the communities a priority. The new initiative is called the Tzedaka-Sadaqah Project. The project explores how Jewish and Muslim faith commitments and philosophical values can inspire each other to build a culture of religious pluralism and mutual respect, creating an environment where people see similarities, establish connections and celebrate…
The Oscar curse? Study says that Oscar win for Best Actress increases the risk of divorce
TORONTO, ON – Will Academy Award nominees Nicole Kidman and Annette Bening be at higher risk for a divorce if they win the Oscar for best actress next month? A long line of best actress winners including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Halle Berry and Kate Winslet experienced the end of their marriages not long after taking home their awards. A study by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University finds that Oscar winners…