Media Releases
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U of T Supermileage Team to unveil new fleet of super-efficient student-built vehicles
Toronto, ON – Imagine driving from Toronto to San Francisco and back on three litres of gasoline. That’s exactly the kind of vehicle a University of Toronto Suoermileage Team, will be unveiling on April 16 along with another battery-electric powered car. It’s all part of the team’s effort to retain its first-place title at the 2016 Shell Eco-marathon Americas (SEMA) challenge, a global fuel-efficiency competition taking place in Detroit, MI from April 22-24, 2016. Last year, the team came in first place…
Rotman Faculty Member Honoured as an Outstanding B‑School Professor
Toronto, ON – For the third consecutive year, a faculty member at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has been named as one of the Most Outstanding 40-Under-40 B-School Professors by the business education site Poets&Quants. András Tilcsik is an assistant professor of strategic management at the Rotman School and a Fellow at the School’s Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship. The annual feature from Poets&Quants recognizes young faculty members under the age of 40, who excel…
University of Toronto faculty, alumni inducted into Canada’s Medical Hall of Fame
Toronto, ON – Members of University of Toronto's faculty and alumni will be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame at a ceremony taking place today at McMaster University, taking four of this year’s six spots. “This is something in which we can all take pride,” said Dr. Trevor Young, dean of the Temerty Temerty Faculty of Medicine and vice-dean of relations with health care institutions. “Through a variety of roles, from documenting the early history of medical practice…
Four Toronto universities release findings of student transportation needs
Toronto, ON – StudentMoveTO, a collaboration between Toronto’s four universities to address student transportation needs, found that students in the GTA are spending too much time commuting to and from classes each day. The findings are the result of a joint survey conducted by the four universities. It is the largest survey of its kind in the region, completed by 15,226 students from OCAD University, Ryerson University, York University and the University of Toronto. The initiative is the first travel survey…
Engineering students solve 10 of Toronto’s persistent problems
Toronto, ON – This Friday, April 8, University of Toronto Engineering students will present their solutions to 10 of Toronto’s most persistent problems. From helping epileptic children learn to write to designing better tools for collecting street litter, these first-year students are working with local communities, companies and agencies with a single goal: to improve life in Toronto. These students are fun to talk to, and there will be lots of prototypes and demonstrations to see. Examples include: Smart signage for Allan…
Yeast Against the Machine: Bakers’ Yeast Could Improve Diagnosis
Toronto, ON – It’s easier than ever to sequence our DNA, but doctors still can’t exactly tell from our genomes which diseases might befall us. Professor Fritz Roth is setting out to change this by going to basics — to our billion-year-old cousin, baker’s yeast. By testing the effects of human mutations in yeast, Roth’s research team at the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute was able to identify harmful changes in…
Joseph Rotman leaves $30 million legacy gift to Rotman School of Management
Toronto, ON - The estate of Joseph Rotman is making a landmark $30 million gift to the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The gift will help the Rotman School, already one of the leading global brands in management education, continue to be at the forefront of transforming management education and research. This latest gift from Joseph and Sandra Rotman makes them the most generous benefactors in the University’s history, following numerous significant gifts over the past 20 years. This…
Action plan on sexual violence prevention and support at U of T
The University of Toronto is creating a new Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Centre with locations on all three campuses, part of a series of measures to improve safety and co-ordinate services. The measures are outlined in an action plan released April 5 by President Meric Gertler and Vice-President and Provost Cheryl Regehr that accepts all five of the recommendations made by the Presidential and Provostial Committee on Prevention and Response to Sexual Violence. Read the plan “People need to feel safe on…
University of Toronto and RBC create startup accelerator for young innovators
Toronto, ON - The University of Toronto and RBC today announced a major new initiative to support Canada’s innovative entrepreneurs. Located in the Banting and Best Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (BBCIE), ONRamp will provide new collaborative workspaces for students, entrepreneurs and startup companies to support them in developing commercial ideas. Universities and colleges play a key role in driving innovation and fostering entrepreneurship, and the University of Toronto has emerged as a leading institution in creating startup companies based…
New Flexible Internship Program Introduced for Full Time MBA Students at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
Toronto – The Full Time MBA program at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has launched the Flexible Internship Program which is a significant innovation to the traditional MBA Program structure and will allow students greater customization of their MBA experience. Effectively immediately, Rotman Full Time MBA students can choose from one of three work term options in the second year of the program beginning with the traditional Summer term for internships but also adding the Fall and…