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Rotman school students succeed in international competitions
TORONTO, ON – The first weekend of April was a success for two groups of students from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management who came away with prizes from two different competitions. A team of JD/MBA students won a prestigious international negotiation tournament while a team of MBA students took the third spot in a global operations simulations competition. The team of Nicholas Charleton, JD/MBA’15, Noah Dolgoy, JD/MBA’14, and Shawn Dogra, JD/MBA’15, defeated 11 other teams from universities in…
“Ontario’s performance in health care is uncompetitive among international peers”
TORONTO, ON – In Working Paper 20, Building better health care: Policy opportunities for Ontario, the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity examines how the performance of the Ontario health care system compares internationally on dimensions of efficiency and equity, and analyzes what drives health care costs. The Institute finds that, overall, Ontario could get better value for money from its health care spending. Ontario is among the jurisdictions with the highest total per capita health care spending in the OECD, with…
U of T study finds toddlers ‘surprisingly sophisticated’ at understanding unfamiliar accents
TORONTO, ON -- A new University of Toronto study has found that by two years of age, children are remarkably good at comprehending speakers who talk with regional accents the toddlers have never heard before. Even more striking, say researchers, children as young as 15 months who have difficulty comprehending accents they’ve never heard before can quickly learn to understand accented speech after hearing the speaker for a short time. “Fifteen-month-olds typically say relatively few words, yet they can learn…
Faculty at U of T’s Rotman School produce award winning research
TORONTO, ON – Two research papers authored by faculty members at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have been honoured by professional and academic organizations. A paper co-authored by Peter Christoffersen, a professor of finance at the Rotman School, has won the 2013 AIMA Canada Research Award presented by the Alternative Investment Management Association-Canada Inc. Established in 2004, the AIMA Canada Research Award was created to encourage and recognize high-quality applied research in the field of alternative investments in…
Toronto’s challenges are no match for U of T Engineering students
TORONTO, ON – Ferries that leave residents in the cold on Toronto Islands, salt that jeopardizes curling games in Leaside, and mops that injure staff in downtown hospitals – GTA communities never seem to run out of challenges. Today, first-year engineering students at the University of Toronto are hosting a day-long event to showcase their design solutions to some of the GTA’s persistent problems – with prototypes, renderings and more. The event is the finale of Praxis II, a unique…
OISE presents the R.W.B. Jackson Lecture: Why the quality of Finland’s education system can exceed the quality of its teachers
TORONTO, ON – The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto presents the annual R.W.B. Jackson Lecture: Why the quality of Finland’s education system can exceed the quality of its teachers, with Finnish educator and scholar Pasi Sahlberg on Thursday, April 17, 2014. The quality of teaching and educational change are major areas of public concern in Canada and around the world. Today many governments in search of a panacea to improve educational performance turn…
Location matters when it comes to deal making says new study from U of T’s Rotman School of Management
TORONTO, ON – Even six-year-olds know who you sit beside matters, whether you're in first grade or at a high-powered dinner. But now a new study, using the U.S. Senate Chamber as its laboratory, provides documented evidence of that phenomenon. It shows that where a person is located influences who they interact with and who they will turn to in order to build support for their own agenda. For the powerful however, seating arrangements don't make much of a difference. That's…
University of Toronto researchers win two Killam Prizes
TORONTO, ON – Two University of Toronto researchers – physicist Sajeev John and engineer Andreas Mandelis – have each won a 2014 Killam Prize, one of Canada’s most prestigious scholarly awards. The Killam Prize recognizes outstanding career achievement by scholars actively engaged in research. Administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, only five prizes are awarded annually and each comes with a $100,000 prize. Professor John, from the Faculty of Arts and Science, is being recognized for his ground-breaking work…
OISE hosts public forum titled Aboriginal Knowledge(s): Colonialism, Decolonization and Education
TORONTO, ON – The Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto will host a one-day colloquium on Aboriginal knowledge on Thursday, April 10. Aboriginal education is a major area of study in Canada and around the world. This event features several prominent Aboriginal scholars from across Canada including OISE’s Martin Cannon, Jean-Paul Restoule, Suzanne Stewart and Sandra Styres. Janice C. Hill (Queen’s University) and…
U of T researchers offer hope for children with previously incurable brain cancer
TORONTO, ON – Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP) have defined potential treatment targets for a previously incurable form of pediatric brain cancer called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). In groundbreaking research published in Nature Genetics, Dr. Cynthia Hawkins, a professor at LMP and Neuropathologist and Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children, along with PhD candidates Pawel Buczkowicz and Patricia Rakopoulos, identified three subgroups of DIPG, each having distinct molecular features. “In…