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Student traders to take part in the world’s largest trading competition at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
TORONTO, ON – More than 270 student traders from around the world will gather later this week in Toronto to participate in the 11th annual Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC). The world’s largest trading competition will be held from February 20 to 22 for the first time in the newly established BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab, which opened last fall at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Fifty-two teams from universities as far away as Egypt, Thailand,…
“Phyllis loves Kelly” — six decades of Valentine’s Day poetry documents one of U of T couple’s enduring love
TORONTO, ON – For sixty years, Phyllis Gotlieb, a celebrated poet, author and University of Toronto graduate, penned heartfelt verses for her husband, Kelly, a distinguished Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Together with Professor Gotlieb, the University of Toronto Libraries has compiled these works into one book, “Phyllis Loves Kelly,” an endearing snapshot of Phyllis and Kelly’s 60-year marriage. The book’s publication was coordinated by Ian Lancashire, Professor of English at the University of Toronto, who…
New Rotman program prepares executives for success in senior management roles
TORONTO, ON -- A new program from Executive Programs at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management is designed to help senior managers develop new cross-functional and cross-enterprise skills to help them and their organizations excel in today’s competitive environment. Participants of Rotman’s Senior Management Program will develop conceptual frameworks to set strategy and improve the quality of their thinking and decisions to lead effectively as successful senior managers. “We’ve heard over the years that making the transition from…
Federal Budget’s Research Excellence Fund Huge Step in the Right Direction: U of T President
Toronto – University of Toronto President Meric Gertler says the Government of Canada has taken a huge step in the right direction with investments in research and innovation and in particular the announcement of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund in today’s federal budget. This fund, which will grow to $200M annually, will support world-leading research at institutions right across Canada. “This new fund will support research that leads to vital discoveries and will help us continue to attract the…
Innovating for the Global South: New book by University of Toronto faculty offers practical insights to address global poverty
TORONTO, ON – Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education. Innovating for the Global South: Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda, the latest book from Rotman-UTP Publishing and the first volume in the Munk Series…
Researchers discover ‘epic’ new Burgess Shale site in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Yoho National Park’s 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale – home to some of the planet’s earliest animals, including a very primitive human relative – is one of the world’s most important fossil sites. Now, more than a century after its discovery, a compelling sequel has been unearthed: 42 kilometres away in Kootenay National Park, a new Burgess Shale fossil site has been located that appears to equal the importance of the original discovery, and may one…
U of T Research examines the implications of mourning on Facebook
TORONTO, ON – With increasing regularity, relatives, friends and colleagues find out someone they know or love has died via social media. A University of Toronto research paper, “Virtual Mourning and Memory Construction on Facebook: Here Are the Terms of Use,” was recently published in the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. The researchers investigated the online information practices of people grieving, commemorating, and mourning a loved one through the popular social media channel, Facebook. Professor Rhonda McEwen and Librarian…
Food insecurity leads to increased incidence of tuberculosis in Zimbabwe
TORONTO, ON - The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio-economic crisis of 2008-9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE. “This was the first study to detect the recent TB outbreak in Zimbabwe, and the first anywhere to suggest an association between rising TB incidence and national economic decline in the absence of…
DNA-built nanstructures safely target, image cancer tumors
TORONTO, ON – A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a method of assembling “building blocks” of gold nanoparticles as the vehicle to deliver cancer medications or cancer-identifying markers directly into cancerous tumors. The study, led by Warren Chan, Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and the Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research (CCBR), appears in an article in Nature Nanotechnology this week. “To get materials into a tumor they need…
Six Rotman MBA teams advance to the regional finals of the Hult Prize
TORONTO, ON – A record six teams with members from the MBA and Master of Finance programs at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have advanced to the regional finals of the Fifth annual Hult Prize. Team members also include students and alumni from U of T’s Faculties of Law, Engineering, Medicine, Kinesiology & Physical Education, and the University’s Munk School of Global Affairs. The Hult Prize is the world’s largest student competition and start-up platform for social…