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Research shows that reported oil sands emissions greatly underestimated
TORONTO, ON – A new comprehensive modeling assessment of contamination in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region indicates that officially reported emissions of certain hazardous air pollutants have been greatly underestimated. The results of the assessment, which was carried out by University of Toronto Scarborough Environmental Chemistry professor Frank Wania and his PhD candidate Abha Parajulee, will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Monday, February 3 2014. The study constitutes the most comprehensive such model that…
2nd annual Rotman Problem Solving Challenge offers scholarships to MBA applicants
TORONTO, ON – More than $300,000 in scholarship money to the Rotman Full Time MBA program will be up for grabs for the winners for the second annual Rotman Problem Solving Challenge to be held at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Designed for prospective and incoming Full Time MBA candidates, the Challenge provides an opportunity for future Rotman students to dive deep into a real-world unstructured problem using the School’s model-based approached to problem solving. The first place…
Law in Action Within Schools director Sarah Pole lands Vital People Award
TORONTO, ON - Sarah Pole, director of the groundbreaking Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) program, received a Vital People Award from the Toronto Community Foundation. These awards, announced today, offer grants in recognition of valued community leaders who are making outstanding contributions at not-for-profit organizations. Grants are awarded in support of continued training and professional development of the selected leaders. LAWS is a partnership between the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School to provide mentor support and guidance…
Price highlighting helps consumers stick to longer-term product preferences, Rotman research reveals
TORONTO, ON – Just when that new gym membership is looking like a mistake, recent marketing research shows that reminding consumers of the price strengthens their purchase choices and leads to long-term satisfaction. New research from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management says that even though most people value higher functionality over the long-term, they tend to prefer no-hassle convenience in the short-run. If it's a digital camera they need in a hurry, they may buy the easy-to-use…
Helping Ontarians living with mental and physical illnesses
TORONTO, ON - Ontario will assist up to 500,000 people across the province that are either at-risk of, or currently living with, both physical and mental illnesses get the care and treatment they need over the next six years. Ontario is joining forces with The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Trillium Health Partners, the University of Toronto and a private donor to provide a total of $60 million in new funding for…
New report co-authored by International Human Rights Program says murderous violence against journalists in Honduras is on the rise
TORONTO, ON -- Co-authored with PEN Canada and PEN International, report calls for Honduran government to end lethal violence against journalists and its climate of impunity, and for donor states such as the UK and Canada to work with Honduras on these issues Journalists who cover organized crime, government corruption and other sensitive issues are increasingly facing threats and lethal attacks in Honduras, with almost complete impunity for perpetrators, said PEN International in a new report released today in partnership…
Liars find it more rewarding to tell truth than fib when deceiving others
TORONTO, ON – A University of Toronto report based on two neural imaging studies that monitored brain activity has found individuals are more satisfied to get a reward from telling the truth rather than getting the same reward through deceit. These studies were published recently in the neuroscience journals Neuropsychologia and NeuroImage. “Our findings together show that people typically find truth-telling to be more rewarding than lying in different types of deceptive situations,” says Prof. Kang Lee from the University…
Stephen Toope — international law scholar — named Director of U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs
TORONTO, ON – Professor Stephen J. Toope, a noted international law scholar and university leader, has been named the new Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. “The Munk School has built a reputation around the world for its thoughtful and insightful examination of international issues,” said Toope. “I look forward to joining its outstanding researchers and students in working to understand and tackle global problems.” Toope, who will assume his new position on January 1,…
Rotman students win the RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge and the CFA Master of Finance Ethics Challenge
TORONTO, ON – Teams of students from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have taken home first prize in two different competitions held this month. On January 17, a team composed of students from the Rotman School’s MBA programs won the 2013 RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge. This was the eighth year for the competition for business students from Canada’s largest bank. This year participants were asked to “Suggest an innovative concept that will enable RBC's businesses to…
Major collection of Allen Ginsberg photos donated to the University of Toronto
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto is home to the world’s largest collection of photographs by the late beat poet Allen Ginsberg thanks to a donation by the Larry & Cookie Rossy Family Foundation. The 7,686 photographs housed in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and 236 silver gelatin prints at the University of Toronto Art Centre include portraits of figures as prominent as John Cage, Bob Dylan, William de Kooning, Paul McCartney and Iggy Pop. Comprising a nearly…