Media Releases
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Once again, U of T first in Canada, among world’s top 20 in new rankings
TORONTO, ON - The University of Toronto has been recognized as the top university in Canada and one of the top 20 in the world according to the 2013 Times Higher Education (THE) World University report released today. U of T ranked 20th globally, up one spot from last year. This is the second time in less than a month U of T has ranked in the top 20 and first in Canada in a major global rankings survey. In…
Early years symposium
TORONTO, ON – The annual Early Years Symposium, now in its third year, aims to generate meaningful and constructive dialogue about full-day early learning Kindergarten programs. This year’s symposium, Continuing the Journey: Making Early Learning Visible, focuses on engaging with families and communities. Dr. Kang Lee and Annie Kidder will deliver keynote addresses and school teams from across Ontario will present their stories of their journeys through full-day learning implementation and share best practices relating to community and family engagement.…
Reinventing the investment paradigm is the focus of the fall issue of the Rotman International Journal for Pension Management
TORONTO, ON – The new issue of the Rotman International Journal of Pension Management takes a look at “reinventing the investment paradigm” in the pensions world from a number of different perspectives including behavioral finance, principal-agent conflicts, fiduciary duties of asset owners, corporate governance, investment time horizon, risk management and collaboration strategies between institutional investors. With contributions from pension practitioners and academics, the journal is published by the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (Rotman ICPM) at the Rotman School…
TD Bank Group donates $1 million to University of Toronto Scarborough
TORONTO, ON — TD Bank Group announced a $1 million gift to University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) in support of education and research in the field of urban forest conservation and biology. The donation was announced this past Saturday, September 28 during TD Tree Days, TD’s flagship volunteer program that will see 45,000 trees planted this year. The gift will help support undergraduate and graduate students with research scholarships. It will also create the TD Limited Term Professorship in Urban Forest…
University of Toronto announces 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarship winners
TORONTO, ON – Emma Hansen [Ancaster ON] and Joan Romero [Toronto, ON] have been named recipients of the 2013-2014 Schulich Leaders Scholarships. The Schulich Leaders Scholarships are worth $60,000 over four years. The Schulich Leader Scholarships annual program recognizes 40 students across Canada who demonstrate excellence in academics and/or community leadership and who plan to study one of the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics – during their undergraduate years of study at one of 20 participating Universities. Schulich Leaders were selected from a pool of Schulich Leader Nominees who applied…
STEM and business education combine to give 450 youth a chance to explore their innovative ideas.
TORONTO, ON – Innovation is essential to Canada’s continued prosperity. This belief is at the heart of a ground-breaking education experience, designed to develop the next generation of business-savvy, science-literate entrepreneurs. The Big Ideas: Creativity, Design and Innovation Camp engaged 450 youth across southern Ontario—from Hamilton, to Toronto, to Ottawa—this past summer. The camps were developed and run by the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity (ICP), the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Actua, a national…
International Synthetic Biology Competition to come to U of T
TORONTO, ON - Teams of faculty and students from North American universities will gather at the University of Toronto in a competition to see who has the most novel ideas in the transformative new field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biologists engineer biology to create tools that may solve some of the world’s most pressing problems in such areas as health care, energy production and environmental degradation. Each team in the competition has been given a kit of biological parts. Working…
University of Toronto statement
On Wednesday September 25th, the University of Toronto and Victoria College learned of comments made by David Gilmour, a noted Canadian author and journalist, relating to his literary preferences and choice of teaching materials. Mr. Gilmour is not a member of the University of Toronto faculty. However, Mr. Gilmour teaches University of Toronto students taking an elective seminar course through Victoria College. Mr. Gilmour’s comments have received a great deal of attention through both traditional and social media. The administration…
Rotman Faculty honoured with awards for research and impact
TORONTO, ON — Three faculty members at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have been recognized for their achievements this month. Jeffrey Callen, a professor of accounting at the Rotman School, received a Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award from the School. The annual award is given out in recognition of a faculty member's academic achievements and long-standing contributions to the internal and external research communities. Prof. Callen, who has been at the Rotman School since 2000, is also the holder…
Connaught Global Challenge grant seeds ambitious solar cell research project
TORONTO, ON – What can we learn from plants about making the best use of the sun’s abundant energy? That’s the question underlying an ambitious new research project that has won $1 million in the 2012-13 Connaught Global Challenge funding competition. The project team director, Ted Sargent of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, says the funding will help him and co-investigators merge previously disparate fields of study—and potentially open up a new avenue for…