Media Releases
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Martin Prosperity Institute to develop study that examines Toronto Public Library’s economic impact on the city
TORONTO, ON – Toronto Public Library has commissioned the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, to develop a study that will determine the economic impact of Toronto Public Library on the City of Toronto. The study is being funded by the Toronto Public Library Foundation thanks to a generous donation from TD Bank Group and a contribution from the Estate of Norman G. Hinton. “We are thrilled to be working with Toronto…
U of T’s discovery of Insulin collections inscribed in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
TORONTO, ON – In recognition of their global significance, the University of Toronto Libraries’ Discovery of Insulin collections were inscribed today into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. The announcement was made jointly by the institution and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO which implements the program in Canada. The collection includes original handwritten notes by the scientific team of Frederick Grant Banting, Charles Herbert Best, James Bertram Collip and John James Rickard Macleod concerning early experiments and the successful use…
Get the first peek of B‑7, Blue Sky Solar Racing’s newest solar vehicle
TORONTO, ON — The Blue Sky Solar Racing team is unveiling its newest state-of-art solar car, B-7, ready for the 3,000-kilometre race across the Australian outback. The University of Toronto based team will be heading Down Under this fall to compete in the 2013 World Solar Challenge, promoting sustainable transportation technologies. For the past 18 months, Blue Sky members have been designing and building B-7, a new solar- powered vehicle to race against over 40 other teams from around the globe.…
Rotman NeXus serves non-profit organizations with consulting services
TORONTO, ON – Since 2005 non-profit organizations and social enterprises who require management consulting services have reached out to a team of four MBA students at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management who help these organizations maximize their social impact. Rotman NeXus offers affordable, fee-based consulting services to support a broad range of business needs at all the different stages in the non-profit lifecycle, including planning and start-up to increasing capacity and expansion. The consultants, who are entering the…
University of Toronto to proceed with back campus fields project
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto is very pleased that Toronto city councillors re-affirmed the city's commitment to renewed fields on the university’s historic back campus. City council voted in favour of the University’s plan to proceed with the project, which will involve creating two artificial turf fields. The fields will provide a venue for field hockey and para-sports during the 2015 Pan/Parapan-Am games. More importantly for the university, they will resolve a long-standing problem of limited utilization of…
Largest set of data on health behaviours by Canadian post-secondary students to be released at conference
TORONTO, ON – The largest amount of data ever collected on the health of Canadian post-secondary students will be released on Monday, June 17, by the Canadian Organization of University and College Health (COUCH). More than 30,000 students from 30-plus Canadian institutions responded to the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey. The data will be released prior to COUCH’s Annual General Meeting being held at the Delta Montreal. EVENT DETAILS WHAT: Release of data on the health of Canadian post-secondary students…
Self-fertilizing plants contribute to their own demise
TORONTO, ON – Many plants are self-fertilizing, meaning they act as both mother and father to their own seeds. This strategy – known as selfing – guarantees reproduction but, over time, leads to reduced diversity and the accumulation of harmful mutations. A new study published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics shows that these negative consequences are apparent across a selfing plant’s genome, and can arise more rapidly than previously thought. In the study, an international consortium led by Stephen…
Tracking drug-resistant tuberculosis in real-time
TORONTO, ON – Professor Frances Jamieson at the University of Toronto’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP), and Medical Microbiologist, Public Health Ontario, is leading the way in tracking potentially deadly outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB) with a powerful new Geographic Information System (GIS) application, known as Ontario Universal Typing – Tuberculosis (OUT-TB) Web. Not just applicable to TB, this secure web-based system could be used to monitor a host of pathogens and diseases from E. coli O157:H7 to meningitis…
Leaders and experts on the issues on the agenda at the 2013 G8 Lough Erne summit
BELFAST, IRELAND — The G8 Research Group is proud to announce the release of its latest publication published by Newsdesk Media — "The UK Summit: The G8 at Lough Erne 2013" with contributions from David Cameron, François Hollande, José Manuel Barroso, Barack Obama and Ellen Sirleaf Johnson as well as the OECD's Angel Gurria, the ILO's Guy Ryder, IFAD's Kanayo Nwanze, WFP's Ertharin Cousin, UNCTAD's Supachai Panitchpakdi, OPEC's Abdalla Salem El-Badri, INTERPOL's Ronald Noble and the heads of many other international organizations.…
The University of Toronto to transform an iconic Toronto landmark into the new home of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design
TORONTO, ON — The University of Toronto unveiled its ambitious plans today to transform one of the most iconic sites in the city: One Spadina Crescent. The building project will renew the south-facing 19th century Gothic Revival building and build out the unrealized northern face of the circle with a stunning work of contemporary architecture. Designed by Nader Tehrani, principal of the internationally acclaimed firm NADAAA, and his collaborator Katie Faulkner, the revitalized site will be the new home of the…