Media Releases
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Biography of Professor Meric Gertler
President-designate of the University of Toronto Professor Meric Gertler is one of the world’s foremost urban theorists and policy practitioners. He is widely known as an expert on innovation, creativity and culture as drivers of the economic dynamism of city-regions. On March 4, 2013, Professor Gertler was named the 16th President of the University of Toronto. He currently serves as the Dean of the University of Toronto’s largest and most diverse academic division, the Faculty of Arts & Science, a…
Media Availability for U of T President-Designate Meric Gertler
TORONTO, ON – Meric Gertler, a world-renowned expert on urban issues, will become the 16th President of the University of Toronto, it was announced today. President-Designate Gertler will be available to speak to media at a news conference today. EVENT DETAILS WHAT: Media availability for University of Toronto President-Designate Meric Gertler WHO: Meric Gertler, President-Designate, University of Toronto Richard Nunn, Chair, Governing Council, University of Toronto Judy Goldring, Vice-Chair, Governing Council, University of Toronto David Naylor, President, University of Toronto…
Presidents of the University of Toronto
• The Honourable and Right Reverend John Strachan – 1827-1848 • The Reverend John McCaul – 1848-1880 • Sir Daniel Wilson – 1880-1892 • James Loudon – 1892-1906 • Sir Robert Alexander Falconer – 1907-1932 • The Honourable and Reverend Henry John Cody – 1932-1945 • Sidney Earle Smith – 1945-1957 • Claude Thomas Bissell – 1958-1971 • John Robert Evans – 1972-1978 • James Milton Ham – 1978-1983 • David William Strangway – 1983-1984 • George Edward Connell –…
University of Toronto Launches “Women in House” Program on Parliament Hill
TORONTO, ON – The Peace, Conflict and Justice Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the International Relations Program at Trinity College, University of Toronto, is launching a new program called the U of T Women in House which will run from March 4th to March 5th, 2013. The U of T Women in House is a new program aimed at promoting a greater female representation in the government by inviting female undergraduate students to shadow the lives…
Pour, shake and stir
TORONTO, ON — A diagnostic "cocktail" containing a single drop of blood, a dribble of water, and a dose of DNA powder with gold particles could mean rapid diagnosis and treatment of the world's leading diseases in the near future. The cocktail diagnostic is a homegrown brew being developed by University of Toronto's Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) PhD student Kyryl Zagorovsky and Professor Warren Chan that could change the way infectious diseases, from HPV and HIV to malaria,…
U of T researchers lead in Canadian science prizes
TORONTO, ON -- University of Toronto researchers won or shared honours in six of eight prize categories in this year’s awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), presented today in Ottawa. The accolades represent an unprecedented performance by U of T scholars ranging across the academic life-cycle, from graduate students through rising stars in mid-career to lifetime achievers. This is the third year in a row that a U of T researcher has won the Herzberg medal,…
Université Laval wins 10th annual Rotman International Trading Competition
TORONTO, ON - A team of students from Université Laval (Quebec City) won the 10th annual Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) hosted by the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. A team from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) placed second, while students from the University of Toronto and Baruch College (City University of New York) tied for third place. The BI Norwegian Business School was fifth and LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome placed sixth overall. More than 240 student…
Moments of spirituality can induce liberal attitudes, U of T researchers say
TORONTO, ON - People become more politically liberal immediately after practicing a spiritual exercise such as meditation, researchers at the University of Toronto have found. “There’s great overlap between religious beliefs and political orientations,” says one of the study authors, Dr. Jordan Peterson of U of T’s Department of Psychology. “We found that religious individuals tend to be more conservative and spiritual people tend to be more liberal. Inducing a spiritual experience through a guided meditation exercise led both liberals…
Exploring the perils of precarious employment
TORONTO, ON — Alberto Almeida knew that as an auto mechanic’s apprentice he was expected to pay his dues doing dirty and heavy work. But that dues-paying ended in a disabling back injury at the age of 17, cutting his career as a mechanic short. Now Almeida is a UTSC undergraduate sociology student studying the problems immigrants face with precarious employment. Working with Patricia Landolt, associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, he has conducted studies into working conditions…
World’s smallest space telescope to launch on Monday
TORONTO, ON - The smallest astronomical satellite ever built will launch shortly after 07:20 a.m. EST on Monday, 25 February 2013 as part of a mission to prove that even a very small telescope can push the boundaries of astronomy. The satellite was designed and assembled at the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). It will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, along with its twin, also designed in…