Media Releases
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From Student to Entrepreneur: U of T’s Cynthia Goh and Ajay Agrawal address Board of Trade on economic value of training entrepreneurs
TORONTO, ON – Toronto is internationally recognized as a world-leading hub of entrepreneurship and start-up businesses. With an extraordinary talent pool, globally significant industry clusters, and excellent post-secondary institutions located in the Toronto metropolitan region, Toronto offers a rich environment for innovation and entrepreneurship. Our region’s next great challenge is to build on this momentum by training and developing more entrepreneurs. Two champions of young entrepreneurs at the University of Toronto have embraced the imperative. Cynthia Goh and Ajay Agrawal…
Government of Canada celebrates the national historic significance of the Grey Cup
TORONTO, ON - The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Member of Parliament for York-Simcoe and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, will participate in a ceremony to highlight the national historic significance of the Grey Cup. Minister Van Loan will take part in this event on behalf of the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada. Please note that this advisory is subject to change without notice. EVENT DETAILS WHEN: November 20, 2012 (Tuesday), 9:30 a.m. WHERE: Varsity Centre, University of Toronto,…
Middle Income Access to Justice book launch will be celebrated Nov. 21, 2012, with a Town Hall moderated by the Toronto Star’s Ellen Roseman
The Faculty of Law is pleased to celebrate the book launch of Middle Income Access to Justice (Michael Trebilcock, Anthony Duggan and Lorne Sossin, eds.) with a Town Hall on November 21, 2012, moderated by consumer advocate, reporter and blogger Ellen Roseman of the Toronto Star The discussion will centre on the latest issues and developments in the access to justice crisis, particularly for middle-income Canadians. Leading figures from the Ontario legal community will give updates on family, consumer/debtor-creditor and employment…
Archaeologists identify spear tips used in hunting a half-million years ago
TORONTO, ON – A University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists has found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago – 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. “This changes the way we think about early human adaptations and capacities before the origin of our own species,” says Jayne Wilkins, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and lead author of a new study in Science. “Although both Neandertals and humans…
Virtual reality could spot real-world impairments
TORONTO, ON - A virtual reality test being developed at UTSC might do a better job than pencil-and-paper tests of predicting whether a cognitive impairment will have real-world consequences. The test developed by Konstantine Zakzanis, associate professor of psychology, and colleagues, uses a computer-game-like virtual world and asks volunteers to navigate their ways through tasks such as delivering packages or running errands around town. “If we’re being asked to tell if people could do things like work, houseclean, and take…
Want better employees? Get somebody else to rate their personalities, suggests new study.
TORONTO, ON – Businesses will get more accurate assessments of potential and current employees if they do away with self-rated personality tests and ask those being assessed to find someone else to rate them, suggest results from a new study. Previous job performance studies have shown that outsiders are best at rating an individual’s personality in terms of how they work on the job. But observers in these studies have always been co-workers. The recent paper by Prof. Brian Connelly,…
U of T jazz orchestra launches season with new director Gordon Foote
TORONTO, ON – After 26 years teaching in the Jazz Studies Program at McGill University directing the award winning and internationally known McGill Jazz Orchestra, Gordon Foote has accepted a position as director of the U of T Jazz Orchestra, in the Faculty of Music, at the U of T. He will debut as director of the U of T Orchestra with a concert on November 20, 2012. EVENT DETAILS: WHAT: Concert to launch the UofT Jazz Orchestra under the…
U of T evolutionary biologist to give public talk on Peruvian killer ants at Toronto Public Library
TORONTO, ON — Megan Frederickson, University of Toronto Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, will give a free public talk about cooperation among ants in the Peruvian rainforest. The talk is part of an ongoing series of free public lectures featuring scientists from the University of Toronto. There are several other public lectures coming up. For more information on the series: http://www.utoronto.ca/evolution. EVENT DETAILS WHO: Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Megan Frederickson. (For more information, visit: http://mutualism.ca)…
U of T unveils new TechnoLABS to support and train aspiring technopreneurs
TORONTO, ON — The University of Toronto launched its TechnoLABS space today, part of a growing ecosystem at the U of T that offers support and training for student and recent alumni who are leading and building companies based on technological innovations. “TechnoLABS is a space dedicated to a new generation of student entrepreneurs with strong science and engineering backgrounds who are turning their discoveries in the lab into products and solutions that can benefit all Canadians”, says Cynthia Goh,…
U of T’s Institute for Optical Sciences to unveil TechnoLABS at symposium featuring successful alumni entrepreneurs
TORONTO, ON — The University of Toronto’s Institute for Optical Sciences (IOS) will host an afternoon symposium to launch TechnoLABS. Located in the Banting and Best Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the new space is part of a growing ecosystem at U of T that offers support and training for students and recent alumni who are building companies based on technological innovations. Scheduled speakers at the TechnoLABS opening will include former U of T students who have successfully launched or run technology companies, including Graeme Ferguson, co-founder of Imax Inc., and Neil…