Media Releases
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U of T community to gather in rememberance
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony on the main campus will take place on Friday, November 11 from 10:20 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the foot of the Soldiers’ Tower at Hart House Circle. The service will include readings, prayers, hymns and the laying of wreaths. The service will be officiated by Canon W. Ebert Hobbs, Fort York Branch, Royal Canadian Legion; Rabbi Aaron Katchen of Hillel at University of Toronto; and Pandit Suraj Persad,…
Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle
TORONTO, ON - University of Toronto materials science and engineering (MSE) researchers have demonstrated for the first time the key mechanism behind how energy levels align in a critical group of advanced materials. This discovery is a significant breakthrough in the development of sustainable technologies such as dye-sensitized solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Transition metal oxides, which are best-known for their application as super-conductors, have made possible many sustainable technologies developed over the last two decades, including organic…
U of T’s Goldring Centre for high performance sport gets final nod
TORONTO, ON - The University of Toronto’s Governing Council gave the final stamp of approval on November 27 to build the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport. A state-of-the-art hub for sport and exercise research, sport medicine, training and competition, the facility will bring a much-needed resource to U of T and Ontario. In the planning stages for several years, the Goldring Centre will house international-level basketball and volleyball courts, a relocated and expanded David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic, a range…
Assessing the Cannes Summit Accomplishments
Leading G20 experts from three continents and six countries come together under the auspices of the global G20 Research Group to assess the achievements of the G20 Cannes Summit. Time: 11:00-12:00 on Friday, November 4, 2011 Location: Briefing Room No. 7, 4th floor, Palais du Festival, Cannes Chair: John Kirton, co-director, G20 Research Group Participants: • Andrew F. Cooper, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada • Victoria Panova, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) — Ministry of Foreign Affairs,…
Ontario’s first lesbian and gay rights group honoured
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto Homophile Association, the province’s first group to rally around lesbian and gay rights, was honoured yesterday at a ceremony that marked their historic formation in 1969. Officials from U of T, the Ontario Heritage Trust (OHT) and three levels of government commemorated the historic group’s formation by unveiling a provincial plaque at University College – the site of the U of T Homophile Association’s first meeting 42 years ago. “The U of T…
Government to support project to profile war veterans, key Canadians
TORONTO, ON – The Department of Canadian Heritage will make an important announcement at the University of Toronto next week regarding a project that chronicles the lives of Canadian war veterans and other important national figures. The announcement will happen just ahead of Remembrance Day on Monday, November 7 at 10 a.m. at Hart House at U of T. A tour of the university’s Soldiers’ Tower will follow. Media are invited to attend, but are asked to RSVP in advance…
Faculty of Law to host the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for a special, free screening of “Prosecutor”
TORONTO, ON - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and Canadian diplomat Stephen Lewis, will appear at a special free public screening of the new documentary “Prosecutor” on Monday, November 14th, at the Isabel Bader Theatre at the University of Toronto. This is the first public screening of the film, which it is being generously sponsored by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, including its International Human Rights Program (IHRP). “We are…
University of Toronto honours filmmaker Deepa Mehta
TORONTO, ON – Approximately 4,400 students will graduate from the University of Toronto at convocation ceremonies taking place from Monday November 7 to Friday November 11 in Convocation Hall, 31 King’s College Circle. The University will also confer an honorary degree on renowned director, producer and screenwriter Deepa Mehta at a ceremony Monday, November 7 at 6 pm. Mehta, whose work includes Bolllywood/Hollywood, one of the top-grossing English language films in Canadian history as well as the trilogy of films…
Rotman Professor Receives grant from Sloan Foundation
TORONTO, ON - A professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management has received a $976,000 (US) grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study the economics of knowledge contribution and distribution. Joshua Gans, who is a professor of strategic management and the holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship, will lead the research project with Prof. Fiona Murray of MIT's Sloan School of Management. The three-year project will encourage research designed…
G20 Research Group briefing on G20 compliance
Toronto – The G20 Research Group will hold a briefing on the findings of its 2010 Seoul G20 Summit Final Compliance Report on November 2, 2011, at the international media centre in Cannes, France. Co-produced by the G20 Research Group based at the University of Toronto and the International Organisations Research Institute at the National State University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, the report monitors G20 members’ compliance with the commitments they made at the last G20 summit. The…