Media Releases
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Ceremony to celebrate Marshall McLuhan’s historical significance
TORONTO, ON – The national historical significance of Marshall McLuhan will be celebrated this week with the unveiling of a plaque at a ceremony in Toronto on Friday, October 14, 2011. The event will be presided over by: The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada; The Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources and Member of Parliament for Eglinton-Lawrence; and officials from the Historic Sites and Monuments of Board of Canada. Born in Edmonton,…
New major report tracks challenges of a censored Internet for global broadcasters
TORONTO, ON - An international research team, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, has released a detailed report that tracks and analyzes the difficulties of broadcasting the news into jurisdictions that censor the Internet, including Iran and China. The report, entitled Casting a Wider Net: Lessons Learned in Delivering BBC Content on the Censored Internet, reports on a series of real-world tests to deliver access to BBC websites into Iran and China, where they are…
U of T Canada’s leading university in major global ranking
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto’s academic and research performance ranks among the best in the world – and is the best in Canada – in a prestigious international ranking released this week. The Times Higher Education (THE) report rated the University 19th overall in its rankings, which measure the institutional excellence of the world’s top 200 universities in research, teaching and knowledge transfer. Three Canadian universities placed in the top 50 in the THE’s ranking, and nine in…
Collectivism and bribery
TORONTO, ON - Why are some places more prone to bribery and corruption than others? Part of the answer seems to be the level of collective feeling in a society, according to research by Pankaj Aggarwal, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) professor of marketing in the Department of Management, and Nina Mazar, University of Toronto professor of marketing. Aggarwal and Mazar discovered that people in more collectivist cultures – in which individuals see themselves as interdependent and as part of…
Zinc’s role in the brain
TORONTO, ON - Zinc plays a critical role in regulating how neurons communicate with one another, and could affect how memories form and how we learn. The new research, in the current issue of Neuron, was authored by Xiao-an Zhang, now a chemistry professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), and colleagues at MIT and Duke University. Researchers have been trying to pin down the role of zinc in the brain for more than fifty years, ever since scientists…
Rotman faculty among business gurus shortlisted for Global Management Awards
TORONTO, ON - The Thinkers50, a ranking of global business thinkers, today announced the shortlisted nominees for this year’s awards. Two members of the faculty at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto are nominated. Dean Roger Martin is up for two awards in the categories of “Breakthrough Idea” for his development of Integrative Thinking and for the “The Thinkers 50 Book Award” for his recent book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn…
University of Toronto launches India Innovation Institute
TORONTO ON – The study of innovation takes a global step forward today with the launch of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto – a joint venture of the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Rotman School of Management. “The India Innovation Institute is designed to be a hub for researchers across the university and around the world,” said Professor Janice Stein, Director of the Munk School which will house the institute. “It will bring together…
Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss occurred last winter:
TORONTO, ON – A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of the Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring that was caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. University of Toronto physicist Kaley Walker was part of the international team behind the study to be published online Sunday, October 2 in Nature. The researchers found the amount of ozone destroyed in the Arctic in 2011 was comparable to that…
Herbivore populations will go down as temperatures go up, U of T study says
TORONTO, ON – As climate change causes temperatures to rise, the number of herbivores will decrease, affecting the human food supply, according to new research from the University of Toronto. In a paper being published this month in American Naturalist, a team of ecologists describe how differences in the general responses of plants and herbivores to temperature change produces predictable declines in herbivore populations. This decrease occurs because herbivores grow more quickly at high temperatures than plants do, and as…
Is Toronto broke?
TORONTO, ON – As the first event in a six-part series dissecting urban issues in Toronto, the University of Toronto’s Cities Centre will host a discussion on the city’s financial situation on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College Street, Room 103. Speakers Shirley Hoy (former CEO of the City of Toronto) and Dr. Enid Slack (Director, Institute for Municipal Finance and Governance) will…