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April 30, 2014

Grade 6–8 students compete and put their science skills and knowledge to the test at the Let’s Talk Science Challenge at the University of Toronto

TORONTO, ON — The Let’s Talk Sci­ence Out­reach Pro­gram at the U of T St. George cam­pus site is host­ing the 2014 Let’s Talk Sci­ence Chal­lenge for grades 6–8 stu­dents. The areas of sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, engi­neer­ing, and math are impor­tant for ele­men­tary stu­dents to engage in to encour­age them to pur­sue them fur­ther in their […]

April 29, 2014

2014 TELUS-Rotman Security Study introduces a “security responsible” approach to technology innovation

Enter­pris­es that fol­low best prac­tices and adopt inno­va­tion in a strate­gic and respon­si­ble man­ner have high­er secu­ri­ty sat­is­fac­tion, few­er breach­es and improved risk man­age­ment TORONTO, ON – TELUS and the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to today released the 2014 TELUS-Rot­­man Secu­ri­ty Study. Now in its sixth year, the annu­al sur­vey tracks indus­try […]

April 28, 2014

University of Toronto launches the first AbleGamers Game Accessibility Arcade for gamers with disabilities in Canada

TORONTO, ON – On Sat­ur­day April 26th, the Sem­a­phore Research Clus­ter (Fac­ul­ty of Infor­ma­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to) launched the first Cana­di­an AbleGamers Acces­si­bil­i­ty Arcade, a per­ma­nent instal­la­tion in the Sem­a­phore space in U of T’s Robarts Library. It includes the most up-to-date tech­nol­o­gy and con­trollers designed to enable gamers with dis­abil­i­ties access to today’s most pop­u­lar video games. “My hope in bring­ing AbleGamers and […]

April 24, 2014

Banff Centre President Jeff Melanson to join U of T’s Massey College

TORONTO, ON – Jeff Melan­son, cur­rent­ly the Pres­i­dent of the Banff Cen­tre, has been appoint­ed Senior Res­i­dent of Massey Col­lege in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to for the 2014–15 aca­d­e­m­ic year.  The announce­ment was made today by John Fras­er, Mas­ter of Massey Col­lege and Mer­ic Gertler, Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. Gertler said he is look­ing […]

April 24, 2014

U of T to host first ‘Accessibility Arcade’ video game lab for disabled players

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will launch Canada’s first Game Acces­si­bil­i­ty Lab to research video game tech­nolo­gies for play­ers with dis­abil­i­ties. The lab, also known as the ‘Acces­si­bil­i­ty Arcade’, will fea­ture the lat­est assis­tive tech­nolo­gies to enable dis­abled gamers to play today’s most pop­u­lar video games. The lab will be per­ma­nent­ly housed at […]

April 24, 2014

Canadian scientist honoured with prestigious international diabetes prize

TORONTO, ON — Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Pro­fes­sor Daniel Druck­er is the recip­i­ent of the 2014 Bant­i­ng Medal for Sci­en­tif­ic Achieve­ment Award from the Amer­i­can Dia­betes Asso­ci­a­tion. The pres­ti­gious hon­our, which is described by some as the Nobel Prize for dia­betes research, is a rare hon­our for non-Amer­i­­cans. Druck­er is only the sec­ond Cana­di­an recip­i­ent of […]

April 23, 2014

Rotman School expansion receives Canada’ s highest honour for architecture

TORONTO, ON —  The expan­sion of the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is the recip­i­ent of a Gov­er­nor General’s Medal in Archi­tec­ture, Canada’s high­est hon­our for archi­tec­ture. Opened in Sep­tem­ber 2012, the expan­sion was designed by award-win­n­ing Kuwabara Payne McKen­na Blum­berg Archi­tects (KPMB) with Bruce Kuwabara as the design part­ner and […]

April 23, 2014

Rotman professor named as a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International

TORONTO, ON – A lead­ing researcher and teacher of urban eco­nom­ics and real estate at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment has been elect­ed a Fel­low of the Region­al Sci­ence Asso­ci­a­tion Inter­na­tion­al (RSAI) in recog­ni­tion of his life­time con­tri­bu­tions to the schol­ar­ship of region­al sci­ence. William Strange is the Smart Cen­tres Chair in Real […]

April 22, 2014

XTouch wins Top App title

TORONTO, ON—An app that can turn any sur­face into a tap-sen­si­­tive inter­face was named Top App at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s 2014 Mobile App Lab Demo Night. The win comes with $1,000 in prize mon­ey. Amin Hei­dari demon­strat­ed the XTouch app to a crowd of indus­try rep­re­sen­ta­tives, pro­fes­sors and stu­dents, includ­ing three judges: Dar­rell Ether­ing­ton […]

April 22, 2014

Sleep behaviour disorder linked to brain disease

TORONTO, ON — Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to say a sleep dis­or­der that caus­es peo­ple to act out their dreams is the best cur­rent pre­dic­tor of brain dis­eases like Parkinson’s and many oth­er forms of demen­tia. “Rapid-eye-move­­ment sleep behav­iour dis­or­der (RBD) is not just a pre­cur­sor but also a crit­i­cal warn­ing sign of neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion […]

April 16, 2014

Rotman school students succeed in international competitions

TORONTO, ON – The first week­end of April was a suc­cess for two groups of stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment who came away with prizes from two dif­fer­ent com­pe­ti­tions. A team of JD/MBA stu­dents won a pres­ti­gious inter­na­tion­al nego­ti­a­tion tour­na­ment while a team of MBA stu­dents took the third spot in […]

April 16, 2014

“Ontario’s performance in health care is uncompetitive among international peers”

TORONTO, ON – In Work­ing Paper 20, Build­ing bet­ter health care: Pol­i­cy oppor­tu­ni­ties for Ontario, the Insti­tute for Com­pet­i­tive­ness & Pros­per­i­ty exam­ines how the per­for­mance of the Ontario health care sys­tem com­pares inter­na­tion­al­ly on dimen­sions of effi­cien­cy and equi­ty, and ana­lyzes what dri­ves health care costs. The Insti­tute finds that, over­all, Ontario could get bet­ter val­ue […]

April 16, 2014

U of T study finds toddlers ‘surprisingly sophisticated’ at understanding unfamiliar accents

TORONTO, ON — A new Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to study has found that by two years of age, chil­dren are remark­ably good at com­pre­hend­ing speak­ers who talk with region­al accents the tod­dlers have nev­er heard before. Even more strik­ing, say researchers, chil­dren as young as 15 months who have dif­fi­cul­ty com­pre­hend­ing accents they’ve nev­er heard before […]

April 15, 2014

Faculty at U of T’s Rotman School produce award winning research

TORONTO, ON – Two research papers authored by fac­ul­ty mem­bers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have been hon­oured by pro­fes­sion­al and aca­d­e­m­ic orga­ni­za­tions. A paper co-authored by Peter Christof­fersen, a pro­fes­sor of finance at the Rot­man School, has won the 2013 AIMA Cana­da Research Award pre­sent­ed by the Alter­na­tive Invest­ment Man­age­ment Asso­­ci­a­­tion-Cana­­da […]

April 11, 2014

Toronto’s challenges are no match for U of T Engineering students

TORONTO, ON – Fer­ries that leave res­i­dents in the cold on Toron­to Islands, salt that jeop­ar­dizes curl­ing games in Lea­side, and mops that injure staff in down­town hos­pi­tals – GTA com­mu­ni­ties nev­er seem to run out of chal­lenges. Today, first-year engi­neer­ing stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to are host­ing a day-long event to show­case their […]

April 10, 2014

OISE presents the R.W.B. Jackson Lecture: Why the quality of Finland’s education system can exceed the quality of its teachers

TORONTO, ON – The Ontario Insti­tute for Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion (OISE) of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to presents the annu­al R.W.B. Jack­son Lec­ture: Why the qual­i­ty of Finland’s edu­ca­tion sys­tem can exceed the qual­i­ty of its teach­ers, with Finnish edu­ca­tor and schol­ar Pasi Sahlberg on Thurs­day, April 17, 2014. The qual­i­ty of teach­ing and edu­ca­tion­al change […]

April 9, 2014

Location matters when it comes to deal making says new study from U of T’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – Even six-year-olds know who you sit beside mat­ters, whether you’re in first grade or at a high-pow­ered din­ner. But now a new study, using the U.S. Sen­ate Cham­ber as its lab­o­ra­to­ry, pro­vides doc­u­ment­ed evi­dence of that phe­nom­e­non. It shows that where a per­son is locat­ed influ­ences who they inter­act with and who they […]

April 9, 2014

University of Toronto researchers win two Killam Prizes

TORONTO, ON – Two Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to researchers – physi­cist Sajeev John and engi­neer Andreas Man­delis – have each won a 2014 Kil­lam Prize, one of Canada’s most pres­ti­gious schol­ar­ly awards. The Kil­lam Prize rec­og­nizes out­stand­ing career achieve­ment by schol­ars active­ly engaged in research. Admin­is­tered by the Cana­da Coun­cil for the Arts, only five prizes are […]

April 8, 2014

OISE hosts public forum titled Aboriginal Knowledge(s): Colonialism, Decolonization and Education

TORONTO, ON – The Depart­ment of Human­i­ties, Social Sci­ences and Social Jus­tice Edu­ca­tion at the Ontario Insti­tute for Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion (OISE) of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will host a one-day col­lo­qui­um on Abo­rig­i­nal knowl­edge on Thurs­day, April 10. Abo­rig­i­nal edu­ca­tion is a major area of study in Cana­da and around the world. This event […]

April 7, 2014

U of T researchers offer hope for children with previously incurable brain cancer

TORONTO, ON – Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Depart­ment of Lab­o­ra­to­ry Med­i­cine and Patho­bi­ol­o­gy (LMP) have defined poten­tial treat­ment tar­gets for a pre­vi­ous­ly incur­able form of pedi­atric brain can­cer called Dif­fuse Intrin­sic Pon­tine Glioma (DIPG). In ground­break­ing research pub­lished in Nature Genet­ics, Dr. Cyn­thia Hawkins, a pro­fes­sor at LMP and Neu­ropathol­o­gist and Sci­en­tist at […]