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February 18, 2014

Student traders to take part in the world’s largest trading competition at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – More than 270 stu­dent traders from around the world will gath­er lat­er this week in Toron­to to par­tic­i­pate in the 11th annu­al Rot­man Inter­na­tion­al Trad­ing Com­pe­ti­tion (RITC). The world’s largest trad­ing com­pe­ti­tion will be held from Feb­ru­ary 20 to 22 for the first time in the new­ly estab­lished BMO Finan­cial Group Finance Research and […]

February 13, 2014

“Phyllis loves Kelly” — six decades of Valentine’s Day poetry documents one of U of T couple’s enduring love

TORONTO, ON – For six­ty years, Phyl­lis Gotlieb, a cel­e­brat­ed poet, author and Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to grad­u­ate, penned heart­felt vers­es for her hus­band, Kel­ly, a dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus in Com­put­er Sci­ence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. Togeth­er with Pro­fes­sor Gotlieb, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Libraries has com­piled these works into one book, “Phyl­lis Loves Kel­ly,” an […]

February 13, 2014

New Rotman program prepares executives for success in senior management roles

TORONTO, ON — A new pro­gram from Exec­u­tive Pro­grams at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment is designed to help senior man­agers devel­op new cross-func­­tion­al and cross-enter­prise skills to help them and their orga­ni­za­tions excel in today’s com­pet­i­tive envi­ron­ment. Par­tic­i­pants of Rotman’s Senior Man­age­ment Pro­gram will devel­op con­cep­tu­al frame­works to set strat­e­gy and […]

February 11, 2014

Federal Budget’s Research Excellence Fund Huge Step in the Right Direction: U of T President

Toron­to – Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Pres­i­dent Mer­ic Gertler says the Gov­ern­ment of Cana­da has tak­en a huge step in the right direc­tion with invest­ments in research and inno­va­tion and in par­tic­u­lar the announce­ment of the Cana­da First Research Excel­lence Fund in today’s fed­er­al bud­get.  This fund, which will grow to $200M annu­al­ly, will sup­port world-lead­­ing […]

February 11, 2014

Innovating for the Global South: New book by University of Toronto faculty offers practical insights to address global poverty

TORONTO, ON – Despite the vast wealth gen­er­at­ed in the last half cen­tu­ry, in today’s world inequal­i­ty is wors­en­ing and pover­ty is becom­ing increas­ing­ly chron­ic. Hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple con­tin­ue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human neces­si­ties such as nutri­tious food, shel­ter, clean water, pri­ma­ry health care, and […]

February 11, 2014

Researchers discover ‘epic’ new Burgess Shale site in Canada’s Kootenay National Park

KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Yoho Nation­al Park’s 505-mil­lion-year-old Burgess Shale – home to some of the planet’s ear­li­est ani­mals, includ­ing a very prim­i­tive human rel­a­tive – is one of the world’s most impor­tant fos­sil sites. Now, more than a cen­tu­ry after its dis­cov­ery, a com­pelling sequel has been unearthed: 42 kilo­me­tres away in […]

February 6, 2014

U of T Research examines the implications of mourning on Facebook

TORONTO, ON – With increas­ing reg­u­lar­i­ty, rel­a­tives, friends and col­leagues find out some­one they know or love has died via social media. A Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to research paper, “Vir­tu­al Mourn­ing and Mem­o­ry Con­struc­tion on Face­book: Here Are the Terms of Use,” was recent­ly pub­lished in the Bul­letin of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy & Soci­ety.  The researchers inves­ti­gat­ed […]

February 5, 2014

Food insecurity leads to increased incidence of tuberculosis in Zimbabwe

TORONTO, ON — The rise of tuber­cu­lo­sis (TB) in Zim­bab­we dur­ing the socio-eco­nom­ic cri­sis of 2008–9 has been linked to wide­spread food short­age, accord­ing to a new study led by Cana­di­an researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Dal­la Lana School of Pub­lic Health pub­lished in PLOS ONE. “This was the first study to detect the […]

February 5, 2014

DNA-built nanstructures safely target, image cancer tumors

TORONTO, ON –  A team of researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has dis­cov­ered a method of assem­bling “build­ing blocks” of gold nanopar­ti­cles as the vehi­cle to deliv­er can­cer med­ica­tions or can­cer-iden­ti­­fy­ing mark­ers direct­ly into can­cer­ous tumors. The study, led by War­ren Chan, Pro­fes­sor at the Insti­tute of Bio­ma­te­ri­als & Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing (IBBME) and the […]

February 4, 2014

Six Rotman MBA teams advance to the regional finals of the Hult Prize

TORONTO, ON – A record six teams with mem­bers from the MBA and Mas­ter of Finance pro­grams at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have advanced to the region­al finals of the Fifth annu­al Hult Prize. Team mem­bers also include stu­dents and alum­ni from U of T’s Fac­ul­ties of Law, Engi­neer­ing, Med­i­cine, Kine­si­ol­o­gy […]

February 3, 2014

Research shows that reported oil sands emissions greatly underestimated

TORONTO, ON – A new com­pre­hen­sive mod­el­ing assess­ment of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in the Athabas­ca Oil Sands Region indi­cates that offi­cial­ly report­ed emis­sions of cer­tain haz­ardous air pol­lu­tants have been great­ly under­es­ti­mat­ed. The results of the assess­ment, which was car­ried out by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough Envi­ron­men­tal Chem­istry pro­fes­sor Frank Wania and his PhD can­di­date Abha Para­julee, […]

February 3, 2014

2nd annual Rotman Problem Solving Challenge offers scholarships to MBA applicants

TORONTO, ON – More than $300,000 in schol­ar­ship mon­ey to the Rot­man Full Time MBA pro­gram will be up for grabs for the win­ners for the sec­ond annu­al Rot­man Prob­lem Solv­ing Chal­lenge to be held at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Designed for prospec­tive and incom­ing Full Time MBA can­di­dates, the Chal­lenge pro­vides […]

January 30, 2014

Law in Action Within Schools director Sarah Pole lands Vital People Award

TORONTO, ON — Sarah Pole, direc­tor of the ground­break­ing Law in Action With­in Schools (LAWS) pro­gram, received a Vital Peo­ple Award from the Toron­to Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion. These awards, announced today, offer grants in recog­ni­tion of val­ued com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers who are mak­ing out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions at not-for-prof­it orga­ni­za­tions. Grants are award­ed in sup­port of con­tin­ued train­ing and […]

January 28, 2014

Price highlighting helps consumers stick to longer-term product preferences, Rotman research reveals

TORONTO, ON – Just when that new gym mem­ber­ship is look­ing like a mis­take, recent mar­ket­ing research shows that remind­ing con­sumers of the price strength­ens their pur­chase choic­es and leads to long-term sat­is­fac­tion. New research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment says that even though most peo­ple val­ue high­er func­tion­al­i­ty over the […]

January 28, 2014

Helping Ontarians living with mental and physical illnesses

TORONTO, ON — Ontario will assist up to 500,000 peo­ple across the province that are either at-risk of, or cur­rent­ly liv­ing with, both phys­i­cal and men­tal ill­ness­es get the care and treat­ment they need over the next six years. Ontario is join­ing forces with The Cen­tre for Addic­tion and Men­tal Health (CAMH), The Hos­pi­tal for […]

January 23, 2014

New report co-authored by International Human Rights Program says murderous violence against journalists in Honduras is on the rise

TORONTO, ON – Co-authored with PEN Cana­da and PEN Inter­na­tion­al, report calls for Hon­duran gov­ern­ment to end lethal vio­lence against jour­nal­ists and its cli­mate of impuni­ty, and for donor states such as the UK and Cana­da to work with Hon­duras on these issues Jour­nal­ists who cov­er orga­nized crime, gov­ern­ment cor­rup­tion and oth­er sen­si­tive issues are […]

January 23, 2014

Liars find it more rewarding to tell truth than fib when deceiving others

TORONTO, ON – A Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to report based on two neur­al imag­ing stud­ies that mon­i­tored brain activ­i­ty has found indi­vid­u­als are more sat­is­fied to get a reward from telling the truth rather than get­ting the same reward through deceit. These stud­ies were pub­lished recent­ly in the neu­ro­science jour­nals Neu­ropsy­cholo­gia and Neu­roIm­age. “Our find­ings togeth­er […]

January 22, 2014

Stephen Toope — international law scholar — named Director of U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs

TORONTO, ON – Pro­fes­sor Stephen J. Toope, a not­ed inter­na­tion­al law schol­ar and uni­ver­si­ty leader, has been named the new Direc­tor of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Munk School of Glob­al Affairs. “The Munk School has built a rep­u­ta­tion around the world for its thought­ful and insight­ful exam­i­na­tion of inter­na­tion­al issues,” said Toope. “I look for­ward […]

January 22, 2014

Rotman students win the RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge and the CFA Master of Finance Ethics Challenge

TORONTO, ON – Teams of stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have tak­en home first prize in two dif­fer­ent com­pe­ti­tions held this month. On Jan­u­ary 17, a team com­posed of stu­dents from the Rot­man School’s MBA pro­grams won the 2013 RBC Next Great Inno­va­tor Chal­lenge. This was the eighth year for […]

January 21, 2014

Major collection of Allen Ginsberg photos donated to the University of Toronto

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is home to the world’s largest col­lec­tion of pho­tographs by the late beat poet Allen Gins­berg thanks to a dona­tion by the Lar­ry & Cook­ie Rossy Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion. The 7,686 pho­tographs housed in the Thomas Fish­er Rare Book Library and 236 sil­ver gelatin prints at the Uni­ver­si­ty of […]