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Canada’s Top University Kicks off #UofTGrad17, The Country’s Biggest Graduation
Toronto, ON – Starting Tuesday, June 6 the next generation of leaders will graduate from Canada’s top university. This year, U of T will host 27 different ceremonies (two more than in 2016) over 13 days for almost 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from the university’s three campuses in downtown Toronto, Scarborough and Mississauga. They […]
Rotman Executive MBA Students Named Among the World’s Best
Toronto, ON – Two graduating students from the Executive MBA programs at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have been named to the Poets&Quants list of the best and brightest Executive MBA students of 2017. Rodney Cheung, MBA’17, a graduate of the One-Year Executive MBA Program, and Rachel Huckle, MBA’17, a graduate of the […]
Rotman Accounting Professor Honoured with Distinguished Contribution Award from The Canadian Academic Accounting Association
Toronto, ON – A professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has received the 2017 Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought. The award was presented today at The Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) at their annual conference in Montreal. Partha Mohanram, a professor of accounting at the Rotman School, received […]
New Team Starts Work at the Rotman School’s Impact Consulting Group
Toronto, ON – A new team of talented MBA students from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has joined the Impact Consulting Group for 2017–18. Founded at the University in 1972, Impact Consulting Group has a long history of delivering high quality consulting services to growing businesses at competitive rates. Each year, a new […]
Rotman Finance Professor Receives The William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research
Toronto, ON – A paper co-authored by a finance professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has won an award for the best paper in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA). “Differential Access to Price Information in Financial Markets” examines how the direct sale of market data by exchanges affects price […]
Researchers uncover a major disinformation and cyber espionage campaign with Russian connections
Toronto, ON – A new report, titled “Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing with a Russian Nexus,” from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab uncovers a major disinformation and cyber espionage campaign with hundreds of targets in government, industry, military and civil society. The campaign operators have a strong Russian nexus, and their targets include a […]
Creative Destruction Lab Launches New Quantum Machine Learning Startup Program
Toronto, ON – Today the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management announced a new program focused on the creation of quantum machine learning startups. This builds on the Lab’s five-year track record of assisting with the development of seed-stage, science-based companies, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled […]
U of T’s Creative Destruction Lab Announces National Expansion
Toronto, ON – Today the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management announced a cross-country expansion including CDL-Rockies at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, CDL-Montreal at HEC Montréal, and CDL-Atlantic at Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business in Halifax, adding to CDL-West at the University of British […]
Designing the engineer of 2050: Canadian engineering educators meet in Toronto
Toronto, ON – The toughest problems facing humanity in the 21st century — from water scarcity to urban intensification to personalized medicine — will be tackled by tomorrow’s engineers. Many of the issues they will work to solve haven’t yet arisen — so how can engineering educators prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s challenges? To address this question, the […]
Connection found between low sexual interest and household disorder
Toronto, ON – Older partnered adults are especially likely to report low sexual interest if they live in a disorderly home environment, according to a new study published by University of Toronto researchers. Overall, just over a quarter of cohabiting and married U.S. men aged 62–90 indicate that they have lacked sexual interest in the […]
New Journal Sponsored by Top MBA Programs Tackles Critical Healthcare Management Issues
Toronto, ON – A consortium of leading business school programs, which includes the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, today introduced a new quarterly journal, Health Management, Policy and Innovation (HMPI), to address recent developments and potential solutions to complexities within the dynamic global health sector. “Our goal is to harness the insights of scholars, […]
1,200 elementary students + teachers come to U of T Engineering for massive STEM event
Toronto, ON – Canada has built its reputation as a nation of world-class innovators. Right now, the next generation of designers, inventors and entrepreneurs are drawing, coding and tinkering in classrooms across Canada — now is the critical moment to invest in their success. We must give our young people the skills they need to […]
Sport and Sustainable Development: Setting a Research Agenda
Toronto, ON – U of T’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education will be hosting a research symposium on sport and sustainable development on June 8. Bringing together leading researchers from multiple disciplines, the event will explore the role that sport can and should play in efforts towards sustainable development, both internationally and in Canada. […]
Two Rotman MBAs Named Among the World’s Best and Brightest for 2017
Toronto, ON – Two graduating MBA students from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of management have been named to the Poets&Quants “Best & Brightest MBAs” list which honours 100 of the world’s most accomplished full-time MBAs in the Class of 2017. Alex Walker Turner, MBA’17, and David St Bernard, JD/MBA’17, were the only two […]
The Evolving Role of City Managers and Chief Administrative Officers
Toronto, ON – Local governments function best when they have a council that represents the diverse elements in society and promotes open and deliberative decision-making, supported by a public service that values professionalism and rational decision-making. The often hidden, but very important, role of the city manager and the relationship between elected officials and the […]
U of T inventor-entrepreneur honoured with Governor General’s Innovation Award
Toronto, ON – The molecules he works with are so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye, but for Professor Paul Santerre, who is being honoured with the 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Award, it’s what you do with those molecules that counts. One of six awardees to be recognized at a special ceremony […]
Direct childhood abuse and not indirect childhood abuse linked to non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents in Ontario
Toronto, ON – Adolescents who were physically abused or sexually abused were more likely to engage in non-suicidal self-injury than their non-abused counterparts, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto and Western University. The study appears online in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect. “We found that about one in […]
Paleontologists trace origin of millipedes, crabs and insects to new 508 million-year-old sea creature with “can opener”- like pincers
Toronto, ON – Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered a new fossil species that sheds light on the origin of mandibulates, the most abundant and diverse group of organisms on Earth, to which belong familiar animals such as flies, ants, crayfish and centipedes. The […]
OPEN IMPACT launches to help Canadian investors find their social and environmental impact – and bring impact investing to the mainstream
Toronto, ON – OPEN IMPACT, an online resource to help investors find financial investment products that make money – and make the world a better place – launched today at www.openimpact.ca. Impact investing is a fast-growing approach to investing that seeks financial returns as well as measurable social and/or environmental impact. According to a JP […]
Older Victims of Fraud Have Poorer Cognitive Skills and are Less Conscientious, Honest
Toronto, ON – When comparing victims of fraud to those who had never been victimized, lead authors Dr. Kang Lee and doctoral researcher Rebecca Judges at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, along with researchers at Ryerson University, found that older victims have poorer cognitive abilities in everyday […]