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January 20, 2014

Three faculty at the U of T’s Rotman School of Management honoured with Dean’s awards for research and teaching

TORONTO, ON — Pro­fes­sors in the areas of mar­ket­ing, account­ing and orga­ni­za­tion­al behav­iour at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have been named the recip­i­ents of the 2013 Dean’s Awards for Excel­lence in Research and Teach­ing. The pur­pose of the awards is to annu­al­ly rec­og­nize and encour­age excel­lence in the research and teach­ing […]

January 16, 2014

Theory behind popular blood-type diet debunked

TORONTO, ON – Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (U of T) have found that the the­o­ry behind the pop­u­lar blood type diet–which claims an individual’s nutri­tion­al needs vary by blood type–is not valid. The find­ings are pub­lished this week in PLoS One. “Based on the data of 1,455 study par­tic­i­pants, we found no evi­dence […]

January 15, 2014

Finding pleasure in productive activities the key to boosting self-control

TORONTO, ON — After a long, tir­ing day many of us sim­ply give in to the urge to grab a favourite unhealthy snack and avoid tack­ling oblig­a­tory tasks. But we don’t have to. A new study from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough shows that while peo­ple have a hard­er time con­trol­ling them­selves when tired, it […]

January 15, 2014

Targeted audiences and websites can help magazines weather the onslaught of online competition

TORONTO, ON — While print media con­tin­ue to suf­fer at the hands of their online coun­ter­parts, new research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough finds that print mag­a­zines with com­pan­ion web­sites are able to attract more adver­tis­ing dol­lars. “Tar­get­ing is as impor­tant as ever,” says Ambar­ish Chan­dra, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor at UTSC’s Depart­ment of Man­age­ment. In a study of mag­a­zines in Ger­many, […]

January 13, 2014

U of T report reveals ongoing gender imbalance in varsity sport

TORONTO, ON — Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to have released the sec­ond in a series of reports, the most com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis to date, of gen­der equi­ty in Canada’s interuni­ver­si­ty sport sys­tem, find­ing that the coun­try has actu­al­ly tak­en a mar­gin­al step back­wards since the first report was released in 2011. The report uncov­ered that […]

January 9, 2014

“Transformational leadership” curbs bad attitudes towards change, shows rare study of correctional officers

TORONTO, ON – It’s no sur­prise that a cyn­i­cal atti­tude towards the prospect of change makes change hard­er to imple­ment. But it’s impor­tant to under­stand that cyn­i­cism hap­pens at an indi­vid­ual and work­­place-wide lev­el and both must be addressed to get employ­ee buy-in for change ini­tia­tives. What’s more, lead­ers who can inspire their employ­ees and […]

January 9, 2014

University of Toronto conference on the aging population to be held January 17 & 18

TORONTO, ON – On Jan­u­ary 17 and 18, 2014, stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will host a con­fer­ence to address the press­ing social and health­care needs of our aging pop­u­la­tion. By 2036, near­ly one in four Cana­di­ans will be 65 years of age or old­er. As a result, Cana­da will face a poten­tial $70 […]

January 9, 2014

Remission from depression much slower in adults who were abused in childhood

TORONTO, ON – Remis­sion from depres­sion is delayed in adults who have expe­ri­enced child­hood phys­i­cal abuse or parental addic­tions, a new study by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to researchers has found. The study is pub­lished this week in the jour­nal Social Psy­chi­a­try and Psy­chi­atric Epi­demi­ol­o­gy. Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to inves­ti­ga­tors exam­ined a range of fac­tors asso­ci­at­ed with remis­sion […]

January 8, 2014

Newly discovered celestial object defies categories

TORONTO, ON – An object dis­cov­ered by astro­physi­cists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (U of T) near­ly 500 light years away from the Sun may chal­lenge tra­di­tion­al under­stand­ings about how plan­ets and stars form. The object is locat­ed near and like­ly orbit­ing a very young star about 440 light years away from the Sun, and […]

December 16, 2013

The long game: New book probes the uneasy future of China’s relationship with the United States

TORONTO, ON – The glob­al finan­cial cri­sis accel­er­at­ed China’s rise in the world econ­o­my, dis­rupt­ing a post-cold war sta­tus quo in which the Unit­ed States was the world’s largest and most dynam­ic econ­o­my and undis­put­ed super pow­er. The world eco­nom­ic order is shift­ing. Can those who man­age inter­na­tion­al com­mer­cial, cul­tur­al or polit­i­cal exchanges afford to ignore this […]

December 13, 2013

Antarctic neutrino-hunting project IceCube named Breakthrough of the Year by Physics World

TORONTO, ON – Inter­na­tion­al high-ener­­gy physics research project Ice­Cube has been named the 2013 Break­through of the Year by British mag­a­zine Physics World. The Antarc­tic obser­va­to­ry has been select­ed for mak­ing the first obser­va­tion of cos­mic neu­tri­nos, but also for over­com­ing the many chal­lenges of cre­at­ing and oper­at­ing a colos­sal detec­tor deep under the ice […]

December 11, 2013

University of Toronto’s license with Access Copyright set to end

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has been unable to reach an agree­ment with Access Copy­right for a renew­al of the cur­rent license at a price that we believe fair­ly val­ues the ser­vice that Access Copy­right pro­vides. This out­come means that, in the year ahead, the Uni­ver­si­ty will oper­ate for the first time in many […]

December 11, 2013

Lieutenant Governor, Premier to join the University of Toronto in celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela

TORONTO, ON – On Fri­day, Decem­ber 13, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will be joined by the Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor and the Pre­mier of Ontario to cel­e­brate the life of for­mer South African Pres­i­dent Nel­son Man­dela. In addi­tion to remarks by notable Cana­di­ans and Africans, the event will fea­ture per­for­mances by the Nel­son Man­dela Park Pub­lic School […]

December 9, 2013

New long-lived greenhouse gas discovered by University of Toronto chemistry team

TORONTO, ON — Sci­en­tists from U of T’s Depart­ment of Chem­istry have dis­cov­ered a nov­el chem­i­cal lurk­ing in the atmos­phere that appears to be a long-lived green­house gas (LLGHG).  The chem­i­cal – per­flu­o­rotributy­lamine (PFTBA) – is the most radia­tive­ly effi­cient chem­i­cal found to date, break­ing all oth­er chem­i­cal records for its poten­tial to impact cli­mate. […]

December 5, 2013

Bank of Canada’s Macklem – key player in Canada’s financial system – named dean of U of T’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – Tiff Mack­lem, a leader in nation­al and inter­na­tion­al finan­cial sys­tems, has been named the new dean of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. “I am thrilled to be join­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Rot­man, both of which are renowned for excel­lence in Cana­da and around the world,” said Mack­lem. […]

December 5, 2013

Hummingbird metabolism unique in burning glucose and fructose equally

TORONTO, ON — Hum­ming­bird metab­o­lism is a mar­vel of evo­lu­tion­ary engi­neer­ing. These tiny birds can pow­er all of their ener­getic hov­er­ing flight by burn­ing the sug­ar con­tained in the flo­ral nec­tar of their diet. Now new research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough shows they are equal­ly adept at burn­ing both glu­cose and fruc­tose, which […]

December 3, 2013

U of T study finds that fear of being single leads people to settle for less in relationships

TORONTO, ON – Fear of being sin­gle is a mean­ing­ful pre­dic­tor of set­tling for less in rela­tion­ships among both men and women, a new Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to study has found. The results are pub­lished in the Decem­ber edi­tion of the Jour­nal of Per­son­al­i­ty and Social Psy­chol­o­gy. “Those with stronger fears about being sin­gle are will­ing to set­tle for less in their […]

December 3, 2013

University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab selects its newest cohort

TORONTO, ON — Build­ing on a suc­cess­ful inau­gur­al year which result­ed in eight suc­cess­ful ven­tures cre­at­ing over $65 mil­lion in equi­ty val­ue, 15  new ven­tures have been accept­ed into the sec­ond cohort of the Cre­ative Destruc­tion Lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Offer­ing its ven­tures access to unpar­al­leled men­tor­ship, the Cre­ative […]

December 2, 2013

Drone Protest Against Illegal Video Surveillance in Public Places

TORONTO, ON — Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Ryer­son Uni­ver­si­ty, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with pri­va­cy advo­cates at the Cana­di­an Civ­il Lib­er­ties Asso­ci­a­tion, will fly a sign bear­ing drone near the Toron­to Eaton’s Cen­tre to draw atten­tion to the wide­spread ille­gal video sur­veil­lance of pub­lic places. The quad­copter drone will car­ry a bright yel­low sign […]

December 2, 2013

New algorithm finds you, even in untagged photos

TORONTO, ON – A new algo­rithm designed at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has the pow­er to pro­found­ly change the way we find pho­tos among the bil­lions on social media sites such as Face­book and Flickr.  This month, the Unit­ed States Patent and Trade­mark Office will issue a patent on this tech­nol­o­gy. Devel­oped by Parham Aara­bi, […]