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November 29, 2013

Strong dollar means cross-border shopping heavily influenced by exchange rate

TORONTO, ON — With the hol­i­day shop­ping sea­son in full swing it appears Cana­di­ans now more than ever are keep­ing a watch­ful eye on the exchange rate before head­ing south of the bor­der to shop. Even a one cent increase in the exchange rate caus­es a dis­pro­por­tion­ate num­ber of Cana­di­ans to go cross-bor­der shop­ping, accord­ing […]

November 26, 2013

U of T experts to discuss human performance in extreme environments

TORONTO, ON – From the frozen lakes of Siberia to the arid deserts of Afghanistan, sol­diers, ath­letes and emer­gency crews often push their bod­ies to the lim­it in some of the most extreme envi­ron­ments on Earth. Join experts from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to on Decem­ber 3 to bet­ter under­stand how the body per­forms and adapts […]

November 26, 2013

His Highness the Aga Khan receives honorary degree from Trinity College in the University of Toronto

TORONTO, ON — His High­ness the Aga Khan was last night award­ed an hon­orary degree of Doc­tor of Sacred Let­ters from Trin­i­ty Col­lege in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to for his ser­vice to human­i­ty. This degree acknowl­edges His High­ness’ excep­tion­al efforts to improve the health, edu­ca­tion and liv­ing con­di­tions of the poor­est peo­ple of the world […]

November 26, 2013

Rotman MBA team wins A.T. Kearney’s Global Prize Competition

TORONTO, ON – A team of stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Management’s Full Time MBA pro­gram have won A.T. Kearney’s Glob­al Prize 2013, an annu­al strate­gic case com­pe­ti­tion, by defeat­ing a team from Lon­don Busi­ness School. The team con­sist­ing of Alex Fitzger­ald, Michael Fitzger­ald, Michael McVety and Steven Zhao, all stu­dents […]

November 22, 2013

Nine out of ten families in Toronto’s aging rental high-rise buildings at risk of homelessness, U of T research finds

TORONTO, ON – New research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Fac­­tor-Inwen­­tash Fac­ul­ty of Social Work has found that nine out of ten fam­i­lies liv­ing in Toronto’s aging high-rise rental apart­ments are in inad­e­quate hous­ing that may place them at risk of home­less­ness. The find­ings coin­cid­ed with Nation­al Hous­ing Day, on Novem­ber 22. “These find­ings reveal a […]

November 20, 2013

U of T researchers identify optimal structure and cell ratio of heart

TORONTO, ON — Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Insti­tute of Bio­ma­te­ri­als & Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing (IBBME) and the McEwen Cen­tre for Regen­er­a­tive Med­i­cine have iden­ti­fied the opti­mal struc­ture and cell ratio asso­ci­at­ed with heart func­tion – and the dis­cov­ery has already led the team to anoth­er research first: the engi­neer­ing of the first-ever liv­ing, three-dimen­­sion­al human arrhyth­mic […]

November 19, 2013

U of T President Gertler heads to China on first international trip since taking office

TORONTO, ON – Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Pres­i­dent Mer­ic Gertler is trav­el­ling to Bei­jing and Hong Kong on his first inter­na­tion­al vis­it since tak­ing the helm of Canada’s largest uni­ver­si­ty. Gertler arrives in Bei­jing on Novem­ber 19, where he will meet with coun­ter­parts from lead­ing insti­tu­tions, includ­ing Peking and Tsinghua uni­ver­si­ties, and senior gov­ern­ment offi­cials.  He will also co-host an alum­ni recep­tion along with Cana­di­an ambas­sador Guy Saint-Jacques. Gertler […]

November 18, 2013

Rotman MBAs crowned North American champions of A.T. Kearney’s Global Prize competition

TORONTO, ON — A team of stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Management’s Full Time MBA pro­gram have won the North Amer­i­can leg of A.T. Kearney’s Glob­al Prize 2013, an annu­al strate­gic case com­pe­ti­tion. The team con­sist­ing of Alex Fitzger­ald, Michael Fitzger­ald, Michael McVety and Steven Zhao, all stu­dents in the first year […]

November 18, 2013

U of T to host environmental justice debate featuring former Toronto mayor and Environmental Philosophy professor

TORONTO, ON — David Miller, for­mer May­or of Toron­to, and Ingrid Ste­fanovic, Pro­fes­sor of Envi­ron­men­tal Phi­los­o­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, will ini­ti­ate debate and dis­cus­sion about jus­tice in Toron­to as it per­tains to envi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges and issues. Among the ques­tions to be dis­cussed: • Who should bear the costs of mak­ing the City envi­ron­men­tal­ly sus­tain­able? • […]

November 15, 2013

Oncology conference brings together researchers from Canada and Brazil’s top research universities

TORONTO, ON — Renowned can­cer researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and its part­ner hos­pi­tals and the Uni­ver­si­dade de São Paulo are pre­sent­ing their lat­est find­ings at a pres­ti­gious con­fer­ence today at the MaRS Audi­to­ri­um in the heart of Toronto’s Dis­cov­ery Dis­trict. “This joint con­fer­ence is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for the world-renowned can­cer experts at […]

November 13, 2013

Public lecture by U of T’s Dr. Steve Narod on cancer prevention

TORONTO, ON —Dr. Steven Nar­od, world-renowned breast and ovar­i­an can­cer geneti­cist will give a pub­lic lec­ture enti­tled “Can­cer Pre­ven­tion in the Era of Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine” on Novem­ber 15. The pub­lic lec­ture is part of an all-day oncol­o­gy con­fer­ence fea­tur­ing 28 researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Brazil’s Uni­ver­si­dade de São Paulo who will dis­cuss […]

November 12, 2013

Thin, active invisibility cloak demonstrated for first time

TORONTO, ON — Invis­i­bil­i­ty cloak­ing is no longer the stuff of sci­ence fic­tion: two researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Depart­ment of Elec­tri­cal & Com­put­er Engi­neer­ing have demon­strat­ed an effec­tive invis­i­bil­i­ty cloak that is thin, scal­able and adap­tive to dif­fer­ent types and sizes of objects. Pro­fes­sor George Eleft­he­ri­ades and PhD stu­dent Michael Sel­vanayagam have designed and […]

November 11, 2013

“Healthy” vegetable oils may actually increase risk of heart disease, researchers say

TORONTO, ON — Healthy eat­ing just got a lit­tle more com­pli­cat­ed. New research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to shows cer­tain veg­etable oils that claim to be healthy may actu­al­ly increase the risk of heart dis­ease. And the results mean Health Cana­da should recon­sid­er cho­les­terol-low­er­ing claims on food labelling, says Dr.Richard Bazinet, lead author of the […]

November 7, 2013

NYC casinos could make Wall St. riskier: Scientist

A recent sci­en­tif­ic study by Chi Liao, a Ph.D. stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment, found that when a new casi­no opens, near­by investors who are like­ly to fre­quent the casi­no start to take on riski­er posi­tion in stocks.

November 7, 2013

Why some Canadians run barefoot — in the snow

Ira Jacobs, a dean and pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s depart­ment of kine­si­ol­o­gy and phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion, said that as long as a per­son is exer­cis­ing hard enough, the lack of shoes won’t make a dif­fer­ence in metab­o­lism.

November 6, 2013

“Please Feed Me”: The power of putting a human face on social causes

TORONTO, ON — Com­pa­nies often put a per­son­al face on prod­ucts in an attempt to reach a deep­er con­nec­tion with con­sumers. Now new research in the upcom­ing edi­tion of Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence shows the same idea can be applied to social caus­es. Putting a human face on the cam­paign for a social cause actu­al­ly increas­es sup­port […]

November 6, 2013

‘Tumour-on-a-chip’ technology offers new direction

TORONTO, ON — A two-year col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Chan and the Roche­leau labs at the Insti­tute of Bio­ma­te­ri­als & Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing (IBBME) has led to the devel­op­ment of a new microflu­idics screen­ing plat­form that can accu­rate­ly pre­dict the way nanopar­ti­cles will behave in a liv­ing body. Nanopar­ti­cles are being eyed by sci­en­tists as a poten­tial­ly pow­er­ful […]

November 5, 2013

President Meric Gertler to be installed as U of T’s 16th President

Mer­ic Gertler, for­mer dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Arts and Sci­ence, and the 16th Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. The cer­e­mo­ny will be held in Con­vo­ca­tion Hall at 3 p.m. on Novem­ber 7. EVENT DETAILS What: Instal­la­tion of Mer­ic Gertler as the 16th pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Who: ∙         Mer­ic Gertler, Pres­i­dent, […]

November 1, 2013

Mindful individuals less affected by immediate rewards

TORONTO, ON — A new study from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough shows that peo­ple who are aware of and their own thoughts and emo­tions are less affect­ed by pos­i­tive feed­back from oth­ers. The study, authored by UTSC PhD can­di­date Rim­ma Teper, finds that indi­vid­u­als high in trait mind­ful­ness show less neur­al response to pos­i­tive […]

October 31, 2013

BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab inaugurated at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – A new gen­er­a­tion of finance stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment will ben­e­fit from the open­ing of the BMO Finan­cial Group Finance Research and Trad­ing Lab. The lab, which opened this fall in a new­ly ren­o­vat­ed space at the Rot­man School, pro­vides stu­dents in the Rot­man MBA, Mas­ter of […]