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June 19, 2013

Martin Prosperity Institute to develop study that examines Toronto Public Library’s economic impact on the city

TORONTO, ON – Toron­to Pub­lic Library has com­mis­sioned the Mar­tin Pros­per­i­ty Insti­tute at the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, to devel­op a study that will deter­mine the eco­nom­ic impact of Toron­to Pub­lic Library on the City of Toron­to. The study is being fund­ed by the Toron­to Pub­lic Library Foun­da­tion thanks to […]

June 19, 2013

U of T’s discovery of Insulin collections inscribed in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register

TORONTO, ON – In recog­ni­tion of their glob­al sig­nif­i­cance, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Libraries’ Dis­cov­ery of Insulin col­lec­tions were inscribed today into UNESCO’s Mem­o­ry of the World Reg­is­ter. The announce­ment was made joint­ly by the insti­tu­tion and the Cana­di­an Com­mis­sion for UNESCO which imple­ments the pro­gram in Cana­da. The col­lec­tion includes orig­i­nal hand­writ­ten notes by […]

June 18, 2013

Get the first peek of B‑7, Blue Sky Solar Racing’s newest solar vehicle

TORONTO, ON — The Blue Sky Solar Rac­ing team is unveil­ing its newest state-of-art solar car, B‑7, ready for the 3,000-kilo­me­tre race across the Aus­tralian out­back. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to based team will be head­ing Down Under this fall to com­pete in the 2013 World Solar Chal­lenge, pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion tech­nolo­gies. For the past 18 months, […]

June 17, 2013

Rotman NeXus serves non-profit organizations with consulting services

TORONTO, ON – Since 2005 non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tions and social enter­pris­es who require man­age­ment con­sult­ing ser­vices have reached out to a team of four MBA stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment who help these orga­ni­za­tions max­i­mize their social impact. Rot­man NeXus offers afford­able, fee-based con­sult­ing ser­vices to sup­port a broad range of busi­ness […]

June 12, 2013

University of Toronto to proceed with back campus fields project

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is very pleased that Toron­to city coun­cil­lors re-affirmed the city’s com­mit­ment to renewed fields on the university’s his­toric back cam­pus. City coun­cil vot­ed in favour of the University’s plan to pro­ceed with the project, which will involve cre­at­ing two arti­fi­cial turf fields. The fields will pro­vide a venue […]

June 12, 2013

Largest set of data on health behaviours by Canadian post-secondary students to be released at conference

TORONTO, ON – The largest amount of data ever col­lect­ed on the health of Cana­di­an post-sec­ondary stu­dents will be released on Mon­day, June 17, by the Cana­di­an Orga­ni­za­tion of Uni­ver­si­ty and Col­lege Health (COUCH). More than 30,000 stu­dents from 30-plus Cana­di­an insti­tu­tions respond­ed to the Nation­al Col­lege Health Assess­ment (NCHA) sur­vey. The data will be released […]

June 12, 2013

Self-fertilizing plants contribute to their own demise

TORONTO, ON – Many plants are self-fer­­til­iz­ing, mean­ing they act as both moth­er and father to their own seeds. This strat­e­gy – known as self­ing – guar­an­tees repro­duc­tion but, over time, leads to reduced diver­si­ty and the accu­mu­la­tion of harm­ful muta­tions. A new study pub­lished in the sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal Nature Genet­ics shows that these neg­a­tive […]

June 12, 2013

Tracking drug-resistant tuberculosis in real-time

TORONTO, ON – Pro­fes­sor Frances Jamieson at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Depart­ment of Lab­o­ra­to­ry Med­i­cine and Patho­bi­ol­o­gy (LMP), and Med­ical Micro­bi­ol­o­gist, Pub­lic Health Ontario, is lead­ing the way in track­ing poten­tial­ly dead­ly out­breaks of tuber­cu­lo­sis (TB) with a pow­er­ful new Geo­graph­ic Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem (GIS) appli­ca­tion, known as Ontario Uni­ver­sal Typ­ing – Tuber­cu­lo­sis (OUT-TB) Web. Not […]

June 12, 2013

Leaders and experts on the issues on the agenda at the 2013 G8 Lough Erne summit

BELFAST, IRELAND — The G8 Research Group is proud to announce the release of its lat­est pub­li­ca­tion pub­lished by News­desk Media — “The UK Sum­mit: The G8 at Lough Erne 2013” with con­tri­bu­tions from David Cameron, François Hol­lande, José Manuel Bar­roso, Barack Oba­ma and Ellen Sir­leaf John­son as well as the OECD’s Angel Gur­ria, the ILO’s Guy […]

June 11, 2013

The University of Toronto to transform an iconic Toronto landmark into the new home of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to unveiled its ambi­tious plans today to trans­form one of the most icon­ic sites in the city: One Spad­i­na Cres­cent. The build­ing project will renew the south-fac­ing 19th cen­tu­ry Goth­ic Revival build­ing and build out the unre­al­ized north­ern face of the cir­cle with a stun­ning work of con­tem­po­rary archi­tec­ture. Designed […]

June 5, 2013

New research on the valuation of over-the-counter derivatives from University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON — By some mea­sures the over-the-counter deriv­a­tives busi­ness is the largest busi­ness in the world with over $600 tril­lion in trans­ac­tions out­stand­ing. This busi­ness plays a sig­nif­i­cant role in the prof­itabil­i­ty of glob­al bank­ing insti­tu­tions. Before 2007, banks agreed on the val­ue of most of these trans­ac­tions, but since the finan­cial cri­sis of […]

June 3, 2013

The Jackman Law Building breaks ground June 4, 2013

TORONTO, ON — Media are invit­ed to attend the offi­cial ground­break­ing of the state-of-the-art, $54-mil­lion Jack­man Law Build­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Fac­ul­ty of Law on June 4, 2013, at 4 pm. This spec­tac­u­lar new facil­i­ty will house spa­cious, mod­ern, envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly class­rooms, offices and col­lab­o­ra­tive areas for Canada’s pre-emi­­nent law school. Please join […]

May 30, 2013

University of Toronto honours extraordinary achievements at spring convocation

TORONTO, ON – More than 12,500 stu­dents will grad­u­ate from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to at con­vo­ca­tion cer­e­monies tak­ing place from Tues­day, June 4 to Fri­day, June 21 in Con­vo­ca­tion Hall, 31 King’s Col­lege Cir­cle on the University’s down­town cam­pus. More than 56,000 peo­ple are expect­ed to vis­it the Uni­ver­si­ty dur­ing con­vo­ca­tion and the largest cer­e­mo­ny – […]

May 29, 2013

Defining “Defined Ambition” pension plans tackled in the Spring journal from Rotman International Centre for Pension Management

TORONTO, ON – The pen­sions world is rewrit­ing its nar­ra­tives as the impli­ca­tions of the 21st Cen­tu­ry real­i­ties of low­er invest­ment returns and aging pop­u­la­tions con­tin­ue to sink in. Defend­ing tra­di­tion­al defined ben­e­fit plans at all cost is increas­ing­ly seen as fight­ing a rear­guard action in a lost cause. The Spring 2013 issue of the […]

May 24, 2013

Event hall at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management named in honour of Marcel A. Desautels

TORONTO, ON – A new­­ly-opened event space at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment which has already host­ed events with glob­al lead­ers from the fields of man­age­ment, pol­i­tics and aca­d­e­mics, has been named in hon­our of one of the School’s lead­ing bene­fac­tors. The space will be known as Desau­tels Hall in hon­our of Dr. […]

May 23, 2013

Rotman teams take two of the three top spots in Manulife: Entry into Asia Challenge

TORONTO, ON – A team of stu­dents from the Morn­ing MBA pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have won first prize in an inter­na­tion­al busi­ness plan com­pe­ti­tion while a sec­ond team of Rot­man MBA stu­dents land­ed in third spot. The win­ners of The Man­ulife: Entry into Asia Chal­lenge were announced Tues­day […]

May 22, 2013

Small, speedy plant-eater extends knowledge of dinosaur ecosystems

TORONTO, ON – Dinosaurs are often thought of as large, fierce ani­mals, but new research high­lights a pre­vi­ous­ly over­looked diver­si­ty of small dinosaurs. In the Jour­nal of Ver­te­brate Pale­on­tol­ogy, a team of palaeon­tol­o­gists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, Roy­al Ontario Muse­um, Cleve­land Muse­um of Nat­ur­al His­to­ry and Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­gary have described a new dinosaur, […]

May 22, 2013

Why the Super Bowl’s location matters: Local ties still bind corporations in globalized era, says new study on philanthropy. Giving is also affected by natural disasters.

TORONTO, ON – If you’re a small char­i­ty look­ing for some cor­po­rate largesse, peg­ging your ask to a big morale-boost­­ing event planned for your com­mu­ni­ty may help seal the deal, sug­gests a new study on cor­po­rate giv­ing. The paper found that cor­po­rate phil­an­thropy spikes upward dur­ing “mega-events” such as the Olympics, the Super Bowl, or […]

May 22, 2013

Rotman team wins international entrepreneurship competition

TORONTO, ON – A team from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment has won the inau­gur­al event of the MBA World Tro­phy held in Dublin over the past week­end. The event brought entre­pre­neurs from 17 dif­fer­ent uni­ver­si­ties around the world to com­pete against each oth­er with their start-up busi­ness­es in front of ven­ture […]

May 16, 2013

New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics

TORONTO, ON – U of T Engi­neer­ing researchers, work­ing with col­leagues from Carnegie Mel­lon Uni­ver­si­ty, have pub­lished new insights into how mate­ri­als trans­fer heat, which could lead even­tu­al­ly to small­er, more pow­er­ful elec­tron­ic devices. Inte­grat­ed cir­cuits and oth­er elec­tron­ic parts have been shrink­ing in size and grow­ing in com­plex­i­ty and pow­er for decades. But as cir­cuits get small­er, it becomes more dif­fi­cult to dis­si­pate waste heat. For fur­ther advances to be made in elec­tron­ics, researchers and indus­try need to […]