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May 15, 2013

Billions-year-old sparkling water may hold clues for life on Earth and Mars

TORONTO – A team of sci­en­tists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty in the Unit­ed King­dom have gone three kilo­me­tres beneath the sur­face of the Cana­di­an Shield to find some of the old­est flu­ids in our planet’s his­to­ry. The waters are rich in clues about lives lived with­out sun­light on Earth and pos­si­bly […]

May 15, 2013

Five UTEST companies to tackle critical healthcare challenges

TORONTO, ON — Five com­pa­nies tack­ling per­va­sive health­care chal­lenges — such as assess­ing den­tal health, help­ing patients and med­ical per­son­nel nav­i­gate hos­pi­tals with greater ease, stay­ing cur­rent with med­ical lit­er­a­ture, or cre­at­ing dig­i­tal tools to help care for the elder­ly or those with chron­ic health con­di­tions — have been admit­ted to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to […]

May 15, 2013

Canadian governments must address the real climate-change challenge

TORONTO — To reach Canada’s goal of reduc­ing green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions to 17 per cent below the 2005 lev­el by the year 2020, fed­er­al and provin­cial gov­ern­ments, led by the Prime Min­is­ter and provin­cial pre­miers, must reach agree­ment on what por­tion of the total GHG reduc­tion will be pro­vid­ed by each province, say researchers […]

May 14, 2013

Students provide professional consulting services at Rotman School of Management’s Impact Consulting Group.

TORONTO – A new stu­dent team with busi­ness expe­ri­ence in North Amer­i­ca, India and Chi­na has start­ed work to pro­vide clients with pre­mi­um con­sult­ing ser­vices with the Impact Con­sult­ing Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. The team is already work­ing on projects for clients in indus­tries rang­ing from wealth man­age­ment ser­vices […]

May 14, 2013

Productivity increases with species diversity

TORONTO, ON — Envi­ron­ments con­tain­ing species that are dis­tant­ly relat­ed to one anoth­er are more pro­duc­tive than those con­tain­ing close­ly relat­ed species, accord­ing to new research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough (UTSC). The exper­i­men­tal result from Marc William Cadotte con­firms a pre­dic­tion made by Charles Dar­win in On the Ori­gin of Species, first pub­lished in 1859. […]

May 13, 2013

Iranians worldwide connect via the Munk School’s Global Dialogue on the future of Iran

TORONTO, ON – The inau­gur­al event of an unprece­dent­ed project launched this week at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. On May 10 and 11, 2013, the Glob­al Dia­logue on the Future of Iran (orga­nized by the Munk School with the sup­port of the Depart­ment of For­eign Affairs and Inter­na­tion­al […]

May 13, 2013

Rotman executive programs ranked as a leading provider of executive education

TORONTO, ON – In the annu­al rank­ing from the Finan­cial Times, Rot­man Exec­u­tive Pro­grams at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to was named as one of the top providers of exec­u­tive edu­ca­tion in the world. Exec­u­tive Pro­grams at the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment were ranked 15th glob­al­ly and 1st in Cana­da for open enroll­ment pro­grams, includ­ing being num­ber […]

May 9, 2013

Munk School of Global Affairs to hold inaugural global dialogue on the future of Iran

TORONTO, ON – On May 10th and 11th, 2013, the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs will launch the inau­gur­al Glob­al Dia­logue on the Future of Iran (host­ed by the Munk School in Toron­to, with sup­port of the Depart­ment of For­eign Affairs and Inter­na­tion­al Trade Cana­da). This spe­cial event will bring togeth­er promi­nent Ira­ni­ans seek­ing to […]

May 9, 2013

Interim Dean Named at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

TORONTO, ON – An econ­o­mist and expe­ri­enced aca­d­e­m­ic admin­is­tra­tor has been appoint­ed as the Inter­im Dean of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Prof. Peter Pauly will serve as the Inter­im Dean start­ing on July 1, 2013 for a one-year term or until a new Dean is named. In his cur­rent role as Vice-Dean, […]

May 9, 2013

Photo Opportunity: R.A. Dickey receives honorary doctorate from Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto

TORONTO – Wycliffe Col­lege, an Angli­can sem­i­nary fed­er­at­ed with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, will be hold­ing a pho­to oppor­tu­ni­ty with Toron­to Blue Jays pitch­er R.A. Dick­ey on May 13, 2013. Dick­ey will be receiv­ing an hon­orary doc­tor­ate at Wycliffe College’s Con­vo­ca­tion cer­e­mo­ny. The pho­to oppor­tu­ni­ty will take place pri­or to grad­u­ate pro­ces­sion to the cer­e­mo­ny. […]

May 9, 2013

Parental addictions linked to adult children’s depression

TORONTO, ON – The off­spring of par­ents who were addict­ed to drugs or alco­hol are more like­ly to be depressed in adult­hood, accord­ing to a new study by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to researchers. In a paper pub­lished online in the jour­nal Psy­chi­a­try Research this month, inves­ti­ga­tors exam­ined the asso­ci­a­tion between parental addic­tions and adult depres­sion in […]

May 8, 2013

Study finds nearly 5 million asthmatics worldwide could benefit from antifungal therapy

TORONTO, ON – An esti­mat­ed 4,837,000 asth­mat­ics with aller­gic bron­chopul­monary aspergillo­sis (ABPA) could ben­e­fit sub­stan­tial­ly from anti­fun­gal treat­ment, say researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty. Their work, pub­lished today in the jour­nal Med­ical Mycol­o­gy, has also re-esti­­mat­ed the total num­ber of asth­mat­ics world­wide – to reveal a stag­ger­ing 193 mil­lion suf­fer­ers. Twen­­ty-four […]

May 7, 2013

Decoding concussions this playoff season: U of T experts release key findings

TORONTO, ON – While the health of NHL play­ers is a year-long pri­or­i­ty, dur­ing the play­off sea­son the con­se­quences of con­cus­sions and penal­ties are even more intense. When the play­ers hit the ice over the com­ing weeks, there are some sce­nar­ios fans and offi­cials can to watch for which—according to find­ings from U of T […]

May 3, 2013

New U of T plastics research facility promises lighter, stronger, more cost-effective production

TORONTO, ON – The Cen­tre for Indus­tri­al Appli­ca­tion of Micro­cel­lu­lar Plas­tics (CIAMP) offi­cial­ly opened May 2, bring­ing with it the promise of lighter, stronger and more cost effec­tive plas­tic mate­ri­als for the auto­mo­tive and con­struc­tion indus­tries. Locat­ed in Mis­sis­sauga, CIAMP is a state-of-the-art research and devel­op­ment cen­tre with indus­try-scale facil­i­ties for devel­op­ing inno­v­a­tive, com­mer­cial­ly viable […]

May 3, 2013

Older U.S.-born Mexican-Americans have more physical limitations than Mexican American immigrants: Study

TORONTO, ON —New research indi­cates that Mex­i­­can-Amer­i­­cans born in the Unit­ed States who are aged 55 and over are sig­nif­i­cant­ly more like­ly than Mex­i­­can-Amer­i­­can immi­grants to report that they have sub­stan­tial lim­i­ta­tions in one or more basic phys­i­cal activ­i­ties such as walk­ing, climb­ing stairs, reach­ing, lift­ing, or car­ry­ing. (30% ver­sus 25%). The research, pub­lished in this […]

May 2, 2013

President of the University of Toronto to address Economic Club of Canada

OTTAWA, ON — Cana­da is at increas­ing risk of los­ing ground glob­al­ly in research per­for­mance – a key fac­tor in attract­ing, train­ing and retain­ing the tal­ent on which our capac­i­ty for inno­va­tion depends. In Bud­get 2013 the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment sig­nalled a very wel­come inter­est in rein­forc­ing excel­lence in post-sec­ondary research. Pro­fes­sor Nay­lor will make the case for a Cana­di­an research excel­lence fund […]

May 2, 2013

Researchers plot locations where AEDs could save more lives

TORONTO, ON – Prompt use of an auto­mat­ed exter­nal defib­ril­la­tor, or AED, can great­ly increase the sur­vival rates of peo­ple who suf­fer a car­diac arrest. And MIE Pro­fes­sor Tim Chan, work­ing with Dr. Lau­rie Mor­ri­son at St. Michael’s Hos­pi­tal, has devel­oped a for­mu­la to deter­mine where best to place these cost­ly but life-sav­ing devices. In […]

May 2, 2013

Institute calls on government to focus on growth, not just cuts

TORONTO, ON – Gov­ern­ment plays a key role in boost­ing the pros­per­i­ty and com­pet­i­tive­ness of the province, espe­cial­ly in times of eco­nom­ic hard­ship. The task of how to improve the Ontario government’s effi­cien­cy has become a wide­spread top­ic of debate. While most observers have looked at cost-cut­t­ing mea­sures and admin­is­tra­tive inef­fi­cien­cies with­in the gov­ern­ment, a […]

May 1, 2013

U of T experts to discuss the symbiosis of brain and body

TORONTO, ON – What do pick­ing up a cup of cof­fee, exe­cut­ing a per­fect som­er­sault, play­ing video games and con­duct­ing laparo­scop­ic surgery have in com­mon?  Sim­ply put, each task requires syn­er­gy between the brain and the body. Join experts from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to to bet­ter under­stand how motor con­trol the­o­ry applies to the extra­or­di­nary […]

April 30, 2013

Less is more when it comes to investment choices, says new study

TORONTO, ON – The best invest­ment port­fo­lios are select­ed from the widest array of choic­es, right? Not so, says a new study authored by researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment and the Bank of Cana­da. It says that a short­er “menu” of options is often bet­ter than a longer one. That’s […]