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April 3, 2013

Choosing less a form of protection says new study on decision-making

TORONTO, ON – Imag­ine you have a choice to make. In one sce­nario, you’d get $8 and some­body else — a stranger – would get $8 too. In the oth­er, you’d get $10; the stranger would get $12. Econ­o­mists typ­i­cal­ly assume you’d go for the $10/$12 option because of the belief that peo­ple try to max­i­mize […]

April 2, 2013

Scientists find government justification of new environmental policy unfounded

TORONTO, ON – Recent efforts by the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment to curb the time allowed for envi­ron­men­tal reviews over fears of adverse impact on eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment are mis­guid­ed and unnec­es­sary, accord­ing to research by sci­en­tists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. Instead, the fed­er­al government’s tin­ker­ing will only weak­en envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion and not expe­dite eco­nom­ic growth. The […]

April 2, 2013

Heather Munroe-Blum and David Naylor in conversation with Robert Prichard at the Canadian Club of Toronto

TORONTO, ON – McGill Prin­ci­pal Heather Munroe-Blum and Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Pres­i­dent David Nay­lor will join in con­ver­sa­tion with Robert Prichard, Pres­i­dent Emer­i­tus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, as they share their thoughts on what Cana­di­an uni­ver­si­ties need to do to suc­ceed in the 21st cen­tu­ry. The event will be held on April 5 at […]

April 2, 2013

Researchers at UofT’s Rotman School of Management publish guide to nudging

TORONTO, ON – A new guide from a team of behav­iour econ­o­mists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment aims to help prac­ti­tion­ers devel­op effec­tive nudges. Draw­ing on research on this area of behav­iour eco­nom­ics, the guide demon­strates how nudg­ing influ­ences behav­iour by chang­ing the way choic­es are pre­sent­ed in the envi­ron­ment. “This […]

March 26, 2013

Men benefit more than women from having authority on the job

TORONTO, ON — Hav­ing more author­i­ty in the work­place comes with many rewards – includ­ing greater forms of job con­trol and high­er earn­ings. How­ev­er, accord­ing to new research out of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, the ben­e­fits are not even­ly dis­trib­uted for women and men. Soci­ol­o­gist Scott Schie­man, lead author of the study, found key dif­fer­ences […]

March 26, 2013

‘No such thing as a duplicate’: University of Toronto acquires annotated copy of Vesalius’s great anatomical book

TORONTO, ON – A 1555 copy of Andreas Vesal­ius’ De humani cor­poris fab­ri­ca with the author’s own exten­sive hand-writ­ten notes and cor­rec­tions, is being made avail­able for study at the Thomas Fish­er Rare Book Library at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. The book in ques­tion was acquired by a pri­vate col­lec­tor at auc­tion in Ger­many and […]

March 25, 2013

Rotman professor named as Bank of Canada Fellowship Award winner

TORONTO, ON– A finance pro­fes­sor from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment has been named as the recip­i­ent of the Bank of Canada’s Fel­low­ship Award for 2013. This year’s Award pro­vides finan­cial sup­port for a five-year peri­od from 2013 to 2017 to an aca­d­e­m­ic who is rec­og­nized for their exper­tise and excel­lence in […]

March 22, 2013

University of Toronto Libraries and National Library of China partner in new agreement for academic cooperation

TORONTO, ON –Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Libraries and the Nation­al Library of Chi­na will sign an agree­ment for aca­d­e­m­ic coop­er­a­tion on Mon­day, March 25 at 11 am. The insti­tu­tions, each of which holds the largest col­lec­tion in its respec­tive coun­try, have been work­ing togeth­er for sev­er­al years to exchange mate­ri­als, knowl­edge and best […]

March 20, 2013

First recipient of the Risa Goldberg Memorial Scholarship for Women in Capital Markets announced at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – The first Risa Gold­berg Memo­r­i­al Schol­ar­ship for Women in Cap­i­tal Mar­kets has been award­ed to Jes­si­ca Schwarz, a first-year stu­dent in the full-time MBA pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Jes­si­ca began her MBA stud­ies at Rot­man after start­ing her career in wealth man­age­ment in Lima, Peru. She […]

March 19, 2013

Rotman Business Design Challenge won by IIT

TORONTO, ON – For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year a team of stu­dents from the Illi­nois Insti­tute of Technology’s Insti­tute of Design have won the Rot­man Design Chal­lenge. Host­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment on March 2 and 3, the Chal­lenge has emerged as the pre­mier inter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion for busi­ness and design stu­dents look­ing […]

March 18, 2013

Minuum to end battle between mobile screen space and keyboards

TORONTO, ON — Whirlscape Inc., a Cana­di­an tech start-up, has devel­oped Min­u­um, “the lit­tle key­board for big fin­gers.” Min­u­um is a tiny, one-dimen­­sion­al key­board that frees up mobile screen space while allow­ing fast, accu­rate typ­ing. Its spe­cial­ized, patent-pro­­tec­t­ed auto-cor­rec­­tion algo­rithm cor­rects high­ly impre­cise typ­ing. This algo­rithm, based on the touch­screen and wear­able device research of com­pa­ny founders, Will Walm­s­ley (researcher) and […]

March 15, 2013

Leading authority on drug policy and the war on drugs to speak at the Munk School of Global Affairs

TORONTO, ON – Ethan Nadel­mann will be fea­tured at the Cen­tre for Study of the Unit­ed States at the Munk School giv­ing a talk enti­tled, “The Rise and Fall of the Glob­al Drug Pro­hi­bi­tion Regime.” Ethan Nadel­mann will address issues spe­cif­ic to Cana­da, as well as inter­na­tion­al mat­ters such as: *         Cur­rent […]

March 15, 2013

Playing action videogames improves visual search

TORONTO, ON — Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to have shown that play­ing shoot­ing or dri­ving videogames, even for a rel­a­tive­ly short time, improves the abil­i­ty to search for a tar­get hid­den among irrel­e­vant dis­trac­tions in com­plex scenes. “Recent stud­ies in dif­fer­ent labs, includ­ing here at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, have shown that play­ing first-per­­son shoot­er […]

March 14, 2013

Rise Asset Development launches operations in Ottawa through Causeway Work Centre

TORONTO/OTTAWA, ON — Since 2009, Rise Asset Devel­op­ment, with the sup­port of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment and the Cen­tre for Addic­tion and Men­tal Health (CAMH), has pro­vid­ed micro­fi­nanc­ing and men­tor­ship to entre­pre­neurs with a his­to­ry of men­tal health or addic­tion chal­lenges in the Greater Toron­to Area. On March 21, Rise is […]

March 14, 2013

Distant planetary system is a super-sized solar system

TORONTO, ON – A team of astronomers, includ­ing Quinn Konopacky of the Dun­lap Insti­tute for Astron­o­my & Astro­physics, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, has made the most detailed exam­i­na­tion yet of the atmos­phere of a Jupiter-like plan­et beyond our Solar Sys­tem. Accord­ing to Konopacky, “We have been able to observe this plan­et in unprece­dent­ed detail because of […]

March 14, 2013

Children of divorced parents more likely to start smoking

TORONTO, ON – Both daugh­ters and sons from divorced fam­i­lies are sig­nif­i­cant­ly more like­ly to ini­ti­ate smok­ing in com­par­i­son to their peers from intact fam­i­lies, shows a new analy­sis of 19,000 Amer­i­cans. This Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to study, pub­lished online this month in the jour­nal Pub­lic Health, shows that men who expe­ri­enced parental divorce before they […]

March 14, 2013

U of T scientists map genome that causes Dutch Elm Disease

TORONTO, ON — Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Sick­Kids Research Insti­tute announced today that they have suc­cess­ful­ly mapped the genes in the fun­gus that caus­es Dutch Elm Dis­ease. The researchers believe this is the first time the 30 mil­lion DNA let­ters for the fun­gus Ophios­toma ulmi have been mapped. The find­ings, pub­lished in […]

March 13, 2013

Burgess shale worm provides crucial missing link

TORONTO, ON — Canada’s 505 mil­lion year-old Burgess Shale fos­sil beds, locat­ed in Yoho Nation­al Park, have yield­ed yet anoth­er major sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­ery – this time with the unearthing of a strange phal­lus-shaped crea­ture. A study to be pub­lished online in the jour­nal Nature on March 13 con­firms Spar­to­branchus tenuis is a mem­ber of the acorn worms group […]

March 12, 2013

U of T neural networks start-up acquired by Google

TORONTO, ON – Google has picked up a ground-break­ing start-up out of the Depart­ment of Com­put­er Sci­ence, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­fes­sor Geof­frey Hin­ton and two of his grad­u­ate stu­dents, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskev­er, incor­po­rat­ed DNNre­search Inc. in 2012, and the com­pa­ny has been acquired by Google for its research on deep neur­al net­works. […]

March 11, 2013

Rotman problem solving challenge offers full scholarship to MBA applicants

TORONTO, ON – A unique new com­pe­ti­tion has been launched by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment which pro­vides an oppor­tu­ni­ty for future Full Time MBA stu­dents to expe­ri­ence the School’s mod­el based approach to prob­lem solv­ing and use Inte­gra­tive Think­ing to take a deep dive into a messy, unstruc­tured real-world prob­lem. The […]