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March 11, 2013

U of T budget model wins gold for public sector innovation

TORONTO, ON – A new, inno­v­a­tive approach to bud­get­ing has earned the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to a gold medal in the IPAC/Deloitte Pub­lic Sec­tor Lead­er­ship Awards – cre­at­ed to rec­og­nize excel­lence, inno­va­tion and impact in the pub­lic sec­tor. The new approach – one that relied on fac­ul­ties to craft their own cre­ative solu­tions to the chal­lenge of […]

March 11, 2013

Joint lecture on the state of the world’s oceans and Canada’s role by Dr. Arthur Hanson and Dr. Jordan Peterson

TORONTO, ON – Ocean­ic life is being dec­i­mat­ed at a rapid and ever-increas­ing rate, in what is arguably the most seri­ous and pre­ventable ongo­ing envi­ron­men­tal cat­a­stro­phe. An upcom­ing lec­ture on this top­ic fea­tur­ing two aca­d­e­m­ic experts, Dr. Arthur Han­son and Dr. Jor­dan Peter­son, is tak­ing place at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to on March 16. The […]

March 7, 2013

U of T Engineering breakthrough promises significantly more efficient solar cells

TORONTO, ON – A new tech­nique devel­oped by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Engi­neer­ing Pro­fes­sor Ted Sar­gent and his research group could lead to sig­nif­i­cant­ly more effi­cient solar cells, accord­ing to a recent paper pub­lished in the jour­nal Nano Let­ters. The paper, “Join­t­­ly-tuned plas­­mon­ic-exci­­ton­ic pho­to­voltaics using nanoshells,” describes a new tech­nique to improve effi­cien­cy in col­loidal quan­tum […]

March 7, 2013

2013 TELUS-Rotman IT Security Study: Canadian enterprises operating with false sense of security

TORONTO, ON — TELUS and the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to today released the fifth annu­al study on Cana­di­an IT Secu­ri­ty. Tak­ing a qual­i­ta­tive approach for the first time, the research team inter­viewed secu­ri­ty lead­ers from across the coun­try in a vari­ety of indus­tries to cap­ture per­son­al­ized insight about the secu­ri­ty […]

March 6, 2013

Renowned Islamic thinker and social innovator Tariq Ramadan to speak at U of T

TORONTO, ON — Tariq Ramadan, one of the world’s lead­ing Islam­ic thinkers, will present a lec­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to on Wednes­day, March 13 enti­tled “Towards a Shared Con­tem­po­rary Applied Ethics: An Islam­ic Per­spec­tive.” Named by Time mag­a­zine as one of the 100 most impor­tant inno­va­tors of the 21st cen­tu­ry, Ramadan is the author of […]

March 6, 2013

Indiana University wins venture capital competition held at the Rotman School

TORONTO, ON – A team from the Kel­ley School of Busi­ness at Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty won the North­east Region­al of the Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Invest­ment Com­pe­ti­tion (VCIC), an inter­na­tion­al event for MBAs to learn about ven­ture fund­ing. Six teams par­tic­i­pat­ed in the region­al final in which teams of MBA stu­dents played the role of a ven­ture cap­i­tal […]

March 5, 2013

Unique think tank challenges corporate world to reach beyond what is legal for what is right

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Fac­ul­ty of Law’s Cen­tre for the Legal Pro­fes­sion (CLP) today launch­es a unique ini­tia­tive called The Pro­gram on Ethics in Law and Busi­ness. This inno­v­a­tive pro­gram, the first of its kind in North Amer­i­ca, will address con­tem­po­rary eth­i­cal chal­lenges at the inter­sec­tion of law and busi­ness. It brings […]

March 4, 2013

U of T Canada’s leading university in major global reputational ranking

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to ranks among the best in the world – and is the best in Cana­da – in a pres­ti­gious inter­na­tion­al rank­ing released today that mea­sures an institution’s rep­u­ta­tion amongst its peers. The third annu­al Times High­er Edu­ca­tion (THE) World Rep­u­ta­tion Rank­ings places U of T 16th in the world. […]

March 4, 2013

World renowned urban expert to become 16th President of the University of Toronto

TORONTO, ON – Mer­ic Gertler, a world-renowned expert on urban issues, will be the next Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, Richard Nunn, Chair of the University’s Gov­ern­ing Coun­cil, announced today. The appoint­ment, con­firmed by the Coun­cil this morn­ing, is for a five-year term and is the result of an inter­na­tion­al search that began in […]

March 4, 2013

Profile of the University of Toronto

Estab­lished in 1827, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is a vibrant and diverse aca­d­e­m­ic com­mu­ni­ty. It includes 80,000 stu­dents, 11,000 col­leagues hold­ing fac­ul­ty appoint­ments, 200 librar­i­ans, and 6,000 staff mem­bers across three dis­tinc­tive cam­pus­es and at many part­ner sites, includ­ing world-renowned hos­pi­tals. The Uni­ver­si­ty is one of the most respect­ed and influ­en­tial insti­tu­tions of high­er edu­ca­tion […]

March 4, 2013

Biography of Professor Meric Gertler

Pres­i­dent-des­ig­nate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Pro­fes­sor Mer­ic Gertler is one of the world’s fore­most urban the­o­rists and pol­i­cy prac­ti­tion­ers. He is wide­ly known as an expert on inno­va­tion, cre­ativ­i­ty and cul­ture as dri­vers of the eco­nom­ic dynamism of city-regions. On March 4, 2013, Pro­fes­sor Gertler was named the 16th Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of […]

March 4, 2013

Media Availability for U of T President-Designate Meric Gertler

TORONTO, ON – Mer­ic Gertler, a world-renowned expert on urban issues, will become the 16th Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, it was announced today.  Pres­i­­dent-Des­ig­­nate Gertler will be avail­able to speak to media at a news con­fer­ence today. EVENT DETAILS WHAT: Media avail­abil­i­ty for Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Pres­i­­dent-Des­ig­­nate Mer­ic Gertler WHO: Mer­ic Gertler, Pres­i­­dent-Des­ig­­nate, […]

March 4, 2013

Presidents of the University of Toronto

• The Hon­ourable and Right Rev­erend John Stra­chan – 1827–1848 • The Rev­erend John McCaul – 1848–1880 • Sir Daniel Wil­son – 1880–1892 • James Loudon – 1892–1906 • Sir Robert Alexan­der Fal­con­er – 1907–1932 • The Hon­ourable and Rev­erend Hen­ry John Cody – 1932–1945 • Sid­ney Ear­le Smith – 1945–1957 • Claude Thomas Bis­sell […]

March 4, 2013

University of Toronto Launches “Women in House” Program on Parliament Hill

TORONTO, ON – The Peace, Con­flict and Jus­tice Pro­gram at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs and the Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions Pro­gram at Trin­i­ty Col­lege, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, is launch­ing a new pro­gram called the U of T Women in House which will run from March 4th to March 5th, 2013. The U of T Women […]

March 1, 2013

Pour, shake and stir

TORONTO, ON — A diag­nos­tic “cock­tail” con­tain­ing a sin­gle drop of blood, a drib­ble of water, and a dose of DNA pow­der with gold par­ti­cles could mean rapid diag­no­sis and treat­ment of the world’s lead­ing dis­eases in the near future. The cock­tail diag­nos­tic is a home­grown brew being devel­oped by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Insti­tute of Bio­ma­te­ri­als […]

February 27, 2013

U of T researchers lead in Canadian science prizes

TORONTO, ON — Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to researchers won or shared hon­ours in six of eight prize cat­e­gories in this year’s awards from the Nat­ur­al Sci­ences and Engi­neer­ing Research Coun­cil of Cana­da (NSERC), pre­sent­ed today in Ottawa. The acco­lades rep­re­sent an unprece­dent­ed per­for­mance by U of T schol­ars rang­ing across the aca­d­e­m­ic life-cycle, from grad­u­ate stu­dents through ris­ing […]

February 26, 2013

Université Laval wins 10th annual Rotman International Trading Competition

TORONTO, ON — A team of stu­dents from Uni­ver­sité Laval (Que­bec City) won the 10th annu­al Rot­man Inter­na­tion­al Trad­ing Com­pe­ti­tion (RITC) host­ed by the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. A team from Chu­la­longko­rn Uni­ver­si­ty (Thai­land) placed sec­ond, while stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Baruch Col­lege (City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York) […]

February 26, 2013

Moments of spirituality can induce liberal attitudes, U of T researchers say

TORONTO, ON — Peo­ple become more polit­i­cal­ly lib­er­al imme­di­ate­ly after prac­tic­ing a spir­i­tu­al exer­cise such as med­i­ta­tion, researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to have found. “There’s great over­lap between reli­gious beliefs and polit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tions,” says one of the study authors, Dr. Jor­dan Peter­son of U of T’s Depart­ment of Psy­chol­o­gy. “We found that reli­gious indi­vid­u­als […]

February 25, 2013

Exploring the perils of precarious employment

TORONTO, ON — Alber­to Almei­da knew that as an auto mechanic’s appren­tice he was expect­ed to pay his dues doing dirty and heavy work. But that dues-pay­ing end­ed in a dis­abling back injury at the age of 17, cut­ting his career as a mechan­ic short. Now Almei­da is a UTSC under­grad­u­ate soci­ol­o­gy stu­dent study­ing the prob­lems […]

February 22, 2013

World’s smallest space telescope to launch on Monday

TORONTO, ON — The small­est astro­nom­i­cal satel­lite ever built will launch short­ly after 07:20 a.m. EST on Mon­day, 25 Feb­ru­ary 2013 as part of a mis­sion to prove that even a very small tele­scope can push the bound­aries of astron­o­my. The satel­lite was designed and assem­bled at the Space Flight Lab­o­ra­to­ry (SFL) of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to […]