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February 21, 2013

Leader in wealth management appointed at the Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – A finance indus­try vet­er­an with over 30 years of expe­ri­ence has been appoint­ed as an Adjunct Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Tom McCul­lough is Chair­man and CEO of North­wood Fam­i­ly Office LP. He has spent over 30 years in the wealth management/family office field, ini­tial­ly in senior […]

February 20, 2013

University of Toronto joins Harvard/MIT platform to deliver online courses

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is join­ing edX, a US-based plat­form for mas­sive open online cours­es that is acces­si­ble to stu­dents of all ages and means around the world. Found­ed by Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty and the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy, edX is designed to improve edu­ca­tion, both online and on cam­pus, while con­duct­ing research […]

February 19, 2013

New study shows how seals sleep with only half their brain at a time

TORONTO, ON – A new study led by an inter­na­tion­al team of biol­o­gists has iden­ti­fied some of the brain chem­i­cals that allow seals to sleep with half of their brain at a time. The study was pub­lished this month in the Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science and was head­ed by sci­en­tists at UCLA and the Uni­ver­si­ty of […]

February 14, 2013

Canada’s aquatic ecosystems research gets boost from NSERC

TORONTO, ON — Thanks to a fund­ing boost of $4.4 mil­lion, the NSERC Cana­di­an Net­work for Aquat­ic Ecosys­tems (CNAES) will play a key role in ensur­ing well-informed deci­sions are made when it comes to this country’s wet­lands, lakes and rivers. The fund­ing, from the Nat­ur­al Sci­ences and Engi­neer­ing Research Coun­cil, in con­junc­tion with $4.3 mil­lion dol­lars […]

February 14, 2013

Students tackle healthcare challenge in Rotman/Johnson & Johnson Medical Companies case competition

TORONTO, ON – Teams of stu­dents gath­ered at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment on Feb­ru­ary 6 for the annu­al health­care case com­pe­ti­tion orga­nized by the School’s Health­care & Biotech­nol­o­gy Asso­ci­a­tion, an MBA stu­dent group. The com­pe­ti­tion, spon­sored by John­son & John­son Med­ical Com­pa­nies, attract­ed par­tic­i­pants from the Rot­man School’s Full Time, Morn­ing […]

February 12, 2013

Toronto can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 per cent, says U of T prof

TORONTO, ON – Toron­to, and oth­er cities around the world, can sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions by imple­ment­ing aggres­sive but prac­ti­cal pol­i­cy changes, says a new study by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Civ­il Engi­neer­ing Pro­fes­sor Chris Kennedy and World Bank cli­mate change spe­cial­ist Lor­raine Sug­ar, one of Kennedy’s for­mer stu­dents. Kennedy and Sug­ar make the […]

February 12, 2013

Refocusing important on and off the court, says recent study

TORONTO, ON – If an employ­ee’s per­for­mance drops in one area, does that mean they’re slack­ing off? It could mean that they’ve sim­ply shift­ed and refo­cused their efforts on a dif­fer­ent set of tasks — a pos­i­tive sign of adapt­abil­i­ty that should be con­sid­ered in per­for­mance eval­u­a­tions,  says a study led by a researcher at the […]

February 7, 2013

Canadian researcher helps put humans on the tree of life

TORONTO, ON — A Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough researcher was part of a team that recon­struct­ed the fam­i­ly tree of pla­cen­tal mam­mals – a diverse group that includes cats, dogs, hors­es and humans. The research traces pla­cen­tal mam­mals back to a small, scam­per­ing, insect-eat­ing crea­ture that got its start 200,000 years or more after the […]

February 7, 2013

Alaa Murabit, Voice of Libyan Women co-founder, to keynote “Sexual Violence in the Recent Conflicts in Libya and Syria” conference on Feb. 8, 2013

TORONTO, ON — Twen­­ty-three year old Alaa Mura­bit, co-founder of the grass­roots move­ment Voice of Libyan Women, will be the keynote speak­er on Feb. 8, 2013 at an inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence high­light­ing the issue of sex­u­al vio­lence in the wake of the Arab Spring. “Sex­u­al Vio­lence in the Recent Con­flicts in Libya and Syr­ia,” host­ed joint­ly […]

February 7, 2013

Leader in the banking industry joins the Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – A leader in the bank­ing indus­try who has strong ties to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has joined the Uni­ver­si­ty’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment as an Exec­u­­tive-in-Res­i­­dence. Rose Pat­ten will con­tin­ue in her role as Spe­cial Advi­sor to the Pres­i­dent and CEO of BMO Finan­cial Group and as a senior mem­ber of the […]

February 6, 2013

Wearable computing and augmented reality conference comes to U of T in June

TORONTO, ON – Inter­net-con­nec­t­ed eye­glass­es and sim­i­lar tech­nolo­gies will soon be on the mar­ket, but their ben­e­fits and dan­gers are lit­tle under­stood. Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Engi­neer­ing Pro­fes­sor Steve Mann hopes to change that at a ground­break­ing con­fer­ence at U of T in June 2013. Mann is a pio­neer­ing researcher in the fields of wear­able com­put­ing […]

January 31, 2013

University of Toronto faculty and alum prominent in list of Order of Ontario appointees

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to con­grat­u­lates its many dis­tin­guished fac­ul­ty and alum­ni appoint­ed to the Order of Ontario today. Among the 25 extra­or­di­nary Ontar­i­ans receiv­ing the province’s high­est hon­our are pro­fes­sors Gail Robin­son, Ron Deib­ert, Izzeldin Abue­laish, Stephen Cook, Shafique Keshav­jee and Rory Fish­er. Join­ing them on the list of those appoint­ed to […]

January 30, 2013

Broker fees from mutual funds affect advice; predict worse performance, new study says

TORONTO, ON – Bro­kers are sup­posed to rec­om­mend invest­ments that are in the best inter­ests of their clients. But a study pub­lished in the Feb­ru­ary 2013 issue of the Jour­nal of Finance has found that mutu­al funds offer­ing high­er bro­ker fees attract the most invest­ments, espe­cial­ly when the bro­ker is not affil­i­at­ed with the mutu­al […]

January 30, 2013

Disasters can prompt older children to be more giving, younger children to be more selfish

TORONTO, ON — A nat­ur­al dis­as­ter can bring out the best in old­er chil­dren, prompt­ing nine-year-olds to be more will­ing to share, while six-year-olds become more self­ish, researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, and Liaon­ing Nor­mal Uni­ver­si­ty found in a rare nat­ur­al exper­i­ment in Chi­na around the time of a hor­rif­ic […]

January 29, 2013

Leading authority on globalization addresses conference on cities and conflict at the Munk School of Global Affairs

TORONTO, ON — Sask­ia Sassen, a lead­ing author­i­ty on glob­al­iza­tion from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, will be the keynote speak­er at a con­fer­ence on cities and con­flict being held at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs on Feb­ru­ary 1–2, 2013. The first con­fer­ence of its kind in Toron­to, The Urban Era: Com­par­ing Chal­lenges in the World’s Cities will exam­ine […]

January 28, 2013

A City of Neighbourhoods? Local Associations & Their Critics in Toronto

TORONTO, ON – A very large num­ber of neigh­bour­hoods in Toron­to include active res­i­dent asso­ci­a­tions that vig­or­ous­ly inter­vene in deci­sions impact­ing on issues of plan­ning and design. For some, this makes the City demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly vibrant; for oth­ers it means that respon­si­ble deci­sion mak­ing is imped­ed by ill-informed and “NIM­­BY-ist” inter­fer­ence. It is there­fore impor­tant to […]

January 28, 2013

R v Morgentaler: Reflections After 25 Years

TORONTO, ON — Media are invit­ed to a pan­el dis­cus­sion Jan­u­ary 29, 2013, 5:30 – 7:30 pm on one of Canada’s most momen­tous deci­sions in Cana­di­an law: R v Mor­gen­taler. It was 25 years ago, on Jan­u­ary 28, 1988, that the Supreme Court of Cana­da struck down Canada’s abor­tion law using the still new Cana­di­an Char­ter […]

January 22, 2013

University of Toronto and Columbia University libraries launch Tibetan Studies partnership

TORONTO, ON – An inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Colum­bia University’s research libraries will har­ness exist­ing exper­tise in Tibetan col­lec­tion ser­vices at both uni­ver­si­ties to increase the avail­abil­i­ty of Tibetan resources to a wider com­mu­ni­ty of schol­ars in both Cana­da and the Unit­ed States. The fac­ul­ties and stu­dents of both insti­tu­tions will […]

January 21, 2013

IMFG releases report that examines the fault lines at Toronto City Hall

TORONTO, ON – A report by the Insti­tute on Munic­i­pal Finance and Gov­er­nance (IMFG) looks at local gov­ern­ment in Toron­to in the wake of the tumul­tuous recent events at City Hall. The paper, by the IMFG’s André Côté, exam­ines three of the fault lines that are caus­ing fric­tion: The lead­er­ship dynam­ic in a sys­tem in which Coun­cil is […]

January 21, 2013

David Mulroney, former Ambassador to China, to deliver keynote address at INDePth Conference in March

TORONTO, ON – Accom­plished diplo­mat, inno­v­a­tive for­mer Cana­di­an Ambas­sador to the People’s Repub­lic of Chi­na, and Dis­tin­guished Senior Fel­low at the Munk School’s Cana­da Cen­tre for Glob­al Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies, David Mul­roney is set to deliv­er the keynote address for INDePth Con­fer­ence 2013 at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, his alma mater. In its sopho­more year, INDePth […]