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January 18, 2013

Faculty at U of T’s Rotman School of Management recognized for excellence in teaching and research

TORONTO, ON – Four fac­ul­ty mem­bers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have been named the recip­i­ents of the 2012 Dean’s Awards for Excel­lence in Research and Teach­ing. The pur­pose of the awards is to annu­al­ly rec­og­nize and encour­age excel­lence in the research and teach­ing activ­i­ties of Rot­man fac­ul­ty mem­bers. Aparna Labroo, […]

January 17, 2013

Assessing the historic Indian residential schools litigation and settlement processes

TORONTO, ON — Five years after the his­toric agree­ment that set­tled Indi­an Res­i­den­tial Schools cas­es against the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and church­es, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Fac­ul­ty of Law presents an oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­tem­plate what has been accom­plished and what lies ahead in these process­es. The pub­lic con­fer­ence “Assess­ing the Indi­an Res­i­den­tial Schools Lit­i­ga­tion & Set­tle­ment […]

January 17, 2013

Emmanuel College to open new Muslim prayer space

TORONTO, ON — Emmanuel Col­lege of Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to announces the offi­cial open­ing of a new, ded­i­cat­ed prayer space and spe­cial ablu­tion facil­i­ties to accom­mo­date the needs of Mus­lim stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. The pub­lic open­ing will also include lec­ture on “Root­ing a Cana­di­an-Mus­lim Iden­ti­ty” giv­en by Dr. Ingrid […]

January 17, 2013

New insights into the ‘borderline personality’ brain

TORONTO, ON — New work by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough researchers gives the best descrip­tion yet of the neur­al cir­cuits that under­lie a severe men­tal ill­ness called Bor­der­line Per­son­al­i­ty Dis­or­der (BPD), and could lead to bet­ter treat­ments and diag­no­sis. The work shows that brain regions that process neg­a­tive emo­tions (for exam­ple, anger and sad­ness) are […]

January 15, 2013

Canada Foundation for Innovation invests $21 million in U of T research

TORONTO, ON – Most peo­ple choose not to think about the tril­lions of micro-organ­isms – bac­te­ria, virus­es and fun­gi – that live on and inside our bod­ies. But like it or not, these microbes have a tremen­dous impact on many aspects of health and dis­ease. They’re also at the heart of Dana Philpott’s research and […]

January 15, 2013

W. Garfield Weston Foundation establishes prestigious new fellowships dedicated to internationalization at the doctoral level

TORONTO, ON – With an eye to devel­op­ing glob­al­ly ori­ent­ed thinkers and inno­va­tors, The W. Garfield West­on Foun­da­tion and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to today announced the cre­ation of the most pres­ti­gious doc­tor­al trav­el award in the coun­try.  The W. Garfield West­on Foun­da­tion Doc­tor­al Fel­low­ship Pro­gram will pro­vide 16 recip­i­ents each year—across the human­i­ties and the […]

January 15, 2013

New collaboration between CCRM and Nikon to reap benefits outside the lab

TORONTO, ON – The Cen­tre for Com­mer­cial­iza­tion of Regen­er­a­tive Med­i­cine (CCRM) has entered into an agree­ment with Nikon Cor­po­ra­tion to place the Nikon Bio­Sta­tion CT Inte­grat­ed Cell Cul­ture Obser­va­tion Sys­tem, and relat­ed soft­ware, in CCRM’s prod­uct devel­op­ment facil­i­ty to per­form high through­put stud­ies of patient-derived stem cell respon­sive­ness to test mol­e­cules in a con­trolled envi­ron­ment. […]

January 15, 2013

Atmospheric physicist named director of University of Toronto’s new School of the Environment

TORONTO, ON — Kim­ber­ly Strong, a physi­cist who leads inves­ti­ga­tions of the Earth’s atmos­phere, will soon lead the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s new School of the Envi­ron­ment. Her term begins on July 1, 2013. Strong’s research in atmos­pher­ic mea­sure­ments exam­ines such key envi­ron­men­tal issues as cli­mate change and its rela­tion­ship to con­tribut­ing fac­tors includ­ing stratos­pher­ic ozone […]

January 14, 2013

U of T alumnus wins Golden Globe award: Composer Mychael Danna wins for Life Of Pi score

TORONTO, ON – Com­pos­er and Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to alum­nus Mychael Dan­na picked up a Gold­en Globe award Jan­u­ary 13 for best film score for the movie Life of Pi. Dan­na earned his Bach­e­lor of Music degree in com­po­si­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to in 1986, where he won the first-ever Glenn Gould Com­po­si­tion Award and was exposed to the […]

January 10, 2013

New book from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management examines the changing landscape of marketing

TORONTO, ON – The past decade has seen a num­ber of devel­op­ments that threat­en the very fab­ric of how mar­ket­ing activ­i­ties have tra­di­tion­al­ly been con­duct­ed. On one hand, con­sumers are increas­ing­ly social­ly net­worked and val­ue-con­s­cious, with height­ened expec­ta­tions of how com­pa­nies will react to their demands. Along with the chal­lenges, how­ev­er, come new oppor­tu­ni­ties: the […]

January 9, 2013

Invading species can extinguish native plants despite recent reports

TORONTO, ON – Ecol­o­gists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and the Swiss Fed­er­al Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy Zurich (ETH Zurich) have found that, giv­en time, invad­ing exot­ic plants will like­ly elim­i­nate native plants grow­ing in the wild despite recent reports to the con­trary. A study pub­lished in Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences (PNAS) reports […]

December 20, 2012

U of T Researchers uncover major source of evolutionary differences among species

TORONTO, ON – Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Temer­ty Temer­ty Fac­ul­ty of Med­i­cine researchers have uncov­ered a genet­ic basis for fun­da­men­tal dif­fer­ences between humans and oth­er ver­te­brates that could also help explain why humans are sus­cep­ti­ble to dis­eases not found in oth­er species. Sci­en­tists have won­dered why ver­te­brate species, which look and behave very dif­fer­ent­ly from one […]

December 18, 2012

Parents’ addiction, unemployment and divorce are risk factors for childhood abuse

TORONTO, ON – Adults who had par­ents who strug­gled with addic­tion, unem­ploy­ment and divorce are 10 times more like­ly to have been vic­tims of child­hood phys­i­cal abuse, accord­ing to a new study pre­pared by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Fac­­tor-Inwen­­tash Fac­ul­ty of Social Work. The study, which was pub­lished online this week in the jour­nal Child: […]

December 7, 2012

University of Toronto and the University of São Paulo issue joint call for proposals for neuroscience & global cities research initiatives

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (U of T) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of São Paulo (USP) issued a joint Call for Pro­pos­als today, invit­ing inter­est­ed researchers from U of T and USP to sub­mit pro­pos­als for joint research projects in the areas of neu­ro­science and glob­al cities – areas of research strength for the […]

December 5, 2012

U of T’s science and health sciences library hosts therapy dog for exam stress relief

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Ger­stein Sci­ence Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre will host Bel­la, a St. John Ambu­lance Ther­a­py Dog, to pro­vide stressed out stu­dents with a lit­tle relief around exam time. Bel­la will be at Ger­stein from 1:30–3:00 pm on Decem­ber 5, 6, 12 and 13. Sim­i­lar pro­grams have been imple­ment­ed at Har­vard, Yale, […]

December 5, 2012

University of Toronto President David Naylor visits São Paulo Brazil for joint conference on neuroscience

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is part­ner­ing with the Uni­ver­si­ty of São Paulo on a two-day joint Con­fer­ence on Neu­ro­science on Decem­ber 7–8 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Uni­ver­si­ty, includ­ing Pres­i­dent David Nay­lor, will attend the con­fer­ence, as well as oth­er events and activ­i­ties in São Paulo, from Decem­ber 5 – […]

December 4, 2012

Three students from the University of Toronto named 2013 Rhodes Scholars

TORONTO, ON – Three stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will pur­sue post-grad­u­ate stud­ies at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty next year after being named Rhodes Schol­ars for 2013. The Rhodes Schol­ar­ships are among the world’s most pres­ti­gious post­grad­u­ate awards sup­port­ing out­stand­ing all-round stu­dents at Oxford. Only 83 stu­dents from uni­ver­si­ties around the world – and 11 from […]

December 4, 2012

University of Toronto awarded funding to deliver massive open online courses

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has been award­ed a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion to devel­op two online learn­ing cours­es that will be deliv­ered by award-win­n­ing U of T pro­fes­sors. The two cours­es – the lat­est in U of T’s involve­ment in Mas­sive Open Online Cours­es (MOOC) pro­grams – […]

December 3, 2012

“The Higgs and Beyond: Brave New Physics” public event

TORONTO, ON — After a mas­sive search involv­ing thou­sands of researchers from around the world and the biggest par­ti­cle accel­er­a­tor ever built, physi­cists announced the his­toric dis­cov­ery of the Hig­gs boson recent­ly. What exact­ly is this elu­sive par­ti­cle and how does its dis­cov­ery change our view of the uni­verse? These ques­tions and more will be […]

December 3, 2012

U of T experts, Toronto city planner to discuss active school travel

TORONTO, ON – Research con­sis­tent­ly shows that Canada’s chil­dren are becom­ing more and more seden­tary and yet with the health of our next gen­er­a­tion in jeop­ardy, one of the eas­i­est and most acces­si­ble forms of phys­i­cal activ­i­ty – the walk to school – is still being passed over by most par­ents. On Decem­ber 5, hear […]