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November 30, 2012

Happy face tattoo does serious work

TORONTO, ON — A med­ical sen­sor that attach­es to the skin like a tem­po­rary tat­too could make it eas­i­er for doc­tors to detect meta­bol­ic prob­lems in patients and for coach­es to fine-tune ath­letes’ train­ing rou­tines. And the entire sen­sor comes in a thin, flex­i­ble pack­age shaped like a smi­ley face. “We want­ed a design that could […]

November 29, 2012

Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress releases Eleventh Annual Report.

TORONTO, ON — As the reces­sion recedes, the Task Force on Com­pet­i­tive­ness, Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and Eco­nom­ic Progress calls on all Ontar­i­ans to build on the province’s strengths and make the deci­sions and invest­ments need­ed to achieve the 2020 Pros­per­i­ty Agen­da. The Task Force sin­gles out the “dead cash” on the bal­ance sheets of Ontario busi­ness­es as an […]

November 28, 2012

U of T study: Children in full-day kindergarten still ahead

TORONTO, ON – Two years after imple­ment­ing full-day ear­ly learning/kindergarten (FDELK) in Peel Region schools, a Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to study has found that FDELK chil­dren were ahead of their peers who attend­ed half-day kinder­garten in sub­jects such as vocab­u­lary, ear­ly lit­er­a­cy, num­ber knowl­edge and par­ent rat­ings of their child’s readi­ness for ele­men­tary school. The study is […]

November 28, 2012

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

TORONTO, ON – Research con­sis­tent­ly shows that Canada’s chil­dren are becom­ing increas­ing­ly 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 from experts […]

November 28, 2012

“Fountain of Youth” technique rejuvenates aging stem cells

TORONTO, ON — A new method of grow­ing car­diac tis­sue is teach­ing old stem cells new tricks. The dis­cov­ery, which trans­forms aged stem cells into cells that func­tion like much younger ones, may one day enable sci­en­tists to grow car­diac patch­es for dam­aged or dis­eased hearts from a patient’s own stem cells—no mat­ter what age the […]

November 28, 2012

U of T engineers awarded $2.2 million grant for toilet research

TORONTO, ON — A Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to engi­neer­ing team has received a major grant from the Bill and Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion to con­tin­ue work on design­ing for a water­less, hygien­ic toi­let that is safe and afford­able for peo­ple in the devel­op­ing world. The Gates Foun­da­tion award­ed the grant, worth $2.2 mil­lion for 15 months, to U of T […]

November 26, 2012

Being in the Public Service — Then and Now presentation

TORONTO, ON — “Being in the Pub­lic Ser­vice: Then and Now” is the third in the Gov­er­nance in Toron­to series pre­sent­ed by Cities Cen­tre at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. Each event in the series pairs pre­sen­ta­tions by a prac­ti­tion­er and an aca­d­e­m­ic, and allows gen­er­ous time for audi­ence-led ques­tions, dis­cus­sion and debate fol­low­ing the pre­sen­ta­tions. […]

November 26, 2012

University of Toronto launches new heritage website

TORONTO, ON — Film footage of the 1939 Roy­al vis­it to Hart House and ear­ly pho­tographs of Mar­shall McLuhan and Mar­garet Atwood are just a hand­ful of the audio-visu­al trea­sures cap­tured in a new Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to web­site that doc­u­ments the rich his­to­ry of the insti­tu­tion. “A great library is real­ly about pre­serv­ing the record […]

November 22, 2012

Umbilical cord cells outperform bone marrow cells

TORONTO, ON — When repair­ing dam­age from a heart attack, an injec­tion of cells derived from human umbil­i­cal cord tis­sue is bet­ter than one of cells derived from bone mar­row, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to researchers say. Most stem cell ther­a­pies use cells har­vest­ed from bone mar­row to stim­u­late tis­sue repair and con­trol inflam­ma­tion. But a new […]

November 20, 2012

Anti-hypertensive drugs linked to increased risk of hip fracture

TORONTO, ON — Elder­ly peo­ple tak­ing anti-hyper­­ten­­sive drugs are at a 43 per cent increased risk of hav­ing a hip frac­ture in the first 45 days of treat­ment, accord­ing to research con­duct­ed by fam­i­ly med­i­cine Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Dr. Debra Butt. A mem­ber of the Depart­ment of Fam­i­ly and Com­mu­ni­ty Med­i­cine at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to […]

November 20, 2012

From Student to Entrepreneur: U of T’s Cynthia Goh and Ajay Agrawal address Board of Trade on economic value of training entrepreneurs

TORONTO, ON – Toron­to is inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized as a world-lead­­ing hub of entre­pre­neur­ship and start-up busi­ness­es. With an extra­or­di­nary tal­ent pool, glob­al­ly sig­nif­i­cant indus­try clus­ters, and excel­lent post-sec­ondary insti­tu­tions locat­ed in the Toron­to met­ro­pol­i­tan region, Toron­to offers a rich envi­ron­ment for inno­va­tion and entre­pre­neur­ship. Our region’s next great chal­lenge is to build on this momen­tum […]

November 19, 2012

Government of Canada celebrates the national historic significance of the Grey Cup

TORONTO, ON — The Hon­ourable Peter Van Loan, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for York-Sim­­coe and Leader of the Gov­ern­ment in the House of Com­mons, will par­tic­i­pate in a cer­e­mo­ny to high­light the nation­al his­toric sig­nif­i­cance of the Grey Cup. Min­is­ter Van Loan will take part in this event on behalf of the Hon­ourable Peter Kent, Canada’s Envi­ron­ment Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter respon­si­ble for […]

November 19, 2012

Middle Income Access to Justice book launch will be celebrated Nov. 21, 2012, with a Town Hall moderated by the Toronto Star’s Ellen Roseman

The Fac­ul­ty of Law is pleased to cel­e­brate the book launch of Mid­dle Income Access to Jus­tice (Michael Tre­bil­cock, Antho­ny Dug­gan and Lorne Sossin, eds.) with a Town Hall on Novem­ber 21, 2012, mod­er­at­ed by con­sumer advo­cate, reporter and blog­ger Ellen Rose­man of the Toron­to Star The dis­cus­sion will cen­tre on the lat­est issues and devel­op­ments […]

November 16, 2012

Archaeologists identify spear tips used in hunting a half-million years ago

TORONTO, ON – A Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­­to-led team of anthro­pol­o­gists has found evi­dence that human ances­tors used stone-tipped weapons for hunt­ing 500,000 years ago – 200,000 years ear­li­er than pre­vi­ous­ly thought. “This changes the way we think about ear­ly human adap­ta­tions and capac­i­ties before the ori­gin of our own species,” says Jayne Wilkins, a PhD […]

November 15, 2012

Virtual reality could spot real-world impairments

TORONTO, ON — A vir­tu­al real­i­ty test being devel­oped at UTSC might do a bet­ter job than pen­­cil-and-paper tests of pre­dict­ing whether a cog­ni­tive impair­ment will have real-world con­se­quences. The test devel­oped by Kon­stan­tine Zakza­nis, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of psy­chol­o­gy, and col­leagues, uses a com­put­er-game-like vir­tu­al world and asks vol­un­teers to nav­i­gate their ways through tasks […]

November 14, 2012

Want better employees? Get somebody else to rate their personalities, suggests new study.

TORONTO, ON – Busi­ness­es will get more accu­rate assess­ments of poten­tial and cur­rent employ­ees if they do away with self-rat­ed per­son­al­i­ty tests and ask those being assessed to find some­one else to rate them, sug­gest results from a new study. Pre­vi­ous job per­for­mance stud­ies have shown that out­siders are best at rat­ing an individual’s per­son­al­i­ty […]

November 14, 2012

U of T jazz orchestra launches season with new director Gordon Foote

TORONTO, ON – After 26 years teach­ing in the Jazz Stud­ies Pro­gram at McGill Uni­ver­si­ty direct­ing the award win­ning and inter­na­tion­al­ly known McGill Jazz Orches­tra, Gor­don Foote has accept­ed a posi­tion as direc­tor of the U of T Jazz Orches­tra, in the Fac­ul­ty of Music, at the U of T. He will debut as direc­tor […]

November 14, 2012

U of T evolutionary biologist to give public talk on Peruvian killer ants at Toronto Public Library

TORONTO, ON — Megan Fred­er­ick­son, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Ecol­o­gy & Evo­lu­tion­ary Biol­o­gy, will give a free pub­lic talk about coop­er­a­tion among ants in the Peru­vian rain­for­est. The talk is part of an ongo­ing series of free pub­lic lec­tures fea­tur­ing sci­en­tists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. There are sev­er­al oth­er pub­lic lec­tures com­ing […]

November 12, 2012

U of T unveils new TechnoLABS to support and train aspiring technopreneurs

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to launched its Tech­no­LABS space today, part of a grow­ing ecosys­tem at the U of T that offers sup­port and train­ing for stu­dent and recent alum­ni who are lead­ing and build­ing com­pa­nies based on tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tions. “Tech­no­LABS is a space ded­i­cat­ed to a new gen­er­a­tion of stu­dent entre­pre­neurs with […]

November 8, 2012

U of T’s Institute for Optical Sciences to unveil TechnoLABS at symposium featuring successful alumni entrepreneurs

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Insti­tute for Opti­cal Sci­ences (IOS) will host an after­noon sym­po­sium to launch Tech­no­LABS. Locat­ed in the Bant­i­ng and Best Cen­tre for Inno­va­tion and Entre­pre­neur­ship, the new space is part of a grow­ing ecosys­tem at U of T that offers sup­port and train­ing for stu­dents and recent alum­ni who are build­ing com­pa­nies based on tech­no­log­i­cal […]