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Top Canadian, Indian institutions form $30M partnership to improve water and infrastructure safety, eradicate diseases
Scientists from the University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, University of Toronto and 11 leading institutions in India are joining forces to tackle urgent issues in both countries with a $30-million partnership. Supported by the Canadian government and state and industry partners in India, the India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate Community […]
Michael Wilson to be installed as U of T Chancellor at fall convocation
TORONTO, ON – The Hon. Michael Wilson will be formally installed as the 33rd Chancellor of the University of Toronto on Monday, November 12. The ceremony will take place at the first of the U of T’s fall Convocation ceremonies, extending through the week, in which more than 4,300 students will graduate. The University will […]
University of Toronto community to gather in remembrance
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto’s annual Service of Remembrance on the main campus will take place on Friday, November 9 from 10:20 am to 11 am at the foot of the Soldiers’ Tower at Hart House Circle. The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and Mrs. Ruth Ann Onley will be […]
The U of T student as inventor and entrepreneur
On November 12th, 2012, the Institute for Optical Sciences (IOS) is hosting a free afternoon symposium titled ‘The U of T Student as Inventor and Entrepreneur.’ This event will launch TechnoLABS, located in the Banting & Best Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and will feature stories from U of T alumni who have led successful […]
Ontario Genomics Institute invests in validation of a novel protein interaction technology at the University of Toronto
TORONTO, ON — Every process in a cell is affected by interactions between proteins. Understanding how proteins react in the human body and their relationship to diseases is essential to the development of new and better targeted therapies. The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) is providing $100,000 through its Pre-commercialization Business Development Fund (PBDF) to the […]
U of T library system receives archival donation from the honourable Vivienne Poy
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto Libraries will be the repository for the archival records of The Honourable Dr. Vivienne Poy who retired in September from the Senate of Canada, after 14 years of service. Chief Librarian Larry Alford will host a reception and ceremony marking Dr. Poy’s retirement and her archival donation at […]
Chair in Canadian Business History appointed at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
TORONTO, ON — A researcher and professor of business history and corporate finance has been appointed as the first holder of the L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Prof. Christopher Kobrak will be a visiting professor and hold the chair at the Rotman School. […]
U of T study finds that cuts to local immigration partnerships may negatively impact newcomers to Toronto
TORONTO, ON — Cutting funding and amalgamating the Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs) — the network of organizations and agencies working together to coordinate settlement services for recent immigrants — will likely negatively affect the estimated 75,000 newcomers to Toronto each year, a University of Toronto study has found. Although LIPs are facilitated by non-profit organizations, […]
Canadian Regenerative Medicine Community Growing Stronger
TORONTO, ON – The collaborative network created by the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) has been strengthened with the addition of Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. to its 20-member industry consortium. “I am pleased to welcome Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. to the industry consortium,” says Dr. Michael May, CEO of CCRM. “Since our Centre […]
There’s No App for That: Managing Cyberbullying in Schools
TORONTO, ON – The landscape of Ontario education has grown ever more complex. Educational leaders must respond to an increasingly diverse array of issues and problems from school, district and community-wide perspective. A clear and up-to-date understanding of the framework of provincial and federal laws and of recent jurisprudence related to education and schools is […]
Rotman School associate dean honoured by Executive MBA Council
TORONTO, ON – The associate dean of executive degree programs at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has been honoured for her contributions to the Executive MBA industry. Prof. Beatrix Dart, who is also the academic director for the One-Year Executive MBA and the Omnium Global Executive MBA programs at the Rotman School, […]
University of Toronto study demonstrates impact of adversity on early life development
TORONTO, ON – It is time to put the nature versus nurture debate to rest and embrace growing evidence that it is the interaction between biology and environment in early life that influences human development, according to a series of studies recently published in a special edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
Toronto’s by-laws fail to address city’s diversity, says U of Toronto study
TORONTO, ON — Diversity is one of the defining qualities of the city of Toronto but you’d never know it by the way we design and enforce municipal by-laws, according to U of T criminology and socio-legal studies professor Mariana Valverde. In fact, some of our most popular mechanisms for civic engagement – such as public […]
U of T launches research centre for motor control
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto has established a new centre for the multidisciplinary study of human movement that aims to better understand the complex communication between brain and body in situations as varied as pulling a pen across the page to running at high speed around a track. The Centre for Motor Control (CMC), hosted […]
International science ranking puts U of T at 7th in the world
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto’s academic and research performance ranks 7th in the world – and the best in Canada – in a prestigious international ranking released this week that measures strength in science disciplines. The National Taiwan University (NTU) ranking (formerly the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan — HEEACT […]
U of T and ROM researchers publish new theory on origin of flightless birds
TORONTO, ON — New DNA studies by University of Toronto (U of T) researchers indicate that two opposing views on the origin of ratites, large flightless birds originating on the southern supercontinent Gondwana, might both be correct. Dr. Allan J. Baker, U of T ecology and evolutionary biology professor and Head of the ROM’s Department of Natural […]
Rotman School Dean to step down. Led period of dramatic growth at the School
TORONTO, ON — The Dean of University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has announced that he will be ending his third term as Dean on June 30, 2013, one year earlier than the formal conclusion of his third term. Roger Martin, who joined the Rotman School as Dean in May 1998, will remain at […]
Rotman School research on pension plans honoured by the Toronto CFA Society
TORONTO, ON – A research paper by two professors at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management was honoured last week with the 2011 Canadian Investment Research Award presented by the Toronto CFA Society and Hillsdale Investment Management. The paper, “Is Bigger Better? Size and Performance in Pension Plan Management,” was co-written by Profs. […]
Human’s oldest ancestor found in Burgess Shale
Researchers from the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the University of Cambridge have confirmed that a 505 million-year-old creature, found only in the Burgess Shale fossil beds in Canada’s Yoho National Park, is the most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans. The research team’s […]
Upper class more likely to be scofflaws says new research from UC Berkeley and UofT’s Rotman
TORONTO, ON –The upper class has a higher propensity for unethical behavior, being more likely to believe – as did Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street” – that “greed is good,” according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. “The […]