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December 5, 2011

Where have all the quasars gone?

TORONTO, ON ‑An inter­na­tion­al team of astronomers has dis­cov­ered two gigan­tic black holes with mass­es about 10 bil­lion times the mass of our sun. These black holes have a mass more than 50 per cent greater than any oth­er pre­vi­ous­ly mea­sured. “They may be the dor­mant remains of quasars that were extreme­ly lumi­nous bil­lions of […]

December 1, 2011

Moving beyond Canadian experience:

TORONTO, ON — A broad group of busi­ness, cor­po­rate, and com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers are join­ing forces with aca­d­e­mics to ensure that diverse tal­ents from immi­grant com­mu­ni­ties are con­tribut­ing to cor­po­rate suc­cess, and accord­ing to for­mer Ontario PC leader John Tory, the meet­ing couldn’t come at a bet­ter time. “We need immi­grants,” says Tory.  “We need them in […]

December 1, 2011

As Seen on InnerSPACE: Holograms

SPACE Blogs U of T stu­dents show off their holo­graph­ic cre­ations at the Insti­tute for Opti­cal Sci­ences… Watch the video here

November 30, 2011

In the dragonfish’s mouth: the next generation of superstars to stir up our galaxy

TORONTO, ON — Three astronomers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to have found the most numer­ous batch of young, super­mas­sive stars yet observed in our galaxy: hun­dreds of thou­sands of stars, includ­ing sev­er­al hun­dreds of the most mas­sive kind –blue stars dozens of times heav­ier than our Sun. The light these new­born stars emit is so […]

November 30, 2011

Spain to award medal to University of Toronto professor

TORONTO, ON — Luis Seco, a math­e­mat­ics pro­fes­sor and direc­tor of RiskLab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, will be giv­en the Caballero de la Orden del Mer­i­to Civ­il award on Thurs­day, Decem­ber 1. Seco is being hon­oured for his appli­ca­tion of math­e­mat­ics to finan­cial risk man­age­ment, devel­op­ing mod­els that have been use­ful in a num­ber […]

November 30, 2011

Paying physicians more to get more — or to get less

TORONTO, ON — Labour eco­nom­ics can pro­vide a valu­able per­spec­tive in address­ing the sup­ply of doc­tors and access to care, says an arti­cle in the Decem­ber 6, 2011 issue of the Cana­di­an Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion Jour­nal (CMAJ). “Under­stand­ing and accu­rate­ly pre­dict­ing the response of physi­cians to incen­tives is essen­tial if gov­ern­ments wish to increase the sup­ply of […]

November 29, 2011

OISE, TCDSB partner on issues of Aboriginal culture, identity and education

TORONTO, ON — The Ontario Insti­tute for Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion (OISE) of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to wel­comed more than 100 teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors from the Toron­to Catholic Dis­trict School Board for a sym­po­sium on issues fac­ing First Nations, Métis, and Inu­it last week. OISE Pro­fes­sor Suzanne Stew­art of the Yel­lowknife Dene First Nation and the […]

November 29, 2011

Boundless vision: building campaign launches the future at a new Faculty of Law

TORONTO, ON — More than 200 alum­ni and friends of the Fac­ul­ty of Law gath­ered tonight to cel­e­brate the launch of a $53-mil­lion build­ing cam­paign to posi­tion Canada’s num­ber one law school for a future of bound­less lead­er­ship, poten­tial and vision. In a packed and ener­gized Flavelle House, the icon­ic her­itage build­ing at the Fac­ul­ty […]

November 23, 2011

Media Advisory: British Columbia Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of polygamy prohibition

Van­cou­ver – On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 23, 2011, the British Colum­bia Supreme Court will release its deci­sion in the Polygamy Ref­er­ence case. The deci­sion will be made avail­able on the British Colum­bia Supreme Court’s web­site after 10:00 a.m. (PST) or 1:00 p.m. (EST): http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/supreme_court/recent_Judgments.aspx The Court will pro­vide its opin­ion on whether the pro­hi­bi­tion against polygamy […]

November 22, 2011

U of T experts to discuss the role of exercise in preventing disease

Can phys­i­cal activ­i­ty help thwart can­cer, dia­betes, men­tal ill­ness and heart dis­ease?  Based on mount­ing evi­dence, the Unit­ed Nations this fall answered a resound­ing yes, call­ing non-com­­mu­ni­­ca­ble dis­eases one of the major chal­lenges of the 21st cen­tu­ry and point­ing to exer­cise as an inte­gral part of the solu­tion.  On Decem­ber 1 the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s […]

November 20, 2011

The University of Toronto launches BOUNDLESS, its historic $2 billion fundraising campaign

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has unveiled Bound­less, the largest fundrais­ing cam­paign in Cana­di­an uni­ver­si­ty his­to­ry. With a his­toric $2 bil­lion goal, the Cam­paign for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will help expand U of T’s glob­al lead­er­ship capac­i­ty across crit­i­cal areas of knowl­edge and help devel­op the tal­ent, ideas and solu­tions for the […]

November 18, 2011

Size matters? Study raises questions about when and where soybeans were domesticated

If you like tofu, tem­peh, edamame or miso soup, you’re a fan of soy­beans. But the sig­nif­i­cance of this legume goes far beyond a few culi­nary treats–soybeans rank sev­enth among world crops for ton­nage har­vest­ed. Now, a new study led by researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Mis­sis­sauga and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon gets at […]

November 17, 2011

Rotman School professor honoured twice by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

TORONTO, ON — A pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment received two awards for life­time achieve­ment from the Insti­tute for Oper­a­tions Research and the Man­age­ment Sci­ences (INFORMS) at their annu­al meet­ing held in Char­lotte, NC this week. Prof. Oded Berman was named a Fel­low of INFORMS for his out­stand­ing life­time achieve­ment […]

November 16, 2011

University of Toronto to launch historic campaign

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will launch an his­toric cam­paign this Sun­day, Novem­ber 20, 2011 at 6 p.m. at Con­vo­ca­tion Hall. Bene­fac­tors, alum­ni, vol­un­teers and friends will join fac­ul­ty, stu­dents and staff in Con­vo­ca­tion Hall to cel­e­brate the extra­or­di­nary role of phil­an­thropy in sup­port­ing the University’s excel­lence and its aspi­ra­tions for lead­er­ship and […]

November 15, 2011

Rotman faculty named among the top ten management gurus in the world

TORONTO, ON – Two mem­bers of the fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment were named to the list of the top fifty man­age­ment thinkers in the world at an awards cer­e­mo­ny held on Lon­don on Mon­day. Dean Roger Mar­tin placed sixth on the list while Adjunct Pro­fes­sor Don Tap­scott came in […]

November 14, 2011

How smart managers make dumb decisions and why shareholders encourage them: Rotman paper

TORONTO, ON – From Enron in the Unit­ed States to Satyam in India, there are plen­ty of exam­ples of cor­po­rate man­agers lying about their com­pa­nies’ earn­ings and ulti­mate­ly hurt­ing them­selves and the busi­ness­es they work for. Why do they do it? A lim­it­ed capac­i­ty to see the whole pic­ture – known as “bound­ed ratio­nal­i­ty” — […]

November 10, 2011

University of Toronto expands global reach with new India office

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will part­ner with the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia to open an office in New Del­hi, India, strength­en­ing its pres­ence in one of the world’s most vibrant and inno­v­a­tive nations. The office will be tasked with devel­op­ing insti­tu­tion­al part­ner­ships with gov­ern­ment, indus­try, and aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions. U of T Pres­i­dent […]

November 10, 2011

Study finds new way to predict MS diagnosis in children

Ear­ly MRI scans can help pre­dict the diag­no­sis of mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis (MS) in chil­dren, which may per­mit ear­li­er ini­ti­a­tion of treat­ment, accord­ing to a new nation­al study. The study was led by The Hos­pi­tal for Sick Chil­dren (Sick­Kids) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and was per­formed as a part of the Cana­di­an Pedi­atric Demyeli­nat­ing Dis­ease […]

November 9, 2011

Rotman School event aims to help break the glass ceiling

TORONTO, ON – An annu­al event aimed at female can­di­dates for pro­grams at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment returns this month with a new and expand­ed for­mat. “Break the Glass Ceil­ing: Women and the MBA” is a half-day pro­gram fea­tur­ing speak­ers, pan­el­lists and break­out ses­sions cov­er­ing what you need to know about […]

November 7, 2011

Lives of soldiers and key Canadians to be documented

TORONTO, ON – As Cana­di­ans pre­pare to hon­our fall­en sol­diers this Remem­brance Day, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has announced fund­ing for a web­site which chron­i­cles the lives of war vet­er­ans, includ­ing U of T grad­u­ate Lt. Col. John McCrae, and oth­er key his­tor­i­cal fig­ures. The $3‑million in fund­ing, announced today by the Depart­ment of Cana­di­an Her­itage, […]