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November 7, 2011

U of T community to gather in rememberance

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s annu­al Remem­brance Day cer­e­mo­ny on the main cam­pus will take place on Fri­day, Novem­ber 11 from 10:20 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the foot of the Sol­diers’ Tow­er at Hart House Cir­cle. The ser­vice will include read­ings, prayers, hymns and the lay­ing of wreaths. The ser­vice will be […]

November 7, 2011

Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle

TORONTO, ON — Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to mate­ri­als sci­ence and engi­neer­ing (MSE) researchers have demon­strat­ed for the first time the key mech­a­nism behind how ener­gy lev­els align in a crit­i­cal group of advanced mate­ri­als. This dis­cov­ery is a sig­nif­i­cant break­through in the devel­op­ment of sus­tain­able tech­nolo­gies such as dye-sen­si­­tized solar cells and organ­ic light-emit­t­ing diodes (OLEDs). […]

November 4, 2011

U of T’s Goldring Centre for high performance sport gets final nod

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Gov­ern­ing Coun­cil gave the final stamp of approval on Novem­ber 27 to build the Goldring Cen­tre for High Per­for­mance Sport. A state-of-the-art hub for sport and exer­cise research, sport med­i­cine, train­ing and com­pe­ti­tion, the facil­i­ty will bring a much-need­ed resource to U of T and Ontario. In the plan­ning stages […]

November 4, 2011

Assessing the Cannes Summit Accomplishments

Lead­ing G20 experts from three con­ti­nents and six coun­tries come togeth­er under the aus­pices of the glob­al G20 Research Group to assess the achieve­ments of the G20 Cannes Sum­mit. Time: 11:00–12:00 on Fri­day, Novem­ber 4, 2011 Loca­tion: Brief­ing Room No. 7, 4th floor, Palais du Fes­ti­val, Cannes Chair: John Kir­ton, co-direc­­tor, G20 Research Group Par­tic­i­pants: […]

November 3, 2011

Ontario’s first lesbian and gay rights group honoured

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Homophile Asso­ci­a­tion, the province’s first group to ral­ly around les­bian and gay rights, was hon­oured yes­ter­day at a cer­e­mo­ny that marked their his­toric for­ma­tion in 1969. Offi­cials from U of T, the Ontario Her­itage Trust (OHT) and three lev­els of gov­ern­ment com­mem­o­rat­ed the his­toric group’s for­ma­tion by unveil­ing […]

November 2, 2011

Government to support project to profile war veterans, key Canadians

TORONTO, ON – The Depart­ment of Cana­di­an Her­itage will make an impor­tant announce­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to next week regard­ing a project that chron­i­cles the lives of Cana­di­an war vet­er­ans and oth­er impor­tant nation­al fig­ures. The announce­ment will hap­pen just ahead of Remem­brance Day on Mon­day, Novem­ber 7 at 10 a.m. at Hart House […]

November 2, 2011

Faculty of Law to host the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for a special, free screening of “Prosecutor”

TORONTO, ON — The Pros­e­cu­tor of the Inter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Luis Moreno-Ocam­po, and Cana­di­an diplo­mat Stephen Lewis, will appear at a spe­cial free pub­lic screen­ing of the new doc­u­men­tary “Pros­e­cu­tor” on Mon­day, Novem­ber 14th, at the Isabel Bad­er The­atre at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to.  This is the first pub­lic screen­ing of […]

November 2, 2011

University of Toronto honours filmmaker Deepa Mehta

TORONTO, ON – Approx­i­mate­ly 4,400 stu­dents will grad­u­ate from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to at con­vo­ca­tion cer­e­monies tak­ing place from Mon­day Novem­ber 7 to Fri­day Novem­ber 11 in Con­vo­ca­tion Hall, 31 King’s Col­lege Cir­cle. The Uni­ver­si­ty will also con­fer an hon­orary degree on renowned direc­tor, pro­duc­er and screen­writer Deepa Mehta at a cer­e­mo­ny Mon­day, Novem­ber 7 […]

October 31, 2011

Rotman Professor Receives grant from Sloan Foundation

TORONTO, ON — A pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment has received a $976,000 (US) grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foun­da­tion to study the eco­nom­ics of knowl­edge con­tri­bu­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion. Joshua Gans, who is a pro­fes­sor of strate­gic man­age­ment and the hold­er of the Jef­frey S. Skoll Chair of Tech­ni­cal […]

October 31, 2011

G20 Research Group briefing on G20 compliance

Toron­to – The G20 Research Group will hold a brief­ing on the find­ings of its 2010 Seoul G20 Sum­mit Final Com­pli­ance Report on Novem­ber 2, 2011, at the inter­na­tion­al media cen­tre in Cannes, France. Co-pro­­duced by the G20 Research Group based at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and the Inter­na­tion­al Organ­i­sa­tions Research Insti­tute at the Nation­al […]

October 31, 2011

U of T researchers revolutionize technology used in electronic screens

TORONTO, ON – Engi­neer­ing researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to have devel­oped the world’s most effi­cient organ­ic light-emit­t­ing diodes (OLEDs) on plas­tic. This result enables a flex­i­ble form fac­tor, not to men­tion a less cost­ly, alter­na­tive to tra­di­tion­al OLED man­u­fac­tur­ing, which cur­rent­ly relies on rigid glass. The results are report­ed online in the lat­est issue […]

October 27, 2011

New book challenges the local food movement

TORONTO, ON – Is the local food move­ment sus­tain­able? Is genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied food harm­ful to human health? Should devel­op­ing nations use agro-tech­nol­o­­gy? A time­ly new book by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Pro­fes­sor R. Paul Thomp­son tack­les these chal­leng­ing ques­tions. Inci­sive and provoca­tive, Agro-Tech­nol­o­­gy is an impor­tant guide to a con­tentious issue that has momen­tous impli­ca­tions on […]

October 27, 2011

Insects are scared to death of fish

TORONTO, ON –The mere pres­ence of a preda­tor caus­es enough stress to kill a drag­on­fly, even when the preda­tor can­not actu­al­ly get at its prey to eat it, say biol­o­gists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. “How prey respond to the fear of being eat­en is an impor­tant top­ic in ecol­o­gy, and we’ve learned a great […]

October 26, 2011

Ontario’s first lesbian and gay rights group to be honoured

TORONTO, ON – A sig­nif­i­cant moment in Cana­di­an queer his­to­ry will be com­mem­o­rat­ed next week with the unveil­ing of a plaque mark­ing the 1969 for­ma­tion of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Homophile Asso­ci­a­tion. The group was Ontario’s first to ral­ly around les­bian and gay rights, and one of the first in Cana­da to be shaped by […]

October 25, 2011

University of Toronto to open Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will offi­cial­ly open the Ter­rence Don­nel­ly Health Sci­ences Com­plex on Tues­day, Nov. 1, 2011, at 1 p.m. in a pavil­ion adjoin­ing the health sci­ences com­plex. The four-storey facil­i­ty includes the Mis­sis­sauga Acad­e­my of Med­i­cine, U of T’s inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned bio­med­ical com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­gram, research lab­o­ra­to­ries, lec­ture the­atres, med­ical teach­ing class­rooms and offices. […]

October 24, 2011

Moving people: responses to congestion

TORONTO, ON – The sec­ond lec­ture in a six-part series dis­sect­ing urban issues in Toron­to, host­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Cities Cen­tre, will focus on the city’s trans­porta­tion sit­u­a­tion.  The event will take place on Tues­day, Octo­ber 25, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at the John H. Daniels Fac­ul­ty of Archi­tec­ture, Land­scape, and Design, Uni­ver­si­ty […]

October 24, 2011

Harsh discipline fosters dishonesty in young children

TORONTO, ON – Young chil­dren exposed to a harsh­ly puni­tive school envi­ron­ment are more inclined to lie to con­ceal their mis­be­hav­iour than are chil­dren from non-puni­­tive schools, a study of three- and four-year-old West African chil­dren sug­gests. The study, pub­lished in the jour­nal Child Devel­op­ment, also indi­cates that chil­dren in a puni­tive envi­ron­ment are able […]

October 20, 2011

U of T named to top ten list of world’s best universities for arts and humanities

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is one of the ten best uni­ver­si­ties in the world for the arts and human­i­ties, accord­ing to a pres­ti­gious inter­na­tion­al rank­ing released today. In the lat­est result from the Times High­er Edu­ca­tion (THE), the Uni­ver­si­ty ranks 10th among the world’s top insti­tu­tions in the area of arts and […]

October 19, 2011

The myths of “ending demand” for prostitution: panel discussion

TORONTO, ON — Con­ser­v­a­tive MP Joy Smith’s pub­lic cam­paign to crim­i­nal­ize the pur­chase of sex­u­al ser­vices reflects a trou­bling glob­al cam­paign to “end demand” for pros­ti­tu­tion.  “End demand” cam­paigns are premised on an abso­lutist view of pros­ti­tu­tion as exploita­tion, where­in all sex work­ers are cast as vic­tims, and all clients as per­pe­tra­tors.  Media are invit­ed […]

October 19, 2011

New class has students cooking up literature

TORONTO, ON — Fourth-year Eng­lish stu­dents are tak­ing their appetite for lit­er­a­ture to a whole new lev­el with a course called Cook the Books. They are study­ing lit­er­a­ture that observes and cel­e­brates food and then cook­ing dish­es inspired by their read­ings in the Hart House kitchen. Pro­fes­sor Andrea Most paired up with Josh­na Maharaj, a […]