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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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]