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Rotman MBAs reach finals of international business competition in singapore
TORONTO, ON — For the second consecutive year a team of MBA students from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management made it to the finals of the Cerebration business competition organized by NUS Business School in Singapore. While the team of Zeeshaan Mustafa, MBA’12, and Nina Krook, MBA’13 didn’t win it all, they […]
International experts in Toronto as first Marshall McLuhan Centenary Visiting Fellows
TORONTO, ON — The Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, is pleased to announce five media, communications and technology experts as the first McLuhan Centenary Visiting Fellows with the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, signifying a revitalization of the previously unpaid Fellowship program. Awarded $10,000 each, the newly appointed Fellows will spend up to […]
World-renowned chemist speaks at U of T about ground-breaking renewable energy discovery
TORONTO, ON – Daniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will be visiting the University of Toronto on Tuesday, October 18 to speak about the exciting discovery in his lab of a practical way of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, […]
Seed time-capsule will aid study of plant evolution amid environmental change
TORONTO, ON – Everything that scientists can ever know about long-gone creatures is what they can deduce from fossils. But what if they could resurrect actual specimens and compare their features with their modern-day descendants? That’s a notion that has University of Toronto biologists helping to create a seed bank that will let future researchers […]
New course engages students in citizenship and connects them to Toronto
TORONTO, ON – Citizenship in the Canadian City – a stream in University College’s new UC One program – aims to connect first-year students to the Toronto community. Led by Emily Gilbert of the college’s Canadian Studies program, the stream will include guest faculty lecturers, tours around the city and discussion on issues facing Toronto. […]
What’s going on in the Cloud?
TORONTO, ON — The increasing popularity of storing large amounts of data in a virtualized “cloud” environment raises important and potentially new law and policy issues in such areas as jurisdiction, privacy and security, competition law, data portability and consumer protection, intellectual property, and law enforcement. Media are invited to attend the Cloudlaw: Law & […]
Bicycle built by University of Toronto engineering students reaches 117 km/h
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team placed third overall at the 2011 World Human-Powered Speed Challenge, held in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The competition took place from September 12 to 17 on a flat and almost perfectly straight eight kilometre stretch of highway in the Nevada desert. The U of T team […]
Examining Canadian refugee policy in a global context
TORONTO, ON – As the national debate over a new and more aggressive refugee policy intensifies, the University of Toronto will bring together a panel of international experts to examine Canadian refugee policy in a global context. The panel discussion – co-hosted by the Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at U of […]
Astronomers find bounty of failed stars
TORONTO, ON – A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has discovered over two dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs, including a lightweight youngster only about six times heftier than Jupiter, that reside in two young star clusters. What’s more, one cluster contains a surprising surplus of them, harbouring half as many of these astronomical oddballs […]
Fall market jitters a SAD thing, suggests paper from Rotman School of Management
Toronto, ON – It’s no surprise to researcher Lisa Kramer that financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall. Her most recent study, forthcoming in Social Psychological and Personality Science, shows that people who experience seasonal depression shun financial risk-taking during seasons with diminished daylight but are more willing to accept risk in […]
Ceremony to celebrate Marshall McLuhan’s historical significance
TORONTO, ON – The national historical significance of Marshall McLuhan will be celebrated this week with the unveiling of a plaque at a ceremony in Toronto on Friday, October 14, 2011. The event will be presided over by: The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada; The Honourable Joe Oliver, […]
New major report tracks challenges of a censored Internet for global broadcasters
TORONTO, ON — An international research team, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, has released a detailed report that tracks and analyzes the difficulties of broadcasting the news into jurisdictions that censor the Internet, including Iran and China. The report, entitled Casting a Wider Net: Lessons Learned in Delivering BBC […]
U of T Canada’s leading university in major global ranking
TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto’s academic and research performance ranks among the best in the world – and is the best in Canada – in a prestigious international ranking released this week. The Times Higher Education (THE) report rated the University 19th overall in its rankings, which measure the institutional excellence of the […]
Collectivism and bribery
TORONTO, ON — Why are some places more prone to bribery and corruption than others? Part of the answer seems to be the level of collective feeling in a society, according to research by Pankaj Aggarwal, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) professor of marketing in the Department of Management, and Nina Mazar, University of Toronto […]
Zinc’s role in the brain
TORONTO, ON — Zinc plays a critical role in regulating how neurons communicate with one another, and could affect how memories form and how we learn. The new research, in the current issue of Neuron, was authored by Xiao-an Zhang, now a chemistry professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), and colleagues at MIT […]
Rotman faculty among business gurus shortlisted for Global Management Awards
TORONTO, ON — The Thinkers50, a ranking of global business thinkers, today announced the shortlisted nominees for this year’s awards. Two members of the faculty at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto are nominated. Dean Roger Martin is up for two awards in the categories of “Breakthrough Idea” for his development […]
University of Toronto launches India Innovation Institute
TORONTO ON – The study of innovation takes a global step forward today with the launch of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto – a joint venture of the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Rotman School of Management. “The India Innovation Institute is designed to be a hub for researchers […]
Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss occurred last winter:
TORONTO, ON – A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of the Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring that was caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. University of Toronto physicist Kaley Walker was part of the international team behind the study to […]
Herbivore populations will go down as temperatures go up, U of T study says
TORONTO, ON – As climate change causes temperatures to rise, the number of herbivores will decrease, affecting the human food supply, according to new research from the University of Toronto. In a paper being published this month in American Naturalist, a team of ecologists describe how differences in the general responses of plants and herbivores […]
Is Toronto broke?
TORONTO, ON – As the first event in a six-part series dissecting urban issues in Toronto, the University of Toronto’s Cities Centre will host a discussion on the city’s financial situation on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College […]