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September 29, 2011

U of T launches India Innovation Institute

TORONTO, ON – David Nay­lor, Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, launch­es the India Inno­va­tion Insti­tute. A joint ini­tia­tive of the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs and the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment, the India Inno­va­tion Insti­tute will be a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary hub for fac­ul­ty and stu­dents research­ing the field of inno­va­tion. Preeti Saran, Con­sul Gen­er­al of […]

September 29, 2011

U of T community build giant human ribbon

TORONTO, ON – In recog­ni­tion of Nation­al Men­tal Ill­ness Week, U of T stu­dents, staff and fac­ul­ty are tak­ing part in cre­at­ing a human green rib­bon to raise aware­ness of men­tal ill­ness. The event, UniTe Against Stig­ma: help build the human rib­bon, will take place on Tues­day, Octo­ber 4, 2011 at 12p.m. at King’s Col­lege […]

September 29, 2011

How far is near

TORONTO, ON — A peren­ni­al crowd favorite, the Justi­na M. Bar­nicke Gallery is once again proud to present a slate of pro­gram­ming for the City of Toronto’s annu­al all night con­tem­po­rary art fes­ti­val, Sco­tia­bank Nuit Blanche. This year’s high­lights include a new­ly com­mis­sioned Farm­ers Mar­ket 2050, a new bar-chi­tec­­tur­al instal­la­tion by Dean Bald­win, a film […]

September 29, 2011

Internet archive reaches 3 million items with rare Galileo texts from the U of T libraries

TORONTO, ON – Galileo’s Dial­o­go de Cec­co di Ron­chit­ti … de la Stel­la Nuo­va and Con­sid­er­azioni … spo­ra Alcu­ni Luoghi de Dis­cor­so di Lodovi­co delle Colombe – two pam­phlets from a vol­ume of fif­teen trea­tis­es on comets pub­lished from 1575 to 1606, togeth­er rep­re­sent the 3 mil­lionth text to be dig­i­tized and made freely avail­able […]

September 28, 2011

New appointments strengthen faculty at UofT’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – A total of twelve appoint­ments have been made to the fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment for the 2011/12 aca­d­e­m­ic year. Appoint­ments have been made in the areas of strate­gic man­age­ment, mar­ket­ing, account­ing, orga­ni­za­tion­al behav­iour and human resources, and finance. “These appoint­ments will strength­en our teach­ing capa­bil­i­ties in […]

September 28, 2011

Chemical Engineering presents Lectures at the Leading Edge

TORONTO, ON — On Wednes­day, Octo­ber 5, 2011, the Depart­ment of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing and Applied Chem­istry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will kick off its 18 part Lec­tures at the Lead­ing Edge series. As you might have guessed from the title, the idea for the series is to high­light ground­break­ing research and inspire fresh dis­cus­sion. […]

September 28, 2011

Wanna save? Keep it simple, says Rotman paper.

TORONTO, ON – If one sav­ings goal is a good thing, two or more should be great, right? Not real­ly. Those who want to save are more apt to keep sock­ing mon­ey away and more of it too, if they have just one goal in mind, shows work done in mul­ti­ple coun­tries by two researchers […]

September 28, 2011

Hundreds gather for tenth edition of Canada’s largest student auto race

TORONTO, ON — Over 400 of North Amer­i­ca’s top engi­neer­ing stu­dents will be gath­er­ing to com­pete at Canada’s largest stu­­dent-run auto rac­ing event — The U of T Shootout. Estab­lished in 2001 by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to For­mu­la SAE Rac­ing Team, the U of T Shootout attracts 21 For­mu­la SAE teams for a full day […]

September 23, 2011

McLuhan Thinkers Converge in Toronto

TORONTO, ON — The leg­endary media the­o­rist Mar­shall McLuhan will be cel­e­brat­ed in Toron­to at the most sig­nif­i­cant gath­er­ing of McLuhan thinkers and cre­ators ever assem­bled. Then I Now I Next: Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence and DEW Line Fes­ti­val runs from Novem­ber 7 to Novem­ber 10. Reg­is­tra­tion is now open. The con­fer­ence and fes­ti­val is the cen­tre­piece […]

September 23, 2011

Nature offers key lessons on harvesting solar power, says U of T chemistry professor

TORONTO, ON — Clean solu­tions to human ener­gy demands are essen­tial to our future. While sun­light is the most abun­dant source of ener­gy at our dis­pos­al, we have yet to learn how to cap­ture, trans­fer and store solar ener­gy effi­cient­ly.  Accord­ing to Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to chem­istry pro­fes­sor Greg Scholes, the answers can be found in […]

September 21, 2011

Symposium celebrates 50 years of industrial engineering in Canada

TORONTO, ON — Alum­ni, fac­ul­ty and cur­rent stu­dents will gath­er togeth­er on Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 24, 2011 to cel­e­brate the 50th anniver­sary of Canada’s old­est indus­tri­al engi­neer­ing pro­gram, which was estab­lished at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to in 1961. In a series of dis­cus­sions, pan­elists will talk about the impact of indus­tri­al engi­neer­ing on a num­ber of […]

September 19, 2011

University of Toronto partners with community museum to provide hands-on learning for students

TORONTO, ON –Doc­u­ment­ing local Abo­rig­i­nal set­tle­ment his­to­ry, design­ing exhibits and archiv­ing arte­facts are just some of the hands-on learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties that stu­dents in the Fac­ul­ty of Information’s Mas­ters of Muse­um Stud­ies pro­gram will expe­ri­ence this aca­d­e­m­ic year under a new part­ner­ship between the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and a com­mu­ni­ty muse­um in east-end Toron­to. The Cab­bage­town […]

September 19, 2011

Vote compass launches in Ontario

TORONTO, ON — Start­ing today, peo­ple will be able to log onto Vote Com­pass to find out how their views com­pare with those of the polit­i­cal par­ties in the upcom­ing provin­cial elec­tion. Vote Com­pass invites users to respond to a series of ques­tions on polit­i­cal issues and pro­vides a per­son­al assess­ment in which their respons­es […]

September 19, 2011

U of T‑led research improves performance of next-generation solar cell technology

TORONTO, ON – Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (U of T), King Abdul­lah Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence & Tech­nol­o­gy (KAUST) and Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty (Penn State) have cre­at­ed the most effi­cient col­loidal quan­tum dot (CQD) solar cell ever. The dis­cov­ery is report­ed in the lat­est issue of Nature Mate­ri­als. Quan­tum dots are nanoscale semi­con­duc­tors that […]

September 15, 2011

Law in Action Within Schools’ newest partner, Osgoode Hall Law School, allows program to expand to three more high schools

TORONTO, ON – Law in Action With­in Schools, an inno­v­a­tive law and jus­tice-themed edu­ca­tion and men­tor­ing pro­gram, will announce a new part­ner­ship with York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School on Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011, that allows LAWS to expand its ini­tia­tive to include three addi­tion­al high schools in low-income Toron­to neigh­bour­hoods. LAWS’ pro­gram­ming will expand to […]

September 15, 2011

University of Toronto ranked third among schools outside U.S.A.

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is one of the top three schools in the world out­side the Unit­ed States – behind only the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge and Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford – in one of the lat­est releas­es of the 2011 rank­ings sea­son. The Newsweek Col­lege Rank­ings Report 2011 includes four Cana­di­an uni­ver­si­ties among […]

September 15, 2011

Researchers discover a switch that controls stem cell pluripotency

TORONTO, ON — Sci­en­tists have found a con­trol switch that reg­u­lates stem cell “pluripo­ten­cy,” the capac­i­ty of stem cells to devel­op into any type of cell in the human body. The dis­cov­ery reveals that pluripo­ten­cy is reg­u­lat­ed by a sin­gle event in a process called alter­na­tive splic­ing. Alter­na­tive splic­ing allows one gene to gen­er­ate many […]

September 14, 2011

John A. Tory Fellowship established at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – A fel­low­ship in mem­o­ry of John A. Tory has been estab­lished at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment with an $180,000 com­mit­ment from Thom­son Reuters. The annu­al fel­low­ship will pro­vide a $40,000 award to a Full-Time MBA stu­dent. The recip­i­ent will also have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to par­tic­i­pate in a com­pet­i­tive […]

September 14, 2011

Press Conference: Toronto Waterfront

TORONTO WATERFRONT The Cities Cen­tre at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a large num­ber of groups and indi­vid­u­als in city plan­ning, archi­tec­ture, design and relat­ed fields will release an open let­ter to City Coun­cil­lors to urge rejec­tion of the pro­pos­al sup­port­ed by the May­or regard­ing the Port Lands. Thurs­day (tomor­row), Sep­tem­ber 15, 2011 […]

September 14, 2011

U of T to give awards for sexual diversity promotion

TORONTO, ON — The Mark S. Bon­ham Cen­tre for Sex­u­al Diver­si­ty Stud­ies, locat­ed at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, is pleased to announce the recip­i­ents of its 2011 Bon­ham Cen­tre Awards: Lin­da Schuyler, co-cre­a­tor and pro­duc­er of the Degras­si tele­vi­sion series, and Dustin Lance Black, Acad­e­my Award-win­n­ing screen­writer for the 2008 movie Milk. The awards […]