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January 17, 2011

Significant amounts of strenuous activity before menopause may lead to poorer cognitive performance, finds University of Toronto researcher

TORONTO, ON — The amount and inten­si­ty of exer­cise that a woman engages in dur­ing her life­time could affect her men­tal acu­ity lat­er in life, accord­ing to a U of T fam­i­ly med­i­cine researcher. Dr. Mary Tier­ney, a Pro­fes­sor and Research Schol­ar in the Depart­ment of Fam­i­ly and Com­mu­ni­ty Med­i­cine and Direc­tor of the Geri­atric […]

January 17, 2011

Munk School and Gordon Foundation to release global poll on Arctic security

TORONTO, ON – The Cana­da Cen­tre for Glob­al Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs and the Wal­ter and Dun­can Gor­don Foun­da­tion will be releas­ing their pub­lic opin­ion research on Arc­tic secu­ri­ty at the first annu­al Arc­tic Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence on Jan­u­ary 25. The first of its kind pub­lic opin­ion research includes polling on […]

January 12, 2011

U of T professor talks about the necessity of virtue in televised lecture on TVO’s “Big Ideas”

TORONTO, ON – A lec­ture enti­tled “The Neces­si­ty of Virtue” by behav­ioral expert Pro­fes­sor Jor­dan Peter­son of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will be aired on TVO’s “Big Ideas” pro­gram this Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. Virtue and ethics is not a field of study; it is a mode of being upon which all fields of study – […]

January 12, 2011

U of T students finalists in national entrepreneurship program

TORONTO, ON – Nine Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to stu­dents have been cho­sen as final­ists in a unique nation­al pro­gram that aims to trans­form Canada’s most promis­ing under­grad­u­ate stu­dents into high-impact entre­pre­neurs. The Next 36 – which is a cross between The Rhodes Schol­ar­ship and Y‑Combinator – aims to increase Cana­di­an pros­per­i­ty through entre­pre­neur­ship. More than 1,300 […]

January 11, 2011

University of Toronto astronomers among those announcing first scientific results of Planck satellite mission

Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to astronomers are in Paris this week part of an inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence announc­ing the first sci­en­tif­ic results of the Plank space tele­scope mis­sion. Launched in May 2009, the tele­scope has near­ly com­plet­ed three of its four planned sur­veys of the entire sky, pro­vid­ing astronomers a glimpse of con­di­tions near the begin­ning of the […]

January 10, 2011

Muslim and Christian students challenge MPs to address UN Millennium Development Goals

TORONTO, ON – Mus­lim, Chris­t­ian and Jew­ish stu­dents will call on Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment to step up Canada’s com­mit­ment to the Unit­ed Nations Mil­len­ni­um Devel­op­ment Goals at a din­ner on Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 11, 2010. Reach­ing across reli­gious dif­fer­ences, stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to demon­strate that reli­gions can work togeth­er for good as they address […]

December 21, 2010

UTSC announces design for major new artwork on campus

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough (UTSC) is proud to announce artists Daniel Young and Chris­t­ian Giroux have been select­ed to pro­duce an orig­i­nal pub­lic art work for the atri­um of the new Instruc­tion­al Cen­tre on cam­pus. Con­struct­ed of pow­der-coat­ed steel tub­ing, Young and Giroux’s win­ning pro­pos­al presents a series of lines form­ing […]

December 15, 2010

University of Toronto computer scientist awarded Steacie Prize

TORONTO, ON – Aaron Hertz­mann, a pro­fes­sor at the Depart­ment of Com­put­er Sci­ence, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, has been award­ed the 2010 Stea­cie Prize for Nat­ur­al Sci­ences – the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year that a U of T pro­fes­sor has received the pres­ti­gious award that rec­og­nizes out­stand­ing research car­ried out in Cana­da. Hertz­mann is only the sec­ond […]

December 14, 2010

Revealed: Our Decade Dozen—the top 12 alumni to watch

TORONTO, ON — The Fac­ul­ty of Law’s Nexus mag­a­zine is excit­ed to final­ly reveal its Decade Dozen list, an out­stand­ing group of the Top 12 alum­ni to watch over the next 10 years. Con­grat­u­la­tions to: •    Sachin Aggar­w­al, JD/MBA 2004, “Strate­gist with a smile” •    Rob Cen­ta, LLB 1999, “Lit­i­ga­tor extra­or­di­naire” •    Steven Elliott, JD […]

December 13, 2010

Report on Toronto neighbourhoods to be released

TORONTO, ON – Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Cities Cen­tre and St. Christo­pher House are hold­ing a news con­fer­ence at 9:30 a.m. on Wednes­day, Decem­ber 15, to dis­cuss key find­ings from a new report on Toron­to neigh­bour­hoods, and to answer ques­tions from the media. The news con­fer­ence will be held at the Fac­­tor-Inwen­­tash Fac­ul­ty […]

December 10, 2010

Secret to flying fish wings revealed

TORONTO, ON  – A grad­u­ate stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough (UTSC), has pro­vid­ed the most defin­i­tive answer yet to the curi­ous ques­tion, “How did fly­ing fish get their wings?” Eric Lewallen, a PhD stu­dent in ecol­o­gy and evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough (UTSC), is the lead author on the first […]

December 7, 2010

New song about evolution, from the world’s sexiest birds

TORONTO, ON – While the trop­ics are home to the vast major­i­ty of plant and ani­mal species on Earth, new research on song­birds sug­gests evo­lu­tion actu­al­ly hap­pens faster in places that are locat­ed far away from the equa­tor. Jason Weir, assis­tant pro­fes­sor of evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough (UTSC), mea­sured the dif­fer­ences […]

December 6, 2010

U of T‑hosted project to develop regenerative medicine products is awarded $15 million from the federal government

TORONTO, ON – A Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­­to-host­ed project to devel­op prod­ucts to treat dev­as­tat­ing health con­di­tions such as heart dis­ease, dia­betes, can­cer and spinal cord injuries has been award­ed $15 mil­lion by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. The Cen­tre for Com­mer­cial­iza­tion of Regen­er­a­tive Med­i­cine (CCRM) was one of four projects approved by the fed­er­al government’s Net­works of […]

December 3, 2010

Dr. Eric Jackman donates $5 million to U of T Institute of Child Study

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has announced that Dr. Eric Jack­man has donat­ed $5 mil­lion to the Insti­tute of Child Study – a land­mark gift in Cana­da for ear­ly devel­op­ment and child­hood edu­ca­tion. In recog­ni­tion of the gift, U of T has renamed the 85-year-old Insti­tute of Child Study (ICS) the Dr. Eric […]

December 2, 2010

University of Toronto physicists create supernova in a jar

TORONTO, ON — A team of physi­cists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty have mim­ic­ked the explo­sion of a super­no­va in minia­ture. A super­no­va is an explod­ing star.  In a cer­tain type of super­no­va, the det­o­na­tion starts with a flame ball buried deep inside a white dwarf.  The flame ball is much lighter […]

December 2, 2010

U of T researcher discovers a way to zip away chronic pain

TORONTO, ON — Research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to sug­gests that a pep­tide inhibitor called ZIP could be cru­cial in zip­ping away some kinds of chron­ic pain. The new research, led by Prof. Min Zhuo of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Depart­ment of Phys­i­ol­o­gy and pub­lished under the title “Alle­vi­at­ing Neu­ro­path­ic Pain Hyper­sen­si­tiv­i­ty by Inhibit­ing PKMζ […]

November 30, 2010

Psychologists make link between profitability of law firms and college yearbook photos of managing partners

TORONTO, ON – Psy­chol­o­gists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty have shown that law firms are more prof­itable when led by man­ag­ing part­ners with pow­er­ful look­ing faces.  Fur­ther, an individual’s career suc­cess can be pre­dict­ed as much as 30 to 40 years ear­li­er sim­ply by look­ing at their face. “Appear­ance mat­ters a great […]

November 29, 2010

Rotman School hosts Women in Management MBA open house

TORONTO, ON – From the class­room to the board­room, the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to sup­ports women in their efforts to advance and be suc­cess­ful in their careers. On Decem­ber 2, the school will be host­ing the annu­al Rot­man Women in Man­age­ment Open House which allows prospec­tive female can­di­dates for the […]

November 26, 2010

Holcim Canada, University of Toronto and the Ministry of Transportation complete first field application of Portland limestone cement

TORONTO, ON – In an effort to pro­mote inno­v­a­tive and sus­tain­able con­struc­tion solu­tions the Min­istry of Trans­porta­tion of Ontario (MTO), the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (U of T) and Hol­cim (Cana­da) Inc. recent­ly part­nered to per­form the first pub­lic agency tri­al of a con­crete pave­ment sec­tion using a new class of cement called Port­­land-lime­­s­tone cement (PLC). […]

November 25, 2010

U of T research shows workplace relationships are challenging for nurses working in prisons

TORONTO, ON — Health care needs ver­sus secu­ri­ty demands: What takes pri­or­i­ty?  Bal­anc­ing secu­ri­ty needs and health care ser­vices may not be the going con­cern of your aver­age nurse, but the role of the cor­rec­tion­al nurse is any­thing but aver­age. Health care in provin­cial cor­rec­tion­al insti­tu­tions is a unique com­bi­na­tion of all types of nurs­ing. […]