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November 1, 2010

UTSC research gives new insight into prehistoric mammal

TORONTO, ON – A Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough (UTSC) researcher, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with sci­en­tists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da, has pre­sent­ed new evi­dence of the evo­lu­tion­ary path of a 55-mil­lion-year-old North Amer­i­can mam­mal, sug­gest­ing  that it shares a com­mon ances­tor with rodents, rab­bits and pri­mates, includ­ing humans. The study describes in detail the cra­nial anato­my […]

November 1, 2010

Faculty of Law launches development of Canada’s first commercial code and tribunal for Indigenous peoples and their businesses

TORONTO, ON — Com­mer­cial law is a vital and cen­tral com­po­nent of gov­er­nance in any com­mu­ni­ty and Indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties are no excep­tion. But the role of com­mer­cial law in gov­er­nance and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment is often over­looked as a means of assert­ing juris­dic­tion and devel­op­ing com­mer­cial enter­pris­es.  The Fac­ul­ty of Law is excit­ed to announce its […]

October 28, 2010

Hot off the Press — The G20 Seoul Summit 2010: Shared growth beyond crisis

TORONTO, ON — The G20 Research Group is proud to announce the release of “The G20 Seoul Sum­mit 2010: Shared Growth Beyond Cri­sis,” its lat­est spe­cial pub­li­ca­tion ded­i­cat­ed to the G20 sum­mit pub­lished by News­desk Media. This issue con­tains arti­cles by the Seoul Summit’s host, Kore­an pres­i­dent Lee Myung-bak, as well as past host Stephen […]

October 27, 2010

U of T expert to document The Rally to Restore Sanity

TORONTO, ON – Is polit­i­cal satire hurt­ing Amer­i­can pol­i­tics? Turn­ing view­ers into cyn­i­cal “slack­tivists”? And will Jon Stewart’s call for “more san­i­ty” and “less shout­ing” trans­late into a polit­i­cal mes­sage? UofT Pro­fes­sor and polit­i­cal satire expert Megan Bol­er hopes to answer these ques­tions when she trav­els to Wash­ing­ton to inter­view Jon Stew­art and Stephen Col­bert […]

October 26, 2010

The human side of war

TORONTO, ON – In hon­our of Remem­brance Day, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Book­store will hon­our the stu­dents, staff and fac­ul­ty who were part of WWI and WWII by fea­tur­ing four well known Cana­di­an mil­i­tary authors, Thurs­day, Novem­ber 4 at 7:00 p.m. The event’s promi­nent Mil­i­tary Authors and His­to­ri­ans will read from their books, sign auto­graphs and […]

October 26, 2010

U of T program helps Brazilian nurses identify ways to improve primary health care

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Lawrence S. Bloomberg Fac­ul­ty of Nurs­ing is wel­com­ing a del­e­ga­tion of nurs­es, nurs­ing pro­fes­sors and health­care offi­cials from Brazil this week to share knowl­edge about pri­ma­ry health care. The vis­it by the high-lev­­el del­e­ga­tion is a result of a unique pro­gram that U of T’s Fac­ul­ty of Nurs­ing […]

October 22, 2010

In conversation with Brian Stewart: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Christopher Hedges.

TORONTO, ON — IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN STEWART: Pulitzer Prize win­ning jour­nal­ist Christo­pher Hedges. What: Join senior Cana­di­an for­eign affairs jour­nal­ist and Munk School Dis­tin­guished Senior Fel­low Bri­an Stew­art in con­ver­sa­tion with Christo­pher Hedges, Pulitzer Prize win­ning jour­nal­ist and Dis­tin­guished Vis­i­tor in the Cen­tre for the Study of the Unit­ed States, on top­ics rang­ing from […]

October 22, 2010

From Toronto to Seoul and beyond — A pre G‑20 conference in Seoul on October 25, 2010

TORONTO, ON — The G20 Research Group, with its part­ners the Korea Cap­i­tal Mar­ket Insti­tute and Kore­a’s largest news­pa­per, Chosun Ilbo, are pleased to present its first pre-G20 sum­mit aca­d­e­m­ic con­fer­ence. The con­fer­ence will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul on Mon­day, Octo­ber 25, and will be web­cast live, begin­ning at 9:00 […]

October 21, 2010

UTSC professors leads amazing geologic journey around the world

TORONTO, ON — Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough pro­fes­sor Nick Eyles leads CBC’s award-win­n­ing doc­u­men­tary pro­gram The Nature of Things with David Suzu­ki on an unfor­get­table jour­ney.  Begin­ning Thurs­day, Octo­ber 21, on CBC-TV at 8 pm, The Nature of Things presents GEOLOGIC JOURNEY II, a five-part series on world geol­o­gy host­ed by Dr. Nick Eyles. To […]

October 19, 2010

Passage, directed by John Walker

TORONTO, ON – A film screen­ing of Pas­sage, a doc­u­men­tary by John Walk­er, will take place at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 28.  The screen­ing will be fol­lowed by a round­table dis­cus­sion fea­tur­ing the film’s direc­tor, John Walk­er; Prof. Dar­rell Var­ga, Con­tem­po­rary Film & Media Stud­ies, Nova Sco­tia Col­lege of Art and Design; […]

October 14, 2010

Norman Jewison Stream for imagination and the arts created at Victoria University

TORONTO, ON — Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty, in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, announced today the cre­ation of the Nor­man Jew­i­son Stream for Imag­i­na­tion and the Arts, a new stream of study in the unique Vic One pro­gram for first-year uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents at U of T. The stream is made pos­si­ble through the gen­er­ous gift of $1 mil­lion […]

October 14, 2010

University of Toronto biologists identify influence of environment on sexual vs. asexual reproduction

TORONTO, ON – Evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (U of T) have found that envi­ron­ment plays a key role in deter­min­ing whether a species opts for sex­u­al over asex­u­al repro­duc­tion. The study, led by post-doc­­tor­al stu­dent Lutz Becks and Pro­fes­sor Aneil Agraw­al of the Depart­ment of Ecol­o­gy & Evo­lu­tion­ary Biol­o­gy, found that species […]

October 8, 2010

Combating bribery in international business transactions

TORONTO, ON — Brib­ing for­eign pub­lic offi­cials is a seri­ous crime with seri­ous con­se­quences. For­eign bribery dis­torts com­pet­i­tive mar­kets and stands in the way of good gov­er­nance and sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment. Since the Orga­ni­za­tion for Eco­nom­ic Coop­er­a­tion and Development’s Con­ven­tion on Com­bat­ing Bribery of For­eign Pub­lic Offi­cials in Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Trans­ac­tions entered into force in […]

October 7, 2010

Munk School announces appointment of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Director

TORONTO, ON – Today, Jan­ice Stein, Direc­tor of the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs (Munk School) announced the appoint­ment of Pro­fes­sor Ron Deib­ert as the Direc­tor of the Cana­da Cen­tre for Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies (Cana­da Cen­tre). Deib­ert pre­vi­ous­ly served as the Direc­tor of the Cit­i­zen Lab, an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary lab­o­ra­to­ry based at the Munk School focus­ing on […]

October 7, 2010

OACP/Rotman Leadership Program celebrates 10 years of training for police executives

TORONTO, ON – This year marks the 10th anniver­sary and eleventh offer­ing of the Police Lead­er­ship Pro­gram (PLP) – an MBA-style pro­gram deliv­ered at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. This group of senior police lead­ers from across the province will grad­u­ate on Octo­ber 9 and join the over 180 alum­ni who have […]

October 6, 2010

Journal from Rotman International Centre for Pension Management examines rethinking pension design and management in a post-financial crisis world

TORONTO, ON — With the effects of the recent glob­al finan­cial cri­sis still lin­ger­ing, the Fall 2010 issue of the Rot­man Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Pen­sion Man­age­ment takes a look at rethink­ing pen­sion design and man­age­ment with ten new arti­cles from pen­sion prac­ti­tion­ers and aca­d­e­mics. The jour­nal is pub­lished by the Rot­man Inter­na­tion­al Cen­tre for Pen­sion […]

October 1, 2010

New Associate Dean appointed at UofT’s Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, ON – A senior pro­fes­sor at the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has been appoint­ed to the new­ly cre­at­ed posi­tion of Asso­ciate Dean, Research. Ani­ta McGa­han, who holds the Rot­man Chair in Man­age­ment and is cross appoint­ed to the UofT’s Munk School of Pub­lic Affairs, took over the posi­tion on […]

September 28, 2010

Quantum dot spin-out from U of T wins Wall Street Journal Innovation Award

TORONTO, ON – A new tech­nol­o­gy invent­ed by U of T Pro­fes­sor Ted Sar­gent that allows dig­i­tal cam­eras to bet­ter cap­ture light has won the Wall Street Journal’s 2010 Tech­nol­o­gy Inno­va­tion Awards in the Semi­con­duc­tor cat­e­go­ry. The win­ning prod­uct is called Quan­tum­Film and was devel­oped by InVis­age Tech­nolo­gies Inc., a com­pa­ny found­ed by Pro­fes­sor Sar­gent […]

September 28, 2010

Rotman School Partners with Singapore Polytechnic to launch DesignWorks Singapore

Singapore/Toronto — The birth of Design­Works Sin­ga­pore at Sin­ga­pore Poly­tech­nic (SP) has opened up a new avenue for busi­ness enter­pris­es, sec­tor asso­ci­a­tions, and gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tions in Sin­ga­pore to iden­ti­fy oppor­tu­ni­ties for growth and inno­va­tion. Part­ner­ing with Rot­man Design­Works, which is part of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment, SP aims to be the […]

September 28, 2010

Quantum dot spin-out from UofT wins Wall Street Journal Innovation Award

TORONTO, ON – A new tech­nol­o­gy invent­ed by U of T Pro­fes­sor Ted Sar­gent that allows dig­i­tal cam­eras to bet­ter cap­ture light has won the Wall Street Journal’s 2010 Tech­nol­o­gy Inno­va­tion Awards in the Semi­con­duc­tor cat­e­go­ry. The win­ning prod­uct is called Quan­tum­Film and was devel­oped by InVis­age Tech­nolo­gies Inc., a com­pa­ny found­ed by Pro­fes­sor Sar­gent […]