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June 8, 2010

Philosopher Ian Hacking to receive honorary degree

TORONTO, ON. – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will award Ian Hack­ing, world-renowned philoso­pher and win­ner of sev­er­al pres­ti­gious nation­al and inter­na­tion­al prizes, on Mon­day, June 14, 2010, at 10 a.m. with an hon­orary doc­tor of laws degree in recog­ni­tion of his ground­break­ing schol­ar­ly con­tri­bu­tions to phi­los­o­phy, and to the human­i­ties, sci­ences, and social sci­ences more […]

June 8, 2010

Charles Pachter to receive honorary degree at U of T

TORONTO, ON. – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will hon­our Charles Pachter, one of Canada’s most dis­tin­guished and inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized con­tem­po­rary artists, on Mon­day, June 14 at 2:30 p.m. with an hon­orary doc­tor of laws degree in recog­ni­tion of his out­stand­ing artis­tic achieve­ments and his con­tri­bu­tions to our under­stand­ing of mod­ern Cana­da. Pachter, a painter, print­mak­er, […]

June 7, 2010

UofT welcomes Indian students for research internships

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is host­ing 22 of the sharpest young sci­en­tif­ic minds from India this sum­mer and intro­duc­ing them to lead­ing Cana­di­an researchers and their lab­o­ra­to­ries, ide­al­ly entic­ing them to pur­sue future grad­u­ate stud­ies and oppor­tu­ni­ties to work in Cana­da.  Through the MITACS Glob­alink pro­gram, the stu­dents will be host­ed on […]

June 7, 2010

Atrophysicist Sott Temaine to receive honorary degree

TORONTO, ON. – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will award renowned astro­physi­cist Scott Tremaine on Fri­day, June 11, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. with an hon­orary doc­tor of sci­ence degree in recog­ni­tion of his schol­ar­ly con­tri­bu­tions to the field of astro­physics, and his admin­is­tra­tive lead­er­ship in sup­port of Cana­di­an and inter­na­tion­al sci­ence. In 1985, the Uni­ver­si­ty of […]

June 7, 2010

Richard Alway to receive honorary degree at U of T

TORONTO, ON. – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will hon­our Dr. Richard Alway, for­mer Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty St. Michael’s Col­lege at U of T, on Thurs­day, June 10 at 2:30 p.m. with an with an hon­orary doc­tor of laws degree in recog­ni­tion of his dis­tin­guished ser­vice to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to and his excep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tions […]

June 6, 2010

Mary Anne Chambers to receive honorary degree at U of T

TORONTO, ON. – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will hon­our Mary Anne Cham­bers, a for­mer Ontario cab­i­net min­is­ter and out­stand­ing vol­un­teer, on Wednes­day, June 9 at 2:00 p.m. with an hon­orary doc­tor of laws degree in recog­ni­tion of her exem­plary roles in pub­lic and com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice. An alum­na of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough, Cham­bers was […]

June 2, 2010

UofT has answers to the world’s G8/G20 questions

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to has a host of experts avail­able to pro­vide informed analy­sis of the issues being dis­cussed at the upcom­ing G8 and G20 Sum­mits. UofT’s Munk School of Glob­al Affairs is a world leader in research and analy­sis in the areas of glob­al secu­ri­ty, the glob­al finan­cial sys­tem and glob­al […]

June 2, 2010

Mayor Hazel McCallion to receive honorary degree

TORONTO, ON. – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will hon­our May­or Hazel McCal­lion, Mississauga’s longest serv­ing May­or, on Mon­day, June 7, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. with an hon­orary doc­tor of laws in recog­ni­tion of her remark­able con­tri­bu­tions to pub­lic life. Hazel McCal­lion was first elect­ed May­or of Mis­sis­sauga in Novem­ber 1978, and has served as May­or […]

June 1, 2010

Reform Party founder Preston Manning to receive honorary degree

TORONTO, ON. – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will award renowned Cana­di­an politi­cian Pre­ston Man­ning on Thurs­day, June 3, 2010 at 10 a.m. with an hon­orary doc­tor of laws degree in recog­ni­tion of his con­tri­bu­tions to pol­i­tics and pub­lic pol­i­cy in Cana­da as well as his advo­ca­cy for sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, and inno­va­tion. Pre­ston Man­ning served as […]

May 31, 2010

LAWS program advances at-risk students to the ‘head of the class’

TORONTO, ON — A men­tor­ship pro­gram match­ing Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to law stu­dents with mar­gin­al­ized teens in down­town Toron­to high schools cel­e­brates five years of suc­cess­ful­ly improv­ing the school atten­dance, grades, engage­ment and future out­look of its par­tic­i­pants. The Law in Action With­in Schools is a part­ner­ship with the Fac­ul­ty of Law and the Toron­to Dis­trict […]

May 28, 2010

Renowned author Lawrence Hill to receive honorary degree

TORONTO, ON – Approx­i­mate­ly 11,500 stu­dents will grad­u­ate from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to this spring at con­vo­ca­tion cer­e­monies tak­ing place from Wednes­day, June 2, to Fri­day, June 18. All cer­e­monies will be held in Con­vo­ca­tion Hall, 31 King’s Col­lege Cir­cle.    The Uni­ver­si­ty will also con­fer nine hon­orary degrees, rec­og­niz­ing extra­or­di­nary achieve­ments in com­mu­ni­ty, nation­al and […]

May 27, 2010

UofT holds ceremony in honour of 80th birthdays of Presidents Emeriti George Connell and John Evans

TORONTO, ON – The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is hold­ing a cer­e­mo­ny on Tues­day, June 1 2010 to ded­i­cate two park bench­es in hon­our of the 80th birth­days of UofT Pres­i­dents Emer­i­ti George Con­nell and John Evans. The park bench­es will be installed on cam­pus grounds south of Hart House/east of Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege.  EVENT DETAILS:  WHAT:  […]

May 26, 2010

Growing the next generation of pro bono lawyers

TORONTO, ON — Three keynote lec­tures will take place at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to May 28 ‑30, 2010 as part of a nation­al train­ing con­fer­ence for the 50 law stu­dents across Cana­da who run Pro Bono Stu­dents Cana­da (PBSC), the only nation­al pro bono ser­vice orga­ni­za­tion in the world. PBSC pro­vides legal ser­vices with­out charge […]

May 26, 2010

Is Google creating a public library–or the world’s largest shopping mall?

Toron­to, ON — The Cen­tre for Inno­va­tion Law and Pol­i­cy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Fac­ul­ty of Law is host­ing a one-day con­fer­ence “The Google Book Search Project and Cana­da: Cross-Bor­der Legal Per­spec­tives” with var­i­ous com­men­ta­tors, play­ers and stake­hold­ers to draw lessons from the Amer­i­can expe­ri­ence and con­sid­er pos­si­ble Cana­di­an solu­tions for the copy­right chal­lenges […]

May 25, 2010

Astronomers discover “defiant” new supernova

TORONTO, ON — An inter­na­tion­al team of astronomers has uncov­ered a super­no­va whose ori­gin can­not be explained by any pre­vi­ous­ly known mech­a­nism and which promis­es excit­ing new insights into stel­lar explo­sions. SN2005E was first spot­ted on Jan­u­ary 13, 2005 in the near­by galaxy NGC1032. Since then, sci­en­tists have car­ried out var­i­ous obser­va­tions of it using […]

May 20, 2010

Between the genes — U of T researchers make sense of the “dark matter”

TORONTO, ON — A new dis­cov­ery by Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to sci­en­tists has uncov­ered the secrets behind what many in the field of mol­e­c­u­lar genet­ics have referred to as the mysterious“dark mat­ter” of DNA. This “dark mat­ter” refers to what once thought of as noth­ing more than “junk DNA,” locat­ed in regions out­side of actu­al genes. […]

May 18, 2010

New biography of Dr. Fraser Mustard: “connections and careers”

TORONTO, ON – Dr. Fras­er Mus­tard, one of the world’s fore­most experts on ear­ly child­hood devel­op­ment, is the sub­ject of a new biog­ra­phy that was unveiled today at a recep­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to.  Titled “Con­nec­tions and Careers,” the book chron­i­cles Mustard’s per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al rela­tion­ships over the years, from his Depres­­sion-era child­hood and […]

May 17, 2010

UofT gains two canada excellence research chairs

TORONTO, ON – Two inter­na­tion­al research super­stars have been appoint­ed as new Cana­da Excel­lence Research Chairs (CERC) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, Indus­try Min­is­ter Tony Clement announced today. At a news con­fer­ence at UofT, Clement announced that Pro­fes­sor Fred­er­ick (Fritz) Roth is the Cana­da Research Excel­lence Chair in Inte­gra­tive Biol­o­gy and Pro­fes­sor Oliv­er Ernst is […]

May 12, 2010

New biography of Dr. J. Fraser Mustard to be unveiled at UofT reception

TORONTO, ON – A new biog­ra­phy of Dr. J. Fras­er Mus­tard, one of the world’s fore­most experts on ear­ly child­hood devel­op­ment, will be launched at a recep­tion on Tues­day, May 18, 2010. EVENT DETAILS WHAT:          Recep­tion and book launch of “Con­nec­tions and Careers” PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Fras­er Mus­tard Mar­i­an A. Pack­ham, author and Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­fes­sor […]

May 11, 2010

700 researchers to gather at UofT for Great Lakes Research Conference

Toron­to, ON – Inva­sive species, tox­ic chem­i­cal con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and the safe­ty of eat­ing Great Lakes fish are some of the chal­lenges being addressed by researchers and gov­ern­ment at a major con­fer­ence on Great Lakes research being held at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to from Mon­day, May 17 to Fri­day, May 21.  Among the speak­ers is Cameron […]