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Staff member explores journalistic freedom of expression in Mexico

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"The killings continue and impunity reigns"
Author: 
Renu Mandhane
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Marian Botsford Fraser, Adrienne Clarkson, Renu Madhane

On Jan. 31, I arrived home from a week in one of Latin America’s truly great capitals: Mexico City.  While there, I had a chance to visit marvelous museums, eat fantastic food and develop a love for “tequila blanco” with a “sangrita” (“little blood”) chaser.  I also had the chance to chat with diplomats, illustrious writers, and a former governor general of Canada. 

Posted Friday, February 3, 2012

University of Toronto celebrates its award-winning researchers

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Tribute paid to more than 250 faculty
Author: 
Anjum Nayyar
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Research awards celebration

The University of Toronto honoured more than 250 of its award-winning researchers for their notable achievements and discoveries at the Celebration of Research Excellence event on Jan. 19 at Hart House.

The event, held every two years and organized by the office of the vice-president (research), recognized the work of outstanding scholars and researchers who reached significant milestones in recent years. 

Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Innovative research rewarded

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Connaught Fund announces Innovation Award, Summer Institute winners
Author: 
Jenny Hall
Picture: 
Dwight Seferos

Research excellence in projects as varied as plastic solar cells, “extreme” astronomical devices to detect earth-like planets outside our solar system and the potential of music to promote healing has been recognized by the University of Toronto’s Connaught Fund and its selection committee in its 2011-12 Innovation Award and Summer Institute competitions.

Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Remembering Josef Skvorecky

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Former professor used Erindale College as setting for his work
Author: 
Jane Stirling
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The late professor Josef Skvorecky

Celebrated writer and former U of T English and film professor Josef Skvorecky, who used a fictionalized Erindale College (now U of T Mississauga) setting in one of his most famous novels, died Jan. 3. The Engineer of Human Souls (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1984) is set in the sheltered world of "Edenvale College" in Toronto and won the Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction in 1984.

Skvorecky was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Accolades abound for U of T communicators, advancement professionals

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University earns 10 of the annual awards
Author: 
Elaine Smith
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Chuck Chan, Belinda Navarro, Darryl Chow, Susan Fischer, Kyle Winters

Four University of Toronto projects have the golden touch and six others are worthy of acclaim, say judges in the Accolades Awards competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District II.

Posted Monday, January 2, 2012

Harnessing technology for better teaching and learning

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Arts and science staff members evaluate tools that will aid students
Author: 
Jessica Lewis
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Kenneth Berry and Lena Paulo Kushnir

Technology and the way we use it is always changing in all fields including postsecondary education. That's why the Teaching and Technology Support (TTS) office in the Faculty of Arts & Science is looking at effective ways to harness technology to help students learn.

Through research projects, instructional sheets, departmental presentations and Blackboard teaching sessions, manager Lena Paulo Kushnir and her colleague Kenneth Berry are guiding faculty in the most reasonable and accessible directions for teaching today's students.

Posted Thursday, December 8, 2011

Vice-president honoured for leadership in philanthropy

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Palmer named year’s outstanding fundraising professional
Author: 
Anjum Nayyar
Picture: 
David Palmer

David Palmer, the University of Toronto’s vice-president (advancement), has always had big ideas about the role U of T has to play in advancing Canada’s economic and social agenda.  Recently, those big ideas landed him a very big honour.

Palmer’s leadership in philanthropy has been recognized by the Greater Toronto Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), an international organization, with its Outstanding Fundraising Professional for 2011 award.

Posted Monday, December 5, 2011

Spain honours U of T mathematics professor

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Recognized for his economic forecasting application
Author: 
Jessica Lewis
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Francisco Pascual de la Parte presents Luis Seco the Caballero de la Orden del M

Luis Seco, a mathematics professor and director of RiskLab at the University of Toronto, was given Spain's prestigious Caballero de la Orden del Merito Civil award Dec. 1. Seco was honoured for his application of mathematics to foresee economic cycles, a model that has been useful in a number of other countries, including Spain.

Posted Thursday, December 1, 2011

U of T receives another top employer honour

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Named Top GTA Employer for sixth consecutive year
Author: 
Katy Francis
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Top GTA employer logo

For the sixth consecutive year, the University of Toronto has been chosen as one of the Top GTA Employers in the annual competition run by Mediacorp Canada Inc. in partnership with The Globe and Mail.

Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Nursing researcher talks about her work, childbirth and labour

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Hodnett served as Heather M. Reisman Chair in Perinatal Nursing Research
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Ellen Hodnett

Professor Ellen Hodnett has just completed her third and final term as the Heather M. Reisman Chair in Perinatal Nursing Research. For almost 20 years, Hodnett served as an editor of the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group of the Cochrane Collaboration. Susan Pedwell caught up with her recently to ask some questions about her career and about childbirth and labour.

Q: What sparked your interest in childbirth?

Posted Sunday, November 13, 2011
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